Go 1.1 is released (Google Go language Release version 1.1)

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MONDAY, May 13, 2013

Go 1.1 is released

It is our great pleasure to announce the release of Go 1.1.

In March last year we released Go 1.0, and since then we had released three minor "point releases". The point releases were made to fix only critical issues, so the go 1.0.3 your use today is still, in essence, the Go 1.0 w E released in March 2012.

Go 1.1 includes many improvements over 1.0.

The most significant improvements is performance-related. We have made optimizations in the compiler and linker, garbage collector, Goroutine Scheduler, map implementation, and Par TS of the standard library. It's likely that your Go code would run noticeably faster when built with Go 1.1.

There is some minor changes to the language itself, both of which is worth singling out here:the changes to return Requi Rements'll leads to more succinct and correct programs, and the introduction of method values provides a expressive To bind a method to its receiver as a function value.

Concurrent programming is safer in Go 1.1 with the addition of a race detector for finding memory synchronization errors I n Your programs. We'll discuss the race detector more on an upcoming article, but if now the manual was a great place to get started.

The tools and standard library has been improved and expanded. You can read the full stories in the release notes.

As per our compatibility guidelines, Go 1.1 remains compatible with Go 1.0 and we recommend all go users upgrade to the NE W release.

All this would not has been possible without the help of our contributors from the open source community. Since Go 1.0, the core received more than 2600 commits from 161 people outside Google. Thank you everyone for your time and effort. In particular, we would like to thank Shenghou Ma, Rémy Oudompheng, Dave Cheney, Mikio Hara, Alex Brainman, Jan Ziak, and Daniel Morsing for their outstanding contributions.

To grab the new release, follow the usual installation instructions. Happy hacking!

Thanks to Renée French for the gopher!

POSTED by ANDREW Gerrand