Golang 1.15 was released over one month ago about setup-go

[lrstanley]

This is becoming a very annoying issue to have to work around. setup-go is constantly behind versions by quite a bit. When the Go team releases a new Go version that has fixes for various CVE's, it's critical to be able to pull that version and be able to release new versions/run new builds based off that new version.

The past 8 versions or so, I've been constantly behind, expecting to be able to run another build, and have it pull in an older version (sometimes more than one patch version behind!).

setup-go should really not require manual adjustments to get new versions. Maybe it's worth not reinventing the wheel, and utilizing something like https://github.com/travis-ci/gimme?

[circa10a]

Alternatively to get the latest:

steps:
  - id: vars
    run: |
      echo ::set-output name=go_version::$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/actions/go-versions/main/versions-manifest.json | grep -oE '"version": "[0-9]{1}.[0-9]{1,}(.[0-9]{1,})?"' | head -1 | cut -d':' -f2 | sed 's/ //g; s/"//g')
  - name: Install Go
    uses: actions/setup-go@v2
    with:
      go-version: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.go_version }}

[circa10a]

Maybe support version: latest ?

[hazcod]

FYI I use a Docker image in .github/ which I update automatically with dependabot.

      -
        id: vars
        run: |
          echo ::set-output name=go_version::$(grep '^FROM go' .github/go/Dockerfile | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | cut -d ':' -f 2)
          echo "Using Go version ${{ steps.vars.outputs.go_version }}"
      -
        name: Setup go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v2
        with:
          go-version: ${{ steps.vars.outputs.go_version }}

[tianon]

Maybe it's worth not reinventing the wheel, and utilizing something like https://github.com/travis-ci/gimme?

I can say that https://github.com/travis-ci/gimme isn't exactly well-maintained, but was designed such that it (ideally) doesn't have to be. 😅

(I helped create it initially, although I'm not involved much anymore.)

[lrstanley]

Looking at go-versions, seems it's manually updated via an action. Why not have have it update automatically (and only when needed)? Could it run once a day (or sooner)? go-versions doesn't have issues enabled, so can't ask there...

[Sergey-Murtazin]

Hi, @alessio!
Thanks for your request!

We will consider whether to add check latest version functionality.

I close this issue because it's a duplicate of 73#
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