| <!-- Release History --> |
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| <h2 id="Releases">Release History</h2> |
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| <p>This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go. |
| For full details, see the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/go/source/list">Mercurial change log</a>.</p> |
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| <h3 id="2010-01-05">2010-01-05</h3> |
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| <pre> |
| This release is mainly bug fixes. There are no language changes. |
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| 6prof: now works on 386 |
| 8a, 8l: add FCOMI, FCOMIP, FUCOMI, and FUCOMIP (thanks Evan Shaw) |
| big: fix ProbablyPrime on small numbers |
| container/vector: faster []-based implementation (thanks Jan Mercl) |
| crypto/tls: extensions and Next Protocol Negotiation |
| gob: one encoding bug fix, one decoding bug fix |
| image/jpeg: support for RST markers |
| image/png: support for transparent paletted images |
| misc/xcode: improved support (thanks Ken Friedenbach) |
| net: return nil Conn on error from Dial (thanks Roger Peppe) |
| regexp: add Regexp.NumSubexp (thanks Peter Froehlich) |
| syscall: add Nanosleep on FreeBSD (thanks Devon H. O'Dell) |
| template: can use map in .repeated section |
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| There is now a public road map, in the repository and online |
| at <a href="http://golang.org/doc/devel/roadmap.html">http://golang.org/doc/devel/roadmap.html</a>. |
| </pre> |
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| <h3 id="2009-12-22">2009-12-22</h3> |
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| <pre> |
| Since the last release there has been one large syntactic change to |
| the language, already discussed extensively on this list: semicolons |
| are now implied between statement-ending tokens and newline characters. |
| See http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/t/5ee32b588d10f2e9 for |
| details. |
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| By default, gofmt now parses and prints the new lighter weight syntax. |
| To convert programs written in the old syntax, you can use: |
| |
| gofmt -oldparser -w *.go |
| |
| Since everything was being reformatted anyway, we took the opportunity to |
| change the way gofmt does alignment. Now gofmt uses tabs at the start |
| of a line for basic code alignment, but it uses spaces for alignment of |
| interior columns. Thus, in an editor with a fixed-width font, you can |
| choose your own tab size to change the indentation, and no matter what |
| tab size you choose, columns will be aligned properly. |
| |
| |
| In addition to the syntax and formatting changes, there have been many |
| smaller fixes and updates: |
| |
| 6g,8g,5g: many bug fixes, better registerization, |
| build process fix involving mkbuiltin (thanks Yongjian Xu), |
| method expressions for concrete types |
| 8l: support for Windows PE files (thanks Hector Chu) |
| bytes: more efficient Buffer handling |
| bytes, strings: new function Fields (thanks Andrey Mirtchovski) |
| cgo: handling of enums (thanks Moriyoshi Koizumi), |
| handling of structs with bit fields, multiple files (thanks Devon H. O'Dell), |
| installation of .so to non-standard locations |
| crypto/sha256: new package for SHA 256 (thanks Andy Davis) |
| encoding/binary: support for slices of fixed-size values (thanks Maxim Ushakov) |
| exp/vector: experimental alternate vector representation (thanks Jan Mercl) |
| fmt: %p for chan, map, slice types |
| gob: a couple more bug fixes |
| http: support for basic authentication (thanks Ivan Krasin) |
| image/jpeg: basic JPEG decoder |
| math: correct handling of Inf and NaN in Pow (thanks Charles Dorian) |
| misc/bash: completion file for bash (thanks Alex Ray) |
| os/signal: support for handling Unix signals (thanks David Symonds) |
| rand: Zipf-distributed random values (thanks William Josephson) |
| syscall: correct error return bug on 32-bit machines (thanks Christopher Wedgwood) |
| syslog: new package for writing to Unix syslog daemon (thanks Yves Junqueira) |
| template: will automatically invoke niladic methods |
| time: new ISO8601 format generator (thanks Ben Olive) |
| xgb: converted generator to new syntax (thanks Tor Andersson) |
| xml: better mapping of tag names to Go identifiers (thanks Kei Son), |
| better handling of unexpected EOF (thanks Arvindh Rajesh Tamilmani) |
| </pre> |
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| <h3 id="2009-12-09">2009-12-09</h3> |
| |
| <pre> |
| Since the last release there are two changes to the language: |
| |
| * new builtin copy(dst, src) copies n = min(len(dst), len(src)) |
| elements to dst from src and returns n. It works correctly |
| even if dst and src overlap. bytes.Copy is gone. |
| Convert your programs using: |
| gofmt -w -r 'bytes.Copy(d, s) -> copy(d, s)' *.go |
| |
| * new syntax x[lo:] is shorthand for x[lo:len(x)]. |
| Convert your programs using: |
| gofmt -w -r 'a[b:len(a)] -> a[b:]' *.go |
| |
| In addition, there have been many smaller fixes and updates: |
| |
| * 6g/8g/5g: many bug fixes |
| * 8g: fix 386 floating point stack bug (thanks Charles Dorian) |
| * all.bash: now works even when $GOROOT has spaces (thanks Sergio Luis O. B. Correia), |
| starting to make build work with mingw (thanks Hector Chu), |
| FreeBSD support (thanks Devon O'Dell) |
| * big: much faster on 386. |
| * bytes: new function IndexByte, implemented in assembly |
| new function Runes (thanks Peter Froehlich), |
| performance tuning in bytes.Buffer. |
| * codereview: various bugs fixed |
| * container/vector: New is gone; just declare a Vector instead. |
| call Resize to set len and cap. |
| * cgo: many bug fixes (thanks Eden Li) |
| * crypto: added MD4 (thanks Chris Lennert), |
| added XTEA (thanks Adrian O'Grady). |
| * crypto/tls: basic client |
| * exp/iterable: new functions (thanks Michael Elkins) |
| * exp/nacl: native client tree builds again |
| * fmt: preliminary performance tuning |
| * go/ast: more powerful Visitor (thanks Roger Peppe) |
| * gob: a few bug fixes |
| * gofmt: better handling of standard input, error reporting (thanks Fazlul Shahriar) |
| new -r flag for rewriting programs |
| * gotest: support for Benchmark functions (thanks Trevor Strohman) |
| * io: ReadFile, WriteFile, ReadDir now in separate package io/ioutil. |
| * json: new Marshal function (thanks Michael Hoisie), |
| better white space handling (thanks Andrew Skiba), |
| decoding into native data structures (thanks Sergey Gromov), |
| handling of nil interface values (thanks Ross Light). |
| * math: correct handling of sin/cos of large angles |
| * net: better handling of Close (thanks Devon O'Dell and Christopher Wedgwood) |
| support for UDP broadcast (thanks Jonathan Wills), |
| support for empty packets |
| * rand: top-level functions now safe to call from multiple goroutines |
| (thanks Roger Peppe). |
| * regexp: a few easy optimizations |
| * rpc: better error handling, a few bug fixes |
| * runtime: better signal handling on OS X, malloc fixes, |
| global channel lock is gone. |
| * sync: RWMutex now allows concurrent readers (thanks Péter Szabó) |
| * template: can use maps as data (thanks James Meneghello) |
| * unicode: updated to Unicode 5.2. |
| * websocket: new package (thanks Fumitoshi Ukai) |
| * xgb: preliminary X Go Bindings (thanks Tor Andersson) |
| * xml: fixed crash (thanks Vish Subramanian) |
| * misc: bbedit config (thanks Anthony Starks), |
| kate config (thanks Evan Shaw) |
| </pre> |
