As [announced](go1.22#darwin) in the Go 1.22 release notes,
Go 1.23 requires macOS 11 Big Sur or later;
support for previous versions has been discontinued.

### Wasm {#wasm}

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# To prepare an update for a new Go release,
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# update CODE and DATA below, and then run
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[time.Timer] and [time.Ticker].

First, `Timer`s and `Ticker`s that are no longer referred to by the program
become eligible for garbage collection immediately, even if their
`Stop` methods have not been called.
Earlier versions of Go did not collect unstopped `Timer`s until after
they had fired and never collected unstopped `Ticker`s.

Second, the timer channel associated with a `Timer` or `Ticker` is
now unbuffered, with capacity 0.

means that if a header file foo/bar.h exists both in the source
directory and also in the system include directory (or some other place
specified by a -I flag), then "#include <foo/bar.h>" will always find the
local version in preference to any other version.

The cgo tool is enabled by default for native builds on systems where
it is expected to work. It is disabled by default when cross-compiling

Because this method of setting GODEBUG defaults was introduced only in Go 1.21,
programs listing versions of Go earlier than Go 1.20 are configured to match Go 1.20,
not the older version.

To override these defaults, a main package's source files
can include one or more `//go:debug` directives at the top of the file
(preceding the `package` statement).
Continuing the `panicnil` example, if the module or workspace is updated

"vendor/golang.org/x/crypto/cryptobyte". When a package with the
same path is imported from a package outside std or cmd, it will
be resolved normally. Consequently, a binary may be built with two
copies of a package at different versions if the package is
imported normally and vendored by the standard library.

Vendored packages are internally renamed with a "vendor/" prefix
to preserve the invariant that all packages have distinct paths.

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	"Title": "The Go Programming Language Specification",
	"Subtitle": "Version of Oct 15, 2021",
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<h2 id="Introduction">Introduction</h2>

<p>
This is the reference manual for the Go programming language as it was for
language version 1.17, in October 2021, before the introduction of generics.
It is provided for historical interest.
The current reference manual can be found <a href="/doc/go_spec.html">here</a>.

For Go 1.23, it defaults to `winsymlink=1`.
Previous versions default to `winsymlink=0`.

On Windows, [EvalSymlinks] no longer tries to normalize
volumes to drive letters, which was not always even possible.
This behavior is controlled by the `winreadlinkvolume` setting.
For Go 1.23, it defaults to `winreadlinkvolume=1`.

	}

	// Check that swig has a new enough version.
	// See https://golang.org/issue/22858.
	out, err := exec.Command(swig, "-version").CombinedOutput()
	if err != nil {
		t.Skipf("failed to get swig version:%s\n%s", err, string(out))
	}

	re := regexp.MustCompile(`[vV]ersion +(\d+)([.]\d+)?([.]\d+)?`)
	matches := re.FindSubmatch(out)
	if matches == nil {
		// Can't find version number; hope for the best.

to drive letters, which was not always even possible.
This behavior is controlled by the `winreadlinkvolume` setting.
For Go 1.23, it defaults to `winreadlinkvolume=1`.