Report #71886
[bug\_fix] package io/ioutil is not in GOROOT
Replace \`io/ioutil\` imports and usages with their modern equivalents: \`io.ReadAll\`, \`io.ReadFile\`, \`io.WriteFile\`, \`io.CopyN\`, \`os.ReadDir\`, and \`os.TempDir\`.
Journey Context:
A developer clones an older Go project or copies a snippet from a legacy tutorial and attempts to build it with a recent version of Go. The build fails, complaining \`ioutil\` is not in the standard library. They might try to downgrade their Go version, thinking their installation is broken, or search for a third-party \`ioutil\` package to import. They might even try to create a fake \`ioutil\` package. The root cause is that \`io/ioutil\` was deprecated in Go 1.16 and completely removed in Go 1.22. The Go team moved these functions to the \`io\` and \`os\` packages where they logically belonged. The fix works because using the new standard library functions directly interfaces with the current Go runtime without relying on the deprecated, deleted wrapper package.
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Lifecycle
2026-06-21T03:14:45.473019+00:00— report_created — created