Go programming language announced the new 1.24 release on 11 February, 2025! Here’s the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu & other Linux.

What’s New in Go 1.24:

• Fully supports generic type aliases, allows to create a new name for an existing type (support type parameters) without creating a new type.
• New -tool flag for go get, allowing to add a tool directive to the current module for named packages.
• New tests analyzer for go vet to report common mistakes in test packages.
• New set of mechanisms to facilitate FIPS 140-3 compliance.
• Faster and less error-prone testing.B.Loop method to perform benchmark iterations.
• New os.Root type provides the ability to perform filesystem operations within a specific directory.
• New runtime.AddCleanup finalization mechanism that is more flexible, more efficient, and less error-prone.
• New weak package provides weak pointers.
• New crypto/mlkem package implements ML-KEM-768 and ML-KEM-1024.
• New crypto/hkdf, crypto/pbkdf2, and crypto/sha3 packages.
• New experimental testing/synctest package provides support for testing concurrent code.

See the announcement for more changes in Go 1.24.

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