Can't use on go1.25 via pre-commit

[heitorPB]

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Description of the problem

Hello. We are updating our codebase to go1.25 and we can't make our CI using golangci-lint pre-commit hook happy.

We have this entry in our .pre-commit-config.yaml:

repos:
- repo: https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint
  rev: v2.5.0
  hooks:
  - id: golangci-lint
    entry: bash -c 'cd backend && golangci-lint run --new-from-rev HEAD --fix'
    files: ^go/.*\.go$
    stages: [pre-commit]

Locally, it works fine on my machine ™️ , but in our CI it errors out:

golangci-lint............................................................Failed
- hook id: golangci-lint
- exit code: 3
Error: can't load config: the Go language version (go1.24) used to build golangci-lint is lower than the targeted Go version (1.25.1)
The command is terminated due to an error: can't load config: the Go language version (go1.24) used to build golangci-lint is lower than the targeted Go version (1.25.1)

Our GitHub Action to run this check is simply:

name: Code linting

on:
  pull_request:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  pre-commit:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
    - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.1

Version of golangci-lint

On my machine:

$ golangci-lint --version
golangci-lint has version 2.5.0 built with go1.25.0 from v2.5.0 on 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not our CI env.

Configuration

# default settings

Go environment

Running commands on my machine, not our CI:

$ go version && go env
AR='ar'
CC='gcc'
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CXX='g++'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GO111MODULE=''
GOAMD64='v1'
GOARCH='amd64'
GOAUTH='netrc'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/home/h/.cache/go-build'
GOCACHEPROG=''
GODEBUG=''
GOENV='/home/h/.config/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFIPS140='off'
GOFLAGS=''
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -m64 -pthread -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build3438129952=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches'
GOHOSTARCH='amd64'
GOHOSTOS='linux'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMOD='/dev/null'
GOMODCACHE='/home/h/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='linux'
GOPATH='/home/h/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/nix/store/3fd683jfggglpshxprz9mi5sz8wd3c9p-go-1.25.0/share/go'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/home/h/.config/go/telemetry'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/nix/store/3fd683jfggglpshxprz9mi5sz8wd3c9p-go-1.25.0/share/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.25.0'
GOWORK=''
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'

Verbose output of running

I can run these just fine in my machine, no errors at all.

$ golangci-lint cache clean
$ golangci-lint run -v
# paste output here

A minimal reproducible example or link to a public repository

package main

func main() {}

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[ldez]

hello,

I think the error message is clear:

The Go language version (go1.24) used to build golangci-lint is lower than the targeted Go version (1.25.1)

You must update the go version inside your CI and/or your golangci-lint version.

something like that:

name: Code linting

on:
  pull_request:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  pre-commit:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
      - uses: actions/setup-go@v6
        with:
          go-version: stable
      - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.1

[heitorPB]

Hello! Thanks for the ultra-quick answer :)

The funny thing is: pre-commit should automatically get the golangci-lint binary v2.5.0, but for some reason the downloaded binary is not compatible with go1.25.1.

After your suggestion, I changed the CI to this and it works now:

name: Code linting

on:
  pull_request:

  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  pre-commit:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
    - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
      with:
        go-version: 1.25.1
    - name: Install golangci-lint
      run: go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@v2.5.0
    - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.1

Which suggests to me there's some dangling binary somewhere not compatible with go1.25?

[ldez]

I suggest not using go install.

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

but for some reason the downloaded binary is not compatible with go1.25.1.

It's because this is not a download of a binary but a compilation.

[heitorPB]

Oh, good points in that.

Thank you for the help!