# Julia 1 as latest stable release

**URL:** <https://travis-ci.community/t/julia-1-as-latest-stable-release/3107>\
**Category:** Julia\
**Created:** [April 21, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/julia-1-as-latest-stable-release/3107 "2019-04-21T14:38:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnnychen94](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/travis-ci.community/johnnychen94/32/4029_2.png) [@johnnychen94](https://travis-ci.community/u/johnnychen94)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/julia-1-as-latest-stable-release/3107/1 "2019-04-21T14:38:10Z")

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repost of [https://github.com/JuliaCI/travis-build/issues/5](https://github.com/JuliaCI/travis-build/issues/5)

`appveyor.yml` allows one to specify the latest release as `julia 1` . That doesn’t seem to work with `.travis.yml` . It would be a nice feature, as many packages might want to test 3 versions:

- 1.0.x (LTS)
- 1 (latest stable)
- nightly (to catch upcoming problems).

cc: @staticfloat and @StefanKarpinski

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**Author:** ![simonbyrne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/travis-ci.community/simonbyrne/32/339_2.png) [@simonbyrne](https://travis-ci.community/u/simonbyrne)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/julia-1-as-latest-stable-release/3107/2 "2019-04-22T03:34:10Z")

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See discussion here: [https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-build/pull/1447#issuecomment-412352045](https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-build/pull/1447#issuecomment-412352045)