diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml
index d7dfcb5381cc..250d07ffba77 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml
@@ -1887,6 +1887,15 @@ Superuser created successfully.
           upgrade guide</link>.
         </para>
       </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>julia</literal> now refers to
+          <literal>julia-stable</literal> instead of
+          <literal>julia-lts</literal>. In practice this means it has
+          been upgraded from <literal>1.0.4</literal> to
+          <literal>1.5.4</literal>.
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
   </section>
 </section>
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md
index 1c737542e7d2..770a6d93b9a8 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md
@@ -522,3 +522,5 @@ In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the followin
 - `security.pam.services.<name>.makeHomeDir` now uses `umask=0077` instead of `umask=0022` when creating the home directory.
 
 - Loki has had another release. Some default values have been changed for the configuration and some configuration options have been renamed. For more details, please check [the upgrade guide](https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/upgrading/#240).
+
+- `julia` now refers to `julia-stable` instead of `julia-lts`. In practice this means it has been upgraded from `1.0.4` to `1.5.4`.
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index a7652c0b3e9b..ac66ed3065fe 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12296,14 +12296,14 @@ with pkgs;
 
   julia-lts = julia_10;
   julia-stable = julia_15;
-  julia = julia-lts;
+  julia = julia-stable;
 
   julia_10-bin = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/1.0-bin.nix { };
   julia_16-bin = callPackage ../development/compilers/julia/1.6-bin.nix { };
 
   julia-lts-bin = julia_10-bin;
   julia-stable-bin = julia_16-bin;
-  julia-bin = julia-lts-bin;
+  julia-bin = julia-stable-bin;
 
   jwasm =  callPackage ../development/compilers/jwasm { };