Go 1.16 Release Candidate 1 is released!



Go 1.16, due to have its final release in February, is now taking its final form and is ready for your production testing, say the Go team.



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It is cut from release-branch.go1.16 at the revision tagged go1.16rc1. Please try your production load tests and unit tests with the new version, your help testing these pre-release versions is invaluable.



Report any problems using the issue tracker: https://golang.org/issue/new



If you have Go installed already, the easiest way to try go1.16rc1 is by using the go command:



$ go get golang.org/dl/go1.16rc1

$ go1.16rc1 download




You can download binary and source distributions from the usual place: https://golang.org/dl/#go1.16rc1



To find out what has changed in Go 1.16, read the draft release notes: https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.16



Source: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/U_FUHY4wuSc/m/3_Vw3oqpAgAJ