Go programming language announced the new 1.23 release on 13 August, 2024! Here’s the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu & other Linux.

What’s New in Go 1.23:

• The “range” clause in a “for-range” loop now accepts iterator functions of the following types: func(func() bool), func(func(K) bool), func(func(K, V) bool).
• preview support for generic type aliases
• Add All, Values, Backward, Collect, AppendSeq, Sorted, SortedFunc, SortedStableFunc, Chunk functions in slices package.
• Add All, Keys, Values, Insert, Collect functions in maps package.
• Add new structs package provides types for struct fields that modify properties of the containing struct type such as memory layout.
• Go toolchain is possible to collect usage and breakage statistics
• New go env -changed, go mod tidy -diff flags
• Setting the GOROOT_FINAL environment variable no longer has an effect.
• The go list -m -json command now includes new Sum and GoModSum fields
• The go vet subcommand now reports symbols that are too new for the intended Go version.
• New iter, structs, unique packages.
• supports the new godebug directive in go.mod and go.work files
• time.Timer and time.Ticker no longer referred to by the program become eligible for garbage collection immediately
• the timer channel associated with a Timer or Ticker is now unbuffered, with capacity 0.

See the announcement for more changes in Go 1.23.

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