Tracking info

Link to any previous tracking issue: #3347

Golang mailing list announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/TABUsV4-FiU/m/cajfhO09AgAJ

SIG Release Slack thread: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/CJH2GBF7Y/p1701369936664499

Work items

• kube-cross image update: Build Go 1.21.5 and 1.20.12 #3388

  • image promotion: Image promotion for build-image v1.29.0-go1.21.5-bullseye.0 / v1.28.0-go1.20.12-bullseye.0 / v1.27.0-go1.20.12-bullseye.0 / v1.26.0-go1.20.12-bullseye.0 k8s.io#6153

• go-runner image update: Build Go 1.21.5 and 1.20.12 #3388

  • image promotion: Image promotion for build-image v2.3.1-go1.21.5-bookworm.0 / v2.3.1-go1.20.12-bullseye.0 k8s.io#6154

• releng-ci image update: Build Go 1.21.5 and 1.20.12 #3388

  • image promotion: Image promotion for releng 1.20.12-bookworm-0 / 1.21.5-bookworm-0 k8s.io#6155

After kube-cross image promotion

• kubernetes/kubernetes update (master): [go] Bump images, dependencies and versions to go 1.21.5 kubernetes#122201

  Ensure the following have been updated within the PR:

  • kube-cross image
  • go-runner image
  • publishing bot rules
  • test image
  • .go-version file

Note
This update may require an update to go.sum files, for example: kubernetes/kubernetes#118507
This will require an API Review approval.

After go-runner image promotion

• distroless-iptables image update: Update distroless-iptables to use go 1.21.5 #3389

  • image promotion: Image promotion for build-image v0.4.3 k8s.io#6164

After distroless-iptables image promotion

• kubernetes/kubernetes update (master): Bump distroless-iptables to v0.4.3 kubernetes#122206

  Ensure the following have been updated within the PR:

  • distroless-iptables image
  • test image

After kubernetes/kubernetes (master) has been updated

• k8s-cloud-builder image update: Build k8s-ci-builder and k8s-cloud-bulider with Go 1.21.5 #3390

• k8s-ci-builder image variants update: Build k8s-ci-builder and k8s-cloud-bulider with Go 1.21.5 #3390

Cherry picks

• Kubernetes 1.28: [release-1.28] [go] Bump images, dependencies and versions to go 1.20.12 kubernetes#122216
• Kubernetes 1.27: [release-1.27] [go] Bump images, dependencies and versions to go 1.20.12 kubernetes#122217
• Kubernetes 1.26: [release-1.26] [go] Bump images, dependencies and versions to go 1.20.12 kubernetes#122218

• publishing bot rule updates for active Golang versions: Update publishing-bot rules to Go 1.20.12 kubernetes#122299

After kubernetes/kubernetes (release branches) has been updated

• k8s-cloud-builder image update: Build k8s-ci-builder and k8s-cloud-bulider with Go 1.20.12 #3394

• k8s-ci-builder image variants update: Build k8s-ci-builder and k8s-cloud-bulider with Go 1.20.12 #3394

• kubekins/krte image variants update (Go 1.21): Update kubekins to Go 1.21.5 test-infra#31387

• kubekins/krte image variants update (Go 1.20): Update kubekins to Go 1.20.12 test-infra#31398

Follow-up items

• Ensure the Golang issue template is updated with any new requirements
• Drop publishing-bot rules for the release-1.25 branch: Drop publishing-bot rules for the release-1.25 branch kubernetes#122321

/assign
cc: @kubernetes/release-engineering