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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])
  • Constant propogation now occurs through keyword arguments ([#35976])

Command-line option changes

Multi-threading changes

Build system changes

New library functions

  • New function Base.kron! and corresponding overloads for various matrix types for performing Kronecker product in-place. ([#31069]).
  • New function Base.Threads.foreach(f, channel::Channel) for multithreaded Channel consumption. ([#34543]).
  • Iterators.map is added. It provides another syntax Iterators.map(f, iterators...) for writing (f(args...) for args in zip(iterators...)), i.e. a lazy map ([#34352]).

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]).
  • view, @view, and @views now work on AbstractStrings, returning a SubString when appropriate ([#35879]).
  • All AbstractUnitRange{<:Integer}s now work with SubString, view, @view and @views on strings ([#35879]).
  • sum, prod, maximum, and minimum now support init keyword argument ([#36188], [#35839]).
  • unique(f, itr; seen=Set{T}()) now allows you to declare the container type used for keeping track of values returned by f on elements of itr ([#36280]).

LinearAlgebra

  • New method LinearAlgebra.issuccess(::CholeskyPivoted) for checking whether pivoted Cholesky factorization was successful ([#36002]).
  • UniformScaling can now be indexed into using ranges to return dense matrices and vectors ([#24359]).

Markdown

Random

REPL

  • The AbstractMenu extension interface of REPL.TerminalMenus has been extensively overhauled. The new interface does not rely on global configuration variables, is more consistent in delegating printing of the navigation/selection markers, and provides improved support for dynamic menus. These changes are compatible with the previous (deprecated) interface, so are non-breaking.

    The new API offers several enhancements:

    • Menus are configured in their constructors via keyword arguments
    • For custom menu types, the new Config and MultiSelectConfig replace the global CONFIG Dict
    • request(menu; cursor=1) allows you to control the initial cursor position in the menu (defaults to first item)
    • MultiSelectMenu allows you to pass a list of initially-selected items with the selected keyword argument
    • writeLine was deprecated to writeline, and writeline methods are not expected to print the cursor indicator. The old writeLine continues to work, and any of its method extensions should print the cursor indicator as before.
    • printMenu has been deprecated to printmenu, and it both accepts a state input and returns a state output that controls the number of terminal lines erased when the menu is next refreshed. This plus related changes makes printmenu work properly when the number of menu items might change depending on user choices.
    • numoptions, returning the number of items in the menu, has been added as an alternative to implementing options
    • suppress_output (primarily a testing option) has been added as a keyword argument to request, rather than a configuration option

SparseArrays

  • Display large sparse matrices with a Unicode "spy" plot of their nonzero patterns, and display small sparse matrices by an Matrix-like 2d layout of their contents.

Dates

Statistics

Sockets

Distributed

UUIDs

  • Change uuid1 and uuid4 to use Random.RandomDevice() as default random number generator ([#35872]).
  • Added parse(::Type{UUID}, ::AbstractString) method

Deprecated or removed

External dependencies

Tooling Improvements