chore: upgrade Go to 1.27.1 for Tailscale 1.104

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Summary

Upgrade the Go floor to 1.27.1 alongside Tailscale 1.104.0. Dependabot #431 cannot be tested with the existing Go 1.26 CI/linter pins, so this PR supersedes that non-editable bot branch.

Changes

• Take the exact go.mod / go.sum upgrade from chore(deps): bump tailscale.com from 1.102.5 to 1.104.0 in the go-modules group #431, without weakening checksum verification.
• Derive CI, release, mutation and hygiene toolchains from go.mod; pin golangci-lint v2.14.0, built with Go 1.27.
• Add a fixture-backed workflow guard, update operator instructions, and document the checksum incident in lesson 037.
• Track the migration and verification under specs/DEPS-312-go-127-tailscale/.

Testing

• go test -race ./... passes

• go vet ./... clean

• Tested manually (if applicable)

• go test -race ./... — not run locally: Windows has no GCC (CGO_ENABLED=0); Linux CI will run this check.

• go test -count=1 ./... — passed on Windows; go build ./... and go vet ./... — passed.

• golangci-lint run (pinned v2.14.0) — passed, 0 issues. go mod tidy and git diff --exit-code -- go.mod go.sum — passed; go mod verify — passed.

• bash scripts/tests/test-go-toolchain.sh — passed on four Go workflows, after its stale-pin and conflicting-pin fixtures failed as intended.

• shellcheck scripts/tests/test-go-toolchain.sh and actionlint -shellcheck=shellcheck on the four edited workflows — passed.

• bash scripts/check-actions-pinned.sh, bash scripts/check-workflow-permissions.sh, bash scripts/check-lessons.sh — passed.

• go build -o <output> ./cmd/ts-bridge/ — passed for all 6 GOOS/GOARCH combinations (Linux, Windows and macOS; amd64 and arm64).

• go run ./cmd/ts-bridge version — passed; returned ts-bridge dev (commit unknown).

Type

• feat — New feature
• fix — Bug fix
• refactor — Code restructuring (no behavior change)
• docs — Documentation only
• test — Test additions/changes
• chore — Maintenance

Knowledge

• Lesson: docs/lessons/lesson-037-2026-10-09.md (checksum mismatch; never alter go.sum to hide it).
• ADR: none; the Go floor follows an upstream dependency requirement rather than a new architecture.
• Runbook: none; operator minimum/version instructions are updated in AGENTS.md.

Closes #435

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Updates
  • Updated the Go toolchain and Tailscale version, along with related supporting packages.
  • Updated the linting tool to a newer version.
• Reliability
  • Continuous integration and release workflows now use the Go version declared by the project, with an added consistency check.
• Documentation
  • Updated Go and linting guidance and added a lesson on verifying module checksum mismatches.

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Walkthrough

The module now requires Go 1.27.1 and upgrades Tailscale and indirect dependencies. Go workflows read the version from go.mod, the lint version is updated, and the hygiene workflow runs a new toolchain consistency test.

Changes

Go toolchain and dependency upgrade

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Module and upgrade records go.mod, specs/DEPS-312-go-127-tailscale/*, docs/lessons/*	The module requirement changes to Go 1.27.1, Tailscale changes to v1.104.0, and listed indirect dependencies are upgraded. The DEPS-312 records and lesson 037 document verification details and checksum guidance.
Workflow and operator toolchain versions .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/mutation.yml, .github/workflows/release.yml, .github/workflows/repo-hygiene.yml, AGENTS.md	Go setup steps read the version from go.mod. The lint pin and operator instructions change to golangci-lint v2.14.0, and AGENTS.md documents Go 1.27.1+.
Workflow consistency guard scripts/tests/test-go-toolchain.sh, .github/workflows/repo-hygiene.yml	The hygiene workflow runs a test that checks Go setup steps for go-version-file: go.mod and rejects conflicting or misplaced version settings.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b8ff3

The current Go workflows are configured for the module’s version, but the new guard would miss a future workflow that loses its Go setup step. Strengthen the guard as a bounded follow-up.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1 | ❓ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning, 1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files. (12 skipped: 1…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check		The changes address the main coding requirements in #435. go.mod declares Go 1.27.1 and Tailscale v1.104.0. Go workflows derive the toolchain from go.mod. golangci-lint is pinned to v2.14.0. The…	Provide reviewable evidence for go.sum and GOTOOLCHAIN=local, and provide the resulting Linux race-test and CI results. go.sum is excluded from review, so its exact upgrade cannot be independently assessed here.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: upgrading Go to 1.27.1 for the Tailscale 1.104 release.
Description check		The description includes the required Summary, Changes, Testing, and Type sections. It documents the unrun race test and provides extensive results for the completed checks.
Out of Scope Changes check		The workflow guard, operator documentation, checksum lesson, and DEPS-312 specification files support the requirements in #435. The reported dependency and toolchain changes remain within the linked i…

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Explanation

The changes address the main coding requirements in #435. go.mod declares Go 1.27.1 and Tailscale v1.104.0. Go workflows derive the toolchain from go.mod. golangci-lint is pinned to v2.14.0. The workflow guard, documentation updates, and reported build, vet, lint, and cross-compilation checks support the migration. The available evidence does not establish the excluded go.sum contents, retained GOTOOLCHAIN=local settings, a passing go test -race ./..., or green resulting CI.

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 1 files. (12 skipped: 12 unsupported.)

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- Around line 91-97: Update the workflow validation around count and check_file
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• .github/workflows/ci.yml
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• docs/lessons/_index.md
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🎫 Ticket compliance analysis 🔶 435 - Partially compliant Compliant requirements: go.mod now declares go 1.27.1 and tailscale.com v1.104.0 with the expanded indirect graph; no toolchain/GOTOOLCHAIN relaxation appears in the diff. All four workflows containing actions/setup-go (ci, release, mutation, repo-hygiene) switched from go-version: '1.26' to go-version-file: go.mod, so the toolchain tracks the module. golangci-lint pinned to v2.14.0 in .github/workflows/ci.yml, and AGENTS.md updated to both Go 1.27.1+ and golangci-lint@v2.14.0. A fixture-backed regression guard (scripts/tests/test-go-toolchain.sh) was added and wired into repo-hygiene.yml; it rejects pinned/conflicting go-version steps and accepts module-derived ones. Spec folder, lesson 037 and the lesson index row are present with pending (not self-certified passing) feature states. Non-compliant requirements: "Regression guard detects an incompatible future module/workflow/linter combination": only the module<->workflow half is covered. Nothing inspects version: in the lint job (or the golangci-lint@ pin in AGENTS.md) against go.mod, so bumping go to 1.28.0 while version: v2.14.0 stays leaves the guard exiting 0. Requires further human verification: CI green on the resulting PR (Linux -race, Windows job, BATS smoke, cross-builds) — the diff cannot show this; verification.md explicitly leaves criterion 3 unchecked pending CI. Whether README, site/src/content/docs/, or docs/runbooks/ also declare a Go version or lint pin — only AGENTS.md is edited in this diff, so stale operator-facing claims elsewhere would survive. Whether any workflow runs Go without actions/setup-go (e.g. the smoke job): the guard's discovery grep only sees workflows containing actions/setup-go@, so such a job is validated by neither the pin nor the guard.

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⚡ Recommended focus areas for review Vacuous verification REAL. Criterion 1's evidence command is git diff FETCH_HEAD -- go.mod go.sum --exit-code. Everything after -- is a pathspec, so --exit-code is parsed as a filename, not an option, and git diff without --exit-code exits 0 whether or not go.mod/go.sum differ from FETCH_HEAD. The command therefore cannot fail on the very condition it is cited to prove ("confirmed the graph matches Dependabot #431"); a divergence would only show up as printed output that nobody is forced to inspect. Use git diff --exit-code FETCH_HEAD -- go.mod go.sum. - [x] Criterion 1 -> `go version` returned `go1.27.1 windows/amd64`; `go mod tidy` followed by `go mod verify` succeeded, and `git diff FETCH_HEAD -- go.mod go.sum --exit-code` confirmed the graph matches Dependabot #431. Module files had line-ending normalization only. Guard misses linter mismatch REAL. The guard only inspects actions/setup-go steps, so the linter half of the ticket's DoD ("guard detects an incompatible future module/workflow/linter combination") is uncovered. Concrete trace: change go.mod to go 1.28.0, leave version: v2.14.0 in .github/workflows/ci.yml and golangci-lint@v2.14.0 in AGENTS.md, then run bash scripts/tests/test-go-toolchain.sh — it exits 0. The eventual lint-job failure is exactly the runtime symptom the guard was added to detect earlier for workflows, and the same gap lets the AGENTS.md and ci.yml lint pins drift apart unchecked. The loop at lines 88-100 should also compare the lint pin (or fail when it and go.mod's directive disagree). count=0 for workflow in "$ROOT"/.github/workflows/*; do case "$workflow" in *.yml|*.yaml) ;; *) continue ;; esac if grep -Eq '^[[:space:]]*-[[:space:]]*uses:[[:space:]]+actions/setup-go@' "$workflow"; then count=$((count + 1)) if ! check_file "$workflow"; then echo "test-go-toolchain: setup-go must use go-version-file: go.mod in $workflow" >&2 exit 1 fi fi done [ "$count" -gt 0 ] || { echo "test-go-toolchain: no Go workflows found" >&2; exit 1; } echo "test-go-toolchain: OK ($count Go workflows)" Redundant fixture REAL (low severity). The fixture at lines 61-73 cannot fail for the scenario its message names. The setup-go step in it pins go-version: '1.26', which alone sets bad=1, and the supposedly diagnostic line - run: echo "go-version-file: go.mod" begins with - run: so no anchored go-version-file: rule can ever match it — the step-boundary logic is never the deciding factor. The fixture is effectively a duplicate of the first fixture (lines 37-48), and a regression that let validation be satisfied by a standalone go-version-file: line outside the active step would still pass all four fixtures. Give the fixture a setup-go step with no acceptable version of its own (e.g. only cache: true) plus an indented go-version-file: go.mod line in a later step, and assert rejection. cat > "$tmp" <<'YAML' jobs: build: steps: - uses: actions/setup-go@0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567 with: go-version: '1.26' - run: echo "go-version-file: go.mod" YAML if check_file "$tmp"; then echo "test-go-toolchain: accepted a version in an unrelated step" >&2 exit 1 fi

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Item	Disposition	Reason
PR-Agent verification.md:10 (6086460309)	apply	Corrected the non-failing comparison to git diff --exit-code FETCH_HEAD -- go.mod go.sum in 827d4be.
PR-Agent test-go-toolchain.sh:61-73 (6086460309)	apply	Replaced the redundant fixture with an unrelated step holding the misleading version input (827d4be).
PR-Agent linter compatibility (6086460309)	apply	The guard now rejects a module Go version newer than the approved lint binary's Go compiler, unknown lint pins, and drift from operator instructions; fixtures cover each case (827d4be).
CodeRabbit test-go-toolchain.sh:97 (4233100827)	apply	The guard now checks every Go-running job, including jobs/workflows without setup-go and Go commands preceding setup-go (827d4be).
CodeRabbit docstring coverage (6086377678)	skip	The changed function is a shell test helper; this repository has no shell-docstring coverage gate. Shellcheck passes.
CodeRabbit linked-issue evidence warning (6086377678)	skip	go.sum/CI visibility is a reviewer-tool limitation. The original head passed module verification, Linux race, Windows, lint, smoke and cross-build CI; the new head must pass CI separately.
PR-Agent documentation and smoke questions (6086460309)	skip	No obsolete toolchain/linter pins were found in the checked README, site docs or runbooks; the smoke job uses setup-go from go.mod.

Reviewer output dispositioned: coderabbitai[bot] (2026-10-09T18:01:12Z inline), github-actions[bot] (2026-10-09T18:01:42Z guide). PR-Agent's review was partial, not exhaustive. CI for new head 827d4be is pending; this comment does not claim it passed.