Upgrade to Go 1.22 toolchain (#1987)

Upgrades to the Go 1.22 toolchain. Upgrades golangci-lint to 1.61.0 and disables some new linters.

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Co-authored-by: Nicholas Wiersma <nick@wiersma.co.za>

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
   lint:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
-      GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION: v1.51.2
+      GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION: v1.61.0
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v6
         with:
           version: ${{ env.GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION }}
-          skip-pkg-cache: true
-          skip-build-cache: true
 
   build:
     env:

.github/workflows/goreleaser.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: setup-go
         uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
-          go-version: "1.20"
+          go-version-file: 'go.mod'
       - name: capture current date
         id: date
         run: echo "::set-output name=date::$(date -u '+%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S-%Z')"