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Go 1.26 has been officially released with language refinements, performance improvements, and new tooling.
•The built-in new function now accepts an expression as its operand, allowing initialization like new(int64(300)) instead of separate variable and pointer declarations
•Generic types can now reference themselves in their own type parameter list, simplifying complex data structures
•The Green Tea garbage collector is now enabled by default, and cgo overhead has been reduced by approximately 30%
•The go fix command was rewritten using the Go analysis framework and includes dozens of modernizers that suggest safe code upgrades
•Three new packages are added: crypto/hpke, crypto/mlkem/mlkemtest, and testing/cryptotest
•Experimental additions include a simd/archsimd package, runtime/secret for secure memory erasure, and a goroutine leak profiler
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