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Hello! I’m new here :slightly_smiling_face: I have a quick question about the timing for the upcoming 1.6.20 release. I use Kotlin Multiplatform and I’m currently using a -dev version of 1.6.20 because of the excellent new support for XCFrameworks in connection with CocoaPods. Is the final release of 1.6.20 “around the corner” or a long while off? Thanks!!

Hi Johannes, great to see new people here!
As per <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/roadmap.html|Kotlin roadmap> the next major release of Kotlin, which is 1.7, is scheduled to April. 1.6.20 should happen sometime before that=) So I would say it more like “around the corner” rather then “long while off” :)

Normally, each M/RC version is published around 2 weeks before official release.
(M -&gt; RC -&gt; Release)

Great, thanks so much :slightly_smiling_face:

<@U01JRLZH77T> We don’t have an RC of 1.6.20 yet though, right?

Well technically there is an rc-21 already :stuck_out_tongue:
<https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jetbrains.kotlin/kotlin-stdlib/1.6.20-RC-21>

<https://maven.pkg.jetbrains.space/kotlin/p/kotlin/dev/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-stdlib/>
That one lists:
```1.6.20-RC-13/                                                    -         -
1.6.20-RC-17/                                                    -         -
1.6.20-RC-21/                                                    -         -
1.6.20-RC-25/                                                    -         -
1.6.20-RC-33/                                                    -         -
1.6.20-RC-4/           ```

Yeah, but not on mavenCentral :smile: Technically, you can also use 1.7, or 42.0.0 by building Kotlin by yourself :D

After our experience with building intellij I don’t hink that statement holds :grin:

It looks like only two tickets are left for 1.6.20: <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues?q=project:%20KTIJ%20Target%20versions:%202021.3-1.6.20%20>