This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go. For full details, see the Mercurial change log.
++This release removes the log package's deprecated functions. +Code that has not been updated to use the new interface will break. +See the previous release notes for details: + http://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#2010-10-13 + +Also included are major improvements to the linker. It is now faster, +uses less memory, and more parallelizable (but not yet parallel). + +The nntp package has been removed from the standard library. +Its new home is the nntp-go project at Google Code: + http://code.google.com/p/nntp-go +You can install it with goinstall: + goinstall nntp-go.googlecode.com/hg/nntp +And import it in your code like so: + import "nntp-go.googlecode.com/hg/nntp" + +Other changes: +* 6g: avoid too-large immediate constants. +* 8l, runtime: initial support for Plan 9 (thanks Yuval Pavel Zholkover). +* 6l, 8l: more improvements on exporting debug information (DWARF). +* arm: code gen fixes. Most tests now pass, except for floating point code. +* big: add random number generation (thanks Florian Uekermann). +* gc: keep track of real actual type of identifiers, + report that shift must be unsigned integer, + select receive with implicit conversion. +* goplay: fix to run under windows (thanks Yasuhiro Matsumoto). +* http: do not close connection after sending HTTP/1.0 request. +* netchan: add new method Hangup to terminate transmission on a channel. +* os: change TestForkExec so it can run on windows (thanks Yasuhiro Matsumoto). +* runtime: don't let select split stack. +* syscall/arm: correct 64-bit system call arguments. ++