Why golang 1.23.8 still isn't available in Fedora 41?

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My question is in the subject.

In additional to the depressing policy of Fedora about releasing packages of new major/minor versions of most of its application software the latest patch level update of Go 1.23 isn’t available too. The 1.23.8 version of Go was released two weeks ago but it still isn’t available in Fedora 41 and I don’t see it in any other stage (like testing) in the Bodhi server of the Fedora Project.

Any plan to release it?

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The reason is simple: it flew under my radar, I had a busy week, and the automation I set up to create PRs failed for 1.23.8.

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@alexsaezm
I see you already made golang 1.23.8 for Fedora 41 and currently its status is “pending → testing”. Thank you, but how can I try it now? There is no command in the Details section of FEDORA-2025-77ace1a41b — security update for golang — Fedora Updates System

Should I wait until the status will be changed to at least “testing”? I tried running the following command but it didn’t bring me this update

$ sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-77ace1a41b
Updating and loading repositories:
 Fedora 41 - x86_64 - Updates                                                             100% |  30.5 KiB/s |  24.5 KiB |  00m01s
 Fedora 41 - x86_64 - Test Updates                                                        100% |  34.1 KiB/s |  21.5 KiB |  00m01s
 Fedora 41 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64                                                 100% |   2.0 KiB/s | 989.0   B |  00m00s
 google-chrome                                                                            100% |   6.0 KiB/s |   1.3 KiB |  00m00s
 Copr repo for openvpn3 owned by dsommers                                                 100% |   3.6 KiB/s |   1.5 KiB |  00m00s
 Fedora 41 - x86_64                                                                       100% |  17.5 KiB/s |  26.8 KiB |  00m02s
 pgadmin4                                                                                 100% |   6.3 KiB/s |   3.8 KiB |  00m01s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free                                                          100% |  22.3 KiB/s |  13.3 KiB |  00m01s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Free - Updates                                                100% |  20.3 KiB/s |  12.3 KiB |  00m01s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree - Updates                                             100% |  57.4 KiB/s |  15.9 KiB |  00m00s
 RPM Fusion for Fedora 41 - Nonfree                                                       100% |  64.4 KiB/s |  16.9 KiB |  00m00s
 Terra 41                                                                                 100% |   3.4 KiB/s |   1.5 KiB |  00m00s
 Visual Studio Code                                                                       100% |  27.3 KiB/s |   1.5 KiB |  00m00s
Repositories loaded.
Nothing to do.
$ rpm -q golang
golang-1.23.7-1.fc41.x86_64

This is the same command like in Details of golang-1.24.2-1.fc42 that is currently in testing stage. I just changed the advisory value to FEDORA-2025-77ace1a41b taken from the first URL of golang-1.23.8-1.fc41.

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Yes, AFAIK, you can only do that if the package is on testing. For example, Delve has an update on testing right now, so you can try with it.

If you truly want to test the package, you can download the build from Koji.

If there is another way to force the download before reaching testing, I’m not aware of it.