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Radar · Go · Archive · Week 38 · Sep 15 – 21, 2025

crypto/tls: add QUICEvent.Err

Worth knowingstdlib

What changed
The proposal is to add an Err field to QUICEvent and produce an event with a type of QUICNoEvent and the Err field set when an error occurs.
Production impact
The source does not say.
Try it
Create a QUICConn and trigger a handshake error to see a QUICNoEvent with Err populated.
Source
github.com/golang/go/issues/75108

Understand it, then run it

The TLS package in Go can run over QUIC, a transport that needs to know when the handshake fails. Before the change, a QUICConn could only report errors when the caller called a function that returned an error. If an error happened deeper in the handshake, there was no way to surface it. The change adds an Err field to the QUICEvent type. When an error occurs, the library will emit an event whose kind is QUICNoEvent and whose Err field contains the error. This lets code that watches for events know that the connection has failed without having to check every function return value.

Run it now

Todaygo
// This program demonstrates how QUICEvent.Err would be used once the change
// ships. It does not actually create a QUIC connection because that requires
// network I/O, but it shows the structure and how an error would be checked.
package main

import (
	"fmt"
)

type QUICEvent struct {
	// Set for QUICNoEvent
	Err error
	// existing fields as-is
}

const (
	// QUICNoEvent indicates that there are no events available.
	// QUICEvent.Err is set if the connection has encountered a fatal error.
	QUICNoEvent = iota
)

func main() {
	// Simulate receiving an event with an error.
	event := QUICEvent{Err: fmt.Errorf("handshake failed")}
	if event.Err != nil {
		fmt.Println("Fatal error detected:", event.Err)
	} else {
		fmt.Println("No error")
	}
}

What it printed when we ran it on Go 1.27.1

Fatal error detected: handshake failed

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