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<h2 id="introduction">DRAFT RELEASE NOTES - Introduction to Go 1.13</h2>

<p>
  <strong>
    Go 1.13 is not yet released. These are work-in-progress
    release notes. Go 1.13 is expected to be released in August 2019.
  </strong>
</p>

<p>
  As of Go 1.13, the go command by default downloads and authenticates
  modules using the Go module mirror and Go checksum database run by Google. See
  <a href="https://proxy.golang.org/privacy">https://proxy.golang.org/privacy</a>
  for privacy information about these services and the
  <a href="/cmd/go/#hdr-Module_downloading_and_verification">go command documentation</a>
  for configuration details including how to disable the use of these servers or use
  different ones.
</p>

<h2 id="language">Changes to the language</h2>

<p>
  Per the <a href="https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/19308-number-literals.md">number literal proposal</a>,
  Go 1.13 supports a more uniform and modernized set of number literal prefixes.
  <ul>
    <li>
      <a href="https://golang.org/ref/spec#Integer_literals">Binary integer literals</a>:
      The prefix <code>0b</code> or <code>0B</code> indicates a binary integer literal
      such as <code>0b1011</code>.
    </li>

    <li>
      <a href="https://golang.org/ref/spec#Integer_literals">Octal integer literals</a>:
      The prefix <code>0o</code> or <code>0O</code> indicates an octal integer literal
      such as <code>0o660</code>.
      The existing octal notation indicated by a leading <code>0</code> followed by
      octal digits remains valid.
    </li>

    <li>
      <a href="https://golang.org/ref/spec#Floating-point_literals">Hexadecimal floating point literals</a>:
      The prefix <code>0x</code> or <code>0X</code> may now be used to express the mantissa of a
      floating-point number in hexadecimal format such as <code>0x1.0p-1021</code>.
      A hexadecimal floating-point number must always have an exponent, written as the letter
      <code>p</code> or <code>P</code> followed by an exponent in decimal. The exponent scales
      the mantissa by 2 to the power of the exponent.
    </li>

    <li>
      <a href="https://golang.org/ref/spec#Imaginary_literals">Imaginary literals</a>:
      The imaginary suffix <code>i</code> may now be used with any (binary, decimal, hexadecimal)
      integer or floating-point literal.
    </li>

    <li>
      Digit separators:
      The digits of any number literal may now be separated (grouped) using underscores, such as
      in <code>1_000_000</code>, <code>0b_1010_0110</code>, or <code>3.1415_9265</code>.
      An underscore may appear between any two digits or the literal prefix and the first digit.
    </li>
  </ul>
</p>

<p>
  Per the <a href="https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/19113-signed-shift-counts.md">signed shift counts proposal</a>
  Go 1.13 removes the restriction that a <a href="https://golang.org/ref/spec#Operators">shift count</a>
  must be unsigned. This change eliminates the need for many artificial <code>uint</code> conversions,
  solely introduced to satisfy this (now removed) restriction of the <code>&lt;&lt;</code> and <code>&gt;&gt;</code> operators.
</p>

<p>
  These language changes were implemented by changes to the compiler, and corresponding internal changes to the library
  packages <code><a href="#go/scanner">go/scanner</a></code> and
  <code><a href="#text/scanner">text/scanner</a></code> (number literals),
  and <code><a href="#go/types">go/types</a></code> (signed shift counts).
</p>

<p>
  If your code uses modules and your <code>go.mod</code> files specifies a language version, be sure
  it is set to at least <code>1.13</code> to get access to these language changes.
  You can do this by editing the <code>go.mod</code> file directly, or you can run
  <code>go mod edit -go=1.13</code>.
</p>

<h2 id="ports">Ports</h2>

<h3 id="aix">AIX</h3>

<p><!-- CL 164003, CL 169120 -->
  AIX on PPC64 (<code>aix/ppc64</code>) now supports cgo, external
  linking, and the <code>c-archive</code> and <code>pie</code> build
  modes.
</p>

<h3 id="android">Android</h3>

<p><!-- CL 170127 -->
  Go programs are now compatible with Android Q.
</p>

<h3 id="darwin">Darwin</h3>

<p>
  As <a href="go1.12#darwin">announced</a> in the Go 1.12 release notes,
  Go 1.13 now requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later;
  support for previous versions has been discontinued.
</p>

<h3 id="freebsd">FreeBSD</h3>

<p>
  As <a href="go1.12#freebsd">announced</a> in the Go 1.12 release notes,
  Go 1.13 now requires FreeBSD 11.2 or later;
  support for previous versions has been discontinued.
  FreeBSD 12.0 or later requires a kernel with the COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option set (this is the default).
</p>

<h3 id="illumos">Illumos</h3>

<p><!-- CL 174457 -->
  Go now supports Illumos with <code>GOOS=illumos</code>.
  The <code>illumos</code> build tag implies the <code>solaris</code>
  build tag.
</p>

<h3 id="netbsd">NetBSD</h3>

<p><!--CL 155739 -->
  Go now supports NetBSD on arm64.
</p>

<h3 id="openbsd">OpenBSD</h3>

<p><!--CL 174125 -->
  Go now supports OpenBSD on arm64.
</p>

<h3 id="windows">Windows</h3>

<p><!-- CL 178977 -->
  The Windows version specified by internally-linked Windows binaries
  is now Windows 7 rather than NT 4.0. This was already the minimum
  required version for Go, but can affect the behavior of system calls
  that have a backwards-compatibility mode. These will now behave as
  documented. Externally-linked binaries (any program using cgo) have
  always specified a more recent Windows version.
</p>

<h2 id="tools">Tools</h2>

<h3 id="modules">Modules</h3>

<p id="patch-suffix"><!-- CL 167747 -->
  <a href="/cmd/go/#hdr-Add_dependencies_to_current_module_and_install_them"><code>go</code>
  <code>get</code></a> in module mode now supports the version suffix
  <code>@patch</code> to request the latest patch release.
  TODO(bcmills): expand.
</p>

<h4 id="version-validation">Version validation</h4><!-- CL 181881 -->

<p>
  When extracting a module from a version control system, the <code>go</code>
  command now performs additional validation on the requested version string.
</p>

<p>
  The <code>+incompatible</code> version annotation bypasses the requirement
  of <a href="/cmd/go/#hdr-Module_compatibility_and_semantic_versioning">semantic
  import versioning</a> for repositories that predate the introduction of
  modules. The <code>go</code> command now verifies that such a version does not
  include an explicit <code>go.mod</code> file.
</p>

<p>
  The <code>go</code> command now verifies the mapping
  between <a href="/cmd/go#hdr-Pseudo_versions">pseudo-versions</a> and
  version-control metadata. Specifically:
  <ul>
    <li>The version prefix must be derived from a tag on the named revision or
    one of its ancestors, or be of the form <code>vX.0.0</code>.</li>

    <li>The date string must match the UTC timestamp of the revision.</li>

    <li>The short name of the revision must use the same number of characters as
    what the <code>go</code> command would generate. (For SHA-1 hashes as used
    by <code>git</code>, a 12-digit prefix.)</li>
  </ul>
</p>

<p>
  If the main module directly requires a version that fails the above
  validation, a corrected version can be obtained by redacting the version to
  just the commit hash and re-running a <code>go</code> command such as <code>go
  list -m all</code> or <code>go mod tidy</code>. For example,
  <pre>require github.com/docker/docker v1.14.0-0.20190319215453-e7b5f7dbe98c</pre>
      can be redacted to
  <pre>require github.com/docker/docker e7b5f7dbe98c</pre>
  which resolves to
  <pre>require github.com/docker/docker v0.7.3-0.20190319215453-e7b5f7dbe98c</pre>
</p>

<p>
  If the main module has a transitive requirement on a version that fails
  validation, the invalid version can still be replaced with a valid one through
  the use of a <a href="/cmd/go/#hdr-The_go_mod_file"><code>replace</code>
  directive</a> in the <code>go.mod</code> file of
  the <a href="/cmd/go/#hdr-The_main_module_and_the_build_list">main module</a>.
  If the replacement is a commit hash, it will be resolved to the appropriate
  pseudo-version. For example,
  <pre>replace github.com/docker/docker v1.14.0-0.20190319215453-e7b5f7dbe98c => github.com/docker/docker e7b5f7dbe98c</pre>
  resolves to
  <pre>replace github.com/docker/docker v1.14.0-0.20190319215453-e7b5f7dbe98c => github.com/docker/docker v0.7.3-0.20190319215453-e7b5f7dbe98c</pre>
</p>

<h3 id="go-command">Go command</h3>

<p id="trimpath"><!-- CL 173345 -->
  The new <a href="/cmd/go/#hdr-Compile_packages_and_dependencies"><code>go</code>
  <code>build</code> flag</a> <code>-trimpath</code> removes all file system paths
  from the compiled executable, to improve build reproducibility.
</p>

<p id="comma-separated-tags"><!-- CL 173438 -->
  The <code>go</code> <code>build</code> flag <code>-tags</code> now takes a
  comma-separated list of build tags, to allow for multiple tags in
  <a href="/cmd/go/#hdr-Environment_variables"><code>GOFLAGS</code></a>. The
  space-separated form is deprecated but still recognized and will be maintained.
</p>

<p id="go-generate-tag"><!-- CL 175983 -->
  <a href="/cmd/go/#hdr-Generate_Go_files_by_processing_source"><code>go</code>
  <code>generate</code></a> now sets the <code>generate</code> build tag so that
  files may be searched for directives but ignored during build.
</p>

<h3 id="compiler">Compiler toolchain</h3>

<p><!-- CL 170448 -->
  The compiler has a new implementation of escape analysis that is
  more precise. For most Go code should be an improvement (in other
  words, more Go variables and expressions allocated on the stack
  instead of heap). However, this increased precision may also break
  invalid code that happened to work before (for example, code that
  violates
  the <a href="/pkg/unsafe/#Pointer"><code>unsafe.Pointer</code>
  safety rules</a>). If you notice any regressions that appear
  related, the old escape analysis pass can be re-enabled
  with <code>go</code> <code>build</code> <code>-gcflags=all=-newescape=false</code>.
  The option to use the old escape analysis will be removed in a
  future release.
</p>

<p><!-- CL 161904 -->
  The compiler no longer emits floating point or complex constants
  to <code>go_asm.h</code> files. These have always been emitted in a
  form that could not be used as numeric constant in assembly code.
</p>

<h3 id="assembler">Assembler</h3>

<p><!-- CL 157001 -->
  The assembler now supports many of the atomic instructions
  introduced in ARM v8.1.
</p>

<h3 id="gofmt">gofmt</h3>

<p>
  <code>gofmt</code> (and with that <code>go fmt</code>) now canonicalizes
  number literal prefixes and exponents to use lower-case letters, but
  leaves hexadecimal digits alone. This improves readability when using the new octal prefix
  (<code>0O</code> becomes <code>0o</code>), and the rewrite is applied consistently.
  <code>gofmt</code> now also removes unnecessary leading zeroes from a decimal integer
  imaginary literal. (For backwards-compatibility, an integer imaginary literal
  starting with <code>0</code> is considered a decimal, not an octal number.
  Removing superfluous leading zeroes avoids potential confusion.)
  For instance, <code>0B1010</code>, <code>0XabcDEF</code>, <code>0O660</code>,
  <code>1.2E3</code>, and <code>01i</code> become <code>0b1010</code>, <code>0xabcDEF</code>,
  <code>0o660</code>, <code>1.2e3</code>, and <code>1i</code> after applying <code>gofmt</code>.
</p>

<h3 id="godoc"><code>godoc</code> and <code>go</code> <code>doc</code></h3>

<p><!-- CL 174322 -->
  The <code>godoc</code> webserver is no longer included in the main binary distribution.
  To run the <code>godoc</code> webserver locally, manually install it first:
<pre>
go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc
godoc
</pre>
</p>

<p><!-- CL 177797 -->
  The
  <a href="/cmd/go/#hdr-Show_documentation_for_package_or_symbol"><code>go</code> <code>doc</code></a>
  command now always includes the package clause in its output, except for
  commands. This replaces the previous behavior where a heuristic was used,
  causing the package clause to be omitted under certain conditions.
</p>

<h2 id="runtime">Runtime</h2>

<p><!-- CL 161477 -->
  Out of range panic messages now include the index that was out of
  bounds and the length (or capacity) of the slice. For
  example, <code>s[3]</code> on a slice of length 1 will panic with
  "runtime error: index out of range [3] with length 1".
</p>

<p><!-- CL 171758 -->
  This release improves performance of most uses of <code>defer</code>
  by 30%.
</p>

<p><!-- CL 142960 -->
  The runtime is now more aggressive at returning memory to the
  operating system to make it available to co-tenant applications.
  Previously, the runtime could retain memory for five or more minutes
  following a spike in the heap size. It will now begin returning it
  promptly after the heap shrinks. However, on many OSes, including
  Linux, the OS itself reclaims memory lazily, so process RSS will not
  decrease until the system is under memory pressure.
</p>

<h2 id="library">Core library</h2>

<h3 id="tls_1_3">TLS 1.3</h3>

<p>
  As announced in Go 1.12, Go 1.13 enables support for TLS 1.3 in the
  <code>crypto/tls</code> package by default. It can be disabled by adding the
  value <code>tls13=0</code> to the <code>GODEBUG</code>
  environment variable. The opt-out will be removed in Go 1.14.
</p>

<p>
  See <a href="/doc/go1.12#tls_1_3">the Go 1.12 release notes</a> for important
  compatibility information.
</p>

<h3 id="crypto/ed25519"><a href="/pkg/crypto/ed25519/">crypto/ed25519</a></h3>

<p><!-- CL 174945, 182698 -->
  The new <a href="/pkg/crypto/ed25519/"><code>crypto/ed25519</code></a>
  package implements the Ed25519 signature
  scheme. This functionality was previously provided by the
  <a href="https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/ed25519"><code>golang.org/x/crypto/ed25519</code></a>
  package, which becomes a wrapper for
  <code>crypto/ed25519</code> when used with Go 1.13+.
</p>

<h3 id="minor_library_changes">Minor changes to the library</h3>

<p>
  As always, there are various minor changes and updates to the library,
  made with the Go 1 <a href="/doc/go1compat">promise of compatibility</a>
  in mind.
</p>

<dl id="bytes"><dt><a href="/pkg/bytes/">bytes</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p>
      The new <a href="/pkg/bytes/#ToValidUTF8"><code>ToValidUTF8</code></a> function returns a
      copy of a given byte slice with each run of invalid UTF-8 byte sequences replaced by a given slice.
    </p>

</dl><!-- bytes -->

<dl id="context"><dt><a href="/pkg/context/">context</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 169080 -->
    The formatting of contexts returned by <a href="/pkg/context/#WithValue"><code>WithValue</code></a> no longer depends on <code>fmt</code> and will not stringify in the same way. Code that depends on the exact previous stringification might be affected.
    </p>

</dl><!-- context -->

<dl id="crypto/tls"><dt><a href="/pkg/crypto/tls/">crypto/tls</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 177698 -->
      Ed25519 certificates are now supported in TLS versions 1.2 and 1.3.
    </p>

</dl><!-- crypto/tls -->

<dl id="crypto/x509"><dt><a href="/pkg/crypto/x509/">crypto/x509</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 175478 -->
      Ed25519 keys are now supported in certificates and certificate requests
      according to <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8410">RFC 8410</a>, as well as by the
      <a href="/pkg/crypto/x509/#ParsePKCS8PrivateKey"><code>ParsePKCS8PrivateKey</code></a>,
      <a href="/pkg/crypto/x509/#MarshalPKCS8PrivateKey"><code>MarshalPKCS8PrivateKey</code></a>,
      and <a href="/pkg/crypto/x509/#ParsePKIXPublicKey"><code>ParsePKIXPublicKey</code></a> functions.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 169238 -->
      The paths searched for system roots now include <code>/etc/ssl/cert.pem</code>
      to support the default location in Alpine Linux 3.7+.
    </p>

</dl><!-- crypto/x509 -->

<dl id="database/sql"><dt><a href="/pkg/database/sql/">database/sql</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 170699 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/database/sql/#NullTime"><code>NullTime</code></a> type represents a <code>time.Time</code> that may be null.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 174178 -->
      The new  <a href="/pkg/database/sql/#NullInt32"><code>NullInt32</code></a> type represents an <code>int32</code> that may be null.
    </p>

</dl><!-- database/sql -->

<dl id="debug/dwarf"><dt><a href="/pkg/debug/dwarf/">debug/dwarf</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 158797 -->
      The <a href="/pkg/debug/dwarf/#Data.Type"><code>Data.Type</code></a>
      method no longer panics if it encounters an unknown DWARF tag in
      the type graph. Instead, it represents that component of the
      type with
      an <a href="/pkg/debug/dwarf/#UnsupportedType"><code>UnsupportedType</code></a>
      object.
    </p>

</dl><!-- debug/dwarf -->

<dl id="errors"><dt><a href="/pkg/errors/">errors</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <!-- CL 163558 -->
    <p>
      The new function <a href="/pkg/errors/#As"><code>As</code></a> finds the first error in a given error’s chain
      that matches a given target’s type, and if so, sets the target to that error value.
    </p>
    <p>
      The new function <a href="/pkg/errors/#Is"><code>Is</code></a> reports whether a given error value matches an
      error in another’s chain.
    </p>
    <p>
      The new function <a href="/pkg/errors/#Unwrap"><code>Unwrap</code></a> returns the result of calling
      <code>Unwrap</code> on a given error, if one exists.
    </p>

</dl><!-- errors -->

<dl id="html/template"><dt><a href="/pkg/html/template/">html/template</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 175218 -->
      When using a <code>&lt;script&gt;</code> tag with "module" set as the
      type attribute, code will now be interperted as <a href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html#the-script-element:module-script-2">JavaScript module script</a>.
    </p>

  </dl><!-- html/template -->

<dl id="go/scanner"><dt><a href="/pkg/go/scanner/">go/scanner</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 175218 -->
      The scanner has been updated to recognize the new Go number literals, specifically
      binary literals with <code>0b</code>/<code>0B</code> prefix, octal literals with <code>0o</code>/<code>0O</code> prefix,
      and floating-point numbers with hexadecimal mantissa. The imaginary suffix <code>i</code> may now be used with any number
      literal, and underscores may used as digit separators for grouping.
      See the <a href="#language">Changes to the language</a> for details.
  </p>

  </dl><!-- go/scanner -->

<dl id="go/types"><dt><a href="/pkg/go/types/">go/types</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p>
      The type-checker has been updated to follow the new rules for integer shifts.
      See the <a href="#language">Changes to the language</a> for details.
    </p>

</dl><!-- go/types -->

<dl id="log"><dt><a href="/pkg/log/">log</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 168920 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/log/#Writer"><code>Writer</code></a> function returns the output destination for the standard logger.
    </p>

</dl><!-- log -->

<dl id="math/big"><dt><a href="/pkg/math/big/">math/big</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 160682 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/math/big/#Rat.SetUint64"><code>Rat.SetUint64</code></a> method sets the <code>Rat</code> to a <code>uint64</code> value.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 168237 -->
      <a href="/pkg/math/big/#Rat.SetString"><code>Rat.SetString</code></a> now accepts non-decimal floating point representations.
    </p>

</dl><!-- math/big -->

<dl id="math/bits"><dt><a href="/pkg/math/bits/">math/bits</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 178177 -->
      The execution time of <a href="/pkg/math/bits/#Add"><code>Add</code></a>,
      <a href="/pkg/math/bits/#Sub"><code>Sub</code></a>,
      <a href="/pkg/math/bits/#Mul"><code>Mul</code></a>,
      <a href="/pkg/math/bits/#RotateLeft"><code>RotateLeft</code></a>, and
      <a href="/pkg/math/bits/#ReverseBytes"><code>ReverseBytes</code></a> is now
      guaranteed to be independent of the inputs.
    </p>

</dl><!-- math/bits -->

<dl id="net"><dt><a href="/pkg/net/">net</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 156366 -->
      On Unix systems where <code>use-vc</code> is set in <code>resolve.conf</code>, TCP is used for DNS resolution.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 170678 -->
      The new field <a href="/pkg/net/#ListenConfig.KeepAlive"><code>ListenConfig.KeepAlive</code></a>
      specifies the keep-alive period for network connections accepted by the listener.
    </p>

</dl><!-- net -->

<dl id="net/http"><dt><a href="/pkg/net/http/">net/http</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 130256 -->
      The new field <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Transport.ForceAttemptHTTP2"><code>Transport.ForceAttemptHTTP2</code></a>
      controls whether HTTP/2 is enabled when a non-zero <code>Dial</code>, <code>DialTLS</code>, or <code>DialContext</code>
      func or <code>TLSClientConfig</code> is provided.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 140357 -->
      When reusing HTTP/2, the <a href="/pkg/net/http#Transport"><code>Transport</code></a> no longer performs unnecessary TLS handshakes.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 154383 -->
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#TimeoutHandler"><code>TimeoutHandler</code></a>'s
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#ResponseWriter"><code>ResponseWriter</code></a> now implements the
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Pusher"><code>Pusher</code></a> and <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Flusher"><code>Flusher</code></a> interfaces.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 167681 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/net/http#Server"><code>Server</code></a> fields
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Server.BaseContext"><code>BaseContext</code></a> and
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Server.ConnContext"><code>ConnContext</code></a>
      allow finer control over the <a href="/pkg/context#Context"><code>Context</code></a> values provided to requests and connections.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 173658 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Header"><code>Header</code></a> method
      <a href="/pkg/net/http/#Header.Clone"><code>Clone</code></a> returns a copy of the receiver.
    </p>

</dl><!-- net/http -->

<dl id="os"><dt><a href="/pkg/os/">os</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 160877 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/os/#UserConfigDir"><code>UserConfigDir</code></a> function
      returns the default directory to use for user-specific configuration data.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 166578 -->
      If a <a href="/pkg/os/#File"><code>File</code></a> is opened using the O_APPEND flag, its
      <a href="/pkg/os/#File.WriteAt"><code>WriteAt</code></a> method will always return an error.
    </p>

</dl><!-- os -->

<dl id="os/exec"><dt><a href="/pkg/os/exec/">os/exec</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 174318 -->
      On Windows, the environment for a <a href="/pkg/os/exec#Cmd"><code>Cmd</code></a> always inherits the
      <code>%SYSTEMROOT%</code> value of the parent process unless the
      <a href="/pkg/os/exec#Cmd.Env"><code>Cmd.Env</code></a> field includes an explicit value for it.
    </p>

</dl><!-- os/exec -->

<dl id="reflect"><dt><a href="/pkg/reflect/">reflect</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 171337 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/reflect/#Value.IsZero"><code>Value.IsZero</code></a> method reports whether a <code>Value</code> is the zero value for its type.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 174531 -->
      The <a href="/pkg/reflect/#MakeFunc"><code>MakeFunc</code></a> function now allows assignment conversions on returned values, instead of requiring exact type match. This is particularly useful when the type being returned is an interface type, but the value actually returned is a concrete value implementing that type.
    </p>

</dl><!-- reflect -->

<dl id="runtime"><dt><a href="/pkg/runtime/">runtime</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p> <!-- CL 167780 -->
      Tracebacks, <code>runtime.Caller</code>,
      and <code>runtime.Callers</code> now refer to the function that
      initializes the global variables of <code>PKG</code>
      as <code>PKG.init</code> instead of <code>PKG.init.ializers</code>
    </p>

</dl><!-- runtime -->

<dl id="strings"><dt><a href="/pkg/strings">strings</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 142003 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/strings/#ToValidUTF8"><code>ToValidUTF8</code></a> function returns a
      copy of a given string with each run of invalid UTF-8 byte sequences replaced by a given string.
    </p>

</dl><!-- strings -->

<dl id="sync"><dt><a href="/pkg/sync/">sync</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 166960 -->
      Large <a href="/pkg/sync/#Pool"><code>Pool</code></a> no longer increase stop-the-world pause times.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 166961 -->
      <code>Pool</code> no longer needs to be completely repopulated after every GC. It now retains some objects across GCs,
      as opposed to releasing all objects, reducing load spikes for heavy users of <code>Pool</code>.
    </p>

</dl><!-- sync -->

<dl id="syscall"><dt><a href="/pkg/syscall/">syscall</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 168479 -->
      Uses of <code>_getdirentries64</code> have been removed from Darwin builds, to allow binaries
      built with 1.12 to be uploaded to the macOS App Store.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 174197 -->
      The new <code>ProcessAttributes</code> and <code>ThreadAttributes</code> fields in
      <a href="/pkg/syscall/?GOOS=windows#SysProcAttr"><code>SysProcAttr</code></a> have been introduced for Windows,
      exposing security settings when creating new processes.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 174320 -->
      <code>EINVAL</code> is no longer returned in zero
      <a href="/pkg/syscall/?GOOS=windows#Chmod"><code>Chmod</code></a> mode on Windows.
    </p>

</dl><!-- syscall -->

<dl id="syscall/js"><dt><a href="/pkg/syscall/js/">syscall/js</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 177537 -->
      <a href="/pkg/syscall/js/#TypedArray"><code>TypedArrayOf</code></a> has been replaced by
      <a href="/pkg/syscall/js/#CopyBytesToGo"><code>CopyBytesToGo</code></a> and
      <a href="/pkg/syscall/js/#CopyBytesToJS"><code>CopyBytesToJS</code></a> for copying bytes between a byte slice and a Uint8Array.
    </p>

</dl><!-- syscall/js -->

<dl id="testing"><dt><a href="/pkg/testing/">testing</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 112155 -->
      When running benchmarks, <a href="/pkg/testing/#B.N"><code>B.N</code></a> is no longer rounded.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 166717 -->
      The new method <a href="/pkg/testing/#B.ReportMetric"><code>B.ReportMetric</code></a> lets users report
      custom benchmark metrics and override built-in metrics.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 173722 -->
      Testing flags are now registered in the new <a href="/pkg/testing/#Init"><code>Init</code></a> function.
      As a result, testing flags are now only registered when running a test binary.
    </p>

</dl><!-- testing -->

<dl id="text/scanner"><dt><a href="/pkg/text/scanner/">text/scanner</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 183077 -->
      The scanner has been updated to recognize the new Go number literals, specifically
      binary literals with <code>0b</code>/<code>0B</code> prefix, octal literals with <code>0o</code>/<code>0O</code> prefix,
      and floating-point numbers with hexadecimal mantissa.
      Also, the new <a href="/pkg/text/scanner/#AllowDigitSeparators"><code>AllowDigitSeparators</code></a>
      mode allows number literals to contain underscores as digit separators (off by default for backwards-compatibility).
      See the <a href="#language">Changes to the language</a> for details.
    </p>

</dl><!-- text/scanner -->

<dl id="text/template"><dt><a href="/pkg/text/template/">text/template</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 161762 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/text/template/#hdr-Functions">slice function</a>
      returns the result of slicing its first argument by the following arguments.
    </p>

</dl><!-- text/template -->

<dl id="time"><dt><a href="/pkg/time/">time</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- CL 122876 -->
      Day-of-year is now supported by <a href="/pkg/time/#time.Format"><code>Format</code></a>
      and <a href="/pkg/time/#Parse"><code>Parse</code></a>.
    </p>

    <p><!-- CL 167387 -->
      The new <a href="/pkg/time/#Duration"><code>Duration</code></a> methods
      <a href="/pkg/time/#Duration.Microseconds"><code>Microseconds</code></a> and
      <a href="/pkg/time/#Duration.Milliseconds"><code>Milliseconds</code></a> return
      the duration as an integer count of their respectively named units.
    </p>

</dl><!-- time -->