Radar · Go · Archive · Week 34 · Aug 17 – 23, 2026
go1.25.14 released (net/http fixes)
Worth knowingstdlib
- What changed
- go1.25.14 includes fixes to the net/http package.
- Production impact
- The source does not say.
- Try it
- Run your existing HTTP tests to verify the fixes.
- Source
- go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.25.14
Understand it, then run it
The Go 1.25.14 release fixes bugs in the net/http package. net/http is the standard library package that handles HTTP clients and servers. Before this release, some edge cases in request handling could cause crashes or incorrect responses. The update corrects those issues, so code that uses net/http now behaves reliably.
Run it now
// This program demonstrates a simple use of the net/http package.
// It builds an HTTP GET request and prints the request URL and method.
// The program does not perform a network call, so it runs safely in a sandbox.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
// Construct a new GET request to a placeholder URL.
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://example.com", nil)
if err != nil {
// In real code you would handle the error appropriately.
fmt.Println("Error creating request:", err)
return
}
// Print the request details to show that net/http is working.
fmt.Println("Method:", req.Method)
fmt.Println("URL:", req.URL.String())
}
What it printed when we ran it on Go 1.27.1
Method: GET URL: https://example.com
Run sends this program (for Solidity, the contract and its tests) to our own sandbox, where it is compiled and run once, with no network, and what it printed or the test report comes back here. Nothing is kept. Runs are counted per visitor for the day so everyone gets a turn; the details are on the legal page.
Written by gpt-oss-20b from the linked source · claims checked against the sources · archive, not individually reviewed