# Upcoming Crystal 1.9 Release

**URL:** <https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/upcoming-crystal-1-9-release/5784>\
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**Created:** [June 23, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/upcoming-crystal-1-9-release/5784 "2023-06-23T17:20:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/upcoming-crystal-1-9-release/5784/1 "2023-06-23T17:20:46Z")

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The next Crystal 1.9 release is scheduled for **July 11**.

As usual, this is precluded by a two-week freeze period starting next week on **June 27**. We’ll be using this time to consolidate the release and only bug fixes will be merged.

The current HEAD of the master branch serves as a preview of the release. You can obtain pre-release builds from current nightlies or build directly from master.  
We appreciate any report of regressions caused by our latest nightly builds.

Instructions for installing nightly builds are available at [Install Nightly Builds - The Crystal Programming Language](https://crystal-lang.org/install/nightlies/)

This release is not expected to bring any big impact changes, but many small or medium sized improvements in many areas, and particularly a lot of progress on the Windows story.