Go 1.4 release announced

Significant innovations for developers in the language:

• The initial stack of gorouting threads is now 2Kb versus 8Kb in version 1.3.
• Improved Android port . Now you can build .so libraries, not just executable binaries.
• The utility go generate is designed to generate code at the compilation stage. Generating methods for private types from generic code is a special case of a possible use of go generate.
• A set of professional tools not included in the box now lives on golang.org/x/, for example .
• Backward compatibility is guaranteed.
• The speed increased not significantly.

News for researchers and contributors:

• The runtime is almost entirely (scavenger for example) rewritten from C to Go.
• The scavenger has become fully precise.
• The call stack is now sliding , not segmented (the Rust developers chose the same path).
• Development migrates from Mercurial to Git and from codereview to gerrit.
• The repository moves from code.google.com to github.com/golang/go