See the <a href="/security">security policy</a> for more details.
</p>
+<h2 id="go1.8">go1.8 (released 2017/02/16)</h2>
+
+<p>
+Go 1.8 is a major release of Go.
+Read the <a href="/doc/go1.8">Go 1.8 Release Notes</a> for more information.
+</p>
+
<h2 id="go1.7">go1.7 (released 2016/08/15)</h2>
<p>
ul li { margin: 0.5em 0; }
</style>
-<h2 id="introduction">DRAFT RELEASE NOTES - Introduction to Go 1.8</h2>
-
-<p><strong>
-Go 1.8 is not yet released. These are work-in-progress
-release notes. Go 1.8 is expected to be released in February 2017.
-</strong></p>
+<h2 id="introduction">Introduction to Go 1.8</h2>
<p>
The latest Go release, version 1.8, arrives six months after <a href="go1.7">Go 1.7</a>.
Change to the directory that will be its parent
and make sure the <code>go</code> directory does not exist.
Then clone the repository and check out the latest release tag
-(<code class="versionTag">go1.7.4</code>, for example):</p>
+(<code class="versionTag">go1.8</code>, for example):</p>
<pre>
$ git clone https://go.googlesource.com/go
<a href="//groups.google.com/group/golang-announce">golang-announce</a>
mailing list.
Each announcement mentions the latest release tag, for instance,
-<code class="versionTag">go1.7.4</code>.
+<code class="versionTag">go1.8</code>.
</p>
<p>