diff --git a/.ci-operator.yaml b/.ci-operator.yaml
index ffa938cf0..b14fb3fdf 100644
--- a/.ci-operator.yaml
+++ b/.ci-operator.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 build_root_image:
   name: release
   namespace: openshift
-  tag: golang-1.10
+  tag: rhel-8-release-golang-1.19-openshift-4.12
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 00f1bc9c6..3fcacbf06 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module gopkg.in/k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni.v3
 
-go 1.17
+go 1.19
 
 require (
 	github.com/blang/semver v3.5.1+incompatible
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index c622457ac..6de12b24d 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ github.com/buger/jsonparser v0.0.0-20180808090653-f4dd9f5a6b44/go.mod h1:bbYlZJ7
 github.com/caddyserver/caddy v1.0.3/go.mod h1:G+ouvOY32gENkJC+jhgl62TyhvqEsFaDiZ4uw0RzP1E=
 github.com/cenkalti/backoff v2.1.1+incompatible/go.mod h1:90ReRw6GdpyfrHakVjL/QHaoyV4aDUVVkXQJJJ3NXXM=
 github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-proto v0.2.1/go.mod h1:f6KPmirojxKA12rnyqOA5BBL4O983OfeGPqjHWSTneU=
-github.com/cespare/xxhash v1.1.0 h1:a6HrQnmkObjyL+Gs60czilIUGqrzKutQD6XZog3p+ko=
 github.com/cespare/xxhash v1.1.0/go.mod h1:XrSqR1VqqWfGrhpAt58auRo0WTKS1nRRg3ghfAqPWnc=
 github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.1.1 h1:6MnRN8NT7+YBpUIWxHtefFZOKTAPgGjpQSxqLNn0+qY=
 github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.1.1/go.mod h1:VGX0DQ3Q6kWi7AoAeZDth3/j3BFtOZR5XLFGgcrjCOs=