go no telemetry

A fork of the Go programming language with all telemetry stripped. Updated from upstream weekly.

No counter data is collected. No uploads are sent. The go telemetry command is a stub that always reports off. The GOTELEMETRY and GOTELEMETRYDIR environment variables have been removed. Telemetry hooks in the toolchain call no-op stubs, so upstream main.go and tool entry points stay unchanged.

Quick start

export PATH="$HOME/.gonot/bin:$PATH"
./bootstrap.sh install my-fork
go version

Building

Quick build (requires Go 1.24.6 or later)

cd src
GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=/path/to/go1.24.6 ./make.bash

Full bootstrap from source

./bootstrap.sh prefetch          # one-time download
./bootstrap.sh build --offline   # clang -> go1.4 -> ... -> fork

Updating from upstream Go

./scripts/sync-upstream.sh

This fetches upstream Go, rebases onto upstream/master, and re-applies the no-telemetry overlays from fork/.

If the rebase conflicts:

git rebase --abort
git reset --hard upstream/master
./scripts/apply-fork.sh
git add -A && git commit -m "Strip telemetry from Go fork"
./scripts/verify-fork.sh

To refresh overlays after editing fork/overlays/:

./scripts/apply-fork.sh
./scripts/verify-fork.sh

Version manager

See ./bootstrap.sh --help. Installed versions live under ~/.gonot/versions/.

Command	Description
install <name>	Build and register a named version
use <name>	Switch active version
update	Rebuild the active version
list	Show installed versions

Add to your shell profile:

export PATH="$HOME/.gonot/bin:$PATH"

Project structure

bootstrap.sh          Build script and version manager
fork/overlays/        No-telemetry source replacements (reapplied on sync)
fork/remove.txt       Upstream telemetry files to delete on sync
scripts/              sync-upstream.sh, apply-fork.sh, verify-fork.sh
src/                  Go standard library and toolchain

CI

GitHub Actions builds with Go 1.24.6 bootstrap and verifies telemetry is off. See .github/workflows/ci.yml.

Releases

Push a version tag to publish platform binaries. See .github/workflows/release.yml.

Offline kits are built locally only: ./scripts/make-offline-bundle.sh --tag v1.27.0 --releases ./release

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Same as Go. See LICENSE.