Julia v1.6 Release Notes

New language features

• Types written with where syntax can now be used to define constructors, e.g. (Foo{T} where T)(x) = ....

Language changes

Compiler/Runtime improvements

• All platforms can now use @executable_path within jl_load_dynamic_library(). This allows executable-relative paths to be embedded within executables on all platforms, not just MacOS, which the syntax is borrowed from. (#35627)

Command-line option changes

Multi-threading changes

Build system changes

New library functions

New library features

Standard library changes

• The nextprod function now accepts tuples and other array types for its first argument (#35791).
• The function isapprox(x,y) now accepts the norm keyword argument also for numeric (i.e., non-array) arguments x and y (#35883).

LinearAlgebra

Markdown

Random

REPL

SparseArrays

Dates

Statistics

Sockets

Distributed

Deprecated or removed

External dependencies

Tooling Improvements