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title: "Gopls release v0.24.0 (expected Sep 2026)"
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In this release:

- [commits](https://go.googlesource.com/tools/+log/refs/heads/gopls-release-branch.0.23..refs/heads/gopls-release-branch.0.24)
- [issues closed](https://github.com/golang/go/milestone/440?closed=1)

Key features are described below.

Gopls now supports [v3.18](https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.18/specification) of the Language Server Protocol.

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## Configuration changes

The `memoryLimit` setting allows clients to set a soft memory limit on
the gopls process using
[runtime/debug.SetMemoryLimit](https://pkg.go.dev/runtime/debug#SetMemoryLimit).
This feature is experimental. It may permit users to trade more CPU
for lower steady state memory usage; but it may cause GC thrashing if
set too low.

The gopls server now enforces
[`SemanticTokensClientCapabilities`](https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.18/specification/#semanticTokensClientCapabilities)
fields: `TokenTypes` and `TokenModifiers`. The semantic token types and
modifiers gopls returns are now limited to what these lists contain, so
it's important that clients fully list their semantic token
capabilities. The gopls UI settings
[`semanticTokenTypes`](https://go.dev/gopls/settings#semantictokentypes-mapstringbool)
and
[`semanticTokenModifiers`](https://go.dev/gopls/settings#semantictokenmodifiers-mapstringbool)
can still be used by users to further restrict these lists.

## Web-based features

## Editing features

Gopls now supports the Hover request in Go assembly files: hovering
over a symbol reports the signature and doc comment of its Go
declaration.

Gopls now supports the `textDocument/documentHighlight` request in Go
assembly files: all occurrences of the symbol, label, or machine
register under the cursor are highlighted within the enclosing TEXT
function, with definitions classified as writes and references as
reads.

## Analysis features

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### `ptrtoerror` analyzer

This new analyzer reports inconsistent use of a named type `E` and its
pointer type `*E` as an error.
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### `slicesclip` modernizer

The new `slicesclip` modernizer suggests replacing a full slice
expression of the form `x[:len(x):len(x)]`, which clips the capacity
of a slice to its length, with the simpler and more readable
`slices.Clip(x)`, added in Go 1.21.
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## Code transformation features
