Announcing upgrade to Go 1.18

[purelind]

Hi developers! On behalf of our infra team, I’m hereby announcing the upgrade to Go 1.18 among these Golang projects is happening.

[DONE] pingcap/tidb
[DONE] tikv/pd
[DONE] pingcap/tiflow
[DONE] pingcap/tidb-tools
[DONE] pingcap/tidb-binlog
[DONE] pingcap/ng-monitoring
Pipeline modification is planned to be done by the end of March 17, 2021. And later go.mod file of these projects will be updated so that we upgrade to Go 1.18 totally.

We are currently modifying the CI pipelines and you might meet some failures due to this upgrade. Do not hesitate comment on the corresponding tracking issues above with the failure reports related and we will carefully look on it.

Best,
purelind.