The Go Blog

Testing Time (and other asynchronicities), 26 August 2025
Damien Neil

A discussion of testing asyncronous code and an exploration of the `testing/synctest` package. Based on the GopherCon Europe 2025 talk with the same title.

Container-aware GOMAXPROCS, 20 August 2025
Michael Pratt and Carlos Amedee

New GOMAXPROCS defaults in Go 1.25 improve behavior in containers.

Go 1.25 is released, 12 August 2025
Dmitri Shuralyov, on behalf of the Go team

Go 1.25 adds container-aware GOMAXPROCS, testing/synctest package, experimental GC, experimental encoding/json/v2, and more.

The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module, 15 July 2025
Filippo Valsorda (Geomys), Daniel McCarney (Geomys), and Roland Shoemaker (Google)

Go now has a built-in, native FIPS 140-3 compliant mode.

Generic interfaces, 7 July 2025
Axel Wagner

Adding type parameters to interface types is surprisingly powerful

[ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling, 3 June 2025
Robert Griesemer

Go team plans around error handling support

Go Cryptography Security Audit, 19 May 2025
Roland Shoemaker and Filippo Valsorda

Go's cryptography libraries underwent an audit by Trail of Bits.

More predictable benchmarking with testing.B.Loop, 2 April 2025
Junyang Shao

Better benchmark looping in Go 1.24.

Goodbye core types - Hello Go as we know and love it!, 26 March 2025
Robert Griesemer

Go 1.25 simplifies the language spec by removing the notion of core types

Traversal-resistant file APIs, 12 March 2025
Damien Neil

New file access APIs in Go 1.24.