[$] New features coming in Julia 1.7

Julia is an open-source programminglanguage and ecosystem for high-performance scientific computing; itsdevelopment team has made the first release candidate for version 1.7available for testing on Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows. Back in May, we looked at the increased performance thatarrived with Julia 1.6, its last major release. In this article we describe some ofthe changes and new features in the language and its libraries that arecoming in 1.7.