🕸️ With great power comes great responsibility, or why not to use the linkname directive 🔗

Cup o' Go

• Proposals
  • Accepted: require Linux 3.17 kernel for Go 1.24
    • Previous discussion: Episode 61
  • Accepted: add encoding.AppendText and encoding.AppendBinary
    • Previous discussion: Episode 62
  • Accepted: add HostLayout directive type
  • 🪟 Accepted: Normalize line endings in example output comparisons
• Conference updates
  • 🇮🇱 GopherCon Isreael CFP open until June 30
• 🔒 gosec v2.20.0 released
  • Included in golangci-lint v1.58.2
  • See also: govulncheck
• Open issue: lock down future uses of linkname
  • Related blog post: Accessing Private Functions, Methods, Types and Variables in Go by Yarden Laifenfeld
• Thanks to Miki for filling in!
  • His new book, Effective Go Recipes