Go: Weekly Recap - HTTP/3 Testing & ARM64 SVE Assembly
The Go team made significant progress on HTTP/3 testing infrastructure and ARM64 SVE assembly support this week, alongside removing deprecated bzr version control support.
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Go.
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- Show: Go
- Published: 2026-04-13T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M20S
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This is your Go weekly recap for April 6th through 13th, 2026.
Zero pull requests were merged, with 30 additional commits this week.
The major development this week was substantial progress on HTTP/3 testing infrastructure. Nicholas Husin submitted three commits that add comprehensive HTTP/3 test support to the net/http package. The changes modify the test harness to run HTTP/3 tests by default alongside HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 tests, with failing…
In ARM64 development, Junyang Shao delivered two commits expanding SVE assembly support. The first adds register-with-index patterns like Z1.B[5] and P1[7]. The second introduces GP and SIMD register support, following Go's existing syntax where register widths are specified in opcodes rather than operands.
Several critical fixes were committed. Mark Freeman reverted UIR to version 3, citing the impracticality of frequent version bumps during active development. The team also fixed an AIX library initialization regression where libInit was incorrectly passing function descriptors instead of function pointers to…
Infrastructure changes included Michael Matloob's removal of bzr version control support, reflecting the deprecated status of Bazaar in…
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