Bump Go and golang linter

[milosgajdos]

Bump Go, golangci-lint and alpine versions.

NOTE:

• vet linter has been renamed to govet
• there is no longer a run section in the config
• skip-dirs has been renamed to exclude-dirs

[thaJeztah]

We can keep this on go1.21, unless the module can no longer work with go1.21 (which I doubt).

[milosgajdos]

Kinda wanted to bump it in prep for beta release 🤔

[thaJeztah]

right but the go mod now specifies the minimum required version; trying to use any package from the repo will not be rejected unless you're on go1.22.4

We can use go1.22 for building the binaries, but not sure if we need to enforce that version for using the module

[milosgajdos]

Yeah I'm familiar, I think we had a similar discussion in #4347 RE: go toolchain version

[davidspek]

Then you can leave this line as is and add a line with toolchain go1.22.4.

[milosgajdos]

yah, I think @Jamstah and I discussed that but I cant remember what made us stick with the existing setup 🤷‍♂️ maybe he can chime in

[davidspek]

Either way I think this should be merged :)

[Jamstah]

Go 1.21 will only be supported until ~August, so I feel like its probably worth bumping it.

Any project using this repo as a dependency should be keeping currency anyway. I don't think we break anyone until they update the dependency anyway.

[davidspek]

Approved as is, or if the toolchain version is used instead. We should keep up with the Go versions.