[go-nuts] release.2010-04-27

[Andrew Gerrand]

We've just tagged a new Go release, release.2010-04-27. As usual, you
can update by running:
hg pull
hg update release

This release includes a new Codelab that illustrates the construction of a
simple wiki web application:
http://golang.org/doc/codelab/wiki/

It also includes a Codewalk framework for documenting code. See:
http://golang.org/doc/codewalk/

Other changes:
* 6g: fix need for parens around array index expression.
* 6l, 8l: include ELF header in PT_LOAD mapping for text segment.
* arm: add android runner script,
support for printing floats.
* big: implemented Karatsuba multiplication,
many fixes and improvements (thanks Evan Shaw).
* bytes: add Next method to Buffer, simplify Read,
shuffle implementation, making WriteByte 50% faster.
* crypto/tls: simpler implementation of record layer.
* exp/eval: fixes (thanks Evan Shaw).
* flag: eliminate unnecessary structs.
* gc: better windows support,
cmplx typecheck bug fix,
more specific error for statements at top level.
* go/parser: don't require unnecessary parens.
* godoc: exclude duplicate entries (thanks Andrei Vieru),
use int64 for timestamps (thanks Christopher Wedgwood).
* gofmt: fine-tune stripping of parentheses,
* json: Marshal, Unmarshal using new scanner,
preserve field name case by default,
scanner, Compact, Indent, and tests,
support for streaming.
* libmach: disassemble MOVLQZX correctly.
* math: more special cases for signed zero (thanks Charles L. Dorian).
* net: add Pipe,
fix bugs in packStructValue (thanks Michael Hoisie),
introduce net.Error interface.
* os: FileInfo: regularize the types of some fields,
create sys_bsd.go (thanks Giles Lean),
mingw bug fixes (thanks Alex Brainman).
* reflect: add FieldByNameFunc (thanks Raif S. Naffah),
implement Set(nil), SetValue(nil) for PtrValue and MapValue.
* regexp: allow escaping of any punctuation.
* rpc/jsonrpc: support for jsonrpc wire encoding.
* rpc: abstract client and server encodings,
add Close() method to rpc.Client.
* runtime: closures, defer bug fix for Native Client,
rename cgo2c, *.cgo to goc2c, *.goc to avoid confusion with real cgo.
several other fixes.
* scanner: implement Peek() to look at the next char w/o advancing.
* strings: add ReadRune to Reader, add FieldsFunc (thanks Kyle Consalus).
* syscall: match linux Setsid function signature to darwin,
mingw bug fixes (thanks Alex Brainman).
* template: fix handling of pointer inside interface.
* test/bench: add fannkuch-parallel.go (thanks Kyle Consalus),
pidigits ~10% performance win by using adds instead of shifts.
* time: remove incorrect time.ISO8601 and add time.RFC3339 (thanks Micah Stetson
).
* utf16: add DecodeRune, EncodeRune.
* xml: add support for XML marshalling embedded structs (thanks Raif S. Naffah),
new "innerxml" tag to collect inner XML.

Apologies if we missed anyone in the above list. We appreciate all your help.

To see a full list of changes between this and the previous release,
after updating, run:
hg log -r release.2010-04-13:release.2010-04-27

Enjoy.

Andrew