go.mod files owned by us are still using an old go version directive, go1.16. This precludes some dependency graph pruning optimizations implemented in go1.17. This may lead to overreporting vulnerabilities in the component governance scan (see this warning) and also to bloated go.sum files.
go.modfiles owned by us are still using an old go version directive, go1.16. This precludes some dependency graph pruning optimizations implemented in go1.17. This may lead to overreporting vulnerabilities in the component governance scan (see this warning) and also to bloatedgo.sumfiles.This PR bumps the go version directive to go1.21.