Julia v1.2 Release Notes

New language features

The extrema function now accepts a function argument in the same manner as minimum and maximum (#30323).

Multi-threading changes

The Condition type now has a thread-safe replacement, accessed as Threads.Condition. With that addition, task scheduling primitives such as ReentrantLock are now thread-safe (#30061).

Language changes

Command-line option changes

New library functions

Standard library changes

LinearAlgebra

Added keyword arguments rtol, atol to pinv and nullspace (#29998).

SparseArrays

performance improvements for sparse matrix-matrix multiplication ([#30372]).

Dates

Fixed repr such that it displays DateTime as it would be entered in Julia (#30200).

External dependencies

Deprecated or removed