Go Google Programming language Release Version Major Minor Patch End-of-life EOL Support End-of-support EOS Maintenance End-of-maintenance EOM Security Long-term support LTS Vulnerabilities Common vulnerabilities & exposures CVE Security product-release-end-of-life-overview.xml free-trial.xml 📅 Last update on 2025-08-08 What 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. Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Go (Google)   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). Product Go Vendor Google Latest version 1.24.6 Number of releases 26 Number of versions 344 Number of unstable versions 88 Number of versions affected by CVE 220 Licence BSD-3-Clause License Licence details https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/LICENSE Product site Release info Version command Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)