Gopls release v0.24.0 (expected Sep 2026)

In this release:

• commits
• issues closed

Key features are described below.

Gopls now supports v3.18 of the Language Server Protocol.

Configuration changes

The memoryLimit setting allows clients to set a soft memory limit on the gopls process using runtime/debug.SetMemoryLimit. This feature is experimental. It may permit users to trade more CPU for lower steady state memory usage; but it may cause GC thrashing if set too low.

The gopls server now enforces SemanticTokensClientCapabilities fields: TokenTypes and TokenModifiers. The semantic token types and modifiers gopls returns are now limited to what these lists contain, so it’s important that clients fully list their semantic token capabilities. The gopls UI settings semanticTokenTypes and semanticTokenModifiers can still be used by users to further restrict these lists.

Web-based features

Editing features

Gopls now supports the Hover request in Go assembly files: hovering over a symbol reports the signature and doc comment of its Go declaration.

Gopls now supports the textDocument/documentHighlight request in Go assembly files: all occurrences of the symbol, label, or machine register under the cursor are highlighted within the enclosing TEXT function, with definitions classified as writes and references as reads.

Analysis features

ptrtoerror analyzer

This new analyzer reports inconsistent use of a named type E and its pointer type *E as an error.

slicesclip modernizer

The new slicesclip modernizer suggests replacing a full slice expression of the form x[:len(x):len(x)], which clips the capacity of a slice to its length, with the simpler and more readable slices.Clip(x), added in Go 1.21.

Code transformation features