Go 1.27 release party set for August 25

The Go team and JetBrains have booked a free online Go 1.27 release party for August 25 at 4pm UTC, walking through what is new instead of leaving everyone to read the notes alone. On the proposal tracker, there is a move to remove the GODEBUG=panicnil=1 escape hatch that has been keeping pre-1.21 panic(nil) behaviour alive, and a request to expose NewGCMWithExternalRandomNonce so fips140=only builds can still speak JWE. Elsewhere, r/golang is having the perennial argument about which tool people wish had been written in Go, which is at least a more cheerful way to spend an afternoon than arguing about monorepo layouts.