diff --git a/release-tools/.github/workflows/codespell.yml b/release-tools/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
index e74edcef..9e1ca103 100644
--- a/release-tools/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
+++ b/release-tools/.github/workflows/codespell.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Check for spelling errors
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
       - uses: codespell-project/actions-codespell@master
         with:
           check_filenames: true
diff --git a/release-tools/.github/workflows/trivy.yaml b/release-tools/.github/workflows/trivy.yaml
index 47298478..70c6a9d1 100644
--- a/release-tools/.github/workflows/trivy.yaml
+++ b/release-tools/.github/workflows/trivy.yaml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v5
 
       - name: Get Go version
         id: go-version
diff --git a/release-tools/cloudbuild.yaml b/release-tools/cloudbuild.yaml
index 1693df84..a6f86fa3 100644
--- a/release-tools/cloudbuild.yaml
+++ b/release-tools/cloudbuild.yaml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ steps:
   # The image must contain bash and curl. Ideally it should also contain
   # the desired version of Go (currently defined in release-tools/prow.sh),
   # but that just speeds up the build and is not required.
-  - name: 'gcr.io/k8s-testimages/gcb-docker-gcloud:v20240718-5ef92b5c36'
+  - name: 'gcr.io/k8s-staging-test-infra/gcb-docker-gcloud:v20240718-5ef92b5c36'
     entrypoint: ./.cloudbuild.sh
     env:
     - GIT_TAG=${_GIT_TAG}
diff --git a/release-tools/prow.sh b/release-tools/prow.sh
index 3e15fdf7..8bd015f6 100755
--- a/release-tools/prow.sh
+++ b/release-tools/prow.sh
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ configvar CSI_PROW_BUILD_PLATFORMS "linux amd64 amd64; linux ppc64le ppc64le -pp
 # which is disabled with GOFLAGS=-mod=vendor).
 configvar GOFLAGS_VENDOR "$( [ -d vendor ] && echo '-mod=vendor' )" "Go flags for using the vendor directory"
 
-configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD "1.24.4" "Go version for building the component" # depends on component's source code
+configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD "1.24.6" "Go version for building the component" # depends on component's source code
 configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_E2E "" "override Go version for building the Kubernetes E2E test suite" # normally doesn't need to be set, see install_e2e
 configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_SANITY "${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD}" "Go version for building the csi-sanity test suite" # depends on CSI_PROW_SANITY settings below
 configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_KIND "${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD}" "Go version for building 'kind'" # depends on CSI_PROW_KIND_VERSION below