The original file at https://golang.org/doc/install had the information below under "System Requirements". It did not map every Go version to every OS version on which that Go was supported.

I can create a new file at https://golang.org/doc/system-requirements and add it to the website repo. We'll need to cobble together the Go version-to-OS-version mapping to add there -- I don't see that doc'ed anywhere. https://golang.org/dl/ appears to be as close as we get, and that doesn't list OS versions (just OSes).

I'll keep hunting for a full mapping. Or if we had it, it might have been removed.

This is a valid issue that we've been aware of for some time. I thought we already had an open issue tracking this, but after looking, I can't find it. So let's use this one.

The best currently available sources of information I'm aware of, which require a lot of mental mapping and reading that we wanted to consolidate on one clear page, include:

• https://golang.org/dl/ which list the requirements of the latest major release (under featured downloads)
  • this is insufficient for knowing what the requirements of the previous major release are, requiring digging in x/website commit history to find out
• a table on the previous version of the https://golang.org/doc/install#requirements page (see here)
• release notes for major Go releases
  • e.g., https://golang.org/doc/go1.13#freebsd has the information that Go 1.13 started to require FreeBSD 11.2 or later
• https://golang.org/wiki/PortingPolicy#first-class-ports for the official list of first-class ports
  • note that we distribute binaries for some ports which are not first-class

There's also a wiki page https://golang.org/wiki/MinimumRequirements, but I don't know how well maintained that is.

/cc @andybons @cagedmantis @toothrot

Change https://go.dev/cl/424575 mentions this issue: _content/doc/install: add link to the minimum requirements wiki page