Feature Request

Opening a feature request kicks off a discussion.

Proposal:

Provide a telegraf release built with Go 1.15.7+.

Current behavior:

latest telegraf release (1.17.2) is built with Go 1.15.5

Desired behavior:

telegraf release built with Go 1.15.7+

Use case:

This would address a security vulnerability in Go

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3114
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3114
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3114
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3115
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3115
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3115
https://blog.golang.org/path-security