This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go. For full details, see the Mercurial change log.
++With this release we announce the launch of the Go Blog: + http://blog.golang.org/ +The first post is a brief update covering what has happened since the launch. + +This release contains some new packages and functionality, and many fixes: +* 6g/8g: fix issues with complex data types, other bug fixes. +* Makefiles: refactored to make writing external Makefiles easier. +* crypto/rand: new package. +* godoc: implemented command-line search via RPC, + improved comment formatting: recognize URLs. +* gofmt: more consistent formatting of const/var decls. +* http: add Error helper function, + add ParseQuery (thanks Petar Maymounkov), + change RawPath to mean raw path, not raw everything-after-scheme. +* image/jpeg: fix typos. +* json: add MarshalIndent (accepts user-specified indent string). +* math: add Gamma function (thanks Charles L. Dorian). +* misc/bbedit: support for cmplx, real, imag (thanks Anthony Starks). +* misc/vim: add new complex types, functions and literals. +* net: fix IPMask.String not to crash on all-0xff mask. +* os: drop File finalizer after normal Close. +* runtime: add GOROOT and Version, + lock finalizer table accesses. +* sha512: add sha384 (truncated version) (thanks Conrad Meyer). +* syscall: add const ARCH, analogous to OS. +* syscall: further additions to mingw port (thanks Alex Brainman). +* template: fixed html formatter []byte input bug. +* utf16: new package. +* version.bash: cope with ancient Mercurial. +* websocket: use URL.RawPath to construct WebSocket-Location: header. ++