--- title: Best Socket posts — April 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Socket posts from April 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/socketdev/best-of/2025/04 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/socketdev/best-of/2025/04 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Socket posts — April 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Socket posts from April 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Socket — April 2025 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/go-support-is-now-generally-available-rst4yv2tp "Go Support Is Now Generally Available") Article Socket · 1y Go Support Is Now Generally Available Socket's support for Go is now generally available, providing automatic scanning and in-depth code analysis for Go projects. This release extends Socket's comprehensive scanning capabilities, which now include JavaScript, Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, Kotlin, and .NET. The initiative aims to guard against supply chain attacks by examining actual code rather than just metadata, thus detecting hidden backdoors and obfuscated behaviors. 75 1 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/python-tools-are-quickly-adopting-the-new-pylock-toml-standa--ez58iakmu "Python Tools Are Quickly Adopting the New pylock.toml Standa...") Article Socket · 1y Python Tools Are Quickly Adopting the New pylock.toml Standa... The new pylock.toml lock file format, introduced by PEP 751, is rapidly being adopted by Python tools such as pip, pip-audit, and PDM. This format aims to enhance reproducibility, security, and interoperability by standardizing the recording of exact dependency versions, hashes, and install metadata. The new 'pip lock' command will generate PEP 751-compliant lock files, and pip-audit can now scan these files for vulnerabilities. Additionally, foundational libraries are updating to support the new markers introduced by pylock.toml, signaling a significant step forward for unified and secure Python environments. 23 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-design-for-github-pr-comments-vrgktbck1 "A New Design for GitHub PR Comments") Article Socket · 1y A New Design for GitHub PR Comments Socket has redesigned its GitHub pull request comments to provide clear, actionable security insights without adding noise. The PR comments, which now include detailed security scores and contextually relevant information, help developers assess dependencies and address security risks directly in their workflow. The new design features two types of comments: overview comments for dependency changes and alert comments for security policy violations. 15 4. 4 [](https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-overview-in-our-dashboard-ombnmxpjh "A New Overview in our Dashboard") Article Socket · 1y A New Overview in our Dashboard Socket has updated its dashboard, introducing an Overview page with new visualizations to display security insights for repositories and dependencies. The redesigned page uses charts to highlight repositories with alerts, categorize dependencies by package scores and ecosystems, and summarize alerts by severity and category. This provides users with a quick understanding of security status and necessary actions. 10 5. 5 [](https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-net-support-in-socket-lqatfjub0 "Introducing .NET Support in Socket") Article Socket · 1y Introducing .NET Support in Socket Socket has announced public beta support for .NET, offering enhanced security and supply chain protection for developers using C# and the .NET ecosystem. This includes deep package inspection, automatic detection of risky updates, and improved SBOM accuracy. The integration aims to provide seamless security without disrupting workflows. 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