# Release: AWS Elastic Beanstalk Go platform update on December 14, 2018
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This release applies security updates to the Go platform for AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and updates platform configuration. The release also includes a Go runtime update, bug fixes, and, for certain AWS Regions, support for additional Amazon EC2 instance types.

**Release date:** December 14, 2018

## Changes
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Here is a list of the key changes in this release.


| **Category** | **Description** | 
| --- | --- | 
| **Instance type** | **Regions** | 
| --- | --- | 
|  **Security updates**  |  Applied all security updates published in the [Amazon Linux Security Center](https://alas.aws.amazon.com/) on or before December 7, 2018 to the Go platform. See also the **Go updates** entry.  | 
|  **Go updates**  |  Applied minor revision 1.11.3. For details, see [go1.11](https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#go1.11) in *The Go Programming Language Release History*. Revision 1.11.3 addresses three recently reported security issues. For details, see [[security] Go 1.11.3 and Go 1.10.6 are released](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/Kw31K8G7Fi0).  | 
|  **Instance types**  |  Added support for more Amazon EC2 instance types in some AWS Regions, for the Go platform, as follows: [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2018-12-14-golang.html)  | 
|  **T3**  |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2018-12-14-golang.html)  | 
|  **C5n**  |  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/relnotes/release-2018-12-14-golang.html)  | 

## Updated platform configurations
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### Go
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|  Configuration and *Solution Stack Name*   |  AMI  |  Language  |  AWS X‑Ray  |  Proxy Server  | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 
|   **Go 1.11 version 2.9.3**   * 64bit Amazon Linux 2018.03 v2.9.3 running Go 1.11.3 *   |  2018.03.0  |  Go 1.11.3  |  2.0.0  |  nginx 1.12.1  |