diff --git a/doc/go_spec.html b/doc/go_spec.html
index 2309ce47fe..af82931247 100644
--- a/doc/go_spec.html
+++ b/doc/go_spec.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!--{
 	"Title": "The Go Programming Language Specification",
-	"Subtitle": "Version of October 19, 2017",
+	"Subtitle": "Version of October 23, 2017",
 	"Path": "/ref/spec"
 }-->
 
@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming
 in mind. It is strongly typed and garbage-collected and has explicit
 support for concurrent programming.  Programs are constructed from
 <i>packages</i>, whose properties allow efficient management of
-dependencies. The existing implementations use a traditional
-compile/link model to generate executable binaries.
+dependencies.
 </p>
 
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