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Go 1.18
Go 1.18 adds generics, native fuzzing, workspace mode, performance improvements, and more.
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Go 1.27
Go 1.27 adds generic methods, encoding/json/v2 package, uuid package, faster memory allocation, goroutine leak profiles, and more.
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Fixing for loops in Go 1.22
Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.
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Using go fix to modernize Go code
Go 1.26 includes a new implementation of go fix that can help you use more modern features of Go.
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(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling
Go team plans around error handling support
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Platform-independent SIMD in Go
Go 1.27 adds an experimental platform-agnostic SIMD API
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A new Go API for JSON
Go 1.27 introduces new encoding/json/v2 and encoding/json/jsontext packages.
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Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
Go 1.21 expands Go's commitment to backward compatibility, so that every new Go toolchain is the best possible implementation of older toolchain semantics as well.
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More powerful Go execution traces
New features and improvements to execution traces from the last year.
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Go 1.21 Release Candidate
Go 1.21 RC brings language improvements, new standard library packages, PGO GA, backward and forward compatibility in the toolchain and faster builds.
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Go runtime: 4 years later
A check-in on the status of Go runtime development
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Go's Sweet 16
Happy Birthday, Go!
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Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27
Go 1.27 includes a change to the HTTP client that can make programs sending many sequential HTTP/1 requests significantly faster.
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Good-bye core types; Hello Go as we know and love it
Go 1.25 simplifies the language spec by removing the notion of core types
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Secure Randomness in Go 1.22
ChaCha8Rand is a new cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator used in Go 1.22.
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Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API
We are adding a new generated code API to Go Protobuf.
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A new experimental Go API for JSON
Go 1.25 introduces experimental support for encoding/json/jsontext and encoding/json/v2 packages.
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Fourteen Years of Go
Happy Birthday, Go!
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An Introduction to Generics
An introduction to generics in Go.
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Go 1.18 Beta 1 is available, with generics
Go 1.18 Beta 1 is our first preview of Go 1.18. Please try it and let us know if you find problems.
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Thirteen Years of Go
Happy Birthday, Go!
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Twelve Years of Go
Happy Birthday, Go!
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The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module
Go now has a built-in, native FIPS 140-3 compliant mode.
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//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner
How Go 1.26's source-level inliner works, and how it can help you with self-service API migrations.
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The Green Tea Garbage Collector
Go 1.25 includes a new experimental garbage collector, Green Tea.
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Allocating on the Stack
A description of some of the recent changes to do allocations on the stack instead of the heap.
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Get familiar with workspaces
Learn about Go workspaces and some of the workflows they enable.
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Code coverage for Go integration tests
Code coverage for integration tests, available in Go 1.20.
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Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2
Go 1.22 adds math/rand/v2 and charts a course for the evolution of the Go standard library.
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Go(lang): Robust generic functions on slices
Avoiding memory leaks in the slices package.