diff --git a/dev-lang/go/Manifest b/dev-lang/go/Manifest
index ec2ccea2df7df..0a6b6765bf9b4 100644
--- a/dev-lang/go/Manifest
+++ b/dev-lang/go/Manifest
@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ DIST go-linux-ppc64le-bootstrap-1.8.tbz 52211575 BLAKE2B 7a28ec5a381369c4e9415c8
 DIST go-linux-s390x-bootstrap-1.8.tbz 57124869 BLAKE2B 920a176b8f4fc3a816e724324bbb30a383d599e31a0d2093d24797dbcd0e799a662a3589dbb87d2f5dd16df07c4cf8f1e444e87b540ec732746bb025dc9271f8 SHA512 d429cae870d66217ab2e07c74209d3031d97baa4f899b4d70ae6283a1a5b1434b037904c4cfca0b2bc798d5ba0b358c3739e000eccbc74809baf564c5686df5a
 DIST go-solaris-amd64-bootstrap-1.8.tbz 54926326 BLAKE2B 0a45312f090d81ebf46fe5950cb65c059e2801394231e715e94145d1f918eb59b10472b2385e57ebd5cfb9eca0ad7290fb118436486b665520bb540970f971ab SHA512 52b849e5b9a940e10de7ba3df0ebdf6e1c5d631de9581d936c9edf8f38e6bb3314acbc2b2d5202b0528fde2a359d52bc0c6f39acf9b1b614725e4b4a947ed10d
 DIST go1.11.5.src.tar.gz 21108339 BLAKE2B 3a33a89e267e57fee688e4d67257810ca1f37cfb904b6806c3a566b021aa80153f59f64d3a61ed68f526f093e0d5b6b3c95565cd06622cf9a65eef81bc7e9733 SHA512 63500238e8d73e4b29279ee3eb9242960de93ccd3b52bacc4009f45cf123cb8edfe5f519d38c5b07bdf2a810925758511ff3255310a056113d0169f78be1d2f6
+DIST go1.12.1.src.tar.gz 21963082 BLAKE2B fd9c0ca19e6bd285c52034a88df1a58f96b957483362fac2e0c0f2a9dddde0543e7569d76fb93eff473774d152db361bfe9bdd354d80412c71ee5c4162010346 SHA512 b3fdfb874e6e0e0b50458085724fbd8e8b9be212df3f777b97db340aa3b80f32ee08d646a57a8a7d52ff6f19657d884dd25018c866c6173473aafa20a58f1975
 DIST go1.12.src.tar.gz 21962486 BLAKE2B 3581fa9eb2582cec8ece233930322d964dd03e82f2e44ac0cbe75869d4c184003db2b21dcf871fafe5a81380ba7da7675b2fe3549348dfa60bf27fa9af2bb824 SHA512 6a4b8e75b3f6455885e93961c502ab40822e6353d1108ce25ca857afbdca08a64b1408dbeba2d37db581d6c85b9a919de95fb7c0d487a327e555a30b51cd8410
diff --git a/dev-lang/go/go-1.12.1.ebuild b/dev-lang/go/go-1.12.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..5945c3e7440b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/go/go-1.12.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,231 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+export CBUILD=${CBUILD:-${CHOST}}
+export CTARGET=${CTARGET:-${CHOST}}
+
+MY_PV=${PV/_/}
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+BOOTSTRAP_DIST="https://dev.gentoo.org/~williamh/dist"
+BOOTSTRAP_VERSION="bootstrap-1.8"
+BOOTSTRAP_URI="
+	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-linux-amd64-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
+	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-linux-arm-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
+	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-linux-arm64-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
+	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-linux-ppc64-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
+	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-linux-ppc64le-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
+	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-linux-s390x-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
+	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-linux-386-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
+	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-freebsd-amd64-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
+	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-freebsd-386-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
+	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-darwin-amd64-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
+	${BOOTSTRAP_DIST}/go-solaris-amd64-${BOOTSTRAP_VERSION}.tbz
+"
+
+case ${PV}  in
+*9999*)
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/golang/go.git"
+	inherit git-r3
+	;;
+*)
+	SRC_URI="https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go${MY_PV}.src.tar.gz "
+	S="${WORKDIR}"/go
+	case ${PV} in
+	*_beta*|*_rc*) ;;
+	*)
+		KEYWORDS="-* ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~s390 ~x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+		# The upstream tests fail under portage but pass if the build is
+		# run according to their documentation [1].
+		# I am restricting the tests on released versions until this is
+		# solved.
+		# [1] https://golang.org/issues/18442
+		RESTRICT="test"
+		;;
+	esac
+esac
+SRC_URI+="!gccgo? ( ${BOOTSTRAP_URI} )"
+
+DESCRIPTION="A concurrent garbage collected and typesafe programming language"
+HOMEPAGE="https://golang.org"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0/${PV}"
+IUSE="gccgo"
+
+BDEPEND="gccgo? ( >=sys-devel/gcc-5[go] )"
+RDEPEND="!<dev-go/go-tools-0_pre20150902"
+
+# These test data objects have writable/executable stacks.
+QA_EXECSTACK="
+	usr/lib/go/src/debug/elf/testdata/*.obj
+	usr/lib/go/src/*.gox
+	"
+
+# Do not complain about CFLAGS, etc, since Go doesn't use them.
+QA_FLAGS_IGNORED='.*'
+
+REQUIRES_EXCLUDE="/usr/lib/go/src/debug/elf/testdata/*"
+
+# The tools in /usr/lib/go should not cause the multilib-strict check to fail.
+QA_MULTILIB_PATHS="usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/.*/.*"
+
+# Do not strip this package. Stripping is unsupported upstream and may
+# fail.
+RESTRICT+=" strip"
+
+DOCS=(
+AUTHORS
+CONTRIBUTING.md
+CONTRIBUTORS
+PATENTS
+README.md
+)
+
+go_arch()
+{
+	# By chance most portage arch names match Go
+	local portage_arch=$(tc-arch $@)
+	case "${portage_arch}" in
+		x86)	echo 386;;
+		x64-*)	echo amd64;;
+		ppc64) [[ $(tc-endian $@) = big ]] && echo ppc64 || echo ppc64le ;;
+		s390) echo s390x ;;
+		*)		echo "${portage_arch}";;
+	esac
+}
+
+go_arm()
+{
+	case "${1:-${CHOST}}" in
+		armv5*)	echo 5;;
+		armv6*)	echo 6;;
+		armv7*)	echo 7;;
+		*)
+			die "unknown GOARM for ${1:-${CHOST}}"
+			;;
+	esac
+}
+
+go_os()
+{
+	case "${1:-${CHOST}}" in
+		*-linux*)	echo linux;;
+		*-darwin*)	echo darwin;;
+		*-freebsd*)	echo freebsd;;
+		*-netbsd*)	echo netbsd;;
+		*-openbsd*)	echo openbsd;;
+		*-solaris*)	echo solaris;;
+		*-cygwin*|*-interix*|*-winnt*)
+			echo windows
+			;;
+		*)
+			die "unknown GOOS for ${1:-${CHOST}}"
+			;;
+	esac
+}
+
+go_tuple()
+{
+	echo "$(go_os $@)_$(go_arch $@)"
+}
+
+go_cross_compile()
+{
+	[[ $(go_tuple ${CBUILD}) != $(go_tuple) ]]
+}
+
+pkg_pretend()
+{
+	# make.bash does not understand cross-compiling a cross-compiler
+	if [[ $(go_tuple) != $(go_tuple ${CTARGET}) ]]; then
+		die "CHOST CTARGET pair unsupported: CHOST=${CHOST} CTARGET=${CTARGET}"
+	fi
+}
+
+src_unpack()
+{
+	if [[ ${PV} = 9999 ]]; then
+		git-r3_src_unpack
+	fi
+	default
+}
+
+src_compile()
+{
+	export GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP="${WORKDIR}"/go-$(go_os ${CBUILD})-$(go_arch ${CBUILD})-bootstrap
+	if use gccgo; then
+		mkdir -p "${GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP}/bin" || die
+		local go_binary=$(gcc-config --get-bin-path)/go-$(gcc-major-version)
+		[[ -x ${go_binary} ]] || go_binary=$(
+			find "${EPREFIX}"/usr/${CHOST}/gcc-bin/*/go-$(gcc-major-version) |
+				sort -V | tail -n1)
+		[[ -x ${go_binary} ]] ||
+			die "go-$(gcc-major-version): command not found"
+		ln -s "${go_binary}" "${GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP}/bin/go" || die
+	fi
+	export GOROOT_FINAL="${EPREFIX}"/usr/lib/go
+	export GOROOT="$(pwd)"
+	export GOBIN="${GOROOT}/bin"
+
+	# Go's build script does not use BUILD/HOST/TARGET consistently. :(
+	export GOHOSTARCH=$(go_arch ${CBUILD})
+	export GOHOSTOS=$(go_os ${CBUILD})
+	export CC=$(tc-getBUILD_CC)
+
+	export GOARCH=$(go_arch)
+	export GOOS=$(go_os)
+	export CC_FOR_TARGET=$(tc-getCC)
+	export CXX_FOR_TARGET=$(tc-getCXX)
+	if [[ ${ARCH} == arm ]]; then
+		export GOARM=$(go_arm)
+	fi
+
+	cd src
+	./make.bash || die "build failed"
+}
+
+src_test()
+{
+	go_cross_compile && return 0
+
+	cd src
+	PATH="${GOBIN}:${PATH}" \
+	./run.bash -no-rebuild || die "tests failed"
+}
+
+src_install()
+{
+	local bin_path f x
+
+	dodir /usr/lib/go
+
+	# There is a known issue which requires the source tree to be installed [1].
+	# Once this is fixed, we can consider using the doc use flag to control
+	# installing the doc and src directories.
+	# [1] https://golang.org/issue/2775
+	#
+	# deliberately use cp to retain permissions
+	cp -R api bin doc lib pkg misc src test "${ED}"/usr/lib/go
+	if go_cross_compile; then
+		bin_path="bin/$(go_tuple)"
+	else
+		bin_path=bin
+	fi
+	for x in ${bin_path}/*; do
+		f=${x##*/}
+		dosym ../lib/go/${bin_path}/${f} /usr/bin/${f}
+	done
+	einstalldocs
+
+	if [[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] ; then
+		# fix install_name for test object (binutils_test) on Darwin, it
+		# is never used in real circumstances
+		local libmac64="${EPREFIX}"/usr/lib/go/src/cmd/vendor/github.com/
+		      libmac64+=google/pprof/internal/binutils/testdata/lib_mac_64
+		install_name_tool -id "${libmac64}" "${D}${libmac64}"
+	fi
+}