> There were a number of 0.7 release candidates in the months leading up to the release.

Really?

v0.7.0-rc1 - Jul 31, 2018

v0.7.0-rc2 - Aug 2, 2018

v0.7.0-rc3 - Aug 7, 2018

v1.0.0-rc1 - Aug 7, 2018

v0.7.0 - Aug 8, 2018

v1.0.0 - Aug 9, 2018

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases