SV

Switch golang version

SV is a lightweight and beautiful Go Version Manager

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🏆 Purpose

Allows you to easily build and switch different Golang versions

⬇️️ Install

Linux / macOS

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/voocel/sv/main/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell)

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/voocel/sv/main/install.ps1 | iex

After installation, open a new terminal for the changes to take effect.

PowerShell note: sv is a built-in PowerShell alias for Set-Variable, which would shadow sv.exe. The installer overrides it in your PowerShell profile automatically; cmd and Git Bash need nothing.

🔥 Features

• List local or remote all versions (type / to filter)
• Install a specific version
• Uninstall a specific version
• Quickly switch local versions
• Pretty download progress bar
• Concurrent download with resume support
• SHA256 checksum verification for every download
• No admin rights required, including on Windows
• Prune old versions
• Check for outdated versions
• Self upgrade and self uninstall

🌲 Usage

List and select a version to install

sv list           # local versions
sv list -r        # remote versions

Install specific version

sv install 1.23.4
sv install --latest   # install latest stable version

Switch to a version

sv use 1.23.4

Uninstall specific version

sv uninstall 1.18.1

Other commands

sv current          # show current active version
sv latest           # show latest available version
sv outdated         # check if installed versions are outdated
sv where 1.23.4     # show installation path
sv prune            # remove old versions, keep recent ones
sv self upgrade     # upgrade sv itself
sv self uninstall   # uninstall sv and all Go versions

💡License

Copyright © 2016–2026

Licensed under Apache License 2.0

🙋 Contributing

Welcome! Welcome!