Go 1.7.1 now available
Change effective on 08 September 2016
Heroku’s support for Go has been upgraded to include Go 1.7.1. Future deploys with a go1.7 specifier will use this new version.
go1.7.1 (released 2016/09/07) includes fixes to the compiler, runtime, documentation, and the compress/flate, hash/crc32, io, net, net/http, path/filepath, reflect, and syscall packages.
For more information on Heroku’s Go support, see the Dev Center documentation for Go. For more information on Go 1.7.1, see the Go documentation.
go1.7.1 (released 2016/09/07) includes fixes to the compiler, runtime, documentation, and the compress/flate, hash/crc32, io, net, net/http, path/filepath, reflect, and syscall packages. See the Go 1.7.1 milestone on our issue tracker for details.