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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* `@test_throws "some message" triggers_error()` can now be used to check whether the displayed error text
  contains "some message" regardless of the specific exception type.
  Regular expressions, lists of strings, and matching functions are also supported. ([#41888)

Standard library changes
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* `range` accepts either `stop` or `length` as a sole keyword argument ([#39241])
* 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 `closewrite` functionality and support half-open mode usage ([#40783]).
* Intersect returns a result with the eltype of the type-promoted eltypes of the two inputs ([#41769]).

#### 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

* ` ?(x, y` followed by TAB displays all methods that can be called
  with arguments `x, y, ...`. (The space at the beginning prevents entering help-mode.)
  `MyModule.?(x, y` limits the search to `MyModule`. TAB requires that at least one
  argument have a type more specific than `Any`; use SHIFT-TAB instead of TAB
  to allow any compatible methods.

#### 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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