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<h2 id="introduction">DRAFT RELEASE NOTES - Introduction to Go 1.13</h2>

<p>
  <strong>
    Go 1.13 is not yet released. These are work-in-progress
    release notes. Go 1.13 is expected to be released in August 2019.
  </strong>
</p>

<p>
  As of Go 1.13, the go command downloads and authenticates modules using
  the Go module mirror and Go checksum database run by Google. See
  <a href="https://proxy.golang.org/privacy">https://proxy.golang.org/privacy</a>
  for privacy information about these services and the
  <a href="/cmd/go/#hdr-Module_downloading_and_verification">go command documentation</a>
  for configuration details.
</p>

<p>
TODO
</p>

<h2 id="language">Changes to the language</h2>

<p>
TODO
</p>

<h2 id="ports">Ports</h2>

<p>
TODO
</p>

<h3 id="darwin">Darwin</h3>

<p>
  As <a href="go1.12#darwin">announced</a> in the Go 1.12 release notes,
  Go 1.13 now requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later;
  support for previous versions has been discontinued.
</p>

<h3 id="freebsd">FreeBSD</h3>

<p>
  As <a href="go1.12#freebsd">announced</a> in the Go 1.12 release notes,
  Go 1.13 now requires FreeBSD 11.2 or later;
  support for previous versions has been discontinued.
  FreeBSD 12.0 or later requires a kernel with the COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option set (this is the default).
</p>

<h2 id="tools">Tools</h2>

<p>
TODO
</p>

<h2 id="runtime">Runtime</h2>

<p>
TODO
</p>


<h2 id="library">Core library</h2>

<p>
TODO generally
</p>

<h3 id="tls_1_3">TLS 1.3</h3>

<p>
TODO; link to <a href="/doc/go1.12#tls_1_3">Go 1.12 notes</a>.
</p>


<h3 id="minor_library_changes">Minor changes to the library</h3>

<p>
  As always, there are various minor changes and updates to the library,
  made with the Go 1 <a href="/doc/go1compat">promise of compatibility</a>
  in mind.
</p>

<p>
TODO
</p>

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<dl id="all"><dt><a href="/pkg/all/">all</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 174457 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/174457">https://golang.org/cl/174457</a>: add new GOOS=illumos, split out of GOOS=solaris
    </p>

</dl><!-- all -->

<dl id="bytes"><dt><a href="/pkg/bytes/">bytes</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 161760 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/161760">https://golang.org/cl/161760</a>: hoist error creation out of function
    </p>

    <p>
      The new <a href="/pkg/bytes/#ToValidUTF8"><code>ToValidUTF8</code></a> function returns a
      copy of a given byte slice with each run of invalid UTF-8 byte sequences replaced by a given slice.
    </p>

</dl><!-- bytes -->

<dl id="context"><dt><a href="/pkg/context/">context</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 169080 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/169080">https://golang.org/cl/169080</a>: don&#39;t depend on fmt
    </p>

</dl><!-- context -->

<dl id="crypto/ed25519"><dt><a href="/pkg/crypto/ed25519/">crypto/ed25519</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 174945 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/174945">https://golang.org/cl/174945</a>: promote from golang.org/x/crypto/ed25519
    </p>

</dl><!-- crypto/ed25519 -->

<dl id="crypto/tls"><dt><a href="/pkg/crypto/tls/">crypto/tls</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 177698 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/177698">https://golang.org/cl/177698</a>: add support for Ed25519 certificates in TLS 1.2 and 1.3
    </p>

</dl><!-- crypto/tls -->

<dl id="database/sql"><dt><a href="/pkg/database/sql/">database/sql</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 170699 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/database/sql/#NullTime"><code>NullTime</code></a> type represents a <code>time.Time</code> that may be null.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 174178 -->
      The new  <a href="/pkg/database/sql/#NullInt32"><code>NullInt32</code></a> type represents an <code>int32</code> that may be null.
    </p>

</dl><!-- database/sql -->

<dl id="debug/dwarf"><dt><a href="/pkg/debug/dwarf/">debug/dwarf</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 158797 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/158797">https://golang.org/cl/158797</a>: more graceful handling of unsupported types
    </p>

</dl><!-- debug/dwarf -->

<dl id="html/template"><dt><a href="/pkg/html/template/">html/template</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 175218 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/175218">https://golang.org/cl/175218</a>: add support for JavaScript modules
    </p>

</dl><!-- html/template -->

<dl id="log"><dt><a href="/pkg/log/">log</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 168920 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/168920">https://golang.org/cl/168920</a>: expose Writer() method of the standard logger
    </p>

</dl><!-- log -->

<dl id="math/big"><dt><a href="/pkg/math/big/">math/big</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 160682 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/160682">https://golang.org/cl/160682</a>: implement Rat.SetUint64
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 168237 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/168237">https://golang.org/cl/168237</a>: accept non-decimal floats with Rat.SetString
    </p>

</dl><!-- math/big -->

<dl id="math/bits"><dt><a href="/pkg/math/bits/">math/bits</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 178177 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/178177">https://golang.org/cl/178177</a>: document that Add, Sub, Mul, RotateLeft, ReverseBytes are constant time
    </p>

</dl><!-- math/bits -->

<dl id="net"><dt><a href="/pkg/net/">net</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 156366 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/156366">https://golang.org/cl/156366</a>: use DNS over TCP when use-vc is set in resolv.conf
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 166297 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/166297">https://golang.org/cl/166297</a>: use libSystem bindings for DNS resolution on macos if cgo is unavailable
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 170678 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/170678">https://golang.org/cl/170678</a>: add KeepAlive field to ListenConfig
    </p>

</dl><!-- net -->

<dl id="net/http"><dt><a href="/pkg/net/http/">net/http</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 130256 -->
      The new field <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Transport.ForceAttemptHTTP2"><code>Transport.ForceAttemptHTTP2</code></a>
      controls whether HTTP/2 is enabled when a non-zero <code>Dial</code>, <code>DialTLS</code>, or <code>DialContext</code>
      func or <code>TLSClientConfig</code> is provided.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 140357 -->
      When reusing HTTP/2, the <a href="/pkg/net/http#Transport"><code>Transport</code></a> no longer performs unnecessary TLS handshakes.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 154383 -->
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#TimeoutHandler"><code>TimeoutHandler</code></a>'s
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#ResponseWriter"><code>ResponseWriter</code></a> now implements the
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Pusher"><code>Pusher</code></a> and <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Flusher"><code>Flusher</code></a> interfaces.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 167681 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/net/http#Server"><code>Server</code></a> fields
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Server.BaseContext"><code>BaseContext</code></a> and
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Server.ConnContext"><code>ConnContext</code></a>
      allow finer control over the <a href="/pkg/context#Context"><code>Context</code></a> values provided to requests and connections.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 173658 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Header"><code>Header</code></a> method
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Header.Clone"><code>Clone</code></a> returns a copy of the receiver.
    </p>

</dl><!-- net/http -->

<dl id="os"><dt><a href="/pkg/os/">os</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 160877 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/os/#UserConfigDir"><code>UserConfigDir</code></a> function
      returns the default directory to use for user-specific configuration data.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 166578 -->
      If a <a href="/pkg/os/#File"><code>File</code></a> is opened using the O_APPEND flag, its
      <a href="/pkg/os/#File.WriteAt"><code>WriteAt</code></a> method will always return an error.
    </p>

</dl><!-- os -->

<dl id="os/exec"><dt><a href="/pkg/os/exec/">os/exec</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 174318 -->
      On Windows, the environment for a <a href="/pkg/os/exec#Cmd"><code>Cmd</code></a> always inherits the
      <code>%SYSTEMROOT%</code> value of the parent process unless the
      <a href="/pkg/os/exec#Cmd.Env"><code>Cmd.Env</code></a> field includes an explicit value for it.
    </p>

</dl><!-- os/exec -->

<dl id="reflect"><dt><a href="/pkg/reflect/">reflect</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 171337 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/171337">https://golang.org/cl/171337</a>: add Value.IsZero
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 174531 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/174531">https://golang.org/cl/174531</a>: MakeFunc: allow assignment conversions on values returned from the wrapped function
    </p>

</dl><!-- reflect -->

<dl id="runtime"><dt><a href="/pkg/runtime/">runtime</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 170318 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/170318">https://golang.org/cl/170318</a>: randomize package initialization order in race mode
    </p>

</dl><!-- runtime -->

<dl id="runtime, internal/poll, net"><dt><a href="/pkg/runtime, internal/poll, net/">runtime, internal/poll, net</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 166497 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/166497">https://golang.org/cl/166497</a>: report event scanning error on read event
    </p>

</dl><!-- runtime, internal/poll, net -->

<dl id="runtime/cgo"><dt><a href="/pkg/runtime/cgo/">runtime/cgo</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 170127 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/170127">https://golang.org/cl/170127</a>: look for android_get_device_api_level in libc.so
    </p>

</dl><!-- runtime/cgo -->

<dl id="strings"><dt><a href="/pkg/strings">strings</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 142003 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/strings/#ToValidUTF8"><code>ToValidUTF8</code></a> function returns a
      copy of a given string with each run of invalid UTF-8 byte sequences replaced by a given string.
    </p>

</dl><!-- strings -->

<dl id="sync"><dt><a href="/pkg/sync/">sync</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 166960 -->
      Large <a href="/pkg/sync/#Pool"><code>sync.Pool</code></a> no longer increase stop-the-world pause times.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 166961 -->
      <code>Pool</code> no longer needs to be completely repopulated after every GC. It now retains some objects across GCs,
      as opposed to releasing all objects, reducing load spikes for heavy users of <code>Pool</code>.
    </p>

</dl><!-- sync -->

<dl id="syscall"><dt><a href="/pkg/syscall/">syscall</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 168479 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/168479">https://golang.org/cl/168479</a>: avoid _getdirentries64 on darwin
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 174197 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/174197">https://golang.org/cl/174197</a>: allow setting security attributes on processes
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 174320 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/174320">https://golang.org/cl/174320</a>: don&#39;t return EINVAL on zero Chmod mode on Windows
    </p>

</dl><!-- syscall -->

<dl id="syscall/js"><dt><a href="/pkg/syscall/js/">syscall/js</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 177537 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/177537">https://golang.org/cl/177537</a>: replace TypedArrayOf with CopyBytesToGo/CopyBytesToJS
    </p>

</dl><!-- syscall/js -->

<dl id="testing"><dt><a href="/pkg/testing/">testing</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 112155 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/112155">https://golang.org/cl/112155</a>: stop rounding b.N
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 166717 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/166717">https://golang.org/cl/166717</a>: add B.ReportMetric for custom benchmark metrics
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 173722 -->
      TODO: <a href="https://golang.org/cl/173722">https://golang.org/cl/173722</a>: delay flag registration; move to an Init function
    </p>

</dl><!-- testing -->

<dl id="text/scanner"><dt><a href="/pkg/text/scanner/">text/scanner</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 163079 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/text/scanner/#AllowNumberbars"><code>AllowNumberbars</code></a>
      mode allows number literals to contain underbars as digit separators.
    </p>

</dl><!-- text/scanner -->

<dl id="text/template"><dt><a href="/pkg/text/template/">text/template</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 161762 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/text/template/#hdr-Functions">slice function</a>
      returns the result of slicing its first argument by the following arguments.
    </p>

</dl><!-- text/template -->

<dl id="time"><dt><a href="/pkg/time/">time</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 122876 -->
      Day-of-year is now supported by <a href="/pkg/time/#time.Format"><code>Format</code></a>
      and <a href="/pkg/time/#Parse"><code>Parse</code></a>.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 167387 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/time/#Duration"><code>Duration</code></a> methods
      <a href="/pkg/time/#Duration.Microseconds"><code>Microseconds</code></a> and
      <a href="/pkg/time/#Duration.Milliseconds"><code>Milliseconds</code></a> return
      the duration as an integer count of their respectively named units.
    </p>

</dl><!-- time -->