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++This release includes changes to the build system that will likely require you +to make changes to your environment variables and Makefiles. + +All environment variables are now optional: + - $GOOS and $GOARCH are now optional; their values should now be inferred + automatically by the build system, + - $GOROOT is now optional, but if you choose not to set it you must run + 'gomake' instead of 'make' or 'gmake' when developing Go programs + using the conventional Makefiles, + - $GOBIN remains optional and now defaults to $GOROOT/bin; + if you wish to use this new default, make sure it is in your $PATH + and that you have removed the existing binaries from $HOME/bin. + +As a result of these changes, the Go Makefiles have changed. If your Makefiles +inherit from the Go Makefiles, you must change this line: + include ../../Make.$(GOARCH) +to this: + include ../../Make.inc + +This release also removes the deprecated functions in regexp and the +once package. Any code that still uses them will break. +See the notes from the last release for details: + http://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#2010-08-11 + +Other changes: +* 6g: better registerization for slices, strings, interface values +* 6l: line number information in DWARF format +* build: $GOBIN defaults to $GOROOT/bin, + no required environment variables +* cgo: add C.GoStringN (thanks Eric Clark). +* codereview: fix issues with leading tabs in CL descriptions, + do not send "Abandoned" mail if the CL has not been mailed. +* crypto/ocsp: add missing Makefile. +* crypto/tls: client certificate support (thanks Mikkel Krautz). +* doc: update gccgo information for recent changes. + fix errors in Effective Go. +* fmt/print: give %p priority, analogous to %T, + honor Formatter in Print, Println. +* gc: fix parenthesization check. +* go/ast: facility for printing AST nodes, + first step towards augmenting AST with full type information. +* go/printer: do not modify tabwriter.Escape'd text. +* gofmt: do not modify multi-line string literals, + print AST nodes by setting -ast flag. +* http: fix typo in http.Request documentation (thanks Scott Lawrence) + parse query string always, not just in GET +* image/png: support 16-bit color. +* io: ReadAtLeast now errors if min > len(buf). +* jsonrpc: use `error: null` for success, not `error: ""`. +* libmach: implement register fetch for 32-bit x86 kernel. +* net: make IPv6 String method standards-compliant (thanks Mikio Hara). +* os: FileInfo.Permission() now returns uint32 (thanks Scott Lawrence), + implement env using native Windows API (thanks Alex Brainman). +* reflect: allow PtrValue.PointTo(nil). +* runtime: correct line numbers for .goc files, + fix another stack split bug, + fix freebsd/386 mmap. +* syscall: regenerate syscall/z* files for linux/386, linux/amd64, linux/arm. +* tabwriter: Introduce a new flag StripEscape. +* template: fix handling of space around actions, + vars preceded by white space parse correctly (thanks Roger Peppe). +* test: add test case that crashes gccgo. +* time: parse no longer requires minutes for time zone (thanks Jan H. Hosang) +* yacc: fix bounds check in error recovery. ++
@@ -26,8 +95,8 @@ expression within a piece of text; see the package documentation for details:
http://golang.org/pkg/regexp/
These new methods will, in a later release, replace the old methods for
matching substrings. The following methods are deprecated:
- Execute (use Find)
- ExecuteString (use FindString)
+ Execute (use FindSubmatchIndex)
+ ExecuteString (use FindStringSubmatchIndex)
MatchStrings(use FindStringSubmatch)
MatchSlices (use FindSubmatch)
AllMatches (use FindAll; note that n<0 means 'all matches'; was n<=0)