Go: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Go from Google

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-16

What is Go?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementGo is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. The language is often referred to as Golang because of its domain name, golang.org, but the proper name is Go.
 

The entire lifecycle of Go

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Go. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Go (Google) release, version and end-of-life information
XGo (Google) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Go (Google)
 

What is the Go release strategy?

Each major Go release is supported until there are two newer major releases. For example, Go 1.5 was supported until the Go 1.7 release, and Go 1.6 was supported until the Go 1.8 release. Go fix critical problems, including critical security problems, in supported releases as needed by issuing minor revisions (for example, Go 1.6.1, Go 1.6.2, and so on).

Facts and figures about Go

Product
Go
Vendor
Google
Latest version
1.26.2
Number of releases
27
Number of versions
367
Number of unstable versions
91
Number of versions affected by CVE
268
Licence
BSD-3-Clause License
Licence details
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/LICENSE
Version command
go version
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)
 
 

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