<h2 id="runtime">Runtime</h2>
-<p><!-- CL 232862 -->
- Go now retries system calls that return <code>EINTR</code>. This
- became more common in Go 1.14 with the addition of asynchronous
- preemption, but is now handled transparently.
+<p><!-- CL 221779 -->
+ If <code>panic</code> is invoked with a value whose type is derived from any
+ of: <code>bool</code>, <code>complex64</code>, <code>complex128</code>, <code>float32</code>, <code>float64</code>,
+ <code>int</code>, <code>int8</code>, <code>int16</code>, <code>int32</code>, <code>int64</code>, <code>string</code>,
+ <code>uint</code>, <code>uint8</code>, <code>uint16</code>, <code>uint32</code>, <code>uint64</code>, <code>uintptr</code>,
+ then the value will be printed, instead of just its address.
+ Previously, this was only true for values of exactly these types.
+</p>
+
+<p><!-- CL 228900 -->
+ On a Unix system, if the <code>kill</code> command
+ or <code>kill</code> system call is used to send
+ a <code>SIGSEGV</code>, <code>SIGBUS</code>,
+ or <code>SIGFPE</code> signal to a Go program, and if the signal
+ is not being handled via
+ <a href="/pkg/os/signal/#Notify"><code>os/signal.Notify</code></a>,
+ the Go program will now reliably crash with a stack trace.
+ In earlier releases the behavior was unpredictable.
</p>
<p><!-- CL 221182, CL 229998 -->
counts, and has lower worst-case latency.
</p>
-<p>
-TODO
+<p><!-- CL 216401 -->
+ Converting a small integer value into an interface value no longer
+ causes allocation.
+</p>
+
+<p><!-- CL 216818 -->
+ Non-blocking receives on closed channels now perform as well as
+ non-blocking receives on open channels.
</p>
<h2 id="compiler">Compiler</h2>
which <code>Timeout</code> returns <code>true</code> although a
deadline has not been exceeded.
</p>
+
+ <p><!-- CL 232862 -->
+ Packages <code>os</code> and <code>net</code> now automatically
+ retry system calls that fail with <code>EINTR</code>. Previously
+ this led to spurious failures, which became more common in Go
+ 1.14 with the addition of asynchronous preemption. Now this is
+ handled transparently.
+ </p>
</dd>
</dl>
<dl id="reflect"><dt><a href="/pkg/reflect/">reflect</a></dt>
<dd>
<p><!-- CL 228902 -->
- Package reflect now disallows accessing methods of all
+ Package <code>reflect</code> now disallows accessing methods of all
non-exported fields, whereas previously it allowed accessing
those of non-exported, embedded fields. Code that relies on the
previous behavior should be updated to instead access the
<dl id="pkg-runtime"><dt><a href="/pkg/runtime/">runtime</a></dt>
<dd>
- <p><!-- CL 221779 -->
- If <code>panic</code> is invoked with a value whose type is derived from any
- of: <code>bool</code>, <code>complex64</code>, <code>complex128</code>, <code>float32</code>, <code>float64</code>,
- <code>int</code>, <code>int8</code>, <code>int16</code>, <code>int32</code>, <code>int64</code>, <code>string</code>,
- <code>uint</code>, <code>uint8</code>, <code>uint16</code>, <code>uint32</code>, <code>uint64</code>, <code>uintptr</code>,
- then the value will be printed, instead of just its address.
- Previously, this was only true for values of exactly these types.
- </p>
-
- <p><!-- CL -->
- On a Unix system, if the <code>kill</code> command
- or <code>kill</code> system call is used to send
- a <code>SIGSEGV</code>, <code>SIGBUS</code>,
- or <code>SIGFPE</code> signal to a Go program, and if the signal
- is not being handled via
- <a href="/pkg/os/signal/#Notify"><code>os/signal.Notify</code></a>,
- the Go program will now reliably crash with a stack trace.
- In earlier releases the behavior was unpredictable.
- </p>
-
<p><!-- CL 216557 -->
Several functions, including
<a href="/pkg/runtime/#ReadMemStats"><code>ReadMemStats</code></a>
<a href="/pkg/runtime/#GoroutineProfile"><code>GoroutineProfile</code></a>,
no longer block if a garbage collection is in progress.
</p>
-
- <p><!-- CL 216401 -->
- Converting small integer values into an interface value no
- longer causes allocation.
- </p>
-
- <p><!-- CL 216818 -->
- Non-blocking receives on closed channels now perform as well as
- non-blocking receives on open channels.
- </p>
</dd>
</dl>