With the feature set for Go 1.8 now frozen, I thought it would be fun to highlight a few of the more interesting API changes that we can expect to see in Go 1.8 when it’s released around February 1, 2017. HTTP server connection draining At the eleventh hour Brad Fitzpatrick closed a nearly four-year-old issue by implementing connection draining on http.Server. It is now possible to call srv.Close(