This release contains just one change: an upgrade of x/telemetry to pick up support for the "local" telemetry mode (golang/go#63832).
Previously, when the telemetry mode was "off" (the default), counter data would not be uploaded, but would be written to the os.UserConfigDir()/go/telemetry/local
directory of the local file system. We heard from a few users that, as a matter of policy within their organization, they need a way to prevent even this local data from being written. With this release, running gotelemetry off
will stop gopls from writing this local counter data. Note that the os.UserConfigDir()/go/telemetry/mode
file must be written to record the "off" state.
The new default telemetry mode is "local", which behaves the same way as "off" did before. In "local" mode, counter data is written to the local file system, but not uploaded. Local data can be inspected with the gotelemetry view
command.
See golang/go#63832 for more details. Thanks again for helping us support transparent telemetry in gopls. As described in the v0.14.0 release notes, we are confident that this data will help us produce a better, faster, more reliable product. In fact this is already happening.