PROPOSALS AND IN BRIEF:

• The core Go team's Alan Donovan proposes adding a NewEntrypoint API to the testing package to simplify calling a function in a child process.

• x ? y : z-style conditionals have been rejected in Go before, but a proposal floats a (if cond then expr else expr) approach.

• 🔒 A senior security engineer argues net.IP.IsPrivate is widely misused as a security primitive, driving recurring SSRF CVEs across the ecosystem.

• 🔎 GitHub CodeQL's pull-request scans now run incrementally for Go (and C/C++).

• 🇪🇺 GopherCon Europe 2026 is taking place next week in Germany.

• There's an update on the idea of adding url.MustParse and a generic must.Do to Go.

📄 Reading Wi-Fi Data from Go on macOS – Working around Apple removing airport with a signed Swift helper embedded in the author's macwifi package. Jaison Erick

📄 Discovering and Navigating //go:linkname Directives – How the directive aliases symbols across packages, plus a CLI to map its use. Marin Atanasov Nikolov

📄 Special Cases in Go – "Go tries to be a simple language, but it doesn’t always succeed." Nick Tobey

• Gost-DOM 0.12 – Headless browser that simulates browser environments for TDD. Here's why you might use it and how to get started – the API is pretty nice.

• sx 0.6 – The Go-powered network scanner adds macOS support.

• Restic 0.19.0 – Popular Go-powered backup program.

• Ginkgo 2.30.0 – The testing framework.

🤖 Code review has four jobs. AI took the first — what happens to the other three? AgentField's open-source breakdown → Read the post.