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Go 1.15.5 and Go 1.14.12 Released — These releases address recently reported security issues including how various math/big integer and rational methods can cause panics with specific inputs and arbitrary code execution and injection (at build time) issue.

Getting Started with Cloud Spanner in Go — Cloud Spanner is a managed RDBMS that has features like automatic sharding and five 9s availability. There’s a local in memory emulator to play with it without complex setup though. Notably, Kelsey Hightower recently noted: “I’m the worlds most average DBA and Spanner makes me feel like (a) Rockstar” so it’s worth a play.

So How Will Go Implement Generics? — Generics are coming to Go, that’s a given, but now how does it actually get implemented? Keith Randall presents two design documents with strategies for the task: Stencilling and Dictionaries. Note: Google login required for the golang-dev group.

Go 1.15.1 and 1.14.8 Released — Two releases that fix a recently reported security issue when you don’t explicitly set a Content-Type in an HTTP handler (when using net/http/cgi or net/http/fcgi). More about that issue here or hit the downloads page.

Moving Forward with the Generics Design Draft — Unfortunately this discussion requires a Google login, but in short the Go team have decided to move forward with the proposed draft design for generics (some background here) with some changes, such as the use of square brackets and the type keyword before type parameters will be dropped.

Go 1.14.7 and Go 1.13.15 Released — These releases address a recently reported security issue around ReadUvarint and ReadVarint (which is explained in more depth in the item below). Here’s the issue in question if you haven’t got a Google login.

Go 1.15 Release Candidate 2 Released — Here are the draft release notes. Fingers crossed we get to announce the final release next week :-)

Go 1.15 Release Candidate 1 Released — Go 1.15 is another step closer! Report any problems here, download binaries and packages here, or read the draft release notes to learn about what’s new.

How to Deploy a Private GoDoc Server on Google Kubernetes Engine — GoDoc is a documentation generation tool that powers pkg.go.dev and numerous internal documentation servers.. and it can do so for you too.

Generics and Parentheses — Using parentheses () to declare or instantiate types raised numerous concerns but the core team is now experimenting with square brackets [] instead – can you find any issues with this? For example, what might have previously been func f((T(int)) could instead be func f(T[int]) which, frankly, reads a lot better to us.(Note: Annoyingly, a Google login is required to read...

Go 1.15 Beta 1 Released — Four months on from the release of Go 1.14 comes a glimpse at the next version of Go: 1.15. You’re encouraged to test this on your code and report any issues found. The draft Go 1.15 release notes show this to be a rather gentle, evolutionary release, although there is a new package time/tzdata for bringing platform independent...

📊 What's Coming in Go 1.15 — This presentation covers all the major sections: tooling, performance, API changes, and the Big Ones, like the aforementioned smaller binaries. Fingers crossed for a final release in August.

An Announcement to Go Event Organizers over COVID-19 — Google has placed a ban on all international travel for employees until further notice and no Go team members intend to travel internationally until at least May 2020. As well as taking this into account, there are ways you can notify the community about the state of your events (including emailing us, if you need...

pkg.go.dev To Be Open Sourced — The “central source of information about Go packages and modules” is set to have its code released in a few months/weeks, and there is some rejoicing. Here’s more on where pkg.go.dev is headed.

Go 1.13.8 and Go 1.12.17 Released — Very minor releases with “fixes to the runtime, the crypto/x509, and net/http packages”.

macOS Go Binaries and Installer Identifiers Are Changing — The macOS Go package identifier namespace is changing from com.googlecode.* to org.golang.*. This is a very minor thing unless your infrastructure is relying upon the macOS Go installer having a specific identifier.