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GOPLS FIXES WINDOWS CRLF OFFSET DRIFT, REVIEW REPO CATCHES UP ON FORMATTING

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racequite Russ Cox Peter Weinberger
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racequite @racequite 2 cited Russ Cox @rsc 1 cited Peter Weinberger @pjweinbgo 1 cited

The Go tools team patched a subtle but pervasive bug where CRLF line endings in assembly files threw identifier offsets out of sync, breaking accurate source navigation on Windows.

gopls/internal/util/asm was advancing source offsets using stripped token lengths, causing identifier positions to drift left by one byte for every CRLF line [1]. The fix switches to raw line lengths from bytes.SplitSeq, keeping offsets accurate across platforms. In parallel, the review repo finally aligned its copyright headers with the convention change applied elsewhere in the ecosystem [2]. Two smaller fixes landed: the refactor/satisfy tool now handles invalid composite literal types without panicking [3], and gomobile switched to portable slash-separated asset paths instead of Windows backslashes in AAR and APK archives [4]. These are the kinds of quiet, cross-platform correctness improvements that prevent hours of debugging downstream.

$ ls golang/reviews/ # the step-back reads

the week in review FIPS 140 crypto fixes land across SHA-3, TLS 1.2, HKDF the month in review Go toolchain patches three CVEs as gopls hits v0.24.0
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Quick answers

What shipped in Go on August 17, 2026?
The Go tools team patched a subtle but pervasive bug where CRLF line endings in assembly files threw identifier offsets out of sync, breaking accurate source navigation on Windows. In total, 4 commits landed.
Who contributed to Go on August 17, 2026?
3 developers shipped this update, including Russ Cox, racequite, and Peter Weinberger.
What were the notable Go updates?
gopls/internal/util/asm: preserve offsets in CRLF files, all: remove double space in copyright headers, and refactor/satisfy: fix panic on invalid types.
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$ log @golang --recent

RISC-V Zfa assembly support, and a faster archsimd unifier 9 shipped Plan 9 Mkdir race fixed, riscv64 gets clobberdead mode 7 shipped gopls closes a CVE on dash-prefixed module paths, and the exp collections get a Set 52 shipped Compiler stops lifting unsafe.Pointer arithmetic 35 shipped

$ log --all # elsewhere on the wire

Agent Security Quiet day in agent security as guard coverage reaches four clients Alignment & Post-training verl defaults Ascend RL mode, open-instruct unblocks SFT packing

$ ls showcases/

Safety Evals AI Red Teaming Agent Security Interpretability Alignment & Post-training

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