Golang 1.7 was released today. This release includes some significant changes, including:
- Port for Linux on IBM z Systems (s390)
- Compiler improvements, most notably, the SSA backend for x86_64
- Context package
- Support for hierarchical tests and benchmarks
On the Power side, we have several bug fixes and performance improvements, including enhancements for atomics, crypto functions, memmove, bytes/Equal and sqrt. We also established that the minimum processor version for ppc64 is POWER5, and POWER8 for ppc64le.
For more information, please see the Golang 1.7 release notes.