Manually updating dependencies

[jhbeskow]

🎟️ Tracking

🚧 Type of change

• 🧹 Tech debt (refactoring, code cleanup, dependency upgrades, etc.)

📔 Objective

Updating dependency versions to the latest available without breaking changes.

📋 Code changes

• src/sm-operator/Dockerfile: We are targeting Go v1.21
• src/sm-operator/go.mod: Updating direct dependencies to latest versions that do not require Go 1.22 or break other libraries.
• src/sm-operator/go.sum: Updating direct dependencies to latest versions that do not require Go 1.22 or break other libraries.

⏰ Reminders before review

• Contributor guidelines followed
• All formatters and local linters executed and passed
• Written new unit and / or integration tests where applicable
• Protected functional changes with optionality (feature flags)
• Used internationalization (i18n) for all UI strings
• CI builds passed
• Communicated to DevOps any deployment requirements
• Updated any necessary documentation (Confluence, contributing docs) or informed the documentation team

🦮 Reviewer guidelines

• 👍 (:+1:) or similar for great changes
• 📝 (:memo:) or ℹ️ (:information_source:) for notes or general info
• ❓ (:question:) for questions
• 🤔 (:thinking:) or 💭 (:thought_balloon:) for more open inquiry that's not quite a confirmed issue and could potentially benefit from discussion
• 🎨 (:art:) for suggestions / improvements
• ❌ (:x:) or ⚠️ (:warning:) for more significant problems or concerns needing attention
• 🌱 (:seedling:) or ♻️ (:recycle:) for future improvements or indications of technical debt
• ⛏ (:pick:) for minor or nitpick changes

[Thomas-Avery]

LGTM