I am very confused by the claim in the first sentence of the article: "On March 24, version 1.6.0 of the Julia programming language was released. This is the first feature release since 1.0 came out in 2018". How is 1.6 a "feature release", but 1.1-1.5 are not!? Especially given the enormous new set of multi-threading features in 1.3.
Edit: ah, thanks for the response, it seem I just do not know the difference between "feature" and "timed" release.
That’s the terminology used in the development process. The releases > 1.0 and < 1.6 are called “timed releases”. It doesn’t mean they don’t contain any new features.
Edit: ah, thanks for the response, it seem I just do not know the difference between "feature" and "timed" release.