Bump Kube API Linter version to latest

Signed-off-by: sivchari <[email protected]>

Author: sivchari

.github/workflows/pr-golangci-lint.yaml

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: golangci-lint
         uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@4afd733a84b1f43292c63897423277bb7f4313a9 # tag=v8.0.0
         with:
-          version: v2.4.0
+          version: v2.6.1
           working-directory: ${{matrix.working-directory}}
       - name: Lint API
         run: make lint-api

.golangci-kal.yml

@@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ linters:
       linters:
         - kubeapilinter
     - path: "api/addons/v1beta2|api/bootstrap/kubeadm/v1beta2|api/controlplane/kubeadm/v1beta2|api/core/v1beta2|api/ipam/v1beta2|api/runtime/v1beta2"
-      text: "ssatags: Conditions should have a listType marker for proper Server-Side Apply behavior"
+      text: "ssatags: .*Conditions should have a listType marker for proper Server-Side Apply behavior"
       linters:
         - kubeapilinter
     - path: "api/core/v1beta2"
-      text: "field Conditions type Conditions must have a maximum items, add kubebuilder:validation:MaxItems marker"
+      text: "field .*Conditions type Conditions must have a maximum items, add kubebuilder:validation:MaxItems marker"
       linters:
         - kubeapilinter
     - path: "api/core/v1beta2/condition_types.go"
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ linters:
     ## Excludes for JSONSchemaProps
     # We want to align to the JSON tags of the CustomResourceDefinition fields.
     - path: "api/core/v1beta2/clusterclass_types"
-      text: "field (XPreserveUnknownFields|XPreserveUnknownFields|XValidations|XMetadata|XIntOrString) json tag does not match pattern"
+      text: "field JSONSchemaProps.(XPreserveUnknownFields|XPreserveUnknownFields|XValidations|XMetadata|XIntOrString) json tag does not match pattern"
       linters:
         - kubeapilinter
     # We want to align Properties to the corresponding field in CustomResourceDefinitions.
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ linters:
     ## Excludes for kubeadm types
     # We want to align the FeatureGates field to the FeatureGates field in kubeadm.
     - path: "api/bootstrap/kubeadm/v1beta2/kubeadm_types.go"
-      text: "nomaps: FeatureGates should not use a map type, use a list type with a unique name/identifier instead"
+      text: "nomaps: ClusterConfiguration.FeatureGates should not use a map type, use a list type with a unique name/identifier instead"
       linters:
         - kubeapilinter
 
@@ -166,11 +166,11 @@ linters:
 
     # Excludes for existing default markers 
     - path: "api/core/v1beta2/clusterclass_types.go"
-      text: 'forbiddenmarkers: field Reason has forbidden marker "kubebuilder:default=FieldValueInvalid"'
+      text: 'forbiddenmarkers: field ValidationRule.Reason has forbidden marker "kubebuilder:default=FieldValueInvalid"'
       linters:
         - kubeapilinter
     - path: "api/core/v1beta2/clusterclass_types.go"
-      text: 'forbiddenmarkers: field Reason has forbidden marker "default=ref\(sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/api/core/v1beta2.FieldValueInvalid\)"'
+      text: 'forbiddenmarkers: field ValidationRule.Reason has forbidden marker "default=ref\(sigs.k8s.io/cluster-api/api/core/v1beta2.FieldValueInvalid\)"'
       linters:
         - kubeapilinter
 

hack/tools/.custom-gcl.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-version: v2.4.0
+version: v2.6.1
 name: golangci-lint-kube-api-linter
 destination: ./bin
 plugins:
 - module: 'sigs.k8s.io/kube-api-linter'
-  version: v0.0.0-20250908163129-65a570bd22aa
+  version: v0.0.0-20251107220451-f87b38edda8c