Chapter 6. Changes in Go Toolset in Red Hat Developer Tools 2018.3


This chapter lists some notable changes in Go Toolset since its previous release.

6.1. Go

Go has been updated from version 1.8.7 to 1.10.2. This release fixes the discovered security issues like CVE-2018-7187. Notable changes include:

  • Results of builds and test runs are now cached, improving performance of these actions.
  • Concurrent compilation of functions in packages has been added.
  • Type aliases have been added to the Go programming language. To create a type alias:

    type B = A
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  • The math/bits package for bit counting and manipulation of unsigned integer types has been added to the Go standard library.
  • The sync.Map type for concurrent access has been added.
  • The testing.B.helper() and testing.T.helper() functions have been added to enable marking of test helper functions.
  • The time tracked by the Time type from the time package is now transparently always monotonic.

6.2. Known Issues

The release of Go Toolset in Red Hat Developer Tools 2018.3 contains the following known issues:

  • The go-toolset-7-golang-debuginfo package containing debugging information for the Go compiler go does not exist. Because the go executable file has not been stripped and contains the required debugging information, no additional debugging information is needed to debug go.
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