This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go. For full details, see the Mercurial change log.
++The json, gob, and template packages have changed, and code that uses them +may need to be updated after this release. They will no longer read or write +unexported struct fields. When marshalling a struct with json or gob the +unexported fields will be silently ignored. Attempting to unmarshal json or +gob data into an unexported field will generate an error. Accessing an +unexported field from a template will cause the Execute function to return +an error. + +Godoc now supports regular expression full text search, and this +functionality is now available on golang.org. + +Other changes: +* arm: initial cut at arm optimizer. +* bytes.Buffer: Fix bug in UnreadByte. +* cgo: export unsafe.Pointer as void*, fix enum const conflict, + output alignment fix (thanks Gustavo Niemeyer). +* crypto/block: mark as deprecated. +* crypto/openpgp: add error and armor. +* crypto: add twofish package (thanks Berengar Lehr). +* doc/spec: remove Maxalign from spec. +* encoding/line: new package for reading lines from an io.Reader. +* go/ast: correct end position for Index and TypeAssert expressions. +* gob: make (en|dec)code(Ui|I)nt methods rather than functions. +* godefs: better handling of enums. +* gofmt: don't attempt certain illegal rewrites, + rewriter matches apply to expressions only. +* goinstall: preliminary support for cgo packages (thanks Gustavo Niemeyer). +* hg: add cgo/_cgo_* to .hgignore. +* http: fix text displayed in Redirect. +* ld: fix exported dynamic symbols on Mach-O, + permit a Mach-O symbol to be exported in the dynamic symbol table. +* log: add methods for exit and panic. +* net: use closesocket api instead of CloseHandle on Windows (thanks Alex Brainman). +* netchan: make fields exported for gob change. +* os: add Sync to *File, wraps syscall.Fsync. +* runtime/cgo: Add callbacks to support SWIG. +* runtime: Restore scheduler stack position if cgo callback panics. +* suffixarray: faster creation algorithm (thanks Eric Eisner). +* syscall: fix mksysnum_linux.sh (thanks Anthony Martin). +* time.NewTicker: panic for intervals <= 0. +* time: add AfterFunc to call a function after a duration (thanks Roger Peppe), + fix tick accuracy when using multiple Tickers (thanks Eoghan Sherry).+