Recently Go has released new version 1.24.0. It contains an exciting upgrade for me: support for FIPS-based encryptions.

Upgrade

Let’s install:

go install golang.org/dl/go1.24.0@latest
go1.24.0 download

By default, Go will also add the new binary to path, but I don’t want to. I have put my own directory in ${HOME}.local/bin.

export NEW_GOBIN=`which go1.24.0`
export GOBIN=${HOME}.local/bin/go
rm -f ${HOME}.local/bin/go
ln -s $NEW_GOBIN $GOBIN

Removing

If you don’t want the old Go, just list the folder in your $GOMODCACHE/golang.org, just delete the toolchainxxx with the old version number.

If you have a Go project, on the root project run:

go get -u ./...
go mod tidy

And commit the changes to GIT.