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Upgrade golangci-lint in CI runner and Makefile#4861

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Upgrade golangci-lint in CI runner and Makefile#4861
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Description:

Upgrades golangci-lint from v1 to v2, pinned at v2.11.4. CI uses golangci-lint-action@v7 with a prebuilt binary (no Go 1.25 toolchain fetch). Local make lint now calls scripts/lint.sh, which auto-installs the exact pinned version via curl, eliminating system-installed version mismatches.
The deprecated --out-format flag is removed (colored output is default in v2). errcheck and staticcheck are temporarily disabled as v2's stricter defaults surface ~100 pre-existing issues, to be addressed in a follow-up.

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  • Tests passing (make test-community)?
  • Lint passing (make lint this requires golangci-lint)?

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Medium Risk
Changes CI/local lint execution and pins a new major golangci-lint version, which can affect developer/CI behavior. Lint coverage is temporarily reduced by disabling errcheck and staticcheck, potentially allowing issues to slip through.

Overview
Upgrades the CI lint workflow to golangci/golangci-lint-action@v7 and pins golangci-lint to v2.11.4, updating lint args and temporarily disabling errcheck and staticcheck.

Switches make lint to run a new scripts/lint.sh that auto-installs (or reuses) the pinned golangci-lint version before running the same lint configuration locally.

Written by Cursor Bugbot for commit 96c2de8. This will update automatically on new commits. Configure here.

set -euo pipefail

GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION="v2.11.4"
LINT_ARGS="--disable errcheck,staticcheck --enable bodyclose,copyloopvar,misspell --timeout 10m"
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Disabling default linters errcheck and staticcheck reduces coverage

Medium Severity

The new LINT_ARGS adds --disable errcheck,staticcheck, which was not present in the old configuration. Previously, both CI and Makefile only used --enable flags on top of defaults, meaning errcheck (unchecked error returns) and staticcheck (comprehensive static analysis, now including gosimple and stylecheck in v2) were actively running. The codebase even has existing nolint:errcheck and nolint:staticcheck comments proving these linters were in use. Silently disabling two core default linters significantly weakens lint coverage for a PR described only as an "upgrade."

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Haven't decided on this yet

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Maybe we can leave a TODO comment and address this in a follow up PR.

amanfcp added 2 commits April 3, 2026 02:45
…25 toolchain fetch while restricting make lint command to same version as CI
…curity/trufflehog into amaan/upgrade-golangci-lint-v2
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Cursor Bugbot has reviewed your changes and found 1 potential issue.

There are 2 total unresolved issues (including 1 from previous review).

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@amanfcp amanfcp marked this pull request as ready for review April 2, 2026 22:00
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