From 9ff6688e9aaeb2275795213557482ec828ef1478 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sumit Vij <sumitvij11+github@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:24:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [release-1.23] Automated branching step 4 (#3266)

---
 CODEOWNERS                | 7 +------
 common/Makefile.common.mk | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CODEOWNERS b/CODEOWNERS
index e4705b2af2f..052e7774840 100644
--- a/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/CODEOWNERS
@@ -1,6 +1 @@
-*                @istio/technical-oversight-committee 
-/Makefile*       @istio/wg-test-and-release-maintainers
-/*.md            @istio/wg-test-and-release-maintainers
-/common/         @istio/wg-test-and-release-maintainers
-/common-protos/  @istio/wg-test-and-release-maintainers
-/scripts/        @istio/wg-test-and-release-maintainers
+* @istio/release-managers-1-23
diff --git a/common/Makefile.common.mk b/common/Makefile.common.mk
index 384737d7b56..47b2a2ac59e 100644
--- a/common/Makefile.common.mk
+++ b/common/Makefile.common.mk
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ mirror-licenses: mod-download-go
 	@license-lint --mirror
 
 TMP := $(shell mktemp -d -u)
-UPDATE_BRANCH ?= "master"
+UPDATE_BRANCH ?= "release-1.23"
 
 BUILD_TOOLS_ORG ?= "istio"