--- title: Go 1.26 Quietly Fixed the Things That Were Actually Annoying description: Go 1.26 focuses on practical improvements over flashy features. The headline change is Green Tea GC becoming the default, promising 10–40% reduction in GC... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/go-1-26-quietly-fixed-the-things-that-were-actually-annoying-eei6x0bgf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Go 1.26 Quietly Fixed the Things That Were Actually Annoying | daily.dev og:description: Go 1.26 focuses on practical improvements over flashy features. The headline change is Green Tea GC becoming the default, promising 10–40% reduction in GC... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/go-1-26-quietly-fixed-the-things-that-were-actually-annoying-eei6x0bgf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EeI6x0bGf.png og:image:alt: Go 1.26 Quietly Fixed the Things That Were Actually Annoying og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Go 1.26 Quietly Fixed the Things That Were Actually Annoying **[Towards Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev)** · 7 min read · 106 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Go 1.26 focuses on practical improvements over flashy features. The headline change is Green Tea GC becoming the default, promising 10–40% reduction in GC overhead for production services with no code changes required. Other notable additions include: `new()` accepting expressions for cleaner pointer-to-optional-value patterns, a rewritten `go fix` tool with automated modernizers and a source-level inliner for library migration paths, faster cgo calls, heap base address randomization for security hardening, an experimental goroutine leak profiler, and three new standard library packages (crypto/hpke, simd/archsimd, runtime/secret). The post also notes removal of `cmd/doc`/`go tool doc` in favor of `go doc`, and pprof defaulting to flame graphs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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