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SoftwareOctober 12, 2026, 09:12

Go 1.27 moves encoding/json onto the v2 engine

In Go 1.27 the existing encoding/json package is now backed by the new encoding/json/v2 engine, so behavior changes even without switching imports. Nil slices become [], field names match case-sensitively, duplicate keys and invalid UTF-8 are rejected, and time.Duration no longer marshals by default.

Go 1.27 moves encoding/json onto the v2 engine
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