v1.0.4

This is the fourth patch release for Julia version 1.0. It contains bug fixes, documentation enhancements, and performance improvements only, no new features or changes.

A set of automatically generated patch notes based on the backported PRs are given below:

Patch notes for Julia 1.0.4 release

Bug fixes

• #30324 - Use JL_AArch64_crc instead of HWCAP_CRC32
• #30315 - fix bug with max_values in union!
• #30376 - Fix reinterpret for 0-dimensional arrays
• #30369 - stacktrace: prevent OOB-error in sysimage lookup
• #30405 - Fix #30006, getindex accessing fields that might not exist
• #30396 - fix #30394, an unsoundness in ml_matches
• #30319 - generalize sparse matrix slicing to integer types
• #30425 - Add custom deserialize method for UmfpackLU to avoid memory leak
• #30564 - fix lambda-optimize-vars! with complex assignment RHSs
• #30598 - Fix use counts for mutable struct SROA
• #30754 - Handle :error and :invalid expressions gracefully in REPL helpmode
• #30798 - fix #30792, static param constraints between positional and kw args
• #30804 - fix at-everywhere using in Distributed stdlib
• #30930 - fix #30911, bug in deepcopy of UnionAll
• #31047 - fix #29936, precompile should not assume UnionAlls have stable addresses
• #31312 - allow chop to take an empty string
• #30296 - Fix 29545: Implement unaliascopy for ReinterpretArray
• #30569 - Improve REPL completions
• #31642 - Fix show_vector for long offset arrays with :limit=true
• #31691 - Don't modify existing MDNodes in SIMDloop pass.
• #30554 - llvm: fix target triple
• #31615 - fix parse(ComplexF64, "inf")
• #31443 - minor fixes in multiplication with Diagonals
• #31763 - fix #31758: out of bounds write in sparse broadcast
• #31187 - Fix -, conj, and conj! for sparse matrices with invalid entries in nzval
• #31405 - inference: fix typeof-tfunc impl
• #30880 - fix #30679, call correct method for invoke calls in jl_invoke fallback