the Go language version (go1.23) used to build golangci-lint is lower than the targeted Go version (1.24.1)

[buzzdan]

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How did you install golangci-lint?

go install

Description of the problem

my go.mod had a version of 1.24.1
when i changed it to 1.23.7 it worked

Version of golangci-lint

$ golangci-lint --version
golangci-lint has version v2.0.2 built with go1.23.7 from (unknown, modified: ?, mod sum: "h1:dMCC8ikPiLDvHMFy3+XypSAuGDBOLzwWqqamer+bWsY=") on (unknown)

Configuration

$ golangci-lint fmt --config=.golangci.yaml
Error: can't load config: the Go language version (go1.23) used to build golangci-lint is lower than the targeted Go version (1.24.1)
Failed executing command with error: can't load config: the Go language version (go1.23) used to build golangci-lint is lower than the targeted Go version (1.24.1)

Go environment

$ go version && go env
❯ go version && go env
go version go1.23.7 darwin/arm64
GO111MODULE=''
GOARCH='arm64'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/Users/danmordechay/Library/Caches/go-build'
GOENV='/Users/danmordechay/Library/Application Support/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFLAGS=''
GOHOSTARCH='arm64'
GOHOSTOS='darwin'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMODCACHE='/Users/danmordechay/go/1.23.7/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY='github.com/weka'
GONOSUMDB='github.com/weka'
GOOS='darwin'
GOPATH='/Users/danmordechay/go/1.23.7'
GOPRIVATE='github.com/weka'
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/Users/danmordechay/.goenv/versions/1.23.7'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/Users/danmordechay/.goenv/versions/1.23.7/pkg/tool/darwin_arm64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.23.7'
GODEBUG=''
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/Users/danmordechay/Library/Application Support/go/telemetry'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GOARM64='v8.0'
AR='ar'
CC='clang'
CXX='clang++'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
GOMOD='/Users/danmordechay/dev/gohome/go.mod'
GOWORK=''
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -arch arm64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/var/folders/w4/wb1ryhrj5x3fsk0cz8h5p_vm0000gn/T/go-build2508768153=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common'

Verbose output of running

$ golangci-lint cache clean
$ golangci-lint run -v
INFO golangci-lint has version v2.0.2 built with go1.23.7 from (unknown, modified: ?, mod sum: "h1:dMCC8ikPiLDvHMFy3+XypSAuGDBOLzwWqqamer+bWsY=") on (unknown) 
INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users/danmordechay/dev/gohome /Users/danmordechay/dev /Users/danmordechay /Users /] 
INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yaml 
Error: can't load config: the Go language version (go1.23) used to build golangci-lint is lower than the targeted Go version (1.24.1)
Failed executing command with error: can't load config: the Go language version (go1.23) used to build golangci-lint is lower than the targeted Go version (1.24.1)

A minimal reproducible example or link to a public repository

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[boring-cyborg]

Hey, thank you for opening your first Issue ! 🙂 If you would like to contribute we have a guide for contributors.

[ldez]

$ golangci-lint --version
golangci-lint has version v2.0.2 built with go1.23.7 from (unknown, modified: ?, mod sum: "h1:dMCC8ikPiLDvHMFy3+XypSAuGDBOLzwWqqamer+bWsY=") on (unknown)

Once again, this issue is the illustration of why we strongly discourage to use go install.

https://golangci-lint.run/welcome/install/#install-from-sources

go install doesn't "install" but compile golangci-lint.

You are compiling golangci-lint with go1.23 but your project needs go1.24.

Please use our official binaries.

Duplicate of #5563 and a lot of other issues.

[buzzdan]

@ldez thanks for the reply. fixed my installation 🙏