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Next week, on June 19th, we're doing a physical meetup! Join #amsterdam on the Gopher Slack to join up.

• 🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe next week, June 17-20
  • Can’t afford to attend online? Fill in this form: https://forms.gle/gcDGxnRJvjXbVPuZ6
• 🎲 math/rand: make global seed a no-op
• 📦 goreleaser v2 released
  • 📼 A few Go tools for production-level developer applications (Orca meetup Mar 2023)
• 🎮 Why is Go not used for game development?
  • GMTK Game Jam 2024 - Hosted by Game Maker's Toolkit
• 🦾 gabyhelp - a new bot to help automate work in the Go issue tracker
• 🧐 5 small tips I recently learned in Go

• Go 1.22.4 & 1.21.11 released
• Proposals
  • New: safer file open functions
    • github.com/google/safeopen alternative
    • openat man page
  • New: allow range-over-func to omit iteration variables
• Blog: Flaky Tests Overhaul at Uber
• Blog: Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform
  • Interview with Ashley Jeffs
    • Twitter
    • LinkedIn
    • GitHub
  • Announcement discussion on Hacker News
  • Redpanda Connect project page
  • Previous Benthos interview in Episode 27
  • Redneck language in RedHat, cerca 1998

• Go 1.22.4 & 1.21.11 coming Tuesday, June 4
• Community events
  • Golang Atlanta meetup, June 13
  • Cup o' Go Meetup in Amsterdam, June 19
  • Golang Tilburg meetup, June 20
• Proposal accepted and implemented: new iterator functions in maps package coming in 1.23
• Reddit: What software shouldn't you write in Go?
• Blog: Blazingly Fast Shadow Stacks for Go by Felix Geisendörf
• Blog: Abusing Go's infrastructure by Pedro Vilaça
• Ad break
  • Episode 15, interview with Adelina Simion about her book, Test-Driven Development in Go
• Interview with Riccardo Pinosio
  • Hugging Face
  • hugot on GitHub
  • ONNX
  • Knights Analytics

• 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

• Upcoming conferences
  • 🇯🇵 June 8: Go Conference 2024 @ Tokyo, Japan
  • 🇩🇪 June 17-20: GopherCon EU @ Berlin, Germany
  • 🇳🇱 June 19-21: DevOps Days @ Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 🇷🇺 June 24-25: Golang Conf 2024 @ St. Petersburg, Russia
• Proposals
  • 👍 Accepted: go telemetry subcommand
    • Previous discussion on Episode 62
  • ⛔ Declined: Notify of new major dependency versions
    • Previous discussion on Episode 62
  • 🆕 New: Make math/rand.Seed a no-op
• The unique package has been implemented
  • ✅ Previous discussion on Episode 33
• Around the community
  • 🤔 Reddit: Is it idiomatic to create a constructor that returns an interface?
  • GitHub CLI 2.49.1 includes contribution from Shay

• Go 1.22.3 & 1.22.10 released
• Proposals
  • Accepted: add binary.Append function
  • Likely accept: new `go telemetry` subcommand
  • Likely decline: Notify about new major versions of dependencies
• Packt book bundle
• Interview with Jamie Tanna
  • Blog: Creating a more sustainable model for `oapi-codegen` in the future
  • Blog: oapi-codegen is moving to its own org
  • on GitHub: github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen

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• 🆕 Releases
  • Go 1.22.3 & 1.21.10 coming Tuesday
• 🪇 Conferences
  • GopherCon Brazil, May 9 & 10
  • GopherDay Taiwan, May 25
• 🤹 Secure Randomness
  • Blog: Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2
  • Blog: Secure Randomness in Go 1.22 by Russ Cox
  • new proposal: Require Linux kernel 3.17 for Go 1.24
• 🧑‍🔬 Interview with Bartek Nowotarski about Go vulnerability research
  • Blog
  • HackerOne
  • Twitter
  • HTTP/2 RFC9133
  • Luck

• Proposals
  • 🍪 Accepted: support partitioned cookies
    • Article: Prepare for thrid-party cookie restrictions
  • New: add reflect.AssertTo
  • Declined: builtin is[T any](any) bool
• Meetups & Conferences
  • 🇨🇿 Prague Go Meetup, April 23
  • 🇳🇱 Rotterdam Go Meetup, April 23
  • 🌐 Conf42 Golang, April 25, Online
  • 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK CFP closes May 17
  • 🇮🇹 GoLab CFP closes May 6
• Blog: Welcome to the Microsoft for Go Developers Blog
• Blog: Go performance from version 1.0 to 1.22 by Ben Hoyt
• Interview with Paul Jolly
  • CUE web site
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn