diff --git a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
index 50ab76791e03d..d86dff9f27557 100644
--- a/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
+++ b/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 	"features": {
 		"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/docker-in-docker:2": {},
 		"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/go:1": {
-			"version": "1.26.0"
+			"version": "1.26.2"
 		}
 	},
 
diff --git a/.github/actions/install-go/action.yml b/.github/actions/install-go/action.yml
index 6e1e9a596d277..dd7790a54429f 100644
--- a/.github/actions/install-go/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/install-go/action.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ description: "Reusable action to install Go, so there is one place to bump Go ve
 inputs:
   go-version:
     required: true
-    default: "1.26.0"
+    default: "1.26.2"
     description: "Go version to install"
 
 runs:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/api-release.yml b/.github/workflows/api-release.yml
index e09a46bfa9fd0..8e6eae28a8ae5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/api-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/api-release.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ on:
 name: API Release
 
 env:
-  GO_VERSION: "1.26.0"
+  GO_VERSION: "1.26.2"
 
 permissions: # added using https://github.com/step-security/secure-workflows
   contents: read
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index b5771928a9f00..3283d0d134521 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, ubuntu-24.04-arm, macos-latest, windows-latest]
-        go-version: ["1.26.0", "1.26.1"] # 1.25 is not supported due to k8s 1.36 requiring 1.26
+        go-version: ["1.26.1", "1.26.2"] # 1.25 is not supported due to k8s 1.36 requiring 1.26
         exclude:
           - os: ${{ github.event.repository.private && 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' || '' }}
     steps:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release/Dockerfile b/.github/workflows/release/Dockerfile
index 16c729c309f96..14d0a08b4ca55 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release/Dockerfile
+++ b/.github/workflows/release/Dockerfile
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=22.04
 ARG BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:${UBUNTU_VERSION}
-ARG GO_VERSION=1.26.0
+ARG GO_VERSION=1.26.2
 ARG GO_IMAGE=golang:${GO_VERSION}
 FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM $GO_IMAGE AS go
 FROM --platform=$BUILDPLATFORM tonistiigi/xx:1.6.1@sha256:923441d7c25f1e2eb5789f82d987693c47b8ed987c4ab3b075d6ed2b5d6779a3 AS xx
diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 0aa8f9b74dedf..518357c05b43c 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ EOF
   config.vm.provision "install-golang", type: "shell", run: "once" do |sh|
     sh.upload_path = "/tmp/vagrant-install-golang"
     sh.env = {
-        'GO_VERSION': ENV['GO_VERSION'] || "1.26.0",
+        'GO_VERSION': ENV['GO_VERSION'] || "1.26.2",
     }
     sh.inline = <<~SHELL
         #!/usr/bin/env bash
diff --git a/contrib/Dockerfile.test b/contrib/Dockerfile.test
index 624f7c6e5d4ea..00f8477e56c54 100644
--- a/contrib/Dockerfile.test
+++ b/contrib/Dockerfile.test
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 #   docker run --privileged --group-add keep-groups -v ./critest_exit_code.txt:/tmp/critest_exit_code.txt containerd-test
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-ARG GOLANG_VERSION=1.26.0
+ARG GOLANG_VERSION=1.26.2
 ARG GOLANG_IMAGE=golang
 
 FROM ${GOLANG_IMAGE}:${GOLANG_VERSION} AS golang
diff --git a/contrib/fuzz/oss_fuzz_build.sh b/contrib/fuzz/oss_fuzz_build.sh
index 2acbf63853b3a..33539684fb63d 100755
--- a/contrib/fuzz/oss_fuzz_build.sh
+++ b/contrib/fuzz/oss_fuzz_build.sh
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ compile_fuzzers() {
 
 apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget
 cd $SRC
-wget --quiet https://go.dev/dl/go1.26.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
+wget --quiet https://go.dev/dl/go1.26.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
 
 mkdir temp-go
 rm -rf /root/.go/*
-tar -C temp-go/ -xzf go1.26.0.linux-amd64.tar.gz
+tar -C temp-go/ -xzf go1.26.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
 mv temp-go/go/* /root/.go/
 cd $SRC/containerd
 
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index d3cccdd70fab4..6dcc61cdb957c 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/containerd/containerd/v2
 
-go 1.26.0
+go 1.26.2
 
 require (
 	dario.cat/mergo v1.0.2
diff --git a/script/setup/prepare_env_windows.ps1 b/script/setup/prepare_env_windows.ps1
index 240fb44ed862d..1076350502466 100644
--- a/script/setup/prepare_env_windows.ps1
+++ b/script/setup/prepare_env_windows.ps1
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # lived test environment.
 Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring:$true
 
-$PACKAGES= @{ mingw = "10.2.0"; git = ""; golang = "1.26.0"; make = ""; nssm = "" }
+$PACKAGES= @{ mingw = "10.2.0"; git = ""; golang = "1.26.2"; make = ""; nssm = "" }
 
 Write-Host "Downloading chocolatey package"
 curl.exe -L "https://packages.chocolatey.org/chocolatey.0.10.15.nupkg" -o 'c:\choco.zip'