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This page summarizes the changes between tagged releases of Go. For full details, see the Mercurial change log.
++This release contains many fixes and improvements, including several +clarifications and consolidations to the Language Specification. + +The type checking rules around assignments and conversions are simpler but more +restrictive: assignments no longer convert implicitly from *[10]int to []int +(write x[0:] instead of &x), and conversions can no longer change the names of +types inside composite types. + +The fmt package now includes flexible type-driven (fmt.Scan) and +format-driven (fmt.Scanf) scanners for all basic types. + +* big: bug fix for Quo aliasing problem. +* bufio: change ReadSlice to match description. +* cgo: bug fixes. +* doc: add Google I/O talk and programs, + codereview + Mercurial Queues info (thanks Peter Williams). +* exp/draw: Draw fast paths for the Over operator, + add Rectangle.Eq and Point.In, fix Rectangle.Clip (thanks Roger Peppe). +* fmt: Scan fixes and improvements. +* gc: backslash newline is not a legal escape sequence in strings, + better error message when ~ operator is found, + fix export of complex types, + new typechecking rules. +* go/parser: correct position of empty statement ';'. +* gofmt: fix test script. +* goinstall: use 'git pull' instead of 'git checkout' (thanks Michael Hoisie). +* http: add Head function for making HTTP HEAD requests, + handle status 304 correctly. +* image: add Opaque method to the image types. + make Color.RGBA return 16 bit color instead of 32 bit color. +* io/ioutil: add TempFile. +* math: Pow special cases and additional tests (thanks Charles L. Dorian). +* netchan: improve closing and shutdown. +* os: implement os.FileInfo.*time_ns for windows (thanks Alex Brainman). +* os/signal: correct the regexp for finding Unix signal names (thanks Vinu Rajashekhar). +* regexp: optimizations (thanks Kyle Consalus). +* runtime: fix printing -Inf (thanks Evan Shaw), + finish pchw -> tiny, added gettime for tiny (thanks Daniel Theophanes). +* spec: clean-ups and consolidation. +* syscall: additional Windows compatibility fixes (thanks Alex Brainman). +* test/bench: added regex-dna-parallel.go (thanks Kyle Consalus). +* vector: type-specific Do functions now take f(type) (thanks Michael Hoisie). ++