---
title: "Go 1.11.5 and 1.10.8 Released"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 246
published_at: "2019-01-24"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/246"
---

The latest Golang development news       

#246 — January 24, 2019 

[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/246)   

Golang Weekly 

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[Go 1.11.5 and Go 1.10.8 Released](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-announce/mVeX35iXuSw/Flp8FX7QEAAJ) — Both releases ([downloads here](https://golang.org/dl/)) fix a potential security issue and DoS vulnerability relating to `crypto/elliptic`’s elliptic curve cryptography implementation. _(And if you don’t understand how elliptic curve cryptography works and wish you did, [I recommend this article](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/).)_ 

Julie Qiu   [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/2053bb44.png)](https://www.ardanlabs.com/consulting/?utm_source=Cooperpress%20Primary) 

[Do You Need Help Migrating an Application to Go?](https://www.ardanlabs.com/consulting/?utm_source=Cooperpress%20Primary) — Do you need to augment your development team or need expert help in building your product? When it comes to building, maintaining and deploying production level software in Go, there are few companies that have the level of expertise and experience Ardan Labs has. 

Ardan Labs sponsor   

[Taking Google Cloud Functions for a Spin in Go](https://medium.com/yakka/cloud-functions-in-go-94c1014a6fe4) — [Last week](https://golangweekly.com/issues/245), we featured that Google’s serverless ‘Cloud Functions’ platform [now supports Go](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/cloud-functions-go-1-11-is-now-a-supported-language), and here’s a look at how it works. 

Luke Freeman   

▶[A 13 Minute Intro to Building Google Cloud Functions in Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RitskkjSih0) — We know most of you prefer tutorials to videos, but for those of you who _do_ like a good video, this one flies through the fundamentals of deploying Go functions to Google Cloud.The basics around deploying Go functions to Google Cloud that are triggered by HTTP and Pub/Sub events. 

package main   

[Archiver: Easily Create and Open Archive Formats](https://github.com/mholt/archiver) — Easily create and extract `.zip`, `.tar`, `.tar.gz`, `.tar.bz2`, `.tar.xz`, `.tar.lz4`, `.tar.sz`, and `.rar` (extract-only) files with Go. 

Matt Holt  

💻 Jobs  

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📘 Tutorials  

[Some Notes on Supporting Go Modules](https://blog.samwhited.com/2019/01/supporting-go-modules/) — Some things a developer has learnt while adding support for Go modules to over 20 projects. 

Sam Whited   

[Data Migration with Go and MongoDB](https://medium.com/@eminetto/data-migration-with-golang-and-mongodb-d2930e7f3b8a) — Creating a command-line tool after struggling with a solution in Node. 

Elton Minetto   

[Making a Simple NTP Client in Go](https://medium.com/learning-the-go-programming-language/lets-make-an-ntp-client-in-go-287c4b9a969f) — Network Time Protocol is how servers sync their clocks over a network. 

Vladimir Vivien   

▶[Building Resilient Data Pipelines in Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm34Aph9v0M) — A look at how GE built a high throughput data pipeline in Go using Kafka and Cassandra and how you can too. 

Grant Griffiths   

[Image Resizing with Go and Cloud Functions](https://medium.com/@didil/image-resizing-with-go-and-cloud-functions-792a47e6473d) — The ‘Hello World’ of serverless applications done with Go (and the last time we mention Cloud Functions in this issue, we promise). 

Adil H  

🔧 Tools & Code 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/dgrqinemztbmj9gplhjc.jpg)](https://github.com/rakyll/gotest)  

[gotest: `go test`, But With Colors](https://github.com/rakyll/gotest) 

JBD   

[Task: A Go-Built Task Runner and Alternative to GNU Make](https://taskfile.org/#/) 

Andrey Nering   

[Simplify Event Tracking with a Single API](https://segment.com/?utm_source=gonl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ss) — Collect data once with Segment and send it to 200+ tools. Get a free developer account. 

Segment sponsor   

[tds: A SAP ASE/RS/IQ Driver for Go](https://github.com/thda/tds) — If you don’t work with SAP, move on. If you do, this may be of interest. 

THDA   

[torsniff: A Go Program that 'Sniffs' Torrents from the BitTorrent Network](https://github.com/fanpei91/torsniff) — Did you know it’s possible to get information on torrents from BitTorrent’s distributed hash table? I enjoyed [this talk on the topic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvQrNoCwxgE) last night if you’re curious. 

fanpei91   

[Please: A High-Performance Extensible Build System for Reproducible Builds](https://github.com/thought-machine/please) 

Thought Machine   

[Tengo: A Fast Embeddable Script Language for Go](https://github.com/d5/tengo) 

Daniel Kang   

[Shop Like a Developer – Discover and Experiment with Hot New Cloud Services 🔥](https://www.manifold.co/features?utm_campaign=go&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=sponsorship) 

Manifold sponsor   

[Shipspotter: Tool for Tunneling Into Remote Docker Containers Over SSH](https://github.com/Shimmur/shipspotter) — An automated port forwarder for accessing services not exposed from a remote Docker container over an SSH tunnel. 

Shimmur, Inc.   

[A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop](https://github.com/Drakirus/go-flutter-desktop-embedder) — Allows you to embed a Flutter (Google’s UI framework for mobile apps) app on Windows, Mac, and Linux. 

Pierre Champion     

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[Golang Market](http://www.golangmarket.com/) has kindly given us 20 Go gophers (inspired by Renee French's design) and we're giving one away each week to a random person who submits a link. You can [submit your link here](https://cooperpress.typeform.com/to/zEQZOv). Good luck. 

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This week's winner is Sam Whited who submitted [Supporting Go Modules](https://blog.samwhited.com/2019/01/supporting-go-modules/) - congratulations.          

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cloud functions.. *cough*