This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go. For full details, see the Mercurial change log.
++There is one language change: support for ...T parameters: + http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Function_types + +You can now check build status on various platforms at the Go Dashboard: + http://godashboard.appspot.com + +* 5l/6l/8l: several minor fixes +* 5a/6a/8a/5l/6l/8l: avoid overflow of symb buffer (thanks Dean Prichard) +* compress/gzip: gzip deflater (i.e., writer) +* debug/proc: add mingw specific build stubs (thanks Joe Poirier) +* exp/draw: separate the source-point and mask-point in Draw +* fmt: handle nils safely in Printf +* gccgo: error messages now match those of gc +* godoc: several fixes +* http: bug fixes, revision of Request/Response (thanks Petar Maymounkov) +* image: new image.A type to represent anti-aliased font glyphs + add named colors (e.g. image.Blue), suitable for exp/draw +* io: fixed bugs in Pipe +* malloc: merge into package runtime +* math: fix tests on FreeBSD (thanks Devon H. O'Dell) + add functions; update tests and special cases (thanks Charles L. Dorian) +* os/signal: send SIGCHLDs to Incoming (thanks Chris Wedgwood) +* reflect: add StringHeader to reflect +* runtime: add SetFinalizer +* time: Sleep through interruptions (thanks Chris Wedgwood) + add RFC822 formats + experimental implemenation of Ticker using two goroutines for all tickers +* xml: allow underscores in XML element names (thanks Michael Hoisie) + allow any scalar type in xml.Unmarshal ++