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Go is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that is statically typed and compiled. It is known for the simplicity of its syntax and the efficiency of development that it enables through the inclusion of a large standard library supplying many needs for common projects.

Update May 7, 2026 tracked by Updatify

go1.26.3 (released 2026-05-07)

go1.26.3 (released 2026-05-07) includes security fixes to the go command, the pack tool, and the html/template, net, net/http, net/http/httputil, net/mail, and syscall packages, as well as bug fixes to the go command, the go fix command, the compiler, the linker, the runtime, and the crypto/fips140, crypto/tls, go/types, and os packages. See the Go 1.26.3 milestone on our issue tracker for details.

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Update May 7, 2026 tracked by Updatify

go1.25.10 (released 2026-05-07)

go1.25.10 (released 2026-05-07) includes security fixes to the go command, the pack tool, and the html/template, net, net/http, net/http/httputil, net/mail, and syscall packages, as well as bug fixes to the go command, the compiler, the linker, the runtime, and the crypto/fips140, go/types, and os packages. See the Go 1.25.10 milestone on our issue tracker for details.

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Update Apr 7, 2026 tracked by Updatify

go1.26.2 (released 2026-04-07)

go1.26.2 (released 2026-04-07) includes security fixes to the go command, the compiler, and the archive/tar, crypto/tls, crypto/x509, html/template, and os packages, as well as bug fixes to the go command, the go fix command, the compiler, the linker, the runtime, and the net, net/http, and net/url packages. See the Go 1.26.2 milestone on our issue tracker for details.

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Update Feb 10, 2026 tracked by Updatify

go1.26.0 (released 2026-02-10)

Introduction to Go 1.26

The latest Go release, version 1.26, arrives in February 2026, six months after Go 1.25. Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility. We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.

Changes to the language

The built-in new function, which creates a new variable, now allows its operand to be an expression, specifying the initial value of the variable.

This feature is particularly useful when working with serialization packages such as encoding/json or protocol buffers that use a pointer to represent an optional value, as it enables an optional field to be populated in a simple expression, for example:

import "encoding/json"

type Person struct {
    Name string   `json:"name"`
    Age  *int     `json:"age"` // age if known; nil otherwise
}

func personJSON(name string, born time.Time) ([]byte, error) {
    return json.Marshal(Person{
        Name: name,
        Age:  new(yearsSince(born)),
    })
}

func yearsSince(t time.Time) int {
    return int(time.Since(t).Hours() / (365.25 * 24)) // approximately
}

The restriction that a generic type may not refer to itself in its type parameter list has been lifted. It is now possible to specify type constraints that refer to the generic type being constrained.

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Update Oct 7, 2025 tracked by Updatify

go1.25.2 (released 2025-10-07)

go1.25.2 (released 2025-10-07) includes security fixes to the archive/tar, crypto/tls, crypto/x509, encoding/asn1, encoding/pem, net/http, net/mail, net/textproto, and net/url packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the runtime, and the context, debug/pe, net/http, os, and sync/atomic packages. See the Go 1.25.2 milestone on our issue tracker for details.

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Update Oct 7, 2025 tracked by Updatify

go1.24.8 (released 2025-10-07)

go1.24.8 (released 2025-10-07) includes security fixes to the archive/tar, crypto/tls, crypto/x509, encoding/asn1, encoding/pem, net/http, net/mail, net/textproto, and net/url packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the linker, and the debug/pe, net/http, os, and sync/atomic packages. See the Go 1.24.8 milestone on our issue tracker for details.

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Update Aug 12, 2025 tracked by Updatify

go1.25.0 (released 2025-08-12)

Introduction to Go 1.25

The latest Go release, version 1.25, arrives in August 2025, six months after Go 1.24. Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility. We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.

Changes to the language

There are no languages changes that affect Go programs in Go 1.25. However, in the language specification the notion of core types has been removed in favor of dedicated prose. See the respective blog post for more information.

Tools

Go command

The go build -asan option now defaults to doing leak detection at program exit. This will report an error if memory allocated by C is not freed and is not referenced by any other memory allocated by either C or Go. These new error reports may be disabled by setting ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0 in the environment when running the program.

The Go distribution will include fewer prebuilt tool binaries. Core toolchain binaries such as the compiler and linker will still be included, but tools not invoked by build or test operations will be built and run by go tool as needed.

The new go.mod ignore directive can be used to

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Update Feb 11, 2025 tracked by Updatify

go1.24.0 (released 2025-02-11)

Introduction to Go 1.24

The latest Go release, version 1.24, arrives in February 2025, six months after Go 1.23. Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility. We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.

Changes to the language

Go 1.24 now fully supports generic type aliases: a type alias may be parameterized like a defined type. See the language spec for details. For now, the feature can be disabled by setting GOEXPERIMENT=noaliastypeparams; but the aliastypeparams setting will be removed for Go 1.25.

Tools

Go command

Go modules can now track executable dependencies using tool directives in go.mod. This removes the need for the previous workaround of adding tools as blank imports to a file conventionally named “tools.go”. The go tool command can now run these tools in addition to tools shipped with the Go distribution. For more information see the documentation.

The new -tool flag for go get causes a tool directive to be added to the current module for named packages in addition to adding require directives.

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Update Sep 5, 2024 tracked by Updatify

go1.23.1 (released 2024-09-05)

go1.23.1 (released 2024-09-05) includes security fixes to the encoding/gob, go/build/constraint, and go/parser packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the go command, the runtime, and the database/sql, go/types, os, runtime/trace, and unique packages. See the Go 1.23.1 milestone on our issue tracker for details.

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