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 Nov 1, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.19.3 (released 2022-11-01) includes security fixes to the os/exec and syscall packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler and the runtime. See the Go 1.19.3 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Nov 1, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.18.8 (released 2022-11-01) includes security fixes to the os/exec and syscall packages, as well as bug fixes to the runtime. See the Go 1.18.8 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Oct 4, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.19.2 (released 2022-10-04) includes security fixes to the archive/tar, net/http/httputil, and regexp packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the linker, the runtime, and the go/types package. See the Go 1.19.2 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Oct 4, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.18.7 (released 2022-10-04) includes security fixes to the archive/tar, net/http/httputil, and regexp packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the linker, and the go/types package. See the Go 1.18.7 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Sep 6, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.19.1 (released 2022-09-06) includes security fixes to the net/http and net/url packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the go command, the pprof command, the linker, the runtime, and the crypto/tls and crypto/x509 packages. See the Go 1.19.1 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Sep 6, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.18.6 (released 2022-09-06) includes security fixes to the net/http package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the go command, the pprof command, the runtime, and the crypto/tls, encoding/xml, and net packages. See the Go 1.18.6 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Aug 2, 2022 tracked by Updatify
The latest Go release, version 1.19, arrives five months after Go 1.18. 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.
There is only one small change to the language, a very small correction to the scope of type parameters in method declarations. Existing programs are unaffected.
The Go memory model has been revised to align Go with
the memory model used by C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Rust, and Swift.
Go only provides sequentially consistent atomics, not any of the more relaxed forms found in other languages.
Along with the memory model update,
Go 1.19 introduces new types in the sync/atomic package that make it easier to use atomic values, such as atomic.Int64 and atomic.Pointer[T].
Go 1.19 adds support for the Loongson 64-bit architecture LoongArch on Linux ( GOOS=linux, GOARCH=loong64).
Update Aug 1, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.18.5 (released 2022-08-01) includes security fixes to the encoding/gob and math/big packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the go command, the runtime, and the testing package. See the Go 1.18.5 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Aug 1, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.13 (released 2022-08-01) includes security fixes to the encoding/gob and math/big packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler and the runtime. See the Go 1.17.13 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jul 12, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.18.4 (released 2022-07-12) includes security fixes to the compress/gzip, encoding/gob, encoding/xml, go/parser, io/fs, net/http, and path/filepath packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the go command, the linker, the runtime, and the runtime/metrics package. See the Go 1.18.4 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jul 12, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.12 (released 2022-07-12) includes security fixes to the compress/gzip, encoding/gob, encoding/xml, go/parser, io/fs, net/http, and path/filepath packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the go command, the runtime, and the runtime/metrics package. See the Go 1.17.12 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jun 1, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.18.3 (released 2022-06-01) includes security fixes to the crypto/rand, crypto/tls, os/exec, and path/filepath packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, and the crypto/tls and text/template/parse packages. See the Go 1.18.3 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jun 1, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.11 (released 2022-06-01) includes security fixes to the crypto/rand, crypto/tls, os/exec, and path/filepath packages, as well as bug fixes to the crypto/tls package. See the Go 1.17.11 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update May 10, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.18.2 (released 2022-05-10) includes security fixes to the syscall package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, runtime, the go command, and the crypto/x509, go/types, net/http/httptest, reflect, and sync/atomic packages. See the Go 1.18.2 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update May 10, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.10 (released 2022-05-10) includes security fixes to the syscall package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, runtime, and the crypto/x509 and net/http/httptest packages. See the Go 1.17.10 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Apr 12, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.18.1 (released 2022-04-12) includes security fixes to the crypto/elliptic, crypto/x509, and encoding/pem packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, the go command, vet, and the bytes, crypto/x509, and go/types packages. See the Go 1.18.1 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Apr 12, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.9 (released 2022-04-12) includes security fixes to the crypto/elliptic and encoding/pem packages, as well as bug fixes to the linker and runtime. See the Go 1.17.9 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Mar 15, 2022 tracked by Updatify
The latest Go release, version 1.18, is a significant release, including changes to the language, implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. Go 1.18 arrives seven months after Go 1.17. 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.
Go 1.18 includes an implementation of generic features as described by the Type Parameters Proposal. This includes major - but fully backward-compatible - changes to the language.
These new language changes required a large amount of new code that has not had significant testing in production settings. That will only happen as more people write and use generic code. We believe that this feature is well implemented and high quality. However, unlike most aspects of Go, we can’t back up that belief with real world experience. Therefore, while we encourage the use of generics where it makes sense, please use appropriate caution when deploying generic code in production.
While we believe that the new language features are well designed and clearly specified, it is possible that we have made mistakes. We want to stress that the [Go 1
Update Mar 3, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.8 (released 2022-03-03) includes a security fix to the regexp/syntax package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, runtime, the go command, and the crypto/x509 and net packages. See the Go 1.17.8 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Mar 3, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.15 (released 2022-03-03) includes a security fix to the regexp/syntax package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, runtime, the go command, and the net package. See the Go 1.16.15 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Feb 10, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.7 (released 2022-02-10) includes security fixes to the go command, and the crypto/elliptic and math/big packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, the go command, and the debug/macho, debug/pe, and net/http/httptest packages. See the Go 1.17.7 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Feb 10, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.14 (released 2022-02-10) includes security fixes to the go command, and the crypto/elliptic and math/big packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, the go command, and the debug/macho, debug/pe, net/http/httptest, and testing packages. See the Go 1.16.14 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jan 6, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.6 (released 2022-01-06) includes fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, and the crypto/x509, net/http, and reflect packages. See the Go 1.17.6 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jan 6, 2022 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.13 (released 2022-01-06) includes fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, and the net/http package. See the Go 1.16.13 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Dec 9, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.5 (released 2021-12-09) includes security fixes to the net/http and syscall packages. See the Go 1.17.5 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Dec 9, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.12 (released 2021-12-09) includes security fixes to the net/http and syscall packages. See the Go 1.16.12 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Dec 2, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.4 (released 2021-12-02) includes fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, and the go/types, net/http, and time packages. See the Go 1.17.4 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Dec 2, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.11 (released 2021-12-02) includes fixes to the compiler, runtime, and the net/http, net/http/httptest, and time packages. See the Go 1.16.11 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Nov 4, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.3 (released 2021-11-04) includes security fixes to the archive/zip and debug/macho packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, the go command, the misc/wasm directory, and the net/http and syscall packages. See the Go 1.17.3 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Nov 4, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.10 (released 2021-11-04) includes security fixes to the archive/zip and debug/macho packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, the misc/wasm directory, and the net/http package. See the Go 1.16.10 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Oct 7, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.2 (released 2021-10-07) includes security fixes to linker and the misc/wasm directory, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, runtime, the go command, and the text/template and time packages. See the Go 1.17.2 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Oct 7, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.9 (released 2021-10-07) includes security fixes to linker and the misc/wasm directory, as well as bug fixes to runtime and the text/template package. See the Go 1.16.9 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Sep 9, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.17.1 (released 2021-09-09) includes a security fix to the archive/zip package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, linker, the go command, and the crypto/rand, embed, go/types, html/template, and net/http packages. See the Go 1.17.1 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Sep 9, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.8 (released 2021-09-09) includes a security fix to the archive/zip package, as well as bug fixes to the archive/zip, go/internal/gccgoimporter, html/template, net/http, and runtime/pprof packages. See the Go 1.16.8 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Aug 16, 2021 tracked by Updatify
The latest Go release, version 1.17, arrives six months after Go 1.16. 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.
Go 1.17 includes three small enhancements to the language.
s of
type []T may now be converted to array pointer type *[N]T. If a is the result of such a
conversion, then corresponding indices that are in range refer to
the same underlying elements: &a[i] == &s[i] for 0 <= i < N. The conversion panics if len(s) is less than N. unsafe.Add: unsafe.Add(ptr, len) adds len to ptr and returns the updated pointer unsafe.Pointer(uintptr(ptr) + uintptr(len)). unsafe.Slice:
For expression ptr of type *T, unsafe.Slice(ptr, len) returns a slice of
type []T whose underlying array starts
at ptr and whose length and capacity
are len.
The package unsafe enhancements were added to simplify writing code that conforms
to unsafe.Pointer ’s safety
rules, but the rules remain unchanged. In particular, existing
Update Aug 5, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.7 (released 2021-08-05) includes a security fix to the net/http/httputil package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, the go command, and the net/http package. See the Go 1.16.7 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Aug 5, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.15.15 (released 2021-08-05) includes a security fix to the net/http/httputil package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, runtime, the go command, and the net/http package. See the Go 1.15.15 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jul 12, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.6 (released 2021-07-12) includes a security fix to the crypto/tls package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, and the net and net/http packages. See the Go 1.16.6 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jul 12, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.15.14 (released 2021-07-12) includes a security fix to the crypto/tls package, as well as bug fixes to the linker and the net package. See the Go 1.15.14 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jun 3, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.5 (released 2021-06-03) includes security fixes to the archive/zip, math/big, net, and net/http/httputil packages, as well as bug fixes to the linker, the go command, and the net/http package. See the Go 1.16.5 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jun 3, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.15.13 (released 2021-06-03) includes security fixes to the archive/zip, math/big, net, and net/http/httputil packages, as well as bug fixes to the linker, the go command, and the math/big and net/http packages. See the Go 1.15.13 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update May 6, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.4 (released 2021-05-06) includes a security fix to the net/http package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, runtime, and the archive/zip, syscall, and time packages. See the Go 1.16.4 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update May 6, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.15.12 (released 2021-05-06) includes a security fix to the net/http package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, runtime, and the archive/zip, syscall, and time packages. See the Go 1.15.12 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Apr 1, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.3 (released 2021-04-01) includes fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, the go command, and the testing and time packages. See the Go 1.16.3 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Apr 1, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.15.11 (released 2021-04-01) includes fixes to cgo, the compiler, linker, runtime, the go command, and the database/sql and net/http packages. See the Go 1.15.11 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Mar 11, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.2 (released 2021-03-11) includes fixes to cgo, the compiler, linker, the go command, and the syscall and time packages. See the Go 1.16.2 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Mar 11, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.15.10 (released 2021-03-11) includes fixes to the compiler, the go command, and the net/http, os, syscall, and time packages. See the Go 1.15.10 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Mar 10, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.16.1 (released 2021-03-10) includes security fixes to the archive/zip and encoding/xml packages. See the Go 1.16.1 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Mar 10, 2021 tracked by Updatify
go1.15.9 (released 2021-03-10) includes security fixes to the encoding/xml package. See the Go 1.15.9 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Feb 16, 2021 tracked by Updatify
The latest Go release, version 1.16, arrives six months after Go 1.15. 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.
There are no changes to the language.
Go 1.16 adds support of 64-bit ARM architecture on macOS (also known as
Apple Silicon) with GOOS=darwin, GOARCH=arm64.
Like the darwin/amd64 port, the darwin/arm64 port supports cgo, internal and external linking, c-archive, c-shared, and pie build modes, and the race
detector.
The iOS port, which was previously darwin/arm64, has
been renamed to ios/arm64. GOOS=ios implies the darwin build tag, just as GOOS=android implies the linux build tag. This change should be
transparent to anyone using gomobile to build iOS apps.
The introduction of GOOS=ios means that file names
like x_ios.go will now only be built for GOOS=ios; see go help buildconstraint for details.
Existing packages that use file names of this form will have to
rename the files.
Go 1.16 adds an ios/amd64 port, which targets the iOS
simulator running on AMD64-based macOS. Previously this was