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.