Chapter 6. Changes in Go Toolset


Go Toolset has been updated from version 1.16 to 1.17.7 on RHEL 7 and on RHEL 8. RHEL 9 Beta is distributed with Go Toolset 1.17.7.

Notable changes include:

  • Added an option to convert slices to array pointers.
  • Added support for //go:build lines.
  • Improvements to function call performance on amd64.
  • Function arguments are formatted more clearly in stack traces.
  • Functions containing closures can be inlined.
  • Reduced resource consumption in x509 certificate parsing.
  • The Delve debugger has been rebased to 1.7.0 so that it supports Go Toolset 1.17.7 on RHEL 7 and RHEL 8, and Go Toolset 1.17.7 on RHEL 9.
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