diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 24ed296b3..d7cbe6825 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # NVIDIA Container Toolkit Changelog
 
+## v1.19.0
+- Promote v1.19.0-rc.7 to v1.19.0
+
 ## v1.19.0-rc.7
 - fix: Reuse instantiated editsFactory in CDI
 - fix: Don't use driver version in ELF header for compat check
diff --git a/internal/nvsandboxutils/gen/nvsandboxutils/generateapi.go b/internal/nvsandboxutils/gen/nvsandboxutils/generateapi.go
index 1156f31d5..375de5d82 100644
--- a/internal/nvsandboxutils/gen/nvsandboxutils/generateapi.go
+++ b/internal/nvsandboxutils/gen/nvsandboxutils/generateapi.go
@@ -227,6 +227,8 @@ func getGoFiles(sourceDir string) (map[string][]byte, error) {
 			return nil
 		}
 
+		//nolint:gosec  // Since we are only using this during code generation
+		// we are not concerned with possible TOUTOC race conditions.
 		content, err := os.ReadFile(path)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
diff --git a/versions.mk b/versions.mk
index e61e1162d..dc3691a68 100644
--- a/versions.mk
+++ b/versions.mk
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 LIB_NAME := nvidia-container-toolkit
 LIB_VERSION := 1.19.0
-LIB_TAG := rc.7
+LIB_TAG :=
 
 # The package version is the combination of the library version and tag.
 # If the tag is specified the two components are joined with a tilde (~).