🌱 Bump Go to v1.24.8

[mboersma]

What type of PR is this?

/kind cleanup

What this PR does / why we need it:

Updates the Go compiler and tools to v1.24.8.

go1.24.8 (released 2025-10-07) includes security fixes to the archive/tar, crypto/tls, crypto/x509, encoding/asn1, encoding/pem, net/http, net/mail, net/textproto, and net/url packages, as well as bug fixes to the compiler, the linker, and the debug/pe, net/http, os, and sync/atomic packages. See the Go 1.24.8 milestone on our issue tracker for details.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

N/A, but see #12733 for prior art.

/area dependency

[mboersma]

/cherry-pick release-1.11

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[mboersma]

ERROR: docker.io/library/golang:1.24.8: not found

I think we are too early. I'll re-run CI once this container image is published.

[mboersma]

/retest

[mboersma]

/cc @pratik-mahalle

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[sbueringer]

/lgtm
/approve

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[k8s-infra-cherrypick-robot]

@mboersma: new pull request created: #12829

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/cherry-pick release-1.11

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