Request: v7 branch release with go >1.21.8 / 1.22.1

[adammw]

Hi,

I'm hoping that a new release v7 branch release could be made compiled with go >1.21.8 / 1.22.1, due to CVE-2023-45288 present in the go 1.21.5 used to compile the current docker image releases. It looks like release-tools bumped directly to go 1.22 in preparation for Kubernetes 1.30, so not sure how difficult this would be.

Thanks.