Julia v1.4 Release Notes
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New language features
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Language 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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* The `splitpath` function now accepts any `AbstractString` whereas previously it only accepted paths of type `String` ([#33012]).


Standard library changes
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#### Libdl


#### LinearAlgebra

* `qr` and `qr!` functions support `blocksize` keyword argument ([#33053]).


#### SparseArrays


#### Dates


#### Statistics


#### Sockets


Deprecated or removed
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External dependencies
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Tooling Improvements
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