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Quick GopherCon recap, and interview with Kemal of Datadog
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11 Aug 2026
• Go 1.26.6 & 1.25.13 pre-release announcement (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/8tdz5l-ccTs) • Go SF Meetup, Aug 26 (https://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/315798556/) • GopherCon
Cancel culture is really getting out of hand in the Go stdlib
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1 Aug 2026
• oapi-codegen v2.8.0 released (https://github.com/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen/releases/tag/v2.8.0) with OpenAPI 3.1 support • 🚫 Proposal accepted: Drop support for
Proposals, proposals, proposals. And faster PostgreSQL tests with Peter Downs
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25 Jul 2026
• Proposals • Accepted: testing: allow examples with any signature (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/79808) • Accepted: maps: add Identical func (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/78456)
💩 Security releases you MUST parse, GopherJS, TypeScript 7, and Patricio Diaz CRAPs on your code
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11 Jul 2026
• Go 1.26.5 and Go 1.25.12 are released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/OrmQE_Yp5Sc) • Episode 54: 🛡️ Focus on security & crypto w/ Filippo Valsorda
I'm So Meta, Even The Airing // Talking about Cup o' Go 2.0
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4 Jul 2026
Jonathan and Shay talk about the show itself; a bit of context and history, what they like, what they don't like, and how it will change in the future. The main thing is it's still a short, focused,
Canada trip, 1.27rc1, `` vs “, and Go in the Gaming industry with Francis J. Nickels III
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27 Jun 2026
Visit cupogo.dev (https://cupogo.dev/) for show notes, Patreon link, Swag, and more! • 🥳 Go 1.27 Release Candidate 1 is released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/Cu9HkstbtpA) •
Go's revolving door, live from ElevateDev
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19 Jun 2026
• Proposal declined: drop gccgo (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/79453) • gaal (https://github.com/getgaal/gaal) — Keep skills in sync across AI agents • vscode-go 0.54.0 released
Quantum MIME, Eurovision, and lots of MONEY
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6 Jun 2026
• 🤡 Go 1.26.4 and 1.25.11 released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/tKs3rmcBcKw) • 🥉 Learning Go, 3rd Edition by Jon Bodner in early release • 🇩🇪 GopherCon EU
New rule: Every rule exists to be broken. (except this one?)
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30 May 2026
• GoConf (https://letsgoconf.ru/), Sept 11 & Moscow, Russia • CFP (https://letsgoconf.ru/cfp) • Proposals • Accepted: Formal GODEBUG removal policy
(AI) Some imp(AI)ortant sec(AI)urity fixes (AI). And AI is every(AI)where!
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23 May 2026
• 🛡️ Several security releases • 🖼️ Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/image (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/uhYX90BlBvI) • 🔐 Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/crypto
Linux vs Windows: Which has the most security vulnerabilities in Go 1.26.2?
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9 May 2026
• GopherCon Agenda is live! (https://www.gophercon.com/agenda) Aug 3-6 @ Seattle • Go 1.26.3 and 1.25.10 released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/qcCIEXso47M) with 11 security
OpenAPI 3.1.0 support in kin-openapi, and a CRITical look at agentic coding
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2 May 2026
• kin-openapi v0.136.0 released (https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/releases/tag/v0.136.0) with support for OpenAPI 3.1.0 • git 2.54 released
Builds, Validation, Web3, CORS, Typescript-- wait this is a Go show?! with Paweł Zaremba
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25 Apr 2026
Visit cupogo.dev (https://cupogo.dev/) for show notes, Patreon link, Swag and more! • proposal: cmd/go: add -buildversion build flag (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77020) • Validating data
A Nil by any other name
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18 Apr 2026
• GopherCon Singapore (https://2026.gophercon.sg/), May 22-26 • Accepted proposals • uuid: add API to generate and parse UUID (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026) • Related, likely
Go 1.26.2 is a beast. Go upgrade!
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11 Apr 2026
• 📄 GopherCon UK 2026 CFP open (https://manage.copiaevents.com/cfp/gophercon-uk-2026) through Apr 16 • Go 1.26.2 and 1.25.9 released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/0uYbvbPZRWU)
Go is epic at Epic! Chat with Creed Haymond about Go in gaming
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3 Apr 2026
• Go 1.26.2 and Go 1.25.9 coming Tue, April 7 (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/2UyQAnUQKwc) • Go Blog: Type Construction and Cycle Detection by Mark Freeman • Blog: Developing a
🌉 Live from SF w/ Josh Bleecher Snyder: Divide and Slog, Sponsored by Antithesis and Ardan Labs
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27 Mar 2026
Sponsored by Antithesis (https://antithesis.com/) and Ardan Labs (https://www.ardanlabs.com/)! This episode was recorded live in Antithesis's offices in San Francisco, as part of the GoSF meetups in
You get an error, ⚠️ you get an error, ⚠️ you get an error. ⚠️ Everybody gets an error! ⚠️⚠️
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23 Mar 2026
• 🍯 Proposal Accepted: function type inference should work in all assignment contexts (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77245) • 🧵 Blog: Go String Concatenation Performance Optimization:
go fix your stack allocations in preparation for TypeScript 7
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14 Mar 2026
• Allocating on the Stack (https://go.dev/blog/allocation-optimizations) by Keith Randall • //go:fix inline and the source-level inliner (https://go.dev/blog/inliner) by Alan Donovan •
🌷 Spring is in the air! 🌸 Time to cool down! 🧊
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7 Mar 2026
• Go 1.26.1 and Go 1.25.8 are released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/EdhZqrQ98hk) • Proposals • Accepted: change go mod init default go directive back to 1.N
Thank you for listening to episode 137. Err... 137-1 = 135? Or is it 136? No, 137. I think. Maybe.
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28 Feb 2026
• 🔐 Go 1.26.1 and Go 1.25.8 pre-announcement (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/qbkuaO2xasI) • 🇮🇹 GoLab 2026 (https://golab.io/), Nov 1-3 @ Bologna, Italy • CFP Open
‽ Errata, Go fix բᵢₓ ᶠᶦˣ, & agent skills
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21 Feb 2026
Visit https://cupogo.dev/ for all the links. • Using go fix to modernize Go code (https://go.dev/blog/gofix) • Eric S. Raymond's tweet about auto-converting his C code to Go
Dancing elephants and upgraded Elves
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14 Feb 2026
• Meetups • Hello Stuttgart, 19 Feb (https://www.meetup.com/stuttgart-gophers/events/312975296/) • Go 1.26 is out! (https://go.dev/doc/go1.26) • Go 1.26 release party with Anton Zhiyanov
Your ID is absolutely unique. Just like everyone else's. — Plus Jakub Ciolek talks fuzzing and bug bounties
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7 Feb 2026
• Go 1.25.7 and 1.24.13 released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/K09ubi9FQFk) • UUIDs in the standard library? • crypto/uuid: add API to generate and parse UUIDs
Happy 3rd birthday, Brewster! Live from SF 🌁🌉
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29 Jan 2026
Sponsored by Quantcast (https://www.quantcast.com/home)! This episode was recorded live at San Francisco as part of GoSF (https://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/312435612/). • Proposals •
Go pherJS. 🌐 Go survey. 📈 Go podcast. 🎧
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24 Jan 2026
• GopherJS 1.20 released (https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/releases/tag/v1.20.0) • Listen to interview with Grant Nelson, Episode 53
3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ Security patches for 3 Go versions, 3 meetups, planning our 3 year anniversary!
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17 Jan 2026
Want to share our last week's episode? Here is the link (https://cupogo.dev/episodes/go-1-26-240-better-this-episode-340-longer-venn-100-awesome)! Want to send a voice note for our 3 year episode?
Go 1.26: 240% better! 🎊 This episode: 340% longer! 🎉 Venn: 100% awesome 👍
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10 Jan 2026
• GopherCon 2026 Early tickets until Jan 31! (https://www.gophercon.com/) Get them while they last! • Go 1.26 coming soon • Official release notes (https://go.dev/doc/go1.26) • Interactive
See you next year
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26 Dec 2025
• Podcast: Within Reason with Hank Green (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgLbYhnK30Y) • Podcast: Within Reason with Vsauce (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvpLTJX4_D8) • Podcast: Acquired:
🤐 Three goroutines may keep a secret, even if none are dead. Plus, 💉 dependency injection is horrible—change my mind!
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20 Dec 2025
• Go 1.26rc1 is out (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/i0ei8EKtYjc) • Book: Gist of Go: Concurrency by Anton Zhiyanov • 😶 Blog: Go feature: Secret mode
All software sucks... then you die. But first: GopherCon 2026 dates and location announced!
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13 Dec 2025
• Gin is a very bad software library (https://eblog.fly.dev/ginbad.html) by Efron Licht • Bun SQL injection via error messages (https://github.com/uptrace/bun/issues/1307) • Modernizing
🪪 Certificate chains, Dingo, and ML in Go with Riccardo Pinosio and Jan Pfeifer
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8 Dec 2025
Visit https://cupogo.dev/ (https://cupogo.dev/) for all the links. Seriously, we have the entire internet there!... with enough click depth, that is • 🪪 Go 1.25.5 and Go 1.24.11 are released
🎄 An Adventful Sweet 16 for Go! 🎂
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22 Nov 2025
• golang.org/x/crypto v0.45.0 released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/w-oX3UxNcZA) • 🎂 Blog post: Go's Sweet 16 (https://go.dev/blog/16years) • macOS 12 losing support in Go
MIND the gap, the buffer, and the GC; interview with Guy Gofman
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15 Nov 2025
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Can Claude Code fix your subtle bugs? 🐞
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8 Nov 2025
• 🐞 Go 1.25.4 and 1.24.10 are released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/tVVHm9gnwl8) • The Geomys Standard of Care (https://github.com/geomys/standard-of-care) • 🛡️ Claude
👻 Spooky integer printing and 🧛🏻 scary fast ring buffers
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1 Nov 2025
• New proposal: go vet check for using %q with integer types (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/72850) • Blog: I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds by Andrew Ayer • JetBrains'
Sponsored by Forge, live from San Francisco, it's Cup o' Go!
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24 Oct 2025
Thanks to Forge (https://withforge.com/) for sponsoring this episode! Find Forge at https://withforge.com/ (https://withforge.com/). They are HIRING! Find Forge's jobs page here:
An episode as short as the name of a unix command
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18 Oct 2025
• Go 1.25.3 and 1.24.9 released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/YEyj6FUNbik) • 🪲 Blog: How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler by Thea Heinen • zsh support progress for sh
🍪 No more all-you-can-eat Cookies
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11 Oct 2025
• Security releases • 🍪 Go 1.25.2 and 1.24.8 (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/4Emdl2iQ_bI) with 10 security fixes • 🌐 golang.org/x/net v0.45.0
🪿 Goose noose? 🤘 Excellent! 🎸
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3 Oct 2025
• Conference videos • 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK (https://www.youtube.com/@GopherConUK/) • FyneConf (https://conf.fyne.io) • Proposals • 💧 Accepted: add new goroutine leak profile as a
💧 A leaky goroutine certainly does suck!
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27 Sep 2025
• Meetups and Conferences • 🇺🇸 Go Meetup in San Francisco (https://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/311234034/), Oct 23 @ Forge • 🇺🇸 GoWest (https://www.gowestconf.com/), Oct 24 @
🪖 Gab's Notes on this week's Go news and an interview with Matt Boyle of Ona and ByteSizeGo
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20 Sep 2025
Thanks Gabriel Augendre (https://gabnotes.org/) for guest co-hosting this episode! Visit cupogo.dev (https://cupogo.dev/) for all the links. • 🔬 A new experimental Go API for JSON
👕 Clothe your naked gophers and returns, with this one weird episode THEY don't want you to know about!
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13 Sep 2025
• Go 1.25.1 and Go 1.24.7 are released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/PtW9VW21NPs) • 🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe: Berlin 2025 videos online
🇲🇽 Café con Go, 🇨🇦 GopherCon, eh?, or 🌉 Goroutines on the Golden Gate?
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29 Aug 2025
This episode is sponsored by Boldly Go! Need fractional Gophering work? Visit boldlygo.tech (https://boldlygo.tech/subscription/). For everything Cup o' Go, incl. swag, Patreon, past episodes, and
🐐 The Greatest Episode of All Time 🐐
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23 Aug 2025
• 🥩 Meatspace • 🇺🇸 Going to GopherCon in NYC? Meet other Cup'o'Gophers there! (https://gophers.slack.com/archives/C04LYE5ARC0/p1755707257058209) • 🇺🇸 Interested in a SF meetup?
The X/Tools Files
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19 Aug 2025
• Go 1.25 is released (https://go.dev/blog/go1.25) • 🛠️ x/tools contains public packages that fail to build with Go 1.25.0 (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/74462) • 🧱 Building
The s in "golang" stands for security and an interview with George Adams from Microsoft
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8 Aug 2025
Visit https://cupogo.dev/ for all things Cup o' Go! • [security] Go 1.24.6 and Go 1.23.12 are released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/x5MKroML2yM) • Microsoft build of Go
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1 Aug 2025
• 🗳️ Surveys say... • StackOverflow 2025 Developer Survey results (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025) • The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey