---
title: "#196: Final Go 1.10 Release Imminent"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 196
published_at: "2018-02-01"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/196"
---

Golang Weekly 196   . 

[Read this on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/196) 

[Golang Weekly](https://golangweekly.com) Issue 196 — February 1, 2018     

Featured [Go 1.10 RC 1 Released, Final Due Soon](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/XlnXSk1r6Sw/5Q6UlVrZCAAJ) Yes, the final release is _imminent_ and people on Twitter are [guessing when it’ll drop.](https://twitter.com/davecheney/status/958841063011098624) Read [the draft release notes](https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.10) to learn more, and get testing especially if you’re a library author. Andrew Bonventre [Caire: A Content-Aware Image Resizing Library](https://github.com/esimov/caire) Uses _seam carving_ to stretch out unimportant parts of an image, allowing the resizing process to take an image’s content into account. Endre Simo [Redis 4.0 with HA from RedisGreen](http://www.redisgreen.net/?utm_source=goweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018a&utm_content=primary&utm_term=r4+ha) Try Redis 4.0 with HA and memory analysis features from RedisGreen RedisGreensponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/7f43e03f.png)](http://www.redisgreen.net/?utm_source=goweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2018a&utm_content=primary&utm_term=r4+ha) [go-spew: Deep Pretty Printer for Go Data Structures](https://github.com/davecgh/go-spew) A handy tool for debugging Go code by digging into a program’s active data structures. Dave Collins [Hazelcast, Now for Go Developers Too](https://blog.hazelcast.com/hazelcast-go-getters/) Go now has [an official client](https://hazelcast.org/clients/go/) for [Hazelcast](https://hazelcast.org/), a popular, JVM-based in-memory data grid. Neil Stevenson [How to Create and Manage macOS LaunchAgents in Go](https://ieftimov.com/create-manage-macos-launchd-agents-golang) Covers launchd, using `text/template` to create plist files, handling signals, and the difference between agents and daemons. Ilija Eftimov [Notes on an Upcoming Go Protobuf Release](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/F5xFHTfwRnY/PVkKeqLnBgAJ) The dev branch of github.com/golang/protobuf will be merged in on April 30th and could well break your protobuf code. Read how here. golang-nuts Google Group [Delivering News Feeds to Millions with Go](https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-over-300-million-end-users) A tour of the Go-oriented stack behind [Stream](https://getstream.io/) who recently [switched from Python to Go](https://thenewstack.io/go-time-stream-2-0-ditches-python/) for performance reasons. 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Andrew Bonventre [Go, the #1 Language Developers Plan to Learn Next?](https://research.hackerrank.com/developer-skills/2018/#insight4) news HackerRank [Lessons Learned Migrating from CircleCI 1.0 to CircleCI 2.0](https://circleci.com/blog/lessons-learned-migrating-from-circleci-1-0-to-circleci-2-0/?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=february&utm_content=go-newsletter) Andrew Taylor, Community Engineer at Pantheon, talks about their experience migrating to CircleCI’s 2.0 platform. CircleCIsponsored [Easily Trying Other Go Versions](https://pocketgophers.com/trying-other-versions/) tutorial Go 1.8 added a tool for trying beta and release candidates. Pocket Gophers [Running Go Programs as IBM Cloud Functions](https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2018/01/running-existing-app-ibm-cloud-functions/) tutorial Rodric Rabbah [Amazing Advantages of Go That You Don’t Hear Much About](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/here-are-some-amazing-advantages-of-go-that-you-dont-hear-much-about-1af99de3b23a) opinion Kirill Rogovoy [How To Reduce the Risks Of Continuous Delivery](https://try.rollbar.com/low-risk-continuous-delivery-guide/?utm_source=email-nl&utm_medium=email-nl&utm_campaign=email-nl) ROLLBARsponsored [Decimal: An Arbitrary-Precision, Floating-Point Decimal Library](https://github.com/ericlagergren/decimal) code Eric Lagergren [cam2ip: Turn Any Webcam into an IP Camera](https://github.com/gen2brain/cam2ip) code Milan Nikolic [Miniflux: A Minimalist Feed/RSS Reader Written in Go](https://miniflux.net/) code [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux) Frédéric Guillot [Flash: Fast Keyword Extraction using Aho-Corasick and Tries](https://github.com/dav009/flash) code David Przybilla [pbr: A Physically-Based Renderer (PBR) in Go](https://github.com/hunterloftis/pbr) code Think raytracing but turned up to 11. 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