How to use Go Beta/RC version in azure pipeline - go

Question

I want to use a beta or release candiate of Go in the azure pipeline, but the Task "Go tool installer" doesn't work with a version like "1.17rc1".
Pipeline
$(go_version) = 1.17rc1
steps:
- task: GoTool#0
displayName: Install Go tools in version $(go_version)
inputs:
version: $(go_version)
Output
2021-07-15T08:01:13.5566938Z ##[section]Starting: Install Go tools in version 1.17rc1
2021-07-15T08:01:13.5573377Z ==============================================================================
2021-07-15T08:01:13.5573650Z Task : Go tool installer
2021-07-15T08:01:13.5574064Z Description : Find in cache or download a specific version of Go and add it to the PATH
2021-07-15T08:01:13.5574305Z Version : 0.180.0
2021-07-15T08:01:13.5574495Z Author : Microsoft Corporation
2021-07-15T08:01:13.5574776Z Help : https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/tool/go-tool
2021-07-15T08:01:13.5575073Z ==============================================================================
2021-07-15T08:01:13.8414712Z Downloading: https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.17rc1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
2021-07-15T08:01:16.3008064Z Extracting archive
2021-07-15T08:01:16.3027619Z [command]/usr/bin/tar xC /home/vsts/work/_temp/50a79994-bdb5-417d-8374-cd9746166c5f -f /home/vsts/work/_temp/d2be4a68-029c-4393-8492-5b804e41857e
2021-07-15T08:01:19.0933870Z Caching tool: go null x64
2021-07-15T08:01:19.1004014Z ##[error]TypeError: Cannot read property 'trim' of null
2021-07-15T08:01:19.1090132Z ##[section]Finishing: Install Go tools in version 1.17rc1

Answer 1

It looks like an issue with the task itself. It throws here:
async function run() {
try {
let version = tl.getInput('version', true).trim();
await getGo(version);
telemetry.emitTelemetry('TaskHub', 'GoToolV0', { version });
}
catch (error) {
tl.setResult(tl.TaskResult.Failed, error);
}
}
And this is kind of strange as I don't see here any logic preventing from putting there 1.17rc1. I created and issue for this on GitHub