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TBR=See https://golang.org/cl/33244 and review there.

Updates #17929

Change-Id: I7cb0b666469dba35426d1f0ae1b185e0bdfeac05
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/33474
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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<p>
The release <a href="#ports">adds support for 32-bit MIPS</a>,
<a href="#compiler">updates the compiler back end</a> to generate more efficient code,
produces smaller binaries (TODO: link/numbers),
<a href="#gc">reduces GC pauses</a> by eliminating stop-the-world stack rescanning,
<a href="#h2push">adds HTTP/2 Push support</a>,
<a href="#httpshutdown">adds HTTP graceful shutdown</a>,
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<h3 id="defer">Defer</h3>

<!-- CL 29656, CL 29656 -->
<p><code>defer</code> calls are now about twice as fast.</p>

<h3 id="cgoperf">Cgo</h3>
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<dl id="archive_tar"><dt><a href="/pkg/archive/tar/">archive/tar</a></dt>
<dd>

<p>
<p> <!-- CL 28471, CL 31440, CL 31441, CL 31444, CL 28418, CL 31439 -->
The tar implementation corrects many bugs in corner cases of the file format.
The <a href="/pkg/archive/tar/#Reader"><code>Reader</code></a> is now able to process tar files in the PAX format with entries larger than 8GB.
The <a href="/pkg/archive/tar/#Writer"><code>Writer</code></a> no longer produces invalid tar files in some situations involving long pathnames.
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</dd>
</dl>

<dl id="archive_zip"><dt><a href="/pkg/archive/zip/">archive/zip</a></dt>
<dd>

<p> <!-- CL 18274 -->
The zip <code>Reader</code> now supports modification times in
the NTFS, UNIX, and Extended Time Stamp metadata fields.
<!-- CL 30811 -->
When writing zip files, the Extended Time Stamp field is written
if TODO: validate implementation.
</p>

</dd>
</dl>

<dl id="compress_flate"><dt><a href="/pkg/compress/flate/">compress/flate</a></dt>
<dd>

<p>
<p> <!-- CL 31640, CL 31174, CL 32149 -->
There have been some minor fixes to the encoder to improve the
compression ratio in certain situations. As a result, the exact
encoded output of DEFLATE may be different from Go 1.7. Since
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method.
</p>

<p> <!-- CL 28216 -->
The decoder, upon encountering an error, now returns any
buffered data it had uncompressed along with the error.
</p>

</dd>
</dl>

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</dd>
</dl>

<dl id="encoding_binary"><dt><a href="/pkg/encoding/">encoding/binary</a></dt>
<dl id="debug_pe"><dt><a href="/pkg/debug/pe/">debug/pe</a></dt>
<dd>
<p> <!-- CL 22720, CL 27212, CL 22181, CL 22332, CL 22336, Issue 15345 -->
TODO: describe Issue 15345 and CL 22181, CL 22332, CL 22336
<pre>pkg debug/pe, method (*COFFSymbol) FullName(StringTable) (string, error)
pkg debug/pe, method (StringTable) String(uint32) (string, error)
pkg debug/pe, type File struct, COFFSymbols []COFFSymbol
pkg debug/pe, type File struct, StringTable StringTable
pkg debug/pe, type Reloc struct
pkg debug/pe, type Reloc struct, SymbolTableIndex uint32
pkg debug/pe, type Reloc struct, Type uint16
pkg debug/pe, type Reloc struct, VirtualAddress uint32
pkg debug/pe, type Section struct, Relocs []Reloc
pkg debug/pe, type StringTable []uint8</pre>
</p>
</dd>
</dl>

<dl id="encoding_base64"><dt><a href="/pkg/encoding/base64/">encoding/base64</a></dt>
<dd>
<p> <!-- CL 24964 -->
The new <a href="/pkg/encoding/base64/#Encoding.Strict"><code>Encoding.Strict</code></a> method returns an <code>Encoding</code> that causes the decoder to return an error when the trailing padding bits are not zero.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>

<dl id="encoding_binary"><dt><a href="/pkg/encoding/binary/">encoding/binary</a></dt>
<dd>
<p> <!-- CL 28514 -->
The package now supports boolean values.
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</dd>
</dl>

<dl id="encoding_json"><dt><a href="/pkg/encoding/json/">encoding/json</a></dt>
<dd>

<p> <!-- CL 18692 -->
<a href="/pkg/encoding/json/#UnmarshalTypeError"><code>UnmarshalTypeError</code></a>
now includes the struct and field name.
</p>

<p> <!-- CL 31932 -->
A <code>nil</code> <a href="/pkg/encoding/json/#Marshaler"><code>Marshaler</code></a>
now marshals as a JSON "<code>null</code>" value.
</p>

<p> <!-- CL 21811 -->
A <a href="/pkg/encoding/json/#RawMessage"><code>RawMessage</code></a> value now
marshals the same as its pointer type.
</p>

<p> <!-- CL 30371 -->
Numbers are now formatted in the same floating point format as they are in ES6.
</p>

<p> <!-- CL 30944 -->
Implementations
of <a href="/pkg/encoding/json/#Unmarshaler"><code>Unmarshaler</code></a>
are now called with the literal "<code>null</code>" and can
decide what to do with it.
</p>

</dd>
</dl>

<dl id="encoding_pem"><dt><a href="/pkg/encoding/pem/">encoding/pem</a></dt>
<dd>
<p> <!-- CL 27391 -->
The PEM decoder is now strict about the format of the ending line.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>

<dl id="expvar"><dt><a href="/pkg/expvar/">expvar</a></dt>
<dd>
<p> <!-- CL 30917 -->
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</dd>
</dl>


<dl id="image_png"><dt><a href="/pkg/image/png/">image/png</a></dt>
<dd>
<p> <!-- CL 32143, CL 32140 -->
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<a href="/pkg/net/url/#PathEscape"><code>PathEscape</code></a>
and
<a href="/pkg/net/url/#PathUnescape"><code>PathUnescape</code></a>
deal with path escaping.</p>
are similar to the query escaping and unescaping functions but
don't treat spaces specially.</p>

<p> <!-- CL 28933 --> The new methods
<a href="/pkg/net/url/#URL.Hostname"><code>URL.Hostname</code></a>
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addition to days that are too large.
</p>

<p> <!-- CL 33029 -->
The <code>tzdata</code> database has been updated to version
2016i for systems that don't already have a local time zone
database.
</p>

<p>
</dd>
</dl>
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