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• 🥳 Go 1.27 Release Candidate 1 is released
  • ↪️ With Delve released as well
• “ proposal: cmd/gofmt: don't rewrite into smart quotes
• 💸 OpenAI to acquire Ona
• Lightning round:
  • Gopls: Model Context Protocol support
  • Glaze now runs 100% on purego
• Interview with Francis J. Nickels III

• Proposal declined: drop gccgo
• gaal — Keep skills in sync across AI agents
• vscode-go 0.54.0 released
• generic methods in Go have been implemented
  • Not everybody is happy about it
• Interview with Louis Cerona
  • Genetec

• 🤡 Go 1.26.4 and 1.25.11 released
• 🥉 Learning Go, 3rd Edition by Jon Bodner in early release
• 🇩🇪 GopherCon EU, June 15-18 @ Berlin, Germany
• 💰 Reddit: Working with money in Go
  • github.com/shopspring/decimal
  • github.com/Rhymond/go-money
• Mitchell Hashimoto likes Go + Zig for AI
• ◀️ Video: How to Reverse Engineer Go Binaries
• Interivew with Preslav Rachev
  • Personal site/blog: preslav.me
  • Nim
  • TEMPL
  • chi
  • gomjml
  • Generative Art in Go

• GoConf, Sept 11 & Moscow, Russia
  • CFP
• Proposals
  • Accepted: Formal GODEBUG removal policy
  • New: Allow explicit conversion from function to 1-method interface
• Blog: The 10 Go Error Handling Commandments by Preslav Rachev
• Learn Logging & Observability in Go @ boot.dev, use code CUPOGO to save 25%
• Video: Practical Go Development with AI Agents by Miki Tebeka
• Blog series: Understanding the Go Runtime by Jesús Espino

• 🛡️ Several security releases
  • 🖼️ Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/image
  • 🔐 Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/crypto
  • 🥅 Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/net
• 📘 Blog: Introducing the pkg.go.dev API by Ethan Lee, Hana Kim, and Jonathan Amsterdam
• Free webinar: Practical Go Development with AI Agents, May 27 by Ardan Labs
• Proposals
  • Accepted: json/v2 coming in Go 1.27
    • Episode 34: Interview with Joe Tsai about json/v2
  • Accepted: httptest.NewSynctestServer
• Lightning Round
  • slk — A blazingly fast Slack TUI
  • Audience question from Miriah: In the age of AI coding, do we care about language-specific conferences?
    
    

• GopherCon Agenda is live!  Aug 3-6 @ Seattle
• Go 1.26.3 and 1.25.10 released with 11 security fixes
• Go + LLM projects
  • gosymdb: A Go symbol and call-graph database backed by SQLite.
  • cli-bridge: If you want agents to actually use your CLI, this is the missing piece.

• kin-openapi v0.136.0 released with support for OpenAPI 3.1.0
• git 2.54 released
  • go-git
• Accepted proposal: modernize for atomic, embedlit, errorsastype, plusbuild, stringscut, stditerators
• ATL Builder Night, May 11
• Interview with Tomasz Tomczyk
  • crit.md / on GitHub
  • Blog
  • X
  • Superpowers
  • context-mode

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• proposal: cmd/go: add -buildversion build flag
• Validating data in Go by Phillipp Winter: https://nymity.ch/writing/articles/validation/
• ETHWarsaw Event Calendar: Meetups, Conference & Hackathon
• Upcoming GoSF meetup: Go Meetup in San Francisco | Hosted by Meter
• jub0bs/cors: perhaps the best CORS middleware library for Go plus the relevant blogpost: Fearless CORS: a design philosophy for CORS middleware libraries (and a Go implementation)
• Paweł on X: https://x.com/teghnet
• Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta

• GopherCon Singapore, May 22-26
• Accepted proposals
  • uuid: add API to generate and parse UUID
    • Related, likely decline: rename Nil to Zero
  • strings, bytes: add CutLast
  • deprecate h2c package
• Blog: Go 1.26.2-1 and 1.25.9-1 Microsoft builds now available
• Upcoming course: Idiomatic Testing in Go

• 📄 GopherCon UK 2026 CFP open through Apr 16
• Go 1.26.2 and 1.25.9 released with 10 CVE fixes
• ⚡ Lightning Round
  • lneto — Userspace networking primitives
  • Blog: A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines by Filippo Valsorda
  • Go on the ESP32