RELNOTE update

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

I just submitted a tool to summarize the RELNOTE{,S}= comments in Gerrit.

Please go add RELNOTE=xxx Gerrit comments to any CLs you think should be mentioned in the release notes. I will be HTML-ifying it this week.

Currently we have this for Go 1.9:

$ go get golang.org/x/build/cmd/relnote

$ relnote

...

archive/zip

  https://golang.org/cl/39570: archive/zip: set utf-8 flag

cmd/compile

  https://golang.org/cl/36725: requires Power8 now: cmd/compile: use reg moves for int <-> float conversions on ppc64x

  https://golang.org/cl/36832: power8 requirement: cmd/compile: atomics as intrinsics on ppc64x

cmd/doc

  https://golang.org/cl/38438: cmd/doc: implement "go doc struct.field"

cmd/go

  https://golang.org/cl/38745: cmd/go: exclude vendored packages from ... matches

  https://golang.org/cl/38757: cmd/go: add -json flag to go env

  https://golang.org/cl/40112: cmd/go: allow full flag processing in go vet

  https://golang.org/cl/43855: cmd/go: include GOARM and GO386 in computed build ID

cmd/internal/dwarf

  https://golang.org/cl/44210: cmd/internal/dwarf: update to DWARF4, emit frame_base

cmd/internal/obj/x86

  https://golang.org/cl/42990: cmd/internal/obj/x86: add ADDSUBPS/PD

cmd/link

  https://golang.org/cl/36983: cmd/link: write dwarf sections

cmd/link,runtime/cgo

  https://golang.org/cl/40331: cmd/link,runtime/cgo: enable PT_TLS generation on OpenBSD

cmd/pprof

  https://golang.org/cl/38343: cmd/pprof: use proxy from environment

crypto/aes

  https://golang.org/cl/38366: crypto/aes: ARM assembly versions of encrypt, decrypt and expandKey

crypto/rand

  https://golang.org/cl/43852: crypto/rand: use blocking getrandom call on Linux when supported

crypto/x509

  https://golang.org/cl/36093: crypto/x509: load certs from env vars + extra locations

  https://golang.org/cl/36900:  thing for this release, to remind us what to write about later at the end of the cycle:: crypto/x509: support excluded domains in name constraints.

database/sql

  https://golang.org/cl/35476: database/sql: proper prepared statement support in transactions

  https://golang.org/cl/39031: database/sql: support scanning into user defined string types

encoding/asn1

  https://golang.org/cl/38660: encoding/asn1: add NullBytes and NullRawValue for working with ASN.1 NULL

encoding/base32

  https://golang.org/cl/38634: encoding/base32: add Encoding.WithPadding, StdPadding, NoPadding

encoding/gob

  https://golang.org/cl/39203: encoding/gob: speedup decoding of maps by zeroing values

fmt

  https://golang.org/cl/37051: fmt: support sharp flag for float and complex value printing

go/build

  https://golang.org/cl/44291: go/build: make -I/-L options in cgo flags absolute

hash/fnv

  https://golang.org/cl/38356: hash/fnv: add 128-bit FNV hash support

html/template

  https://golang.org/cl/37880: html/template: panic if predefined escapers are found in pipelines during rewriting

  https://golang.org/cl/40936: html/template: allow safe usage of predefined escapers in pipelines

image

  https://golang.org/cl/36734: image: fix the overlap check in Rectangle.Intersect.

image/color

  https://golang.org/cl/36732: image/color: tweak the YCbCr to RGBA conversion formula again.

image/png

  https://golang.org/cl/34150: image/png: reduce memory allocs encoding images by reusing buffers

  https://golang.org/cl/38271: image/png: decode Gray8 transparent images.

math/big

  https://golang.org/cl/36487: math/big: add IsInt64/IsUint64 predicates

math/bits

  https://golang.org/cl/36315: new package: math/bits: added package for bit-level counting and manipulation

mime/multipart

  https://golang.org/cl/39223: mime/multipart: add Size to FileHeader

net

  https://golang.org/cl/32572: net: add Resolver.StrictErrors

  https://golang.org/cl/37260: net: allow Resolver to use a custom dialer

  https://golang.org/cl/37402: net: implement deadline functionality on Pipe

  https://golang.org/cl/40510: net: don't enclose non-literal IPv6 addresses in square brackets

  https://golang.org/cl/40512: net: validate network in Dial{,IP} and Listen{Packet,IP} for IP networks

net/http

  https://golang.org/cl/35488: transport socks5 support: net/http: add support for socks5 proxy

  https://golang.org/cl/38194: net/http: strip port from host in mux Handler

  https://golang.org/cl/43231: net/http: for http2, use the priority write scheduler by default

net/http/fcgi

  https://golang.org/cl/40012: net/http/fcgi: expose cgi env vars in request context

net/http/httptest

  https://golang.org/cl/34639: new API: net/http/httptest: add Client and Certificate to Server

net/rpc

  https://golang.org/cl/38474: net/rpc: Create empty maps and slices as return type

os

  https://golang.org/cl/37915: os: parse command line without shell32.dll

  https://golang.org/cl/41830: os: do not report ModeDir for symlinks on windows

os/exec

  https://golang.org/cl/37586: os/exec: remove duplicate environment variables in Cmd.Start

os/user

  https://golang.org/cl/33713: feature: os/user: add Go implementation of LookupGroup, LookupGroupId

  https://golang.org/cl/37664: os/user: add non-cgo versions of Lookup, LookupId

reflect

  https://golang.org/cl/38335: reflect: Add MakeMapWithSize for creating maps with size hint

runtime

  https://golang.org/cl/35710: runtime: make time correctly update on Wine

  https://golang.org/cl/37441: runtime: make complex division c99 compatible

  https://golang.org/cl/38403: runtime: reduce Windows timer resolution when idle

runtime/debug

  https://golang.org/cl/34013: runtime/debug: don't run a GC when setting SetGCPercent negative

runtime/pprof

  https://golang.org/cl/34198: add support for profiler labels: runtime/pprof: add definitions of profile label types

sync

  https://golang.org/cl/34310: possible starvation problem fixed in sync.Mutex: sync: make Mutex more fair

  https://golang.org/cl/36617: sync: import Map from x/sync/syncmap

syscall

  https://golang.org/cl/36697: syscall: only call setgroups if we need to

  https://golang.org/cl/37439: syscall: use CLONE_VFORK and CLONE_VM

  https://golang.org/cl/37913: syscall: add Conn and RawConn interfaces

testing

  https://golang.org/cl/38796: testing: add TB.Helper to better support test helpers

  https://golang.org/cl/41195: testing: add argument to list tests, benchmarks, and examples

testing/quick

  https://golang.org/cl/39152: testing/quick: generate all possible int64, uint64 values

time

  https://golang.org/cl/36255: time: record monotonic clock reading in time.Now, for more accurate comparisons

  https://golang.org/cl/36615: time: add Duration.Truncate and Duration.Round

[Rob Pike]

Your program should check RELNOTES as well as RELNOTE because some of us didn't know the rules.

-rob

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[Rob Pike]

I have updated the offenders manually, but still.

-rob

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

It checks both already.