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• 🎂 Happy birthday, Go! • Go was announced 14 years ago (https://opensource.googleblog.com/2009/11/hey-ho-lets-go.html) • Watch Russ Cox’s intro video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwoWei-GAPo)

• Go 1.21.4 & 1.20.11 released (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/4tU8LZfBFkY) with important Windows security fixes • Proposals • Make deadcode a supported command (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63501) • Memory arenas on hold indefinitely (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51317#issuecomment-1701848443)

• Releases • 🦍 Gorilla v1.8.1 (https://github.com/gorilla/mux/releases/tag/v1.8.1) • sqlc v1.23.0 (https://github.com/sqlc-dev/sqlc/releases/tag/v1.23.0) • Related: Announcing sqlc-gen-go (https://sqlc.dev/posts/2023/11/06/publishing-sqlc-gen-go/)

• sarama 1.42.0 (https://github.com/IBM/sarama/releases/tag/v1.42.0)

• AWS SDK for Go Aligns with Go Release Policy on Supported Runtimes (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/aws-sdk-for-go-aligns-with-go-release-policy-on-supported-runtimes/) (Bye-bye Go 1.5 support) • Around the community • Reddit: What Go-related content creators do you follow? (https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/17jzy0n/which_gorelated_content_creators_do_you_follow/%20) • Awesome Go (https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go) • On Rands Slack: discussion about Close() vs GC (https://rands-leadership.slack.com/archives/CJZF8ATBN/p1698892741042859) • Request an invitation to the Rands leadership slack (https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/)

• Go Case Studies (https://go.dev/solutions/case-studies)

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