Go 1.4 Release Candidate 2 is released

[Andrew Gerrand]

Hi Go nuts,

We have just released go1.4rc2, the first release candidate for Go 1.4.

It is cut from release-branch.go1.4 at the revision tagged go1.4rc2.

Please help us by testing your Go programs with the release, and report any problems using the issue tracker:

    http://golang.org/issue/new

You can download binary and source distributions from the usual place:

    http://golang.org/dl/#go1.4rc2

To find out what has changed in Go 1.4, read the release notes:

    http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.4

Documentation for Go 1.4 is available at:

    http://tip.golang.org/

Our goal is to release the final version of Go 1.4 during the week of December 8, 2014. (We slipped by a week, while tracking down the fix for an elusive race condition in the runtime.)

Andrew

[Gyu-Ho Lee]

Thank you!

[Qian Qiao]

On Tue Dec 02 2014 at 1:32:17 AM Andrew Gerrand <a...@golang.org> wrote:

Hi Go nuts,

We have just released go1.4rc2, the first release candidate for Go 1.4.

It is cut from release-branch.go1.4 at the revision tagged go1.4rc2.

s/first/second/

 

Please help us by testing your Go programs with the release, and report any problems using the issue tracker:

    http://golang.org/issue/new

You can download binary and source distributions from the usual place:

    http://golang.org/dl/#go1.4rc2

To find out what has changed in Go 1.4, read the release notes:

    http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.4

Documentation for Go 1.4 is available at:

    http://tip.golang.org/

Our goal is to release the final version of Go 1.4 during the week of December 8, 2014. (We slipped by a week, while tracking down the fix for an elusive race condition in the runtime.)

Andrew

Been running tip for a while, so far so good. Thank you for the hard work.

-- Joe 

[hufen...@gmail.com]

Nice big step

Andrew Gerrand於 2014年12月2日星期二UTC+8下午2時32分23秒寫道：

[atd...@gmail.com]

Thx.

[Gon Yi]

Great! Thank you!

When are you expect stable 1.4?

Thank you

[atd...@gmail.com]

You missed the last sentence ;)

Our goal is to release the final version of Go 1.4 during the week of December 8, 2014. (We slipped by a week, while tracking down the fix for an elusive race condition in the runtime.)

[Aaron Cannon]

On 12/2/14, Qian Qiao <qian...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue Dec 02 2014 at 1:32:17 AM Andrew Gerrand <a...@golang.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Go nuts,
>>
>> We have just released go1.4rc2, the first release candidate for Go 1.4.

> s/first/second/

Perhaps it's the second first release candidate. :)

Regardless, congrats and a sincere thanks to all involved.

Aaron

[Gon Yi]

Oh! Thank you :)

[lab...@linux.vnet.ibm.com]

Can I get more detail on what this means with respect to the changes in go1.4?

The behavior of the go build subcommand's -a flag has been changed for non-development installations. For installations running a released distribution, the -a flag will no longer rebuild the standard library and commands, to avoid overwriting the installation's files.

- Previous documentation stated that 'go build -a' only did a rebuild but did not install the newly built packages, so what files in the installation would be overwritten?
- Does this mean that in go1.4 there is no longer the requirement for a non-development installation to have the source available for the packages in the standard library?

On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:32:23 AM UTC-6, Andrew Gerrand wrote: