Release notes

The following tables present a list of features introduced, bugs resolved, and other verified issues in GoLand 2026.1. To navigate to a desired category, use the table of contents on the right.

Feature

Ticket	Description
GO-19764	What's new in Go 1.26 Tab
GO-19476	Go 1.26 Language Change: Update built-in new function analysis to support expressions as operands
GO-19895	Go 1.26: Inline pointer-wrapper functions to new(expr) - modernizer inspection
GO-9930	Show notification at the top of go.mod file if modules integration is disabled

Usability Problem

Ticket	Description
GO-14981	Suggest pointer receiver in function/method templates
GO-13660	Display documentation for composite literals on name of the type
GO-18448	Linters: add a speed search feature to the list of linters

Task

Ticket	Description
GO-19477	Go 1.26 Tooling Change: Replace references to `go tool doc` with `go doc`
GO-19736	Go 1.26: errors.As -> errors.AsType inspection with quickfix
GO-19901	Analyse syntax for updates: Search and synonyms
GO-19842	Provide texts for the 'What's new in Go 1.26' tab
GO-19840	New Inspection Severity Level: Syntax Updates
GO-19547	Create a new set of lessons and check that everything works fine in GoLand for Go 1.26
GO-19778	Fix flaky test: com.intellij.packageChecker.extension.go.GoVulnerablePackageImportInspectionTest.testImportVulnerablePackageWithAlias
GO-19522	Change the New pop-up menu: add the Terraform Resource option
GO-19639	To enable Optimize Imports in Actions on Save by default
GO-19644	No way to get lexingTime#go and parsingTime#go metrics for performance tests
GO-19579	Enable split debugger in GoLand
GO-19546	Interactive lessons promo for Go 1.26
GO-17966	Improved logging: go modules
GO-20137	Add isVariadic to GoReceiver PSI and stub

Bug

Ticket	Description
GO-18995	Do not consider letters inside format 'verbs' of Printf-like functions format strings
GO-19612	当项目中有多个 module 时提示 Cannot use '&connector.MeetingServiceServer_ServiceDesc' (type "xxx.com/server".ServiceDesc) as the type "xxx.com/server".ServiceDesc
GO-19937	Right tab of Welcome Screen is not available
GO-19847	Recursive type constraints
GO-19809	"3rd parameter should have a type" when refactoring
GO-19845	Localization issues in GoDownloadSdkAction
GO-19746	Redundant else branch suggestion becomes compilation error
GO-18524	Type generic alias not recognize correctly
GO-17613	Alias of generic type - Cannot use alias as the type
GO-19494	T: VgoToolchainService.runGoEnvForActualGoRoot
GO-19509	Blank inlay hint option from GoAddMethodToInterfaceCodeVisionProvider
GO-19570	Dump Goroutines action is not working in Split Mode
GO-19894	"Implement Interface" fails when selecting the interface via mouse click (works with Enter key)
GO-8310	No caret in the editor After move with open moved in editor
GO-19994	'Add sample code' snippet uses 'Printf' instead of 'Println'
GO-12950	Invalid "Redundant type conversion" hint with unsafe.Slice
GO-20094	Flaky 'Redundant type conversion' inspection
GO-20069	Unused import is not removed after inlining pointer-wrapping functions
GO-20079	Methods with parenthesized receiver types missing from GoMethodIndex
GO-20080	GoTypeAliasIndex does not index type aliases with parenthesized right-hand sides
GO-19653	The inspeciton system flags a false-positive cyclic definition when a constant shadows an imported package name
GO-19865	High CPU usage caused GoLand 25.3/25.3.1 to freeze when opening a specific go file
GO-19843	Localization issues in DfaTracePanel
GO-20068	go build command is not folded by default in Run/Debug tool window
GO-20114	GoVarReference doesn't resolve type specs in short variable declarations
GO-20138	'Permission denied' on launching Go run configurations in WSL2
GO-20081	GoStringUtil.decode() maps \xNN/\NNN byte escapes >= 0x80 to Latin-1 instead of U+FFFD
GO-20102	PSI resolution for var/const redeclarations picks last instead of first
GO-19761	No longer recommending package `github.com/pkg/errors` even when installed.
GO-19591	Installation of Go plugin hides "Force Step Into" for Java

Exception

Ticket	Description
GO-19830	`CheckFusReopenStartupOpenNoPathInLightEditIUTest.openNoPathInLightEdit()` test failure
GO-20017	IOOBE in GoDfaResourceLeakAnalysis.handleCall
GO-20076	REWA: [GoReferencesCodeVisionProvider.toNamedElement]
GO-19993	REWA in com.goide.microservices.references.GoUrlPathReferenceProvider.getReferencesByElement

03 February 2026