Russ Cox

No change in consensus, so **[accepted](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#accepted)**. 🎉 This issue now tracks the work of implementing the proposal. — rsc for the proposal review group

Various users reported exec hangs against earlier Go versions that the fix to #56784 should fix. I'd like to include this fix in the _January_ point releases (not December), to...

Updated link to design doc: https://go.dev/design/57001-gotoolchain.

I'm not sure about that. What I hope will be a common mode of usage is that you install some update-aware Go toolchain on your machine and then from that...

I spoke to @ianlancetaylor about his concerns. For most commands, you can always run `go version` to see what version you are going to get in the next command. I...

@dominikh > I think the combination of auto-upgrading and not allowing old toolchains to build new code will change the Go ecosystem to either no longer support multiple versions of...

@zikaeroh, Alpine should not have problems running standard Go distributions starting in Go 1.20. I am not sure about NixOS. The only thing it should need is a libc.so.6 for...

@zikaeroh > This pattern seems common enough; x/tools and x/tools/gopls both set go 1.18, but in actuality test and support versions back to Go 1.16. It seems like this setup...

Regarding Linux distributions setting GOTOOLCHAIN=local by default (which I think would be fine), I'm curious whether they apply similar rules to rustup or nvm. Does anyone know?

This proposal has been added to the [active column](https://go.dev/s/proposal-status#active) of the proposals project and will now be reviewed at the weekly proposal review meetings. — rsc for the proposal review...