Bump golangci-lint version from 1.51 to 1.61

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ permissions:
   contents: read
 
 env:
-  GO_VERSION: "1.20"
+  GO_VERSION: "1.23"
 
 jobs:
   lint:
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v6
         with:
-          version: v1.51.0
+          only-new-issues: true
+          version: v1.61.0
           args: --timeout=15m --config=.golangci.yml
           skip-cache: true
-          skip-build-cache: true
 
   unit-tests:
     name: Unit Tests

.golangci.yml

@@ -1,38 +1,33 @@
-linter-settings:
-  lll:
-    line-length: 200
-
-timeout: 10m
-
 run:
-  skip-dirs:
-    # This directory contains copy code from upstream kubernetes/kubernetes, skip it.
-    - internal/kubernetes
-    # This is mostly copied from upstream, rather than fixing that code here just ignore the errors.
-    - internal/podutils
+  timeout: 10m
 
 linters:
   enable:
     - errcheck
-    - structcheck
-    - varcheck
     - staticcheck
     - unconvert
     - gofmt
     - goimports
     - ineffassign
-    - vet
+    - govet
     - unused
     - misspell
     - gosec
-    - exportloopref # Checks for pointers to enclosing loop variables
+    - copyloopvar
     - tenv # Detects using os.Setenv instead of t.Setenv since Go 1.17
 
 linters-settings:
+  lll:
+    line-length: 200
   gosec:
     excludes:
       - G304
 issues:
+  exclude-dirs:
+    # This directory contains copy code from upstream kubernetes/kubernetes, skip it.
+    - internal/kubernetes
+    # This is mostly copied from upstream, rather than fixing that code here just ignore the errors.
+    - internal/podutils
   exclude-use-default: false
   exclude:
     # EXC0001 errcheck: Almost all programs ignore errors on these functions and in most cases it's ok