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Automatic cipher suite ordering in crypto/tls

  Filippo Valsorda
  15 September 2021

  The Go standard library provides crypto/tls,

a robust implementation of Transport Layer Security (TLS), the most important security protocol on the Internet, and the fundamental component of HTTPS. In Go 1.17 we made its configuration easier, more secure, and more efficient by automating the priority order of cipher suites. How c

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Command PATH security in Go

  Russ Cox
  19 January 2021

  Today’s Go security release

fixes an issue involving PATH lookups in untrusted directories that can lead to remote execution during the go get command. We expect people to have questions about what exactly this means and whether they might have issues in their own programs. This post details the bug, the fixes we have applied, how to decide whether your own

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Gopls on by default in the VS Code Go extension

  Go tools team
  1 February 2021

  We’re happy to announce that the VS Code Go extension now enables the gopls

language server by default, to deliver more robust IDE features and better support for Go modules.

(gopls provides IDE features, such as as intelligent autocompletion, signature help, refactoring, and workspace symbol search.) When Go modules were

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Go 1.16 is released

  Matt Pearring and Dmitri Shuralyov
  16 February 2021

  Today the Go team is very happy to announce the release of Go 1.16.

You can get it from the download page. The new embed package provides access to files embedded at compile time using the new //go:embed directive. Now it is easy to bundle supporting data files into your Go programs, making developing with Go even smoother. You can get st

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New module changes in Go 1.16

  Jay Conrod
  18 February 2021

  We hope you’re enjoying Go 1.16!

This release has a lot of new features, especially for modules. The release notes describe these changes briefly, but let’s explore a few of them in depth. Modules on by default The go command now builds packages in module-aware mode by default, even when no go.mod is present. This is a big step toward using

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Contexts and structs

  Jean de Klerk, Matt T. Proud
  24 February 2021

  Introduction

In many Go APIs, especially modern ones, the first argument to functions and methods is often context.Context. Context provides a means of transmitting deadlines, caller cancellations, and other request-scoped values across API boundaries and between processes. It is often used when a library interacts — directly or transitively —

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Go Developer Survey 2020 Results

  Alice Merrick
  9 March 2021

  Thank you for the amazing response!

In 2020, we had another great turnout with 9,648 responses, about as many as 2019. Thank you for putting in the time to provide the community with these insights on your experiences using Go! New modular survey design You may notice some questions have smaller sample sizes (“n=") than others. That’

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Fuzzing is Beta Ready

  Katie Hockman and Jay Conrod
  3 June 2021

  We are excited to announce that native fuzzing is ready for beta testing in its

development branch, dev.fuzz! Fuzzing is a type of automated testing which continuously manipulates inputs to a program to find issues such as panics or bugs. These semi-random data mutations can discover new code coverage that existing unit tests may miss, and uncover

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The Go Collective on Stack Overflow

  Steve Francia
  23 June 2021

  Since the earliest days of Go,

Stack Overflow has been a significant part of the Go user experience. For the past five years, the Go user survey has consistently identified Stack Overflow as the #1 place users go to find answers to their Go questions. We are excited to share the Go Collective, the very first open source project in Collectives™ on

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Go 1.17 is released

  Matt Pearring and Alex Rakoczy
  16 August 2021

  Today the Go team is thrilled to release Go 1.17, which you can get by visiting the

download page. This release brings additional improvements to the compiler, namely a new way of passing function arguments and results. This change has shown about a 5% performance improvement in Go programs and reduction in binary sizes of around 2% for amd64 p