This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go. For full details, see the Mercurial change log.
++This release includes a language change: the lower bound of a subslice may +now be omitted, in which case the value will default to 0. +For example, s[0:10] may now be written as s[:10], and s[0:] as s[:]. + +The release also includes important bug fixes for the ARM architecture, +as well as the following fixes and changes: + +* 5g: register allocation bugs +* 6c, 8c: show line numbers in -S output +* 6g, 6l, 8g, 8l: move read-only data to text segment +* 6l, 8l: make etext accurate; introduce rodata, erodata. +* arm: fix build bugs. + make libcgo build during OS X cross-compile + remove reference to deleted file syntax/slice.go + use the correct stat syscalls + work around reg allocator bug in 5g +* bufio: add UnreadRune. +* build: avoid bad environment interactions + fix build for tiny + generate, clean .exe files on Windows (thanks Joe Poirier) + test for _WIN32, not _MINGW32 (thanks Joe Poirier) + work with GNU Make 3.82 (thanks Jukka-Pekka Kekkonen) +* cgo: add typedef for uintptr in generated headers + silence warning for C call returning const pointer +* codereview: convert email address to lower case before checking CONTRIBUTORS +* crypto/tls: don't return an error from Close() +* doc/tutorial: update for slice changes. +* exec: separate LookPath implementations for unix/windows (thanks Joe Poirier) +* exp/draw/x11: allow clean shutdown when the user closes the window. +* exp/draw: clip destination rectangle to the image bounds. + fast path for drawing overlapping image.RGBAs. + fix double-counting of pt.Min for the src and mask points. + reintroduce the MouseEvent.Nsec timestamp. + rename Context to Window, and add a Close method. +* exp/debug: preliminary support for 'copy' function (thanks Sebastien Binet) +* fmt.Fscan: use UnreadRune to preserve data across calls. +* gc: better printing of named constants, func literals in errors + many bug fixes + fix line number printing with //line directives + fix symbol table generation on windows (thanks Alex Brainman) + implement comparison rule from spec change 33abb649cb63 + implement new slice spec (thanks Scott Lawrence) + make string x + y + z + ... + w efficient + more accurate line numbers for ATEXT + remove &[10]int -> []int conversion +* go-mode.el: fix highlighting for 'chan' type (thanks Scott Lawrence) +* godoc: better support for directory trees for user-supplied paths + use correct delay time (bug fix) +* gofmt, go/printer: update internal estimated position correctly +* goinstall: warn when package name starts with http:// (thanks Scott Lawrence) +* http: check https certificate against host name + do not cache CanonicalHeaderKey (thanks Jukka-Pekka Kekkonen) +* image: change a ColorImage's minimum point from (0, 0) to (-1e9, -1e9). + introduce Intersect and Union rectangle methods. +* ld: handle quoted spaces in package path (thanks Dan Sinclair) +* libcgo: fix NaCl build. +* libmach: fix build on arm host + fix new thread race with Linux +* math: make portable Tan(Pi/2) return NaN +* misc/dashboard/builder: gobuilder, a continuous build client +* net: disable tests for functions not available on windows (thanks Alex Brainman) +* netchan: make -1 unlimited, as advertised. +* os, exec: rename argv0 to name +* path: add IsAbs (thanks Ivan Krasin) +* runtime: fix bug in tracebacks + fix crash trace on amd64 + fix windows build (thanks Alex Brainman) + use manual stack for garbage collection +* spec: add examples for slices with omitted index expressions. + allow omission of low slice bound (thanks Scott Lawrence) +* syscall: fix windows Gettimeofday (thanks Alex Brainman) +* test(arm): disable zerodivide.go because compilation fails. +* test(windows): disable tests that cause the build to fail (thanks Joe Poirier) +* test/garbage/parser: sync with recent parser changes +* test: Add test for //line + Make gccgo believe that the variables can change. + Recognize gccgo error messages. + Reduce race conditions in chan/nonblock.go. + Run garbage collector before testing malloc numbers. +* websocket: Add support for secure WebSockets (thanks Jukka-Pekka Kekkonen) +* windows: disable unimplemented tests (thanks Joe Poirier) ++