Backport of upgrade go to 1.26.7 into release/1.8.x

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Backport

This PR is auto-generated from #1262 to be assessed for backporting due to the inclusion of the label backport/1.8.

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• Manually completing the cherry picks into this branch
• Creating a new branch and manually cherry-picking all commits being backported

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• If applicable, I've documented the impact of any changes to security controls.

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