Julia v1.8 Release Notes
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New language features
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* `Module(:name, false, false)` can be used to create a `module` that does not import `Core`. ([#40110])
* `@inline` and `@noinline` annotations may now be used in function bodies. ([#41312])
* The default behavior of observing `@inbounds` declarations is now an option via `auto` in `--check-bounds=yes|no|auto` ([#41551])

Language changes
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Compiler/Runtime improvements
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Command-line option changes
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Multi-threading changes
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Build system changes
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New library functions
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* `hardlink(src, dst)` can be used to create hard links. ([#41639])

New library features
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Standard library changes
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* The `length` function on certain ranges of certain specific element types no longer checks for integer
  overflow in most cases. The new function `checked_length` is now available, which will try to use checked
  arithmetic to error if the result may be wrapping. Or use a package such as SaferIntegers.jl when
  constructing the range. ([#40382])
* TCP socket objects now expose `shutdown` functionality and support half-open mode usage ([#40783]).

#### InteractiveUtils
* A new macro `@time_imports` for reporting any time spent importing packages and their dependencies ([#41612])

#### Package Manager

#### LinearAlgebra

#### Markdown

#### Printf
* Now uses `textwidth` for formatting `%s` and `%c` widths ([#41085]).

#### Random

#### REPL

#### SparseArrays

#### Dates

#### Downloads

#### Statistics

#### Sockets

#### Tar

#### Distributed

#### UUIDs

#### Mmap

#### DelimitedFiles

#### Logging
* The standard log levels `BelowMinLevel`, `Debug`, `Info`, `Warn`, `Error`,
  and `AboveMaxLevel` are now exported from the Logging stdlib ([#40980]).


Deprecated or removed
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External dependencies
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Tooling Improvements
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