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 Julia v1.11.0 has been released


The Julia project has
<a href="https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-11-0-has-been-released-and-v1-10-is-now-lts/121064" rel="nofollow">
released</a> version 1.11.0. A separate
<a href="https://julialang.org/blog/2024/10/julia-1.11-highlights/" rel="nofollow">
blog post</a> covers some of the highlights. The release includes a number of helpful features.



In previous Julia versions, there was no "programmatic way" of knowing if an unexported name was considered part of the public API or not. Instead, the guideline was basically that if it was not in the manual then it was not public which was a bit underwhelming. To remedy that, there is now a public keyword in Julia that can be used to indicate that an unexported name is part of the public API.


https://lwn.net/Articles/993436/