Happy new year, everyone!

The Julia developers are pleased to announce the first release candidate for Julia v1.1.0. As usual, binaries are available for all tier 1 platforms—Linux i686 and x86-64, macOS, FreeBSD x86-64, and Windows 32- and 64-bit—as well as Linux ARMv7, at https://julialang.org/downloads. You can find them in the “upcoming releases” section.

As a release candidate, this should not be considered production-ready; it’s intended to give users, especially package developers, a chance to test their code with v1.1.0 before the full release.

Julia v1.1.0 will be the first minor release in the 1.x series of releases. As a minor release, it will contain no breaking changes, only new features, performance improvements, and marginal, undisruptive changes in behavior. The largest difference from the 1.0.x series of releases are that 1.0 will have longer-term support, and that 1.1 contains new features that 1.0 will not have. The most useful reference for the changes is the NEWS file for v1.1.0-rc1, but you can also see the commit comparison with v1.0.3 here.

1.1 is now available by name on Travis and AppVeyor (using Appveyor.jl). We encourage everyone to give it a try and let us know in the issue tracker if you run into any issues.

Enjoy!