# Go 1.26 is released

DevFeed: [Go 1.26 is released](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/go-1-26-is-released-2357.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://go.dev/blog/go1.26>)

Author: Carlos Amedee, on behalf of the Go team

Published: 2026-02-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [The Go Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-go-blog.md>)

Topics: [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>)

Tags: [analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analysis.md>), [experiments](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experiments.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>)

## AI overview

Go 1.26 is released with language, performance, tooling, runtime, compiler, linker, and standard-library updates. Highlights include the Green Tea garbage collector enabled by default, lower cgo overhead, syntax and generic-type refinements, and opt-in experimental SIMD, secret-erasure, and goroutine-leak profiling features.

## Source excerpt

Go 1.26 adds a new garbage collector, cgo overhead reduction, experimental simd/archsimd package, experimental runtime/secret package, and more.