From 0bb6a44739c4771c9c6636507538ce8be65bfc29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nitya Dhanushkodi <nitya@hashicorp.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:48:46 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] add changelog and update contributing guide for go version
 (#883)

---
 CHANGELOG.md    | 1 +
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 87da8d9f14..ffed0d9f64 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ BREAKING CHANGES:
   ```
   
   [[GH-851](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/851)]
+* Update minimum go version for project to 1.17 [[GH-878](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul-k8s/pull/878)]
 
 FEATURES:
 * Helm Chart
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index ec4aaf9192..f63ebdf5b4 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 ### Building and running `consul-k8s-control-plane`
 
-To build and install the control plane binary `consul-k8s` locally, Go version 1.11.4+ is required because this repository uses go modules and go 1.11.4 introduced changes to checksumming of modules to correct a symlink problem.
+To build and install the control plane binary `consul-k8s` locally, Go version 1.17.0+ is required. 
 You will also need to install the Docker engine:
 
 - [Docker for Mac](https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/mac/)