diff --git a/programming/language/go/actions.py b/programming/language/go/actions.py
index 00a744270c..c9535b1448 100644
--- a/programming/language/go/actions.py
+++ b/programming/language/go/actions.py
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ def build():
     shelltools.export("go_platform","linux-amd64")
     shelltools.export("go_linker","/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2")
 
-    shelltools.export("GOROOT", "%s/go-go1.7.5" % get.workDIR()) #0
+    shelltools.export("GOROOT", "%s/go-go1.7.6" % get.workDIR()) #0
 
     shelltools.export("GOBIN", "$GOROOT/bin") #1
     shelltools.export("GOPATH", "%s" % get.workDIR())
     shelltools.export("GOROOT_FINAL", "/usr/lib/go")
-    shelltools.export("GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP", "%s/go-go1.7.5/go-linux-amd64-bootstrap" % get.workDIR())  #2
+    shelltools.export("GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP", "%s/go-go1.7.6/go-linux-amd64-bootstrap" % get.workDIR())  #2
 
     shelltools.export("GOOS","linux")
     shelltools.export("GOARCH","amd64")
diff --git a/programming/language/go/files/45f759500ec80a1362deecd3693cbe44a354bf98.patch b/programming/language/go/files/45f759500ec80a1362deecd3693cbe44a354bf98.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0283b762fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/programming/language/go/files/45f759500ec80a1362deecd3693cbe44a354bf98.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+Upstream: yes
+
+From 45f759500ec80a1362deecd3693cbe44a354bf98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
+Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:19:03 -0800
+Subject: [PATCH] cmd/link: handle STT_COMMON symbols
+
+Tested by running
+
+GOTRACEBACK=2 CGO_CFLAGS="-Wa,--elf-stt-common=yes" go test -ldflags=-linkmode=internal
+
+in misc/cgo/test. That failed before this CL, succeeded after.
+
+I don't think it's worth doing that as a regular test, though,
+especially since only recent versions of the GNU binutils support the
+--elf-stt-common option.
+
+Fixes #18088.
+
+Change-Id: I893d86181faee217b1504c054b0ed3f7c8d977d3
+Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/33653
+Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
+TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
+Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
+---
+ src/cmd/link/internal/ld/ldelf.go | 8 +++++---
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/ldelf.go b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/ldelf.go
+index d700aa6..00e8f37 100644
+--- a/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/ldelf.go
++++ b/src/cmd/link/internal/ld/ldelf.go
+@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ const (
+ 	ElfSymTypeFunc    = 2
+ 	ElfSymTypeSection = 3
+ 	ElfSymTypeFile    = 4
++	ElfSymTypeCommon  = 5
++	ElfSymTypeTLS     = 6
+ )
+ 
+ const (
+@@ -751,10 +753,10 @@ func ldelf(ctxt *Link, f *bio.Reader, pkg string, length int64, pn string) {
+ 			goto bad
+ 		}
+ 		symbols[i] = sym.sym
+-		if sym.type_ != ElfSymTypeFunc && sym.type_ != ElfSymTypeObject && sym.type_ != ElfSymTypeNone {
++		if sym.type_ != ElfSymTypeFunc && sym.type_ != ElfSymTypeObject && sym.type_ != ElfSymTypeNone && sym.type_ != ElfSymTypeCommon {
+ 			continue
+ 		}
+-		if sym.shndx == ElfSymShnCommon {
++		if sym.shndx == ElfSymShnCommon || sym.type_ == ElfSymTypeCommon {
+ 			s = sym.sym
+ 			if uint64(s.Size) < sym.size {
+ 				s.Size = int64(sym.size)
+@@ -1035,7 +1037,7 @@ func readelfsym(ctxt *Link, elfobj *ElfObj, i int, sym *ElfSym, needSym int, loc
+ 	case ElfSymTypeSection:
+ 		s = elfobj.sect[sym.shndx].sym
+ 
+-	case ElfSymTypeObject, ElfSymTypeFunc, ElfSymTypeNone:
++	case ElfSymTypeObject, ElfSymTypeFunc, ElfSymTypeNone, ElfSymTypeCommon:
+ 		switch sym.bind {
+ 		case ElfSymBindGlobal:
+ 			if needSym != 0 {
diff --git a/programming/language/go/pspec.xml b/programming/language/go/pspec.xml
index c5ac6130a7..63066eb746 100644
--- a/programming/language/go/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/go/pspec.xml
@@ -12,14 +12,17 @@
         <IsA>app:console</IsA>
         <Summary>Compiler and tools for the Go programming language from Google</Summary>
         <Description>Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.</Description>
-        <Archive sha1sum="f603ac63fe935df29cb15f4a9db62622c3ca3de0" type="targz">https://github.com/golang/go/archive/go1.7.5.tar.gz</Archive>
-        <Archive sha1sum="97058ade5ad63119f78aa5d1717b1ac26c9f5f7b" type="tarbz2" target="go-go1.7.5">https://dev.gentoo.org/~williamh/dist/go-linux-amd64-bootstrap.tbz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="3591e9c184d75f3abdae6954796c779d1b2265a1" type="targz">https://github.com/golang/go/archive/go1.7.6.tar.gz</Archive>
+        <Archive sha1sum="97058ade5ad63119f78aa5d1717b1ac26c9f5f7b" type="tarbz2" target="go-go1.7.6">https://dev.gentoo.org/~williamh/dist/go-linux-amd64-bootstrap.tbz</Archive>
         <!--BuildDependencies>
             <Dependency>perl</Dependency>
             <Dependency>gawk</Dependency>
             <Dependency>mercurial</Dependency>
             <Dependency>git</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies-->
+        <Patches>
+            <Patch>45f759500ec80a1362deecd3693cbe44a354bf98.patch</Patch>
+        </Patches>
     </Source>
     <Package>
         <Name>golang</Name>
@@ -38,6 +41,13 @@
     </Package>
 
     <History>
+        <Update release="6">
+            <Date>2017-08-21</Date>
+            <Version>1.7.6</Version>
+            <Comment>Version bump.</Comment>
+            <Name>Ertuğrul Erata</Name>
+            <Email>ertugrulerata@gmail.com</Email>
+        </Update>
         <Update release="5">
             <Date>2017-03-20</Date>
             <Version>1.7.5</Version>