Not a big release feature-wise, but lots of toolchain and runtime changes and tweaks. The full release notes go into depth on it all.

Focused on fast 2D graphics rendering and has a simple API. 0.7 is a key release as official audio support has been added.

Russ Cox makes a proposal and shares a prototype (vgo) for introducing package versioning to Go. Jon Calhoun has followed up with an interesting exploration of vgo.

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This won’t affect many, we suspect, but for the curious, here’s some history on the limit.

Creating a tool for building virtual graphs using only functions and immutable data types.

At 2pm ET (11am PT), Sam Boyer, Russ Cox, and Jess Frazelle will get together here on YouTube for a roundtable discussion on Go and DevOps.