This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go. For full details, see the Mercurial change log.
++There is one language change: the ability to convert a string to []byte or +[]int. This deprecates the strings.Bytes and strings.Runes functions. +You can convert your existing sources using these gofmt commands: + gofmt -r 'strings.Bytes(x) -> []byte(x)' -w file-or-directory-list + gofmt -r 'strings.Runes(x) -> []int(x)' -w file-or-directory-list +After running these you might need to delete unused imports of the "strings" +package. + +Other changes and fixes: +* 6l/8l/5l: add -r option +* 8g: make a[byte(x)] truncate x +* codereview.py: fix for compatibility with hg >=1.4.3 +* crypto/blowfish: new package (thanks Raif S. Naffah) +* dashboard: more performance tuning +* fmt: use String method in %q to get the value to quote. +* gofmt: several cosmetic changes +* http: fix handling of Connection: close, bug in http.Post +* net: correct DNS configuration, + fix network timeout boundary condition, + put [ ] around IPv6 addresses for Dial. +* path: add Match, + fix bug in Match with non-greedy stars (thanks Kevin Ballard) +* strings: delete Bytes, Runes (see above) +* tests: an Eratosthenesque concurrent prime sieve (thanks Anh Hai Trinh) +