What's New in GoLand

The Reformat code option, which lets you run gofmt and GoLand’s own formatter on save, is now enabled by default.

This change might take some users by surprise, so we’ve added a notification that will be displayed once in every project. You can turn it off by clicking Don’t show again.

You can click Edit actions on save, and the IDE will open Settings | Tools | Actions on save where you can manage the settings.

The Show Usages feature has been improved – you can now turn on the source code preview for a found usage by clicking the square icon.

Interfaces in Go have two components, a type and a value of that type. For an interface to be nil, both of these components must be nil.

If you have an interface with a value containing a nil pointer to an int, that interface will not be equal to nil, because the inner type is not nil (it’s *int). This can be confusing.

To detect such cases, we changed how interfaces are represented in the Variables tab of the Debug tool window. For instance, if you have an interface with inner type *int, and value nil, it will be shown like this: {interface{} | *int} *int(nil).

GoLand no longer displays the full package name in the debugger’s Variables tab. You will now see only the last part of the full name.

If object types take up too much space in the Variables tab, you can right-click in the tab area and deactivate the Show Types option in the menu that appears. You can turn it back on by selecting it again in the same menu.

Starting from this version, GoLand bundles Delve built for the ARM64 architecture and debugging on Linux ARM now works out of the box.

We’ve also improved error messaging when GoLand doesn’t bundle Delve for specific architectures. The IDE now explicitly tells you what’s wrong.

GoLand now has a quick-fix for an inspection that warns you about incorrect formatting of error strings: “Error strings should not be capitalized or end with punctuation”. Press Alt + Enter, and GoLand will suggest fixing the string format.

If you have written an exported function that returns an unexported type, GoLand will suggest a quick-fix to export that type.

We’ve added an inspection that highlights the usages of context.TODO(). You can enable it in Settings | Editor | Inspections. The inspection will serve as a reminder to change context.TODO() if it was unclear which Context should have been used at the time of writing.

We’ve added the //TODO implement me comment for the templates generated when you use the Implement Methods action. These special comments are highlighted in the editor, indexed, and listed in the TODO tool window, allowing them to serve as reminders about unimplemented methods.

The Checkout and Rebase onto Current action allows you to check out the selected branch and rebase it on top of a branch that is currently checked out. Now it’s available for remote branches.

Sometimes, you may have several commits that are ready to ship while others are still works in progress. In such cases, you may want to push only the ones you are confident about.

You can now push commits up to the one you have selected in the Log tab of the Git tool window. To do so, pick the commit you want to stop at, right-click on it to call the context menu, and select the Push All up to Here action.

We’ve made the VCS settings more discoverable and structured. The Version Control node in Settings now lists all the available settings.

You can visualize the difference between the two snapshots on a flame graph. Press Shift twice and type "Open Profiler Snapshots" in the search bar. Open a snapshot from the list, repeat the same actions, and open another.

Then click the Compare With Baseline button in a tab of one of the snapshots. From the menu, select the snapshot that you want to compare against. A separate Diff tab will open with the results of the comparison.

GoLand’s terminal supports the new ConPTY API on Windows. We addressed several problems users were having with the old implementation, which was based on winpty, and enabled PTY on Windows by default.

With ConPTY, 24-bit colors are supported in the built-in terminal.

Previously, when you were typing characters in GoLand’s terminal while working on a remote machine, the IDE couldn’t display the characters as fast as it would on a local machine because of latency.

This is no longer an issue because we’ve introduced typeahead support. Our built-in terminal predicts text modifications and instantly displays them in light grey.

We’ve added the ability to display the Aggregate view for a range of cells. Select the cell range you want to see the view for, then right-click and select Show Aggregate View. One aggregate value is displayed in the status bar, and you can choose which value you’d like it to be.

If you split the editor and open the same table, the data editors will be completely independent. You can set different filtering and ordering options for them.

We have a new inspection for boolean expressions in WHERE and HAVING clauses.

If the expression doesn’t seem to be explicitly boolean, we highlight it in yellow and warn you before you run such a query.

It works for ClickHouse, Couchbase, Db2, H2, Apache Hive/Spark, MySQL/MariaDB, Redshift, SQLite, and Vertica. In all other databases, this will be highlighted as an error.

In the data editor, you can select several values and navigate to the corresponding data.

GoLand detects column types in CSV files, and now you can sort data by a numeric value. Before, data in columns was treated as text and sorting did not work as expected.

Code completion now works when filtering data in MongoDB collections.

You can set fonts for the data editor separately from the rest of the IDE. To choose the font, go to Settings | Tools | Database | Data views | Use custom font.