Merge pull request #267 from MichaelEischer/require-go-1.18

Bump require go version to 1.18

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ on:
   pull_request:
 
 env:
-  latest_go: "1.20.x"
+  latest_go: "1.21.x"
   GO111MODULE: on
 
 jobs:
   test:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         go:
-          - 1.17.x
           - 1.18.x
           - 1.19.x
           - 1.20.x
+          - 1.21.x
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     name: Go ${{ matrix.go }}
 

README.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Rest Server is a high performance HTTP server that implements restic's [REST bac
 
 ## Requirements
 
-Rest Server requires Go 1.17 or higher to build.  The only tested compiler is the official Go compiler.  Building server with `gccgo` may work, but is not supported.
+Rest Server requires Go 1.18 or higher to build.  The only tested compiler is the official Go compiler.  Building server with `gccgo` may work, but is not supported.
 
 The required version of restic backup client to use with `rest-server` is [v0.7.1](https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.7.1) or higher.
 

changelog/unreleased/pull-267

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Change: Update dependencies and require Go 1.18 or newer
+
+Most dependencies have been updated. Since some libraries require newer language
+features, support for Go 1.17 has been dropped, which means that rest-server
+now requires at least Go 1.18 to build.
+
+https://github.com/restic/rest-server/pull/267

go.mod

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/restic/rest-server
 
-go 1.17
+go 1.18
 
 require (
 	github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22 v22.5.0