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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 Aug 11, 2020 tracked by Updatify

go1.15 (released 2020-08-11)

Introduction to Go 1.15

The latest Go release, version 1.15, arrives six months after Go 1.14. 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 1.15 includes substantial improvements to the linker, improves allocation for small objects at high core counts, and deprecates X.509 CommonName. GOPROXY now supports skipping proxies that return errors and a new embedded tzdata package has been added.

Changes to the language

There are no changes to the language.

Ports

Darwin

As announced in the Go 1.14 release notes, Go 1.15 requires macOS 10.12 Sierra or later; support for previous versions has been discontinued.

As announced in the Go 1.14 release notes, Go 1.15 drops support for 32-bit binaries on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS (the darwin/386 and darwin/arm ports). Go continues to support the 64-bit darwin/amd64 and darwin/arm64 ports.

Windows

Go now generates Windows ASLR executables when -buildmode=pie cmd/link flag is provided. Go command uses -buildmode=pie by default on Windows.

The -race and -msan flags now always enable -d=checkptr, which checks uses

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Update Feb 25, 2020 tracked by Updatify

go1.14 (released 2020-02-25)

Introduction to Go 1.14

The latest Go release, version 1.14, arrives six months after Go 1.13. 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.

Module support in the go command is now ready for production use, and we encourage all users to migrate to Go modules for dependency management. If you are unable to migrate due to a problem in the Go toolchain, please ensure that the problem has an open issue filed. (If the issue is not on the Go1.15 milestone, please let us know why it prevents you from migrating so that we can prioritize it appropriately.)

Changes to the language

Per the overlapping interfaces proposal, Go 1.14 now permits embedding of interfaces with overlapping method sets: methods from an embedded interface may have the same names and identical signatures as methods already present in the (embedding) interface. This solves problems that typically (but not exclusively) occur with diamond-shaped embedding graphs.

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Update Sep 3, 2019 tracked by Updatify

go1.13 (released 2019-09-03)

Introduction to Go 1.13

The latest Go release, version 1.13, arrives six months after Go 1.12. 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.

As of Go 1.13, the go command by default downloads and authenticates modules using the Go module mirror and Go checksum database run by Google. See https://proxy.golang.org/privacy for privacy information about these services and the go command documentation for configuration details including how to disable the use of these servers or use different ones. If you depend on non-public modules, see the documentation for configuring your environment.

Changes to the language

Per the number literal proposal, Go 1.13 supports a more uniform and modernized set of number literal prefixes.

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