From 0f70b4cedf587c0717eeb5945d0b1e2621d84a3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxime David <maxday@amazon.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:18:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat: bump min go version to 1.26

---
 .github/workflows/build-lambda-zip.yml |  2 +-
 .github/workflows/tests.yml            | 21 ++-------------------
 go.mod                                 |  2 +-
 lambdaurl/testdata/testfunc/go.mod     |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-lambda-zip.yml b/.github/workflows/build-lambda-zip.yml
index b3b76c4f..d3d8704f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-lambda-zip.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-lambda-zip.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     name: install build-lambda-zip on ${{ matrix.platform }}
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        go-version: [1.12, 1.13]
+        go-version: [1.27, 1.26]
         platform: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
     steps:
       - name: Setup Go
diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index c94e320a..d1330d3f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -13,16 +13,6 @@ jobs:
         go:
           - "1.27"
           - "1.26"
-          - "1.25"
-          - "1.24"
-          - "1.23"
-          - "1.22"
-          - "1.21"
-          - "1.20"
-          - "1.19"
-          - "1.18"
-          - "1.17"
-          - "1.16"
 
     steps:
       - name: Set up Go ${{ matrix.go }}
@@ -35,14 +25,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
         uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6
 
-      - name: Edit the go.mod file to allow tests to run for versions of go before 1.16
-        run: >
-          if [[ ${{ matrix.go }} < "1.16" ]]; then 
-            sed -i.bak 's/^.*retract.*$//' go.mod
-          else
-            echo "no edit required"
-          fi
-
       - name: go test
         run: go test -v -race ./...
 
@@ -52,7 +34,8 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         go:
-          - "1.25"
+          - "1.27"
+          - "1.26"
     steps:
       - name: Set up Go ${{ matrix.go }}
         uses: actions/setup-go@4a3601121dd01d1626a1e23e37211e3254c1c06c # v6
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 81f4d599..675e473f 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go
 
-go 1.18
+go 1.26
 
 require github.com/stretchr/testify v1.7.2
 
diff --git a/lambdaurl/testdata/testfunc/go.mod b/lambdaurl/testdata/testfunc/go.mod
index c5b365c1..3deeb243 100644
--- a/lambdaurl/testdata/testfunc/go.mod
+++ b/lambdaurl/testdata/testfunc/go.mod
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ require github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go v1.40.0
 
 replace github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go => ../../../
 
-go 1.20
+go 1.26