🕸️ With great power comes great responsibility, or why not to use the linkname directive 🔗
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• Proposals

• Accepted: require Linux 3.17 kernel for Go 1.24)

• Previous discussion: Episode 61)

• Accepted: add encoding.AppendText and encoding.AppendBinary)

• Previous discussion: Episode 62)

• Accepted: add HostLayout directive type)

• 🪟 Accepted: Normalize line endings in example output comparisons)

• Conference updates

• 🇮🇱 GopherCon Isreael CFP open until June 30)

• 🔒 gosec v2.20.0 released)

• Included in golangci-lint v1.58.2)

• See also: govulncheck)

• Open issue: lock down future uses of linkname)

• Related blog post: Accessing Private Functions, Methods, Types and Variables in Go) by Yarden Laifenfeld

• Thanks to Miki for filling in!

• His new book, Effective Go Recipes)

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