diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index d7d20a246a..32915f4c2c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ jobs:
               - 'charts/ingress-nginx/**/*'
               - 'NGINX_BASE'
             baseimage:
+              - 'NGINX_BASE'
               - 'images/nginx-1.25/**'
 
   test-go:
@@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ jobs:
           needs.changes.outputs.baseimage == 'true'
         run: |
             export TAG=$(cat images/nginx-1.25/TAG)
-            cd images/nginx-1.25/rootfs && docker buildx build --platform=${{ env.PLATFORMS }} --load -t gcr.io/k8s-staging-ingress-nginx/nginx-1.25:${TAG} .
+            cd images/nginx-1.25/rootfs && docker buildx build --platform=${{ env.PLATFORMS }} --load -t registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/nginx-1.25:${TAG} .
     
       - name: Build images
         env:
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           echo "building images..."
           export TAGNGINX=$(cat images/nginx-1.25/TAG)
-          make BASE_IMAGE=gcr.io/k8s-staging-ingress-nginx/nginx-1.25:${TAGNGINX} clean-image build image image-chroot
+          make BASE_IMAGE=registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/nginx-1.25:${TAGNGINX} clean-image build image image-chroot
           make -C test/e2e-image image
 
           echo "creating images cache..."
diff --git a/.github/workflows/images.yaml b/.github/workflows/images.yaml
index 93092d80bb..d125586e4d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/images.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/images.yaml
@@ -167,29 +167,6 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         cd images/ && make NAME=kube-webhook-certgen test test-e2e
 
-  nginx:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs: changes
-    if: |
-      (needs.changes.outputs.nginx == 'true')
-    steps:
-    - name: Checkout
-      uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
-    - name: nginx-base-image
-      run: |
-        cd images/nginx/rootfs && docker build -t docker.io/nginx-test-workflow/nginx:${{ github.sha }} .
-    - name: Run Trivy on NGINX Image
-      uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
-      with:
-        image-ref: 'docker.io/nginx-test-workflow/nginx:${{ github.sha }}'
-        format: 'sarif'
-        ignore-unfixed: true
-        output: 'trivy-results.sarif'
-    - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
-      uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@47b3d888fe66b639e431abf22ebca059152f1eea # v3.24.5
-      with:
-        sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'
-
   opentelemetry:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
diff --git a/GOLANG_VERSION b/GOLANG_VERSION
index 6e83421e4f..80a81c0e7f 100644
--- a/GOLANG_VERSION
+++ b/GOLANG_VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.21.6
\ No newline at end of file
+1.22.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/NGINX_BASE b/NGINX_BASE
index 058a89bb1e..4daa5c4d3d 100644
--- a/NGINX_BASE
+++ b/NGINX_BASE
@@ -1 +1 @@
-registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/nginx:v20231208-4c39e6acc@sha256:03508408458d00ba4e219d2693ba2a039ba66d4151ab9b43794f61877e0abb73
\ No newline at end of file
+registry.k8s.io/ingress-nginx/nginx-1.25:v0.0.5@sha256:cdafd6c9d36e23414ce41330a482f9136ce82fac46802809681f61cdcd5ad0bb
diff --git a/TAG b/TAG
deleted file mode 100644
index 57d503d1ea..0000000000
--- a/TAG
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-v1.9.5