Go programming language released new 1.25 version on Tuesday after another 6 months of development.
The new release introduced new Go command options, runtime and compiler changes, some new packages, and platform changes.
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After 6 months of development, Go language announced new 1.24 release few days ago on Tuesday.
Go 1.24 now fully supports generic type aliases. Type aliases, a concept introduced in Go 1.9, allows to create a new name for an existing type without creating a new type. Previously, it didn’t support type parameters. But this changed in Go 1.24. See more about generic type aliases.
Go programming language announced the new 1.26 release on 10 February, 2026! Here’s the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu & other Linux.
What’s New in Go 1.26:
- The built-in new function, which creates a new variable, now allows its operand to be an expression.
- Generic types may now refer to themselves in their own type parameter list.
- Completely rewritten
go fixcommand. - Deleted
go tool doc, usego docas a replacement. - The pprof tool web UI, enabled with the -http flag, now defaults to the flame graph view.
- The Green Tea garbage collector is now enabled by default.
- Reduce the baseline runtime overhead of cgo calls by ~30%.
- Randomizes the heap base address at startup on 64-bit platform.
- New experimental profile type that reports leaked goroutines.
- Compiler can now allocate the backing store for slices on the stack in more situations.
- The linker now supports internal linking mode of cgo programs on 64-bit Windows on ARM.
- Requires Go 1.24.6 or later for bootstrap.
- New crypto/hpke package.
- New experimental simd/archsimd package.
- New experimental runtime/secret package
See the announcement for more changes in Go 1.26.
