The v2.1.6 release binary is built with Go 1.24, and golangci-lint
refuses to load a config targeting a newer toolchain than itself
('Go language version (go1.24) used to build golangci-lint is lower
than the targeted Go version (1.25.0)'). go.mod is on 1.25, so the
binary needs to be too.
Locally this didn't bite because 'go install …@v2.1.6' compiled
v2.1.6 against the local Go 1.25 toolchain; CI uses the prebuilt
release tarball which carries the build-time Go version.
v2.5.0 is the first v2.x line built with Go 1.25 — pin in lockstep
with go.mod going forward.
steve
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