Julia v1.8 Release Notes

New language features

Module(:name, false, false) can be used to create a module that does not import Core. ([#40110])

Language changes

Compiler/Runtime improvements

Command-line option changes

Multi-threading changes

Build system changes

New library functions

New library features

Standard library changes

Package Manager

LinearAlgebra

Markdown

Printf

Random

REPL

SparseArrays

Dates

Downloads

Statistics

Sockets

Tar

Distributed

UUIDs

Mmap

DelimitedFiles

Deprecated or removed

External dependencies

Tooling Improvements