chore(deps): update dependencies and improve linter configuration

[A-5ingh]

Explanation

Lint workflow is failing for quite sometime.

Related issue

Proposed Changes

• Upgrade actions/setup-go and golangci-lint-action to their latest versions.
• Replace deprecated linter rules in the configuration file and utilize t.TempDir() for temporary directory creation in tests.

Checklist

• I have read the contributing guidelines.
• I have read the PR documentation guide and followed the process including adding proof manifests to this PR.
• This is a bug fix and I have added unit tests that prove my fix is effective.

Further Comments

[codecov]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 67.47%. Comparing base (57a4201) to head (518cf47).

Additional details and impacted files

@@           Coverage Diff           @@
##             main    #2304   +/-   ##
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  Coverage   67.47%   67.47%           
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  Files         148      148           
  Lines        6518     6518           
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  Hits         4398     4398           
  Misses       1875     1875           
  Partials      245      245           

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[realshuting]

@eddycharly - can you help review?