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• 🛡️ Security pre-release announcement • Go 1.21.4 and 1.20.11 coming on Tuesday, November 7 (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/ZLYrkKN4Bd4)

• Conferences • 🇮🇪 GopherCon Ireland (https://gophercon.ie/) yesterday • 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore (https://2023.gophercon.sg/) ongoing, yesterday and today • 🇬🇧 Fyne Conf (https://conf.fyne.io/) today • 🇦🇺 GopherCon AU (https://gophercon.com.au/), November 10-11 • 🇨🇳 GopherChina (http://gopherchina2023sh.bagevent.com/), November 19 • 🇮🇹 GoLab (https://golab.io/), Italy, November 19-21

• Proposals • Accepted: new package with unique.Handle (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62483) • Blog post: netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go (https://tailscale.com/blog/netaddr-new-ip-type-for-go/) by Brad Fitzpatrick

• ℹ️ New: Standardize -help output (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63659) • Alternate proposal: show the help when the –help/-h flag is passed (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27580)

• New: bytes: add Reader methods Buffered, Peek, and Discard (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63548) • Benchmarks: • On Hold: testing: add Keep, to force evaluation in benchmarks (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/61179) • Accepted: testing: add testing.B.Loop for iteration (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/61515)

• Blog post: Unmasking a Go HTML Parser Bug with Differential Fuzzing (https://mionskowski.pl/posts/unmasking-go-html-parser-bug/) by Maciej Mionskowski • Related project: radamsa (https://gitlab.com/akihe/radamsa), test case generator for fuzzing

• Discussion: “Real” Go projects that would be considered idiomatic (https://new.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/17kewuv/real_go_projects_that_would_be_considered/) • pex, a tool to make piping easier • On GitHub (http://github.com/josharian/pex) • Demo video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84e2zmZ9Dv8)

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