go get -u is not updating all the modules

[lordofscripts]

Go version

go1.25

Output of go env in your module/workspace:

AR='ar'
CC='gcc'
CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_CPPFLAGS=''
CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_ENABLED='1'
CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CGO_LDFLAGS='-O2 -g'
CXX='g++'
GCCGO='gccgo'
GO111MODULE=''
GOAMD64='v1'
GOARCH='amd64'
GOAUTH='netrc'
GOBIN=''
GOCACHE='/home/lordofscripts/.cache/go-build'
GOCACHEPROG=''
GODEBUG=''
GOENV='/home/lordofscripts/.config/go/env'
GOEXE=''
GOEXPERIMENT=''
GOFIPS140='off'
GOFLAGS=''
GOGCCFLAGS='-fPIC -m64 -pthread -Wl,--no-gc-sections -fmessage-length=0 -ffile-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build3790010234=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches'
GOHOSTARCH='amd64'
GOHOSTOS='linux'
GOINSECURE=''
GOMOD='/home/lordofscripts/go/golicense/go.mod'
GOMODCACHE='/home/lordofscripts/go/pkg/mod'
GONOPROXY=''
GONOSUMDB=''
GOOS='linux'
GOPATH='/home/lordofscripts/go'
GOPRIVATE=''
GOPROXY='https://proxy.golang.org,direct'
GOROOT='/usr/local/go'
GOSUMDB='sum.golang.org'
GOTELEMETRY='local'
GOTELEMETRYDIR='/home/lordofscripts/.config/go/telemetry'
GOTMPDIR=''
GOTOOLCHAIN='auto'
GOTOOLDIR='/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64'
GOVCS=''
GOVERSION='go1.25.0'
GOWORK=''
PKG_CONFIG='pkg-config'

What did you do?

I was using a GitHub GO module which was quite old and had never been officially tagged, nor it had a release. My go.mod listed it as v0.0.0....

I requested the module owner to please tag it and make a release. He did create the first tag v1.0 and release on GitHub.

Then I ran go get -u ./... followed by go mod tidy but go.mod still shows the old version instead of the recently tagged v1.0 available on github.

No matter what I do, remove the cached version from go/pkg/mod/ it still believes in the old phantom version rather than the latest release.

What did you see happen?

The module dependecy does NOT get updated

What did you expect to see?

the dependency being reported as v1.0 on my library's go.mod file

[gabyhelp]

Related Issues

• go get #56314 (closed)
• cmd/go: go get (with `GO111MODULE=on`) is not grabbing the newest version of my software #32208 (closed)
• cmd/go: module dependencies not updated with `go get -u` in 1.17 #47768 (closed)
• Go modules auto-downloading to wrong commit after retagging #42312 (closed)
• proxy.golang.org: module upgrade not detecting new tag #40170 (closed)
• GO Module Tag Issue #41235 (closed)
• go list: version query returns invalid version #66657 (closed)
• x/pkgsite: new release not showing even after three days #76234 (closed)

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[thepudds]

v1.0 is not a valid semver tag as expected by the Go tooling. It’s missing the third number (patch number).

https://github.com/hyperboloide/lk/tree/v1.0

That could explain it.

See the required tag format here: https://go.dev/ref/mod#versions

Note you can also use a commit hash to upgrade to a specific commit, independent of what the tag might be:

go get foo@e3702bed2