For the time poor ARM fans in the room, I’ve updated my tarball distributions to Go 1.1. These tarballs are built using the same misc/dist tool that makes the official builds on the golang.org download page.

You can find the link at the Unofficial ARM tarballs for Go item at the top of this page. Please address any bug reports or comments to me directly.

There are also a number of other ways to obtain Go 1.1 appearing on the horizon. For example, if you are using Debian Sid, Go 1.1 is available now. This version has been imported into Ubuntu Saucy (which will become 13.10), although at this time it remains in the proposed channel.

Rest assured I will not be shy in announcing when Go 1.1 has wider availability in Ubuntu.