This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go. For full details, see the Mercurial change log.
++This release includes some package changes. If you use the crypto/tls or +go/parser packages your code may require changes. + +The crypto/tls package's Dial function now takes an additional *Config +argument. Most uses will pass nil to get the same default behavior as before. +See the documentation for details: + http://golang.org/pkg/crypto/tls/#Config + http://golang.org/pkg/crypto/tls/#Dial + +The go/parser package's ParseFile function now takes a *token.FileSet as its +first argument. This is a pointer to a data structure used to store +position information. If you don't care about position information you +can pass "token.NewFileSet()". See the documentation for details: + http://golang.org/pkg/go/parser/#ParseFile + +This release also splits the patent grant text out of the LICENSE file into a +separate PATENTS file and changes it to be more like the WebM grant. +These clarifications were made at the request of the Fedora project. + +Other changes: +* [68]l: generate debug info for builtin structured types, prettyprinting in gdb. +* 8l: add dynimport to import table in Windows PE (thanks Wei Guangjing). +* 8l, runtime: fix Plan 9 386 build (thanks Yuval Pavel Zholkover). +* all: fix broken calls to Printf etc. +* bufio: make Reader.Read implement io.Reader semantics (thanks Roger Peppe). +* build: allow archiver to be specified by HOST_AR (thanks Albert Strasheim). +* bytes: add Buffer.UnreadRune, Buffer.UnreadByte (thanks Roger Peppe). +* crypto/tls: fix build of certificate generation example (thanks Christian Himpel). +* doc/install: describe GOHOSTOS and GOHOSTARCH. +* errchk: accept multiple source files (thanks Eoghan Sherry). +* exec.LookPath: return os.PathError instad of os.ENOENT (thanks Michael Hoisie).. +* flag: fix format error in boolean error report, + handle multiple calls to flag.Parse. +* fmt: add %U format for standard Unicode representation of code point values. +* gc: fix method offsets of anonymous interfaces (thanks Eoghan Sherry), + skip undefined symbols in import . (thanks Eoghan Sherry). +* go/scanner: remove Tokenize - was only used in tests +* gobuilder: add buildroot command-line flag (thanks Devon H. O'Dell). +* html: unescape numeric entities (thanks Ryan Hitchman). +* http: Add EncodeQuery, helper for constructing query strings. +* ld: fix dwarf decoding of 64-bit reflect values (thanks Eoghan Sherry). +* math: improve accuracy of Exp2 (thanks Eoghan Sherry). +* runtime: add Goroutines (thanks Keith Rarick). +* sync: small naming fix for armv5 (thanks Dean Prichard). +* syscall, net: Add Recvmsg and Sendmsg on Linux (thanks Albert Strasheim). +* time: make After use fewer goroutines and host processes (thanks Roger Peppe). ++