This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go. For full details, see the Mercurial change log.
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+This release includes a change to os.Open (and co.). The file permission
+argument has been changed to a uint32. Your code may require changes - a simple
+conversion operation at most.
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+Other changes:
+* amd64: use segment memory for thread-local storage.
+* arm: add gdb support to android launcher script,
+ bugfixes (stack clobbering, indices),
+ disable another flaky test,
+ remove old qemu dependency from gotest.
+* bufio: introduce Peek.
+* bytes: added test case for explode with blank string (thanks Scott Lawrence).
+* cgo: correct multiple return value function invocations (thanks Christian Himpel).
+* crypto/x509: unwrap Subject Key Identifier (thanks Adam Langley).
+* gc: index bounds tests and other fixes.
+* gofmt/go/parser: strengthen syntax checks.
+* goinstall: check for error from exec.*Cmd.Wait() (thanks Alex Brainman).
+* image/png: use image-specific methods for checking opacity.
+* image: introduce Gray and Gray16 types,
+ remove the named colors except for Black and White.
+* json: object members must have a value (thanks Anthony Martin).
+* misc/vim: highlight misspelled words only in comments (thanks Christian Himpel).
+* os: Null device (thanks Peter Mundy).
+* runtime: do not fall through in SIGBUS/SIGSEGV.
+* strings: fix Split("", "", -1) (thanks Scott Lawrence).
+* syscall: make go errors not clash with windows errors (thanks Alex Brainman).
+* test/run: diff old new,
+* websocket: correct challenge response (thanks Tarmigan Casebolt),
+ fix bug involving spaces in header keys (thanks Bill Neubauer).
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