Download Go 1.11.1

Go, also referred to as golang, is a programming language developed by Google and the open source community since 2007. Among other things, the language is cloudflare† google† Netflix and Uber used. Go code can be compiled for Android, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and Windows on i386, amd64, and ARM processor architectures. The syntax of Go is similar to that of C and similar programming languages, although there are also some notable differences. Go also offers the option of distributed programming, where several processes are executed simultaneously. The team has released Go version 1.11.1 with the following changes:

Version 1.11.1

includes fixes to the compiler, documentation, go command, runtime, and the crypto/x509, encoding/json, go/types, net, net/http, and reflect packages.

• net: LookupTXT bug [1.11 backport]
• reflect: MethodByName().Interface() leads to fatal error: sweep increased allocation count [1.11 backport]
• cmd/compile: race detector detects race with close(chan) and len(chan) [1.11 backport]
• cmd/compile: panic in cmd/compile/internal/gc.typecheck1
• cmd/go: ‘go test -gcflags=all=-l’ appears not to disable inlining
• net: empty DNS answers should fail fast [1.11 backport]
• runtime: timeouts in os/signal tests [1.11 backport]
• go/types: some facts are missing after an error [1.11 backport]
• net/http: WASM Roundtripper crash when using “no-cors” mode [1.11 backport]
• cmd/go: GOMIPS environment variable does not affect caching of mipsle code [1.11 backport]
• cmd/compile: missing bounds checks in 1.11 [1.11 backport]
• doc: GOFLAGS environment variable not in 1.11 release notes [1.11 backport]
• cmd/compile: function compiled without bounds checking and -1 index access [1.11 backport]
• net: testSpliceReaderAtEOF closed connection: got err = splice: invalid argument
• go/types: assertion failure setting up composite literal with incomplete element type [1.11 backport]
• runtime: invalid pointer found on stack [1.11 backport]
• encoding/json: empty fields in json.UnmarshalTypeError [1.11 backport]
• cmd/go: build fails when setting linker to lld using ldflags [1.11 backport]
• cmd/compile: bad walkinrange rewrites on constant above 2**63 [1.11 backport]
• cmd/go: TestScript/mod_install_versioned consistently failing on macOS High Sierra
• doc: downloads page claims that Go 1.11 supports unsupported operating systems
• cmd/go: go list -json -compiled -test -e upspin.io/test fails with non-zero exit status [1.11 backport]