Release History - The Go Programming Language
Release History
This page summarizes the changes between official stable releases of Go.<br>The change log has the full details.
To update to a specific release, use:
git fetch --tags<br>git checkout goX.Y.Z
Release Policy
Each major Go release is supported until there are two newer major releases.<br>For example, Go 1.5 was supported until the Go 1.7 release, and Go 1.6 was<br>supported until the Go 1.8 release.<br>We fix critical problems, including critical security problems,<br>in supported releases as needed by issuing minor revisions<br>(for example, Go 1.6.1, Go 1.6.2, and so on).
go1.27.0 (released 2026-08-19)
Go 1.27.0 is a major release of Go.<br>Read the Go 1.27 Release Notes for more information.
go1.26.0 (released 2026-02-10)
Go 1.26.0 is a major release of Go.<br>Read the Go 1.26 Release Notes for more information.
Minor revisions
go1.26.1<br>(released 2026-03-05)
includes
security<br>fixes to the crypto/x509, html/template, net/url, and os packages, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the go command, the go fix command, the compiler, and the os and reflect packages.
See the<br>Go 1.26.1 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.26.2<br>(released 2026-04-07)
includes
security<br>fixes to the go command, the compiler, and the archive/tar, crypto/tls, crypto/x509, html/template, and os packages, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the go command, the go fix command, the compiler, the linker, the runtime, and the net, net/http, and net/url packages.
See the<br>Go 1.26.2 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.26.3<br>(released 2026-05-07)
includes
security<br>fixes to the go command, the pack tool, and the html/template, net, net/http, net/http/httputil, net/mail, and syscall packages, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the go command, the go fix command, the compiler, the linker, the runtime, and the crypto/fips140, crypto/tls, go/types, and os packages.
See the<br>Go 1.26.3 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.26.4<br>(released 2026-06-02)
includes
security<br>fixes to the crypto/x509, mime, and net/textproto packages, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the compiler, the runtime, the go fix command, and the crypto/fips140 package.
See the<br>Go 1.26.4 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.26.5<br>(released 2026-07-07)
includes
security<br>fixes to the crypto/tls and os packages, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the compiler, the runtime, the go command, and the net, os, and syscall packages.
See the<br>Go 1.26.5 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.26.6<br>(released 2026-08-13)
includes
security<br>fixes to the go command, and the crypto/tls, encoding/asn1, encoding/xml, html/template, net, net/http, and net/url packages, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the compiler, the linker, the runtime, and the crypto/tls and os packages.
See the<br>Go 1.26.6 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.26.7<br>(released 2026-08-19)
includes
fixes to the net/http package.
See the<br>Go 1.26.7 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.25.0 (released 2025-08-12)
Go 1.25.0 is a major release of Go.<br>Read the Go 1.25 Release Notes for more information.
Minor revisions
go1.25.1<br>(released 2025-09-03)
includes
security<br>fixes to the net/http package, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the go command, and the net, os, os/exec, and testing/synctest packages.
See the<br>Go 1.25.1 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.25.2<br>(released 2025-10-07)
includes
security<br>fixes to the archive/tar, crypto/tls, crypto/x509, encoding/asn1, encoding/pem, net/http, net/mail, net/textproto, and net/url packages, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the compiler, the runtime, and the context, debug/pe, net/http, os, and sync/atomic packages.
See the<br>Go 1.25.2 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.25.3<br>(released 2025-10-13)
includes
fixes to the crypto/x509 package.
See the<br>Go 1.25.3 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.25.4<br>(released 2025-11-05)
includes
fixes to the compiler, the runtime, and the crypto/subtle, encoding/pem, net/url, and os packages.
See the<br>Go 1.25.4 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.25.5<br>(released 2025-12-02)
includes
two<br>security<br>fixes to the crypto/x509 package, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the mime and os packages.
See the<br>Go 1.25.5 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.25.6<br>(released 2026-01-15)
includes
security<br>fixes to the go command, and the archive/zip, crypto/tls, and net/url packages, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the compiler, the runtime, and the crypto/tls, errors, and os packages.
See the<br>Go 1.25.6 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.25.7<br>(released 2026-02-04)
includes
security<br>fixes to the go command and the crypto/tls package, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the compiler and the crypto/x509 package.
See the<br>Go 1.25.7 milestone<br>on our issue tracker for details.
go1.25.8<br>(released 2026-03-05)
includes
security<br>fixes to the html/template, net/url, and os packages, as well as
bug<br>fixes to the go command, the compiler, and the os package.
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