Go 1.4 release announced

Significant innovations for developers in the language:

• The initial gorouting thread stack is now 2Kb versus 8Kb in version 1.3.
• Improved Android port . Now you can compile .so libraries, not just executable binaries.
• Introduced go generate utility designed to generate code at the compilation stage. Generation of methods for private types from generic code is a special case of the 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 guaranteed.
• The speed has not increased significantly.

News for researchers and contributors:

• runtime is almost completely (scavenger for example) rewritten from C to Go.
• The scavenger has become fully precise.
• The call stack is now sliding , rather than segmented (Rust developers went the same way).
• Development migrates from Mercurial to Git and from codereview to gerrit.
• Repository moves from code.google.com to github.com/golang/go