all: provide macOS downloads for Go 1.18.1

[dmitshur]

Updated Status

This issue has been resolved, and macOS binaries are available at https://go.dev/dl/.

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The Go 1.18.1 release does not have macOS binaries available for download at https://go.dev/dl/ at this time. This is a known issue, and we are working on making those binaries available as soon as possible.

This is the tracking issue.

Until this is resolved, it's possible in the meantime to build Go 1.18.1 on macOS from source code or via the gotip command. If you can wait for this issue to be resolved, it'll become possible to download Go 1.18.1 macOS binaries as usual.

CC @cherrymui, @golang/release.

[ghostsquad]

I tried to download 1.18.1 & unzip/untar from:

download_url="https://dl.google.com/go/go${version}.${platform}-${arch}.tar.gz"

on macOs, and received

tar: Error opening archive: Unrecognized archive format

Will that problem be solved at the same time that this is resolved?

[dmitshur]

@ghostsquad Yes. What you're describing will work after this issue is fixed.

[amnonbc]

Quite a lot of devs are using macs, and I imagine many are tripping up on the missing binaires.

So unless a fix is imminent, it might be worth adding
some text to https://go.dev/dl/ saying something on the lines of

"The mac binaries are missing right now. (This is a known issue +link to issue).
We are hoping to get it fixed by DD/MM/YYYY. If you are a mac user, then best to carry on using 1.18
till then (link to 1.18 mac installers for AMD and arm). If you can't wait, then you can install from source
+link in build from source instructions"

[alexellis]

I also had this issue this morning and it's really confusing.

Here's my workaround:

# Intel
curl -SL https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.darwin-amd64.pkg -o go1.18.darwin-amd64.pkg

# M1
curl -SL https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.darwin-amd64.pkg -o go1.18.darwin-arm64.pkg

Then open filename to install.

[amnonbc]

I also had this issue this morning and it's really confusing.

Here's my workaround:

# Intel
curl -SL https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.darwin-amd64.pkg -o go1.18.darwin-amd64.pkg

# M1
curl -SL https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.darwin-amd64.pkg -o go1.18.darwin-arm64.pkg

Then open filename to install.

That will give you the 1.18 version from a few weeks ago.

Another option of mac users is to run brew install golang
which will install go 1.18.1

[ericvn]

Another option of mac users is to run brew install golang which will install go 1.18.1

Just remember to uninstall a normally installed version as that will override what brew installs. Check with go version to make sure what you are running.

[alexellis]

That will give you the 1.18 version from a few weeks ago.

Correct, however there's currently no download listed at all for Go 1.18 for Darwin, so at least you'll get something that you can use at work if you've adopted Go 1.18 features already and are blocked (like I was)

[nezorflame]

@alexellis it's there in the Archived versions section, since all previous releases go there:

[alexellis]

Good to know. I couldn't find this when I looked 👍 or perhaps it could be more obvious

[amnonbc]

Good to know. I couldn't find this when I looked 👍 or perhaps it could be more obvious

Generally we want everyone to be using the latest release.
So we normally would not want to make it easier for people to find older versions.
Today is an exception.

[dmitshur]

We were able to resolve this problem by now, and all macOS downloads for Go 1.18.1 are available at https://go.dev/dl/ as usual, both for darwin/amd64 and darwin/arm64 ports.

Sorry for the trouble this delay caused, and thanks to everyone for your patience. We needed this extra time to resolve a problem in our release pipeline. There's ongoing work to improve our release process to minimize the chance of such occurrences in the future (for example, see #40279 for one of the high-level tracking issues).

I'm closing this since the issue is resolved, and will also unpin it after some time passes.