This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go. For full details, see the Mercurial change log.
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+This release contains many changes:
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+* 8l: add DOS stub to PE binaries (thanks Evan Shaw).
+* cgo: add //export.
+* cmath: new complex math library (thanks Charles L. Dorian).
+* docs: update to match current coding style (thanks Christopher Wedgwood).
+* exp/eval: fix example and add target to Makefile (thanks Evan Shaw).
+* fmt: change behaviour of format verb %b to match %x when negative (thanks Andrei Vieru).
+* gc: compile s == "" as len(s) == 0,
+ distinguish fatal compiler bug from error+exit,
+ fix alignment on non-amd64,
+ good syntax error for defer func() {} - missing fina (),
+ implement panic and recover,
+ zero unnamed return values on entry if func has defer.
+* goyacc: change to be reentrant (thanks Roger Peppe).
+* io/ioutil: fix bug in ReadFile when Open succeeds but Stat fails.
+* kate: update for recent language changes (thanks Evan Shaw).
+* libcgo: initial mingw port work - builds but untested (thanks Joe Poirier).
+* math: new functions and special cases (thanks Charles L. Dorian)
+* net: use chan bool instead of chan *netFD to avoid cycle.
+* netchan: allow client to send as well as receive.
+* nntp: new package, NNTP client (thanks Conrad Meyer).
+* os: rename os.Dir to os.FileInfo.
+* rpc: don't log normal EOF,
+ fix ServeConn to block as documented.
+* runtime: many bug fixes, better ARM support.
+* strings: add IndexRune, Trim, TrimLeft, TrimRight, etc (thanks Michael Hoisie).
+* syscall: implement some mingw syscalls required by os (thanks Alex Brainman).
+* test/bench: add k-nucleotide-parallel (thanks Kyle Consalus).
+* Unicode: add support for Turkish case mapping.
+* xgb: move from the main repository to http://code.google.com/p/x-go-binding/
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