As a release cycle nears completion, run `relnote todo` to get a list of
unfinished release note work.

To prepare the release notes for a release, run `relnote generate`.
That will merge the `.md` files in `next` into a single file.
Atomically (as close to it as possible) add that file to `_content/doc` directory
of the website repository and remove the `doc/next` directory in this repository.

  a slice backward.
- [Collect](/pkg/slices#Collect) collects values from an iterator into
  a new slice.
- [AppendSeq](/pkg/slices#AppendSeq) appends values from an iterator to
  an existing slice.
- [Sorted](/pkg/slices#Sorted) collects values from an iterator into a
  new slice, and then sorts the slice.
- [SortedFunc](/pkg/slices#SortedFunc) is like `Sorted` but with a
  comparison function.

The new [Localize] function safely converts a slash-separated

The new [Encode] and [Decode] functions are byte slice equivalents
to [Read] and [Write].

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## Introduction {#intro}

Go's emphasis on backwards compatibility is one of its key strengths.
There are, however, times when we cannot maintain complete compatibility.
If code depends on buggy (including insecure) behavior,

The [CopyFS] function copies an [io/fs.FS] into the local filesystem....

nnnnn.txt, after the issue number for the accepted proposal.
(The #nnnnn suffix must also appear at the end of each line in the file;
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

pkg go/types, method (*Alias) String() string #63223
pkg go/types, method (*Alias) Underlying() Type #63223
pkg go/types, method (*Info) PkgNameOf(*ast.ImportSpec) *PkgName #62037
pkg go/types, method (Checker) PkgNameOf(*ast.ImportSpec) *PkgName #62037
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pkg go/types, type Info struct, FileVersions map[*ast.File]string #62605
pkg go/version, func Compare(string, string) int #62039