diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 32c535eb7d..c2b5280d10 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ env:
   # /dev.Dockerfile
   # /make/builder.Dockerfile
   # /.github/workflows/release.yml
-  GO_VERSION: 1.20.3
+  GO_VERSION: 1.21.0
 
 jobs:
   ########################
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yaml b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
index d73344763b..6a02cad7b7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yaml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ env:
   # /dev.Dockerfile
   # /make/builder.Dockerfile
   # /.github/workflows/main.yml
-  GO_VERSION: 1.20.3
+  GO_VERSION: 1.21.0
 
 jobs:
   main:
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 4f30893f54..1d44fe7a68 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ go:
   # /make/builder.Dockerfile
   # /.github/workflows/main.yml
   # /.github/workflows/release.yml
-  - "1.20.3"
+  - "1.21.0"
 
 env:
   global:
diff --git a/build/version.go b/build/version.go
index 40b1719bb5..ce52231a8c 100644
--- a/build/version.go
+++ b/build/version.go
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ const (
 	AppMajor uint = 0
 
 	// AppMinor defines the minor version of this binary.
-	AppMinor uint = 16
+	AppMinor uint = 17
 
 	// AppPatch defines the application patch for this binary.
-	AppPatch uint = 99
+	AppPatch uint = 0
 
 	// AppPreRelease MUST only contain characters from semanticAlphabet
 	// per the semantic versioning spec.
-	AppPreRelease = "beta"
+	AppPreRelease = "beta.rc1"
 )
 
 func init() {
diff --git a/dev.Dockerfile b/dev.Dockerfile
index 9935fbde8d..c2b203d2d2 100644
--- a/dev.Dockerfile
+++ b/dev.Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # /make/builder.Dockerfile
 # /.github/workflows/main.yml
 # /.github/workflows/release.yml
-FROM golang:1.20.3-alpine as builder
+FROM golang:1.21.0-alpine as builder
 
 LABEL maintainer="Olaoluwa Osuntokun <laolu@lightning.engineering>"
 
diff --git a/make/builder.Dockerfile b/make/builder.Dockerfile
index efdc8b70b5..2948e75a95 100644
--- a/make/builder.Dockerfile
+++ b/make/builder.Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # /dev.Dockerfile
 # /.github/workflows/main.yml
 # /.github/workflows/release.yml
-FROM golang:1.20.3-buster
+FROM golang:1.21.0-buster
 
 MAINTAINER Olaoluwa Osuntokun <laolu@lightning.engineering>