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+## `%%IMAGE%%:<version>-tip`
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+The term "tip" in the Go community is used to refer to the latest development branch ([a leftover convention from previously using `hg` for version control](https://github.com/golang/build/blob/6383021611af0e07cbf0a60222e066662557c796/cmd/coordinator/internal/legacydash/build.go#L313-L314)).
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+These tags contains builds of Go's latest development branch, and they are updated on a ~weekly cadence.