Radar · Go · Archive · Week 23 · Jun 2 – 8, 2025

go1.24.4 released

Worth knowingstdlib

What changed: Security fixes to the crypto/x509, net/http, and os packages; bug fixes to the linker, the go command, and the hash/maphash and os packages.
Production impact: The source does not say.
Try it: Run go version to confirm you are on 1.24.4 and run go test ./... to ensure your tests still pass.
Source: go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.24.4

Understand it, then run it

Go 1.24.4 was released on 2025‑06‑05. It contains security fixes for the crypto/x509, net/http, and os packages. There are also bug fixes for the linker, the go command, and the hash/maphash and os packages. The changes are internal; they do not add new language features or APIs.

Run it now

Todaygo

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)

// This program demonstrates a simple time‑based operation that works
// in Go 1.27.1. It prints the current time, waits one second, and
// then prints the elapsed time.
func main() {
	start := time.Now()
	fmt.Println("Start time:", start)

	// Pause for one second.
	time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)

	elapsed := time.Since(start)
	fmt.Println("Elapsed time:", elapsed)
}

What it printed when we ran it on Go 1.27.1

Start time: 2026-10-01 08:50:51.708086847 +0000 UTC m=+0.000065633
Elapsed time: 1.000754254s

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