diff --git a/Formula/j/julia.rb b/Formula/j/julia.rb
index 1897a139a9ff..82b6348a9da4 100644
--- a/Formula/j/julia.rb
+++ b/Formula/j/julia.rb
@@ -8,9 +8,13 @@ class Julia < Formula
   license all_of: ["MIT", "BSD-3-Clause", "Apache-2.0", "BSL-1.0"]
   head "https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia.git", branch: "master"
 
+  # Upstream creates GitHub releases for both stable and LTS versions, so the
+  # "latest" release on GitHub may be an LTS version instead of a "stable"
+  # version. This checks the first-party download page, which links to the
+  # `stable` tarballs from the newest releases on GitHub.
   livecheck do
-    url :stable
-    strategy :github_latest
+    url "https://julialang.org/downloads/"
+    regex(/href=.*?julia[._-]v?(\d+(?:\.\d+)+)[._-]full\.t/i)
   end
 
   bottle do