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

		t.Skip("skipping root only test on a non-root builder")
	}
	if runtime.GOOS == "linux" {
		if _, err := os.Stat("/etc/alpine-release"); err == nil {
			t.Skip("skipping failing test on alpine - go.dev/issue/19938")
		}
	}

	// Launch some threads in C.
	const cts = 5
	C.trial(cts)
	defer C.cleanup()

	vs := []struct {
		call           string
		fn             func() error

Setting the `GOROOT_FINAL` environment variable no longer has an effect
([#62047](https://go.dev/issue/62047)).
Distributions that install the `go` command to a location other than
`$GOROOT/bin/go` should install a symlink instead of relocating
or copying the `go` binary.

### Vet {#vet}

The `go vet` subcommand now includes the
[stdversion](https://beta.pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis/passes/stdversion)

  - type: textarea
    id: what-did-you-do
    attributes:
      label: "What did you do?"
      description: "If possible, provide a recipe for reproducing the error. A complete runnable program is good. A link on [go.dev/play](https://go.dev/play) is best."
    validations:
      required: true

  - type: textarea
    id: actual-behavior
    attributes:
      label: "What did you see happen?"

  - type: textarea
    id: what-did-you-do
    attributes:
      label: "What did you do?"
      description: "If possible, provide a recipe for reproducing the error. A complete runnable program is good. A link on [go.dev/play](https://go.dev/play) is better. A failing unit test is the best."
    validations:
      required: true
  - type: textarea
    id: actual-behavior
    attributes:
      label: "What did you see happen?"
    validations:

It is provided for historical interest.
The current reference manual can be found <a href="/doc/go_spec.html">here</a>.
For more information and other documents, see <a href="/">go.dev</a>.
</p>

<p>
Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming
in mind. It is strongly typed and garbage-collected and has explicit
support for concurrent programming.  Programs are constructed from

pkg syscall (freebsd-386), type Dirent struct, Fileno uint32
pkg syscall (freebsd-386), type Dirent struct, Namlen uint8
pkg syscall (freebsd-386), type Stat_t struct, Blksize uint32
pkg syscall (freebsd-386), type Stat_t struct, Dev uint32
pkg syscall (freebsd-386), type Stat_t struct, Gen uint32
pkg syscall (freebsd-386), type Stat_t struct, Ino uint32
pkg syscall (freebsd-386), type Stat_t struct, Lspare int32

		fm: 0777 | fs.ModeSymlink,
	}, {
		// character device node.
		h: &Header{
			Name:     "dev/null",
			Mode:     0666,
			Size:     0,
			ModTime:  time.Unix(1360578951, 0),
			Typeflag: TypeChar,
		},
		fm: 0666 | fs.ModeDevice | fs.ModeCharDevice,
	}, {
		// block device node.
		h: &Header{
			Name:     "dev/sda",
			Mode:     0660,
			Size:     0,
			ModTime:  time.Unix(1360578954, 0),

				ModTime:  time.Unix(1314603082, 0),
			}, nil},
			testWrite{"", 0, nil},

			testClose{nil},
		},
	}, {
		// The truncated test file was produced using these commands:
		//   dd if=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=16384 > /tmp/16gig.txt
		//   tar -b 1 -c -f- /tmp/16gig.txt | dd bs=512 count=8 > writer-big.tar
		file: "testdata/writer-big.tar",
		tests: []testFnc{
			testHeader{Header{
				Typeflag: TypeReg,

<p>
This is the reference manual for the Go programming language.
The pre-Go1.18 version, without generics, can be found
<a href="/doc/go1.17_spec.html">here</a>.
For more information and other documents, see <a href="/">go.dev</a>.
</p>

<p>
Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming
in mind. It is strongly typed and garbage-collected and has explicit
support for concurrent programming.  Programs are constructed from