# Go 1.20 is released!

**URL:** <https://forum.devtalk.com/t/go-1-20-is-released/94557>\
**Category:** Backend Official News\
**Tags:** newsbot, go, official-news\
**Created:** [1 February 2023 21:00 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/go-1-20-is-released/94557 "2023-02-01T21:00:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [1 February 2023 21:00 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/go-1-20-is-released/94557/1 "2023-02-01T21:00:54Z")

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A new [Go](https://devtalk.com/go) blog post/announcement has been posted!

> [@](#):
>
> ```
> <div class="Article" data-slug="/blog/go1.20">
> 
> <h1 class="small"><a href="/blog/">The Go Blog</a></h1>
> 
> <h1>Go 1.20 is released!</h1>
>   
> <p class="author">
> Robert Griesemer, on behalf of the Go team<br>
> 1 February 2023
> </p>
>   
> <p>Today the Go team is thrilled to release Go 1.20,
> 
> ```
> 
> which you can get by visiting the [download page](https://forum.devtalk.com/dl/).
> 
> Go 1.20 benefited from an extended development phase, made possible by earlier broad testing and improved overall stability of the code base.
> 
> We’re particularly excited to launch a preview of [profile-guided optimization](https://forum.devtalk.com/doc/pgo) (PGO), which enables the compiler to perform application- and workload-specific optimizations based on run-time profile information. Providing a profile to `go build` enables the compiler to speed up typical applications by around 3–4%, and we expect future ...

Get the full details here: [Go 1.20 is released! - The Go Programming Language](https://go.dev/blog/go1.20)