Go 1.18 Release Candidate 1 is released

Hello gophers,

We have just released go1.18rc1, a release candidate version of Go 1.18.
It is cut from release-branch.go1.18 at the revision tagged go1.18rc1.

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://go.dev/issue/new

If you have Go installed already, the easiest way to try go1.18rc1
is by using the go command:
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.18rc1@latest
$ go1.18rc1 download

You can download binary and source distributions from the usual place:
https://go.dev/dl/#go1.18rc1

To find out what has changed in Go 1.18, read the draft release notes:
https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.18

Cheers,
Dmitri and Heschi for the Go team