Lifecycle guide for Go from Google

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-09-04

What is Go?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

Go 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

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

Vendor

Google

Latest version

1.27.1

Number of releases

Number of versions

383

Number of unstable versions

Number of versions affected by CVE

254

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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