NEWS.md

Julia v1.11 Release Notes

New language features

• public is a new keyword. Symbols marked with public are considered public API. Symbols marked with export are now also treated as public API. The difference between public and export is that public names do not become available when using a package/module ([#50105]).
• ScopedValue implements dynamic scope with inheritance across tasks ([#50958]).
• The new macro Base.Cartesian.@ncallkw is analogous to Base.Cartesian.@ncall, but allows to add keyword arguments to the function call ([#51501]).
• Support for Unicode 15.1 ([#51799]).
• Three new types around the idea of text with "annotations" (Pair{Symbol, Any} entries, e.g. :lang => "en" or :face => :magenta). These annotations are preserved across operations (e.g. string concatenation with *) when possible.
  • AnnotatedString is a new AbstractString type. It wraps an underlying string and allows for annotations to be attached to regions of the string. This type is used extensively in the new StyledStrings standard library to hold styling information.
  • AnnotatedChar is a new AbstractChar type. It wraps another char and holds a list of annotations that apply to it.
  • AnnotatedIOBuffer is a new IO type that mimics an IOBuffer, but has specialised read/write methods for annotated content. This can be thought of both as a "string builder" of sorts and also as glue between annotated and unannotated content.
• Manifest.toml files can now be renamed in the format Manifest-v{major}.{minor}.toml to be preferentially picked up by the given julia version. i.e. in the same folder, a Manifest-v1.11.toml would be used by v1.11 and Manifest.toml by every other julia version. This makes managing environments for multiple julia versions at the same time easier ([#43845]).
• @time now reports a count of any lock conflicts where a ReentrantLock had to wait, plus a new macro @lock_conflicts which returns that count ([#52883]).

Language changes

• During precompilation, the atexit hooks now run before saving the output file. This allows users to safely tear down background state (such as closing Timers and sending disconnect notifications to heartbeat tasks) and cleanup other resources when the program wants to begin exiting.

• Code coverage and malloc tracking is no longer generated during the package precompilation stage. Further, during these modes pkgimage caches are now used for packages that are not being tracked. This means that coverage testing (the default for julia-actions/julia-runtest) will by default use pkgimage caches for all other packages than the package being tested, likely meaning faster test execution. ([#52123])

• Specifying a path in JULIA_DEPOT_PATH now results in the expansion of empty strings to omit the default user depot ([#51448]).

Compiler/Runtime improvements

• Updated GC heuristics to count allocated pages instead of individual objects ([#50144]).
• A new LazyLibrary type is exported from Libdl for use in building chained lazy library loads, primarily to be used within JLLs ([#50074]).
• Added support for annotating Base.@assume_effects on code blocks ([#52400]).

Command-line option changes

• The entry point for Julia has been standardized to Main.main(ARGS). This must be explicitly opted into using the @main macro (see the docstring for further details). When opted-in, and julia is invoked to run a script or expression (i.e. using julia script.jl or julia -e expr), julia will subsequently run the Main.main function automatically. This is intended to unify script and compilation workflows, where code loading may happen in the compiler and execution of Main.main may happen in the resulting executable. For interactive use, there is no semantic difference between defining a main function and executing the code directly at the end of the script ([50974]).
• The --compiled-modules and --pkgimages flags can now be set to existing, which will cause Julia to consider loading existing cache files, but not to create new ones ([#50586] and [#52573]).

Multi-threading changes

Build system changes

New library functions

• in!(x, s::AbstractSet) will return whether x is in s, and insert x in s if not.
• The new Libc.mkfifo function wraps the mkfifo C function on Unix platforms ([#34587]).
• copyuntil(out, io, delim) and copyline(out, io) copy data into an out::IO stream ([#48273]).
• eachrsplit(string, pattern) iterates split substrings right to left.
• Sys.username() can be used to return the current user's username ([#51897]).
• wrap(Array, m::Union{MemoryRef{T}, Memory{T}}, dims) is the safe counterpart to unsafe_wrap ([#52049]).
• GC.logging_enabled() can be used to test whether GC logging has been enabled via GC.enable_logging ([#51647]).

New library features

• invmod(n, T) where T is a native integer type now computes the modular inverse of n in the modular integer ring that T defines ([#52180]).
• invmod(n) is an abbreviation for invmod(n, typeof(n)) for native integer types ([#52180]).
• replace(string, pattern...) now supports an optional IO argument to write the output to a stream rather than returning a string ([#48625]).
• sizehint!(s, n) now supports an optional shrink argument to disable shrinking ([#51929]).
• New function Docs.hasdoc(module, symbol) tells whether a name has a docstring ([#52139]).
• New function Docs.undocumented_names(module) returns a module's undocumented public names ([#52413]).
• Passing an IOBuffer as a stdout argument for Process spawn now works as expected, synchronized with wait or success, so a Base.BufferStream is no longer required there for correctness to avoid data races ([#52461]).
• After a process exits, closewrite will no longer be automatically called on the stream passed to it. Call wait on the process instead to ensure the content is fully written, then call closewrite manually to avoid data-races. Or use the callback form of open to have all that handled automatically.
• @timed now additionally returns the elapsed compilation and recompilation time ([#52889])
• filter can now act on a NamedTuple ([#50795]).

Standard library changes

StyledStrings

• A new standard library for handling styling in a more comprehensive and structured way ([#49586]).
• The new Faces struct serves as a container for text styling information (think typeface, as well as color and decoration), and comes with a framework to provide a convenient, extensible (via addface!), and customisable (with a user's Faces.toml and loadfaces!) approach to styled content ([#49586]).
• The new @styled_str string macro provides a convenient way of creating a AnnotatedString with various faces or other attributes applied ([#49586]).

JuliaSyntaxHighlighting

• A new standard library for applying syntax highlighting to Julia code, this uses JuliaSyntax and StyledStrings to implement a highlight function that creates an AnnotatedString with syntax highlighting applied.

Package Manager

LinearAlgebra

• cbrt(::AbstractMatrix{<:Real}) is now defined and returns real-valued matrix cube roots of real-valued matrices ([#50661]).
• eigvals/eigen(A, bunchkaufman(B)) and eigvals/eigen(A, lu(B)), which utilize the Bunchkaufman (LDL) and LU decomposition of B, respectively, now efficiently compute the generalized eigenvalues (eigen: and eigenvectors) of A and B. Note: The second argument is the output of bunchkaufman or lu ([#50471]).
• There is now a specialized dispatch for eigvals/eigen(::Hermitian{<:Tridiagonal}) which performs a similarity transformation to create a real symmetrix triagonal matrix, and solve that using the LAPACK routines ([#49546]).
• Structured matrices now retain either the axes of the parent (for Symmetric/Hermitian/AbstractTriangular/UpperHessenberg), or that of the principal diagonal (for banded matrices) ([#52480]).
• bunchkaufman and bunchkaufman! now work for any AbstractFloat, Rational and their complex variants. bunchkaufman now supports Integer types, by making an internal conversion to Rational{BigInt}. Added new function inertia that computes the inertia of the diagonal factor given by the BunchKaufman factorization object of a real symmetric or Hermitian matrix. For complex symmetric matrices, inertia only computes the number of zero eigenvalues of the diagonal factor ([#51487]).
• Packages that specialize matrix-matrix mul! with a method signature of the form mul!(::AbstractMatrix, ::MyMatrix, ::AbstractMatrix, ::Number, ::Number) no longer encounter method ambiguities when interacting with LinearAlgebra. Previously, ambiguities used to arise when multiplying a MyMatrix with a structured matrix type provided by LinearAlgebra, such as AbstractTriangular, which used to necessitate additional methods to resolve such ambiguities. Similar sources of ambiguities have also been removed for matrix-vector mul! operations ([#52837]).

Logging

• New @create_log_macro macro for creating new log macros like @info, @warn etc. For instance @create_log_macro MyLog 1500 :magenta will create @mylog to be used like @mylog "hello" which will show as ┌ MyLog: hello etc. ([#52196])

Printf

Profile

Random

• rand now supports sampling over Tuple types ([#35856], [#50251]).
• rand now supports sampling over Pair types ([#28705]).
• When seeding RNGs provided by Random, negative integer seeds can now be used ([#51416]).
• Seedable random number generators from Random can now be seeded by a string, e.g. seed!(rng, "a random seed") ([#51527]).

REPL

• Tab complete hints now show in lighter text while typing in the repl. To disable set Base.active_repl.options.hint_tab_completes = false interactively, or in startup.jl:

  if VERSION >= v"1.11.0-0"
    atreplinit() do repl
        repl.options.hint_tab_completes = false
    end
  end
  ``` ([#51229]).
  

• Meta-M with an empty prompt now toggles the contextual module between the previous non-Main contextual module and Main so that switching back and forth is simple. ([#51616], [#52670])

SuiteSparse

SparseArrays

Test

Dates

The undocumented function adjust is no longer exported but is now documented

Statistics

• Statistics is now an upgradeable standard library ([#46501]).

Distributed

• pmap now defaults to using a CachingPool ([#33892]).

Unicode

DelimitedFiles

InteractiveUtils

Deprecated or removed

• Base.map, Iterators.map, and foreach lost their single-argument methods ([#52631]).

External dependencies

• tput is no longer called to check terminal capabilities, it has been replaced with a pure-Julia terminfo parser ([#50797]).

Tooling Improvements

• CI now performs limited automatic typo detection on all PRs. If you merge a PR with a failing typo CI check, then the reported typos will be automatically ignored in future CI runs on PRs that edit those same files ([#51704]).