We only use our bug tracker for tracking bugs and tracking proposals going through the [Proposal Process](https://go.dev/s/proposal-process).

For asking questions, see:

* [The golang-nuts mailing list](https://groups.google.com/d/forum/golang-nuts)

* [The Go Forum](https://forum.golangbridge.org/), a web-based forum

2. What operating system and processor architecture are you using?
3. What did you do?
4. What did you expect to see?
5. What did you see instead?

For change proposals, see [Proposing Changes To Go](https://go.dev/s/proposal-process).

## Contributing code

Please read the [Contribution Guidelines](https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html) before sending patches.

This section documents the GODEBUG settings introduced and removed in each major Go release
for compatibility reasons.
Packages or programs may define additional settings for internal debugging purposes;
for example,
see the [runtime documentation](/pkg/runtime#hdr-Environment_Variables)
and the [go command documentation](/cmd/go#hdr-Build_and_test_caching).

### Go 1.23

# The environment overrides everything else.

# Use the Go module mirror and checksum database by default.
# See https://proxy.golang.org for details.
GOPROXY=https://proxy.golang.org,direct
GOSUMDB=sum.golang.org

# Automatically download newer toolchains as directed by go.mod files.
# See https://go.dev/doc/toolchain for details.

Empty directory for test, see https://golang.org/issues/29837....

The zoneinfo.zip archive contains time zone files compiled using
the code and data maintained as part of the IANA Time Zone Database.
The IANA asserts that the database is in the public domain.

For more information, see
https://www.iana.org/time-zones
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/code/tz-link.html
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6557

that will be preserved when next/*.txt is concatenated into go1.XX.txt.)

When you add a file to the api/next directory, you must add at least one file

To contribute, please read the contribution guidelines at https://go.dev/doc/contribute.

Note that the Go project uses the issue tracker for bug reports and
proposals only. See https://go.dev/wiki/Questions for a list of
places to ask questions about the Go language.

[rf]: https://reneefrench.blogspot.com/

We support the past two Go releases (for example, Go 1.17.x and Go 1.18.x when Go 1.18.x is the latest stable release).

See https://go.dev/wiki/Go-Release-Cycle and in particular the
[Release Maintenance](https://go.dev/wiki/Go-Release-Cycle#release-maintenance)
part of that page.

## Reporting a Vulnerability

# endings, and so they are checked in with CRLF endings, with a test
# in test/winbatch.go to catch problems. (See golang.org/issue/37791.)
#
# We'll prevent accidental CRLF line endings from entering the repo
# via the git-codereview gofmt checks and tests.
#
# See golang.org/issue/9281.