2.5: Yeti

• Complete audit of travis test dependencies
• Removes the use of become & become_user
• Fixes jinja2 syntax deprecation warnings
• Supports 20 linux distributions

2.4: Xing Tian

• Adds ability to change the mode of the codebase, defaults to 755
• Adds ability to change the mode of the workspace, defaults to 755
• Adds ability to install go packages manually via go install
• Achieves true idempotence, huge performance gains to due flow control-based workload
• Updates the default version
• Official support for Artful Aardvark
• Official support for Zesty Zapus
• Official support for Yakkety Yak
• Official support for Wily Werewolf
• Official support for Vivid Vervet
• Official support for Saucy Salamander
• Official support for Raring Ringtail
• Official support for Quantal Quetzal
• Official support for Fedora24
• Official support for Fedora25
• Official support for Debian 7
• Official support for Debian 9

Note: Official support typically associates a Travis CI test associated with the platform.

2.3: Weregopher

The weregopher release introduces two key features which were removed from the 2.2 release.

• Building from source is once again supported.
• Official support for Precise (Ubuntu 12.04) is once again present with Travis tests.

If you would like the ability to build from master, please log an issue for it - It is something I'm considering again.

2.2: Vampire build

v2.2 Is basically a rewrite and refactor of many core functionalities for the sake of simplicity.

Changes since v2.1

• Complete rewrite of role.
• No more GVM - statistics show a very small portion of users actually use GVM.
• GoPM tasks are more contextually literate
• Variables are more flexible and standardised
• Configurations ($GOOS & $GOARCH) are limitless, automatic and configurable.
• Problems with user permissions on go get are resolved.
• Default version is updated to 1.8.1
• Documentation is now up to date and accurate.
• Travis CI tests are now passing
• Idempotence tests pass
• Significant performance gains

Features no longer available

The following are features which are no longer available, but are likely in the roadmap to be re-introduced.

Go version manager implementation.

• Building from source
• Official Ubuntu 12.04 support

Go Re-get!

• Fixes file permission changes after go get commands have executed.
• Default path now matches the standard Go path conventions at ~/go
• Binaries of go packages are no longer created
• Fixes incorrect environment variables
• Adds go_reget variable for removal of packages before running go get
• Updates default version to 1.8

Effective rerelease

All of my recent changes are packaged up.
Among the highlights (so many changes it's basically a new role) include:

• Building from source now compiles from source
• Go get works again
• Uses a custom gvm use script and it actually works
• Better segregation of tasks - it's much easier to manage now
• Many other little changes
• Tests now pass.

Restructure, bugfixes and features

Changes

• Official support for CentOS6 has been ceased completely, and will not be returning
• Installation types have been segregated into independent files and things are much cleaner now.
• gopm tasks have been segregated into independent files
• gvm-specific tasks have been segregated into independent files
• gopm environment variables have been audited
• go get commands now symlink binaries into the ROOT/bin folder with a new format for go_get
• everything has been retested for the sake of integrity.

Notes

• CentOS6 isn't supported by Drupal VM (one of Jeff Geerling's flagship products). His docker images are not featured in the Travis tests and so I will no longer be supporting CentOS6 officially - but it does in fact work equally as well as CentOS7.

Roadmap

• Planned for immediate implementation beyond this is #7 to ensure source installations actually compile - as they're currently using binary installations.

Official release

• Clean install optional - recommended if changing between static and gvm installations.
• Static binary installs are still available
• Install multiple versions of Go using GVM
• Install from Go Source
• Installs using the Ansible way, the GVM installation script has been converted into Ansible tasks.
• Install allows additional flags to be passed in (ie --binary --prefer-binary --source)
• Install from mirror URL
• Install to any location

Initial release

• Install Go on many supported platforms
• Install gopm and modules.
• Tested on mac
• Lacks CentOS6 support - probably to come at a later date.

I'll have a think about features etc and how to make it awesome and I'll go through another cycle to get a version 1.0 going. I want this to be as awesome as possible, so time to think will help - it's already rock solid and off to a fantastic start!