Release notes

The following tables present a list of features introduced, bugs resolved, and other verified issues in GoLand 2026.2, 2026.2.1, 2026.2.1.1, 2026.2.2, 2026.2.2.1, 2026.2.0.1, 2026.2.3. To navigate to a desired category, use the table of contents on the right.

Feature

Ticket	Description
GO-7099	Add intention 'Join string literals'
GO-20157	Struct field alignment quickfix
GO-20158	Structs optimisation in Go Performance Optimisation tool window
GO-1690	Show compiler escape analysis results inline
GO-19859	Support Go 1.26 Experimental goroutineleak Profiler
GO-20640	Remove GoLand native modernizers
GO-20394	Function type inference in all assignment contexts for Go 1.27
GO-20246	Promoted field names as keys in struct composite literals for Go 1.27
GO-20125	GoLand Profiler: Entry point in the Terminal tool window

Usability Problem

Ticket	Description
GO-19565	Executable not set when several golangci-lint versions installed
GO-12308	Spellchecker should not report spelling errors in go.work.sum file

Task

Ticket	Description
GO-19779	Remove '#loc' references in inspection messages
GO-20269	Remove "Go version" dropdown from Build Tags settings
GO-20251	Remove Terraform promo badge
GO-20387	Struct layout optimization tool - polish and deferred items 1
GO-20390	Add debug logging to measure time consumption of every go fix run
GO-20392	Prototype: show go fix inspections in editor with "Syntax updates" severity
GO-20473	Shorten Go Performance Optimization description
GO-17775	New testing framework
GO-20197	GoLand Profiler: Logging
GO-20499	Add the Share feedback button to the main toolbar in EAP 26.2
GO-20543	Get rid of additional "GoLand Frontend Customization" plugin
GO-20528	Unbundle ML Completion Ranking plugins in GoLand
GO-20155	Escape analysis: logging to FUS
GO-20482	Welcome screen state for the Optimization tools TW
GO-20472	Struct optimization logging to FUS
GO-20638	GoFindUsagesTest starts find usages before highlighting finishes
GO-20585	Add "Hide All" action to Recent Profiles
GO-20618	Generate Go plugin lexers via the shared Ant build (JFlex 1.10.17)
GO-20619	Optimize the Go lexer: drop a per-token allocation and coalesce whitespace
GO-20133	GoLand Profiler: Align the tool window with mockups
GO-20525	Update Delve to 1.27 version
GO-20451	Struct optimization design review
GO-20675	Change Go Performance Optimization TW name
GO-20429	Integrate go fix to bulk Syntax updates analysis
GO-20530	Change Syntax update code vision logic
GO-20730	Logging for go fix inspections
GO-20256	Go SDK notification: change wording
GO-20531	Add Go fix to the pre-commit check
GO-20391	Collect FUS stats for go fix run time (aggregated per file session)
GO-20198	Escape Analysis: Align the UI with the mockups: escaping instances

Bug

Ticket	Description
GO-20796	Regression: Spurious "Build constraints exclude all the build files" in 2026.2.* on WSL
GO-20963	Go 1.27: the import "encoding/json/v2" is reported as excluded by build constraints and replaced with "encoding/json"
GO-20861	Go 1.27: IDE ignores GOEXPERIMENT flags that the toolchain enables by default
GO-13672	spellchecking: reports issue in go:generate lines
GO-20268	//go:build goX.Y version constraint checked against target setting instead of SDK binary version
GO-20264	Go LSP: Windows path to file URL conversion breaks workspace import
GO-20265	Go LSP: Fix LspGoDiagnosticRequestTest.fileOutsideSourceRoots on Windows
GO-16979	code example show with wrong format style
GO-20241	Version 2026.1 does not open coverage.out
GO-20412	'synchronized' modifier in VgoModulesRegistry causes a deadlock
GO-20445	Go fix throws exception when run on non-go module
GO-20307	Resolve may fail when the target package is known, but the symbol index is still empty
GO-20434	Performance regression in reference resolve: isIndexedStubMissing() deserializes full stub on every probe
GO-20455	go fix does not work on packages with a _test package
GO-20469	Some go fix quick fixes have wrong ranges
GO-20460	Go templates: builtin functions don't resolve / complete against Go 1.16+ SDK (printf, index, len, ...)
GO-20500	go fix quick fixes after the applied have stale positions
GO-20486	Escape analysis: no inlined calls reported
GO-20538	go fix integration not working on go tip SDKs
GO-20495	A file with two //go:build lines is still treated as part of the build
GO-20519	'New Project' pop-up shows without right-side buttons of inputs
GO-20520	Go for JetBrains Client plugin: com.intellij.java module conflict in remote development
GO-20584	Escape analysis: the analysis results don't clean between tab switches
GO-20614	Flaky GoSurveyPromoterStartupActivityTest due to Calendar seconds/milliseconds not zeroed
GO-20537	Escape analysis: support WSL2 projects
GO-20273	'stat /main.go: directory not found' when running Go Build configuration on file
GO-20674	"Go Performance Optimization" added to toolbar for non-Go project
GO-20567	Go fix: remove fmtappendf fix from the list of inspections
GO-20694	False-negative: generic method type parameter shadowing receiver type parameter
GO-20692	Debug fails with 'Cannot find the Delve executable for linux/amd64' on WSL (target or project)
GO-20666	Go Fix: respect exclusion in the in-editor mode
GO-20257	GoFmt in Git Commit look-up path incorrect
GO-20691	Struct optimization bugs
GO-20561	"Update struct layout" quickfix corrupts positional composite literals — silent semantic change
GO-20301	Go: Debugger doesn't attach when running a binary/test in debug mode
GO-20300	Go Coverage doesn't work when coverage mode is set to go_cover
GO-20656	Go Fix - Duplicate warnings provided by IDE & go fix
GO-20664	go fixes with no quick fixes show no preview
GO-20670	No preview is available for the fixed issue
GO-20655	Go Fix - Gutter icon missing
GO-20657	Go Fix - Different type of errors on the same line
GO-20799	Escape Analysis Tool compilation fails if contains <autogenerated> entries on Windows/WSL2

Performance Problem

Ticket	Description
GO-20953	Project open scans a large Go project twice and discards the first scan
GO-20919	Freeze in network on EDT BackendGoFeaturesWelcomeScreenApi.getLatestGoVersion
GO-18913	[regression] FirstCodeAnalysis performance degradation (07.05.2025)
GO-20506	Redundant per-file work in GoPathUseScope slows usage search
GO-20509	GoLand does redundant CPU/allocation work on the inspection-highlighting hot path
GO-20507	GoAnnotator recomputes file-scoped work for every PSI element during highlighting
GO-19892	GoLightAST in getCommentsForTopLevelNode throws OOM with Java heap space
GO-20332	Freeze on document commit: declaration block bodies parsed eagerly outside indexing
GO-20488	Resolve performance: add scoped cache
GO-20604	GoIdFilter causes freezes
GO-20615	IDE freezes after opening large file in com.intellij.go.fix.model.GoPositionKt.byteOffsetToDocumentOffset
GO-20557	go fix: analyze a whole project/module in one invocation instead of once per package (dependency graph recomputed N times)
GO-20497	Go fix: blue underline refrshes slowly after a quick-fix
GO-20490	Freeze in EnvironmentUtil.getValue on EDT from VgoIntegrationManager projectOpened

Security Problem

Ticket	Description
GO-20753	GoLand Profiler injects an unauthenticated pprof HTTP server, while net/http/pprof import re-exposes full /debug/pprof/* (incl. cmdline, trace) on the user's own DefaultServeMux
GO-20117	Go Modules: user-configured environment variables (incl. credentials) written to idea.log at DEBUG level by default
GO-20428	JB-32-014 WP1: GoLand RCE via Linter when open configuration (Critical)
GO-20709	Pre-trust go list execution in GoLand/IntelliJ Ultimate Go modules integration
GO-20740	Pre-trust code Annotation/fix execution based on the poisoned, project-shipped GO SDK

Exception

Ticket	Description
GO-20082	CCE: [VgoAnnotator.resolveFileReference]
GO-19928	REWA: [GoOptimizedImportsTracker.fileClosed]
GO-20523	EE: GoFixCommand.run
GO-20330	Cannot attach debugger to running Go process

Cosmetics

Ticket	Description
GO-20202	Quick Documentation shows unnecessary blank space in Methods list
GO-20673	i18n: unexpected line break on flame graph in profiler.
GO-20654	Go Fix - Small visual underlying of go fix suggestion

26 March 2026