[Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 Oses] Go 1.22.x will be set as default on September, 20

[vidyasagarnimmagaddi]

Breaking changes

Go 1.22.x version will be set as default for Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 .

Target date

Image deployment is starting on September 16 and will take 3-4 days.

The motivation for the changes

As of the software support policy only 3 latest versions of Go are supported.

Possible impact

Go 1.22.x version will be set as default for Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04 .

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Mitigation ways

https://github.com/actions/setup-go action for GH actions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/tool/go-tool?view=azure-devops task for AzDO

[habandy]

this will solve #10436