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-<h2 id="introduction">DRAFT RELEASE NOTES — Introduction to Go 1.17</h2>
+<h2 id="introduction">Introduction to Go 1.17</h2>
<p>
- <strong>
- Go 1.17 is not yet released. These are work-in-progress
- release notes. Go 1.17 is expected to be released in August 2021.
- </strong>
+ The latest Go release, version 1.17, arrives six months after <a href="/doc/go1.16">Go 1.16</a>.
+ Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries.
+ As always, the release maintains the Go 1 <a href="/doc/go1compat">promise of compatibility</a>.
+ We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
</p>
<h2 id="language">Changes to the language</h2>