Hello! I’m new here :slightly_smiling_face: I have a quick question about the timing for the upcomin...

# multiplatform

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

Hello! I’m new here 🙂 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!!

[Viacheslav Kormushkin]

Hi Johannes, great to see new people here!
As per 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” :)

[hfhbd]

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

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

Great, thanks so much 🙂

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

@hfhbd We don’t have an RC of 1.6.20 yet though, right?

[hfhbd]

Nope

[Paul Woitaschek]

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

[Paul Woitaschek]

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/

[hfhbd]

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

[Paul Woitaschek]

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

[hfhbd]

Valid point 😄

[Johannes Fahrenkrug]

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