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 Oct 31, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.13.4 (released 2019-10-31) includes fixes to the net/http and syscall packages. It also fixes an issue on macOS 10.15 Catalina where the non-notarized installer and binaries were being rejected by Gatekeeper. See the Go 1.13.4 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Oct 31, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.13 (released 2019-10-31) fixes an issue on macOS 10.15 Catalina where the non-notarized installer and binaries were being rejected by Gatekeeper. Only macOS users who hit this issue need to update.
Update Oct 17, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.13.2 (released 2019-10-17) includes security fixes to the compiler and the crypto/dsa package. See the Go 1.13.2 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Oct 17, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.13.3 (released 2019-10-17) includes fixes to the go command, the toolchain, the runtime, and the crypto/ecdsa, net, net/http, and syscall packages. See the Go 1.13.3 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Oct 17, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.11 (released 2019-10-17) includes security fixes to the crypto/dsa package. See the Go 1.12.11 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Oct 17, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.12 (released 2019-10-17) includes fixes to the go command, runtime, and the net and syscall packages. See the Go 1.12.12 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Sep 25, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.13.1 (released 2019-09-25) includes security fixes to the net/http and net/textproto packages. See the Go 1.13.1 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Sep 25, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.10 (released 2019-09-25) includes security fixes to the net/http and net/textproto packages. See the Go 1.12.10 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Sep 3, 2019 tracked by Updatify
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.
Per the number literal proposal, Go 1.13 supports a more uniform and modernized set of number literal prefixes.
0b or 0B indicates a binary integer literal
such as 0b1011. Update Aug 15, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.9 (released 2019-08-15) includes fixes to the linker, and the math/big and os packages. See the Go 1.12.9 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Aug 13, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.8 (released 2019-08-13) includes security fixes to the net/http and net/url packages. See the Go 1.12.8 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Aug 13, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.13 (released 2019-08-13) includes security fixes to the net/http and net/url packages. See the Go 1.11.13 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jul 8, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.7 (released 2019-07-08) includes fixes to cgo, the compiler, and the linker. See the Go 1.12.7 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jul 8, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.12 (released 2019-07-08) includes fixes to the compiler and the linker. See the Go 1.11.12 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jun 11, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.6 (released 2019-06-11) includes fixes to the compiler, the linker, the go command, and the crypto/x509, net/http, and os packages. See the Go 1.12.6 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jun 11, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.11 (released 2019-06-11) includes a fix to the crypto/x509 package. See the Go 1.11.11 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update May 6, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.5 (released 2019-05-06) includes fixes to the compiler, the linker, the go command, the runtime, and the os package. See the Go 1.12.5 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update May 6, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.10 (released 2019-05-06) includes security fixes to the runtime, as well as bug fixes to the linker. See the Go 1.11.10 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Apr 11, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.4 (released 2019-04-11) fixes an issue where using the prebuilt binary releases on older versions of GNU/Linux led to failures when linking programs that used cgo. Only Linux users who hit this issue need to update.
Update Apr 11, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.9 (released 2019-04-11) fixes an issue where using the prebuilt binary releases on older versions of GNU/Linux led to failures when linking programs that used cgo. Only Linux users who hit this issue need to update.
Update Apr 8, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.3 (released 2019-04-08) was accidentally released without its intended fix. It is identical to go1.12.2, except for its version number. The intended fix is in go1.12.4.
Update Apr 8, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.8 (released 2019-04-08) was accidentally released without its intended fix. It is identical to go1.11.7, except for its version number. The intended fix is in go1.11.9.
Update Apr 5, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.2 (released 2019-04-05) includes security fixes to the runtime, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the go command, and the doc, net, net/http/httputil, and os packages. See the Go 1.12.2 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Apr 5, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.7 (released 2019-04-05) includes fixes to the runtime and the net package. See the Go 1.11.7 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Mar 14, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.12.1 (released 2019-03-14) includes fixes to cgo, the compiler, the go command, and the fmt, net/smtp, os, path/filepath, sync, and text/template packages. See the Go 1.12.1 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Mar 14, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.6 (released 2019-03-14) includes fixes to cgo, the compiler, linker, runtime, go command, and the crypto/x509, encoding/json, net, and net/url packages. See the Go 1.11.6 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Feb 25, 2019 tracked by Updatify
The latest Go release, version 1.12, arrives six months after Go 1.11. 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 specification.
The race detector is now supported on linux/arm64.
Go 1.12 is the last release that is supported on FreeBSD 10.x, which has already reached end-of-life. Go 1.13 will require FreeBSD 11.2+ or FreeBSD 12.0+. FreeBSD 12.0+ requires a kernel with the COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option set (this is the default).
cgo is now supported on linux/ppc64.
hurd is now a recognized value for GOOS, reserved
for the GNU/Hurd system for use with gccgo.
Go’s new windows/arm port supports running Go on Windows 10
IoT Core on 32-bit ARM chips such as the Raspberry Pi 3.
Go now supports AIX 7.2 and later on POWER8 architectures ( aix/ppc64). External linking, cgo, pprof and the race detector aren’t yet supported.
Go 1.12 is the last release that will run on macOS 10.10 Yosemite. Go 1.13 will require macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.
libSystem is now used when making syscalls on Darwin,
Update Jan 23, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.5 (released 2019-01-23) includes a security fix to the crypto/elliptic package. See the Go 1.11.5 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jan 23, 2019 tracked by Updatify
go1.10.8 (released 2019-01-23) includes a security fix to the crypto/elliptic package. See the Go 1.10.8 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Dec 14, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.4 (released 2018-12-14) includes fixes to cgo, the compiler, linker, runtime, documentation, go command, and the go/types and net/http packages. It includes a fix to a bug introduced in Go 1.11.3 that broke go get for import path patterns containing “ ... “. See the Go 1.11.4 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Dec 14, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.10.7 (released 2018-12-14) includes a fix to a bug introduced in Go 1.10.6 that broke go get for import path patterns containing “ ... “. See the Go 1.10.7 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Dec 12, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.3 (released 2018-12-12) includes three security fixes to “go get” and the crypto/x509 package. See the Go 1.11.3 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Dec 12, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.10.6 (released 2018-12-12) includes three security fixes to “go get” and the crypto/x509 package. It contains the same fixes as Go 1.11.3 and was released at the same time. See the Go 1.10.6 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Nov 2, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.2 (released 2018-11-02) includes fixes to the compiler, linker, documentation, go command, and the database/sql and go/types packages. See the Go 1.11.2 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Nov 2, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.10.5 (released 2018-11-02) includes fixes to the go command, linker, runtime, and the database/sql package. See the Go 1.10.5 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Oct 1, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.11.1 (released 2018-10-01) includes fixes to the compiler, documentation, go command, runtime, and the crypto/x509, encoding/json, go/types, net, net/http, and reflect packages. See the Go 1.11.1 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Aug 24, 2018 tracked by Updatify
The latest Go release, version 1.11, arrives six months after Go 1.10. 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 specification.
As announced in the Go 1.10 release notes, Go 1.11 now requires OpenBSD 6.2 or later, macOS 10.10 Yosemite or later, or Windows 7 or later; support for previous versions of these operating systems has been removed.
Go 1.11 supports the upcoming OpenBSD 6.4 release. Due to changes in the OpenBSD kernel, older versions of Go will not work on OpenBSD 6.4.
There are known issues with NetBSD on i386 hardware.
The race detector is now supported on linux/ppc64le and, to a lesser extent, on netbsd/amd64. The NetBSD race detector support
has known issues.
The memory sanitizer ( -msan) is now supported on linux/arm64.
The build modes c-shared and c-archive are now supported on freebsd/amd64.
On 64-bit MIPS systems, the new environment variable settings GOMIPS64=hardfloat (the default) and GOMIPS64=softfloat select whether to use
Update Aug 24, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.10.4 (released 2018-08-24) includes fixes to the go command, linker, and the bytes, mime/multipart, net/http, and strings packages. See the Go 1.10.4 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jun 5, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.10.3 (released 2018-06-05) includes fixes to the go command, and the crypto/tls, crypto/x509, and strings packages. In particular, it adds minimal support to the go command for the vgo transition. See the Go 1.10.3 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jun 5, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.9.7 (released 2018-06-05) includes fixes to the go command, and the crypto/x509 and strings packages. In particular, it adds minimal support to the go command for the vgo transition. See the Go 1.9.7 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update May 1, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.10.2 (released 2018-05-01) includes fixes to the compiler, linker, and go command. See the Go 1.10.2 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update May 1, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.9.6 (released 2018-05-01) includes fixes to the compiler and go command. See the Go 1.9.6 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Mar 28, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.10.1 (released 2018-03-28) includes security fixes to the go command, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, runtime, and the archive/zip, crypto/tls, crypto/x509, encoding/json, net, net/http, and net/http/pprof packages. See the Go 1.10.1 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Mar 28, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.9.5 (released 2018-03-28) includes security fixes to the go command, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, go command, and the net/http/pprof package. See the Go 1.9.5 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Feb 16, 2018 tracked by Updatify
The latest Go release, version 1.10, arrives six months after Go 1.9. 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.
This release improves caching of built packages,
adds caching of successful test results,
runs vet automatically during tests,
and
permits passing string values directly between Go and C using cgo.
A new hard-coded set of safe compiler options may cause
unexpected invalid flag errors in code that built successfully with older
releases.
There are no significant changes to the language specification.
A corner case involving shifts of untyped constants has been clarified,
and as a result the compilers have been updated to allow the index expression x[1.0 << s] where s is an unsigned integer;
the go/types package already did.
The grammar for method expressions has been updated to relax the
syntax to allow any type expression as a receiver;
this matches what the compilers were already implementing.
For example, struct{io.Reader}.Read is a valid, if unusual,
method expression that the compilers already accepted and is
Update Feb 7, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.9.4 (released 2018-02-07) includes a security fix to “go get”. See the Go 1.9.4 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Feb 7, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.8.7 (released 2018-02-07) includes a security fix to “go get”. It contains the same fix as Go 1.9.4 and was released at the same time. See the Go 1.8.7 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jan 22, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.9.3 (released 2018-01-22) includes security fixes to the net/url package, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, runtime, and the database/sql, math/big, and net/http packages. See the Go 1.9.3 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Jan 22, 2018 tracked by Updatify
go1.8.6 (released 2018-01-22) includes the same fix in math/big as Go 1.9.3 and was released at the same time. See the Go 1.8.6 milestone on our issue tracker for details.
Update Oct 25, 2017 tracked by Updatify
go1.9.2 (released 2017-10-25) includes fixes to the compiler, linker, runtime, documentation, go command, and the crypto/x509, database/sql, log, and net/smtp packages. It includes a fix to a bug introduced in Go 1.9.1 that broke go get of non-Git repositories under certain conditions. See the Go 1.9.2 milestone on our issue tracker for details.