Personally, I try to review the release notes for subsequent versions of Go. The notable changes are generally highlighted upfront there (including the vendor d

Personally, I try to review the release notes for subsequent versions of Go. The notable changes are generally highlighted upfront there (including the vendor directory semantics IIRC), see: https://golang.org/project/#go1 https://golang.org/project/#go1 As to the recommendations to learn dep, personally I didn't (currently we use an inhouse tool at my workplace, and I expect we'll transition to the new go modules when they will be released as part of Go 1.11). The "modules" are actually not there yet, will officially land as a prototype feature in 1.11, feature-gated and with the old GOPATH way still working.