Recommended update for go1.21

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2024:0768-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5

An update that has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for go1.21 fixes the following issues:

  • go1.21.7 (released 2024-02-06) includes fixes to the compiler, the go command, the runtime, and the crypto/x509 package. (bsc#1212475)

  • go#63209 runtime: "fatal: morestack on g0" on amd64 after upgrade to Go 1.21

  • go#63768 runtime: pinner.Pin doesn't panic when it says it will
  • go#64497 cmd/go: flag modcacherw does not take effect in the target package
  • go#64761 staticlockranking builders failing on release branches on LUCI
  • go#64935 runtime: "traceback: unexpected SPWRITE function runtime.systemstack"
  • go#65023 x/tools/go/analysis/unitchecker,slices: TestVetStdlib failing due to vet errors in panic tests
  • go#65053 cmd/compile: //go:build file version ignored when calling generic fn which has related type params
  • go#65323 crypto: rollback BoringCrypto fips-20220613 update
  • go#65351 cmd/go: go generate fails silently when run on a package in a nested workspace module
  • go#65380 crypto/x509: TestIssue51759 consistently failing on gotip-darwin-amd64_10.15 LUCI builder
  • go#65449 runtime/trace: frame pointer unwinding crash on arm64 during async preemption

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2024-768=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • go1.21-doc-1.21.7-1.24.1
    • go1.21-1.21.7-1.24.1

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