Golang upgrades

Updating golang version for jenkins x

Jenkins X codebase uses Golang/Go. New versions of golang comes every 6 months, and golang supports only 2 versions. It is highly desireable to use the latest and greatest version of golang for Jenkins X as newer versions have performance improvements and get regular security updates.

To update golang version in Jenkins X follow these steps

  • Open an issue in jx repository announcing the upgrade.
  • Change the go version in the pipeline catalog repository. See this PR for which files to change.
  • Update the catalog version in the version stream See this PR for which files to change.
  • Update the library packages first (please follow this order)
  • Once these packages are upgraded, start the upgrade for the plugins and main jx repository
  • Follow these steps to upgrade the version
    • Change the version in go.mod file
    • Upgrade any direct dependencies to other Jenkins X packages that you see in go.mod: If you for example find the line github.com/jenkins-x/jx-logging/v3 v3.0.7 you run go get -u github.com/jenkins-x/jx-logging/v3
    • Run go mod tidy and ensure that it does not error out
    • Change GO_VERSION in makefile to the version you are upgrading to.
    • Check if there are any references to an older version and replace those.
    • Verify that

Last modified June 13, 2024: docs: wording adjustmnet in go-upgrades.md (7bab27b469)