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+<h2 id="introduction">DRAFT RELEASE NOTES - Introduction to Go 1.13</h2>
+
+<p>
+  <strong>
+    Go 1.13 is not yet released. These are work-in-progress
+    release notes. Go 1.13 is expected to be released in August 2019.
+  </strong>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+TODO
+</p>
+
+<h2 id="language">Changes to the language</h2>
+
+<p>
+TODO
+</p>
+
+<h2 id="ports">Ports</h2>
+
+<p>
+TODO
+</p>
+
+<h3 id="darwin">Darwin</h3>
+
+<p>
+  As <a href="go1.12#darwin">announced</a> in the Go 1.12 release notes,
+  Go 1.13 now requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later;
+  support for previous versions has been discontinued.
+</p>
+
+<h3 id="freebsd">FreeBSD</h3>
+
+<p>
+  As <a href="go1.12#freebsd">announced</a> in the Go 1.12 release notes,
+  Go 1.13 now requires FreeBSD 11.2 or later;
+  support for previous versions has been discontinued.
+  FreeBSD 12.0 or later requires a kernel with the COMPAT_FREEBSD11 option set (this is the default).
+</p>
+
+<h2 id="tools">Tools</h2>
+
+<p>
+TODO
+</p>
+
+<h2 id="runtime">Runtime</h2>
+
+<p>
+TODO
+</p>
+
+
+<h2 id="library">Core library</h2>
+
+<p>
+TODO generally
+</p>
+
+<h3 id="tls_1_3">TLS 1.3</h3>
+
+<p>
+TODO; link to <a href="/doc/go1.12#tls_1_3">Go 1.12 notes</a>.
+</p>
+
+
+<h3 id="minor_library_changes">Minor changes to the library</h3>
+
+<p>
+  As always, there are various minor changes and updates to the library,
+  made with the Go 1 <a href="/doc/go1compat">promise of compatibility</a>
+  in mind.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+TODO
+</p>
+