Tracking info

Link to any previous tracking issue: #3412

Golang mailing list announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/Qdkw_yX60TE/m/no34wVjNBwAJ

SIG Release Slack thread: https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/CJH2GBF7Y/p1707291164014399

Work items

• kube-cross, go-runner, releng-ci image updates: Build Go 1.21.7 and 1.20.14 #3452 / build go images with 1.21.7 for old release branches and drop go1.20 images build #3461

  • kube-cross image promotion: Image promotion for build-image v1.29.0-go1.21.7-bullseye.0 / v1.28.0-go1.20.14-bullseye.0 / v1.27.0-go1.20.14-bullseye.0 / v1.26.0-go1.20.14-bullseye.0 k8s.io#6394 / Image promotion for build-image v1.28.0-go1.21.7-bullseye.0 / v1.27.0-go1.21.7-bullseye.0 / v1.26.0-go1.21.7-bullseye.0 k8s.io#6408
  • go-runner image promotion: Image promotion for build-image v2.3.1-go1.21.7-bookworm.0 / v2.3.1-go1.20.14-bullseye.0 k8s.io#6395
  • releng-ci image promotion: Image promotion for releng 1.20.14-bookworm-0 / 1.21.7-bookworm-0 k8s.io#6396

After go-runner image promotion

• distroless-iptables image update: update distroless iptables to use go1.21.7 and go1.20.14 #3456

  • image promotion: Image promotion for build-image v0.4.5 / v0.2.10 k8s.io#6401

After kube-cross and distroless-iptables image promotions

• kubernetes/kubernetes update (master): no update on k/k main branch because that is on go1.22

Cherry picks

• Kubernetes 1.29: [release-1.29] [go] Bump images, dependencies and versions to go 1.21.7 / setcap/debian-base to bookworm-v1.0.1 and distroless-iptables to v0.4.5 kubernetes#123218
• Kubernetes 1.28: [release-1.28] [go] Bump images, dependencies and versions to go 1.21.7 / setcap/debian-base to bookworm-v1.0.1 and distroless-iptables to v0.4.5 kubernetes#123228
• Kubernetes 1.27: [release-1.27] [go] Bump images, dependencies and versions to go 1.21.7 / distroless-iptables to v0.4.5 kubernetes#123229
• Kubernetes 1.26: [release-1.26] [go] Bump images, dependencies and versions to go 1.21.7 / distroless-iptables to v0.4.5 kubernetes#123230

• publishing bot rule updates for active Golang versions: Update publishing-bot rules to Go 1.21.7 kubernetes#123235

After kubernetes/kubernetes (release branches) has been updated

• k8s-cloud-builder and k8s-ci-builder image updates: Build k8s-cloud-builder with Go 1.21.7 #3464

• kubekins/krte image updates: Update kubekins to Go 1.21.7 test-infra#31948

Follow-up items

• Ensure the Golang issue template is updated with any new requirements

/assign
cc: @kubernetes/release-engineering