• Go 1.25.1 and Go 1.24.7 are released
• 🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe: Berlin 2025 videos online
• ⏱️ Blog: Testing Time (and other asynchronicities) by Damien Neil
  • Video: Testing Time (and other asynchronous code)
• 👖 gofumpt v0.9.0 released
  • Video: Go's Naked Returns: Be afraid!
• 🗳️ Blog: Building Bulletproof Leader Election in Kubernetes Operators: A Deep Dive by Ishai Shor
• Proposals
  • Accepted: deprecate x/net/context package
  • 👈 Likely accept: spec: expression to create pointer to simple types
• Jonathan is available for fractional Gopher work!
• Lightning Round
  • github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.7.6 released
  • 👕 Gopher themed Hawaiian shirt designs
  • New "official" fork of Go YAML library

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• GopherCon 2026 location poll
• GopherCon India
• GOMAXPROCS
• Course: "Introducing Command Line Applications in Go"
• SQLite benchmarks

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  • 🇷🇺 Let's GoConf, Sept 12 @ Moscow, Russia
• GopherJS 1.19 with generics released
  • Interview with Grant Nelson, Episode 53
• Proposals
  • Accepted: x/tools/go/analysis/structtag: stricter JSON tag checking
    • Previous mention: Episode 117
  • New: errors: As with type parameters
  • New: x/net/context: deprecate package or symbols in package, and potentially tag/delete
• Lightning Round
  • 🐐 GoAT: Go ASCII TOOL
  • 🍰 Blog: Fun With Golang Slices by Monique Mudama