Go 1.10 End of Life Date
Go 1.10 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data reconciled from official vendor documentation and endoflife.date at every build; the source of each date is on the product page.
Go 1.10 was released on February 16, 2018 and support ended on February 25, 2019 — a supported lifespan of 1 year, in line with the 1 year median for Go releases. The last patch it will ever receive is 1.10.8, published January 23, 2019 — 33 days before support ended. It has been without security patches for 7 years and 7 months. 15 newer Go releases have shipped since.
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When Go 1.10 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Running Go 1.10 past its EOL date creates a permanently growing attack surface that standard security tooling will not surface.
Migrate to Go 1.27 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.