Copying from #24301 (comment):

Define “new” code as code with a go.mod file in the same directory or a parent directory. The old go get must continue to download code exactly as it always has. I propose that the “go build” step adjust its handling of imports in “new” code. Specifically, if an import in new code says x/y/v2/z but x/y/v2/z does not exist and x/y/go.mod says “module x/y/v2”, then go build will read the import as x/y/z instead. We would push this update as a point release for Go 1.9 and Go 1.10.