A little bit of Mathematica history
September 6, 2026
Compiled on September 6, 2026
Summary of Mathematica release dates
| version | release data | Approximate time from previous release |
| 1 | June 1988 | N/A |
| 2 | Jan 1991 | 2.5 years |
| 3 | sept 1996 | 5.8 years |
| 4 | may 1999 | 2.8 years |
| 5 | June 2003 | 3 years |
| 6 | May 2007 | 4 years |
| 7 | Nov 2008 | 1.3 years |
| 8 | Nov 2010 | 2 years |
| 9 | Nov 2012 | 2 years |
| 10 | July 2014 | 1.8 years |
| 11 | August 2016 | 2.1 years |
| 12 | April 2019 | 2.75 years |
| 13 | December 13 2021 | 2.6 years |
| 14 | January 9 2024 | 2.1 years |
| 15 | June 16 2026 | 2.5 years |
Detailed table of Mathematica versions and release dates
Dates are written in month/day/year format .
| version | Release date | Binary size (bytes) | lines of code | Number of Functions. Approximate, see plot in ref (3) in System context only | Functions in System | Mathematica symbols (from Length[Names[”System‘*”]]) |
| 1.0 | 6/23/1988 | 150,000 in C (kernel) + 50,000 in C (front end) | 554 | |||
| 1.1 | 1989 | |||||
| 1.2 | 8/1/1989 | |||||
| 2.0 | 1/15/1991 | 350,000 | 883 | |||
| 2.1 | 6/15/1992 | |||||
| 2.2.1 | 4/21/1993 | 4.4 MB (on 4 floppies) | 841 in kernel | kernel_functions_V22.txt |
installation screen shots
V22_new_features.txt user guide image | |
| 2.2.3 | ? | |||||
| 3.0 | 9/3/1996 | 600,000 | 1200 | reference.wolfram.com/legacy/v3/index105.html | ||
| 3.0.1 | 7/29/1997 | |||||
| 4.0 | 5/19/1999 | 800,000 | 1300 | |||
| 4.0.1 | 9/1999 | |||||
| 4.0.2 | 8/2000 | |||||
| 4.1 | 11/2/2000 | 49,224,870 | 850,000 | 1861 listing | ||
| 4.2 | 11/1/2002 | |||||
| 5.0 | 6/12/2003 | 89,337,856 | 1.5 millions | 1500 | 1920 listing | |
| 5.0.1 | 1/2004 | |||||
| 5.1 | 11/25/2004 | 112,734,208 | 1984 listing | |||
| 5.1.1 | 3/2005 | |||||
| 5.2 | 6/20/2005 | 159,301,632 | 1984 listing | |||
| 6.0 | 5/1/2007 | 476,127,232 | 2.5 millions | 2100 | 2958 listing | |
| 6.0.1 | 7/5/2007 | 468,983,808 | 2.5 millions | |||
| 6.0.2 | 3/2008 | |||||
| 6.0.3 | 6/2008 | |||||
| 7.0 | 11/18/2008 | 478,662,656 | 2550 |
HTML
notebook mathematica7functions.txt packagesFunctions.txt |
3429 listing | |
| 7.0.1 | 3/5/2009 | |||||
| 8.0 | 11/15/2010 |
1,315,961,636 (1.3 GB, on Linux)
811 MB (Windows .EXE) |
2467 |
functions and symbols listing
HTML process.nb getUsageMessages.nb |
4141 HTML PDF | |
| 8.0.1 | 2/23/2011 | 832.51 MB for windows .EXE (872,945,544 bytes) | 2468 |
functions and symbols listing
HTML process.nb getUsageMessages.nb |
4129
HTML PDF | |
| 8.0.4 | 10/26/2011 | 916 MB for windows .EXE (960,254,792 bytes) | ||||
| 9 | 11/28/2012 |
windows : 1.2 GB(1,210,695,064 bytes)
mac: 1.2 GB (1,273,266,681 bytes) Linux: 1.8 GB (1,781,256,995 bytes) |
HTML
92 different contexts 7,919 total symbols 4,153 total functions | |||
| 9.0.1 | 1/31/2013 | |||||
| 10 | Wed. July 9, 2014 | 2 GB (windows) (1,998,657,776 bytes) | HTML 9068 total symbols | |||
| 10.0.1 | Sept 17, 2014 | for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) 2 GB (windows) (2,034,844,000 bytes) | ||||
| 10.0.2 | December 10, 2014 | for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) 2 GB (windows) (2,020,305,024 bytes) | ||||
| 10.1 | March 30, 2015 |
for Microsoft Windows
(64-bit)
2.1 GB (windows) (2,131,110,462 bytes)
2.8 GB (Linux) (2,865,437,463 bytes) |
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| 10.2 | July 14, 2015 | for Microsoft Windows 2.2 GB (windows) (2,336,726,505 bytes) | ||||
| 10.3 | October 15, 2015 | 2.2 GB (windows) 2,398,816,027 bytes | ||||
| 10.3.1 | December, 2015 | 2.2 GB (windows) 2,398,225,619 bytes | ||||
| 10.4 | March 3, 2016 | 2.4 GB (windows) | ||||
| 10.4.1 | April 12, 2016 (time stamp of .exe) | 2.38 GB (2,557,472,768 bytes) (windows) | ||||
| 11 | August 8, 2016 | Zip file size (64-bit) 2.9 GB (windows) (3,082,143,354 bytes) | ||||
| 11.0.1 | Sept. 28, 2016 | |||||
| 11.1 |
March 16, 2017
Summary Of New Features |
Zip file size (64-bit) 3 GB (windows) (3,267,335,904 bytes) | ||||
| 11.1.1 | April 25, 2017 | Zip file size (64-bit) windows 3,328,349,226 bytes | ||||
| 11.2 |
September 14, 2017
new features in 11.2 Wolfram blog on 11.2 Wolfram twitch TV review of 11.2 |
Zip file size (64-bit) windows 3,565,970,199 bytes | ||||
| 11.3 |
March 8, 2018
new features in 11.3 Wolfram blog on 11.3 |
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| 12 |
April 16, 2019
Wolfram blog What is new in 12 List of new functions |
Zip file size (64-bit) windows 3,686,626,865 bytes | 278 new functions | |||
| 12.1 |
March 18, 2020
What is new in 12.1 Wolfram blog |
Zip file size (64-bit) windows 4,534,832,311 bytes | 182 new functions | |||
| 12.1.1 |
June 9, 2020
(1,000 bug fixed) |
Zip file size (64-bit) windows 4,566,123,387 bytes | ||||
| 12.2 |
December 16, 2020
Summary of new features |
Windows zip file size 4,643,085,309 bytes | 228 New functions | |||
| 12.3 |
May 20, 2021
Wolfram blog |
TODO | 115 New functions | |||
| 12.3.1 | July 1, 2021 | Windows zip file size 4,758,204,101 bytes | TODO | |||
| 13 |
December 13, 2021
What is new in V 13 Wolfram blog |
TODO | 117 New functions |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7239
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| 13.0.1 |
Thursday, February 17, 2022
What is new in V 13 Wolfram blog |
TODO | N/A | |||
| 13.1 |
June 29, 2022.
New Features in 13.1 Wolfram blog |
TODO | 90 completely new functions—plus 203 functions with substantial updates. |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7877
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| 13.2 |
December 14, 2022.
Wolfram blog on 13.2 New Features in 13.2 New in 13.2: Alphabetical Listing quick-revision-history |
TODO | 41 new functions. Version 13.2 introduces new functionality in astronomy and compilation. This release also includes over a thousand bug fixes. |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7405
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| 13.2.1 |
February 10, 2023.
quick-revision-history |
TODO | ”Version 13.2.1 includes over a hundred bug fixes, feature enhancements, performance improvements and security updates.” |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7402
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| 13.3 |
June 28, 2023.
quick-revision-history Wolfram blog |
TODO | ”Version 13.3 introduces new functions that utilize large language models” |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7476
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| 13.3.1 |
Wednesday August 16, 2023.
quick-revision-history |
TODO | ”includes multiple critical bug fixes and improvements to Chat-Enabled Notebook stability and usability.” |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7478
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| 14 |
Tuesday, January 9, 2024.
Summary of New and Improved Features in 14.0 Wolfram blog. Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica Wolfram blog. New in 14: Symbolic and Numeric Computation Youtube video, Overview of What’s New and Improved in Version 14 |
TODO | 6602 built-in functions. ”And in Version 14.0 we’ve fixed nearly 10,000 bugs, the majority found by our increasingly sophisticated internal software testing methods.” ”2,037 bugs were fixed in this release cycle” |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7538
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| 14.1 |
Wednesday July 31, 2024
Summary of New and Improved Features in 14.1 You tube Mathematical Computation in Version 14.1 You tube Mathematical Computation in Version 14.1 Is this same as above? You tube. Version 14.1 Design Reviews Wolfram blog You tube. Exploring Wolfram Language V14.1 with Stephen Wolfram You tube. An Overview of What’s New and Improved in Version 14.1 Post at Wolfram community forum related to release of 14.1 |
TODO | ”There are a total of 89 entirely new functions”. ”there are also 137 existing functions that have been substantially updated. Along with more than 1300 distinct bug fixes and specific improvements.” ”1,280 bugs were fixed in this release cycle.” |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7629
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| 14.2 |
Thursday January 23, 2025
youtube video of V 14.2 announcement Wolfram announcement Added features Summary of New and Improved Features in 14.2 |
TODO |
”In total there are 80 completely new functions—along with 177
functions that have been substantially updated.”
”the largest new development in Version 14.2 is around handling tabular data, and particularly, big tabular data.” ”908 bugs were fixed in this release cycle” |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7717
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| 14.2.1 |
Wednesday April 9, 2025
quick revision history |
TODO | ”Version 14.2.1 includes critical updates for Chatbook and code captions along with other bug fixes and stability improvements. |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7714
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| 14.3 |
Tuesday August 5, 2025
Wolfram blog Summary of New and Improved Features in 14.3 quick revision history You Tube video. Exploring Wolfram Language V14.3 |
TO DO | ”Version 14.3 adds full support for dark mode and introduces new standard colors designed for both dark- and light-mode environments.” ”adds Hilbert transforms, Lommel functions and new matrix decompositions” ”it’s a big release, with lots of important new and updated functionality, particularly in core areas of the system.” ”we’re delivering an unusually large number of long-requested features” ”1,073 bugs were fixed in this release cycle” |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7860
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| 15.0 |
Tuesday June 16, 2026
Wolfram blog You tube. Exploring Wolfram Language V15 new in wolfram language 15 Summary of New and Improved Features in 15.0 Jon McLoone blog. New in Wolfram V15: my favourite three improvements |
TO DO |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7969
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| 15.0.1 |
Tuesday July 21, 2026
quick revision history ”Version 15.0.1 includes bug fixes, stability improvements and security updates.” |
TO DO |
Length[Names["System`*"]] 7966
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Reference
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Mathematica book, 5th edition. Bottom of page 224
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