|  | Overall: | 
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|  | build: Go 1.4 required to build (https://golang.org/cl/2470, https://golang.org/cl/2993) | 
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|  | New Ports: | 
|  | Darwin/ARM, a.k.a iOS. (https://golang.org/cl/2118, 2119, 3273, 2121, 2122, ..., 2127) | 
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|  | Removed Ports: | 
|  | dragonfly/386 (https://golang.org/cl/7543) | 
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|  | API additions and behavior changes: | 
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|  | archive/zip: add (*Writer).SetOffset method (https://golang.org/cl/7445) | 
|  | bufio: add Reader.Discard (https://golang.org/cl/2260) | 
|  | crypto/cipher: clarify what will happen if len(src) != len(dst) for the Stream interface. (https://golang.org/cl/1754) | 
|  | crypto/elliptic: add Name field to CurveParams struct (https://golang.org/cl/2133) | 
|  | crypto/tls: change default minimum version to TLS 1.0. (https://golang.org/cl/1791) | 
|  | crypto/x509: wildcards are now only accepted as the first label (https://golang.org/cl/5691) | 
|  | encoding/base64: add unpadded encodings (https://golang.org/cl/1511) | 
|  | flag: new nicer format for PrintDefaults (https://go-review.googlesource.com/7330) | 
|  | go/ast: add Implicit field to ast.EmptyStmt; changed meaning of ast.EmptyStmt.Semicolon position (https://golang.org/cl/5720) | 
|  | log: add SetOutput functions (https://golang.org/cl/2686, https://golang.org/cl/3023) | 
|  | net/http: support for setting trailers from a server Handler (https://golang.org/cl/2157) | 
|  | net/http/cgi: fix REMOTE_ADDR, REMOTE_HOST, add REMOTE_PORT (https://golang.org/cl/4933) | 
|  | net/smtp: add TLSConnectionState accessor (https://golang.org/cl/2151) | 
|  | os/signal: add Ignore and Reset (https://golang.org/cl/3580) | 
|  | runtime, syscall: use SYSCALL instruction on FreeBSD (Go 1.5 now requires FreeBSD 8-STABLE+) (https://golang.org/cl/3020) | 
|  | strings: add Compare(x, y string) int, for symmetry with bytes.Compare (https://golang.org/cl/2828) | 
|  | testing/quick: support generation of arrays (https://golang.org/cl/3865) | 
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|  | Tools: | 
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|  | cmd/go, go/build: add ${SRCDIR} variable expansion to cgo lines (https://golang.org/cl/1756) | 
|  | cmd/go: std wildcard now excludes commands in main repo (https://golang.org/cl/5550) | 
|  | cmd/go: .swig/.swigcxx files now require SWIG 3.0.6 or later | 
|  | cmd/vet: better validation of struct tags (https://golang.org/cl/2685) | 
|  | cmd/ld: no longer record build timestamp in Windows PE file header (https://golang.org/cl/3740) | 
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|  | Performance: | 
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|  | cmd/gc: optimize memclr of slices and arrays (https://golang.org/cl/2520) | 
|  | sort: number of Sort performance optimizations (https://golang.org/cl/2100, https://golang.org/cl/2614, ...) | 
|  | strconv: optimize decimal to string conversion (https://golang.org/cl/2105) | 
|  | math/big: faster assembly kernels for amd64 and 386 (https://golang.org/cl/2503, https://golang.org/cl/2560) | 
|  | math/big: faster "pure Go" kernels for platforms w/o assembly kernels (https://golang.org/cl/2480) | 
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|  | Assembler: | 
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|  | ARM assembly syntax has had some features removed. | 
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|  | - mentioning SP or PC as a hardware register | 
|  | These are always pseudo-registers except that in some contexts | 
|  | they're not, and it's confusing because the context should not affect | 
|  | which register you mean. Change the references to the hardware | 
|  | registers to be explicit: R13 for SP, R15 for PC. | 
|  | - constant creation using assignment | 
|  | The files say a=b when they could instead say #define a b. | 
|  | There is no reason to have both mechanisms. | 
|  | - R(0) to refer to R0. | 
|  | Some macros use this to a great extent. Again, it's easy just to | 
|  | use a #define to rename a register. | 
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|  | Also expression evaluation now uses uint64s instead of signed integers and the | 
|  | precedence of operators is now Go-like rather than C-like. |