'make go-run-community' fails with 'Go 1.26' due to 'github.com/bytedance/sonic v1.14.1'

[KingrogKDR]

Running make go-run-community on a fresh checkout with Go 1.26.4 fails during compilation.

go.mod specifies Go 1.25.7 as the minimum supported version, and the development guide directs contributors to use the version from go.mod. However, building with the current stable Go release (1.26.4) fails because the project resolves github.com/bytedance/sonic v1.14.1.

This appears to be the same upstream compatibility issue tracked by the Sonic project for Go 1.26.

It may be helpful to either:

• explicitly document that Go 1.26 is not yet supported for local development, or
• update the dependency if Go 1.26 support is intended.

[roy-abir05]

Hey @KingrogKDR, I can confirm this, it's another one of those project setup bugs I ran into myself. You are correct about the sonic/Go 1.26 GoMapIterator incompatibility. While waiting on a maintainer call on whether to bump the dependency or document the version constraint, you can use:
GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.25.7 make go-run-community

Alternatively, if you don't want to prefix it every time, you can export it in your current terminal session before running the make go command:
export GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.25.7
make go-run-community

[KingrogKDR]

Right. I ran it through the workaround. Opened an issue just in case the maintainers forget about it or may not notice it.

[Afshan738]

I would like to take this one. bytedance/sonic v1.15.0 added Go 1.26 support (bytedance/sonic#898) and a few other projects (nuclei, vet, mcphost, pgstream) hit this exact same error and fixed it by bumping to that version. I'll open a PR bumping the dependency and confirming the build works.

[Afshan738]

To be specific about the fix: I will bump github.com/bytedance/sonic from v1.14.1 to v1.15.0 in go.mod, run go mod tidy, and confirm the build succeeds on Go 1.26 without the GOTOOLCHAIN workaround. I will also run the existing test suite to make sure the version bump does not break anything else that depends on sonic.

[Afshan738]

Opened a fix for this: #11975

Bumps bytedance/sonic to v1.15.0, which added Go 1.26 support.