Go 1.18 version released

Golang team at Google released Go 1.18 version on 15-03-2022.

If Go is already installed in your machine and to try Go 1.18 version use below go get command.

>go install golang.org/dl/go1.18@latest
>go1.18 download

Now we can use Go 1.18 language version by using go1.18

>go1.18 version

go version go1.18 windows/amd64

Major Changes in Go 1.18 release #

Please go through the release notes to understand the changes happened as part of Go 1.18 release.

https://go.dev/doc/go1.18

Download Go 1.18 binary #

To download Go 1.18 binary and source distributions use the below link. https://go.dev/dl/#go1.18

To compile Go language from source use a Git clone, and checkout Go 1.18

> git checkout go1.18