Software Update: Go 1.12.1 / 1.11.6

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 versions 1.12.1 and 1.11.6 with the following announcement:

Go 1.12.1 and Go 1.11.6 are released

hello gophers,

We have just released Go versions 1.12.1 and 1.11.6, minor point releases.

These releases include fixes to cgo, the compiler, the go command, and the fmt, net/smtp, os, path/filepath, sync, and template packages.

View the release notes for more information: https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#go1.12.minor

You can download binary and source distributions from the Go web site: /

To compile from source using a Git clone, update to the release with “git checkout go1.12.1” and build as usual.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the release.

cheers,
Katie for the Go team