diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 23be742e613c..fbf2175b2863 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TARGETS := $(shell ls scripts | grep -v \\.sh)
 GO_FILES ?= $$(find . -name '*.go' | grep -v generated)
-GO_VERSION ?= 1.20.4
+GO_VERSION ?= 1.22.6
 USE_DAPPER ?= 1
 UNAME := $(shell uname -m)
 SHELL = /bin/bash
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 6bd4eb7bedbd..02fb83071fe5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,25 +1,31 @@
+k3s (1.31.1+k3s1+ind1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * upgrade k3s
+
+ -- Industrial OS Team <industrial-os@edge.siemens.cloud>  Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:46:00 +0200
+
 k3s (1.27.2+k3s1+mel4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * set HOME in rules to allow successful go builds
 
- -- Joe MacDonald <joe.macdonald@siemens.com>  Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:06:00 -0400
+ -- Industrial OS Team <industrial-os@edge.siemens.cloud>  Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:06:00 -0400
 
 k3s (1.27.2+k3s1+mel3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * Add git to Build-Depends since debian/source/format requires it
 
- -- Mentor Embedded <embedded_support@mentor.com>  Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:30:00 +0100
+ -- Industrial OS Team <industrial-os@edge.siemens.cloud>  Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:30:00 +0100
 
 k3s (1.27.2+k3s1+mel2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * local package
   * Correct service file exec locations
 
- -- Joe MacDonald <joe.macdonald@siemens.com>  Tue, 04 Jul 2023 07:47:19 -0400
+ -- Industrial OS Team <industrial-os@edge.siemens.cloud>  Tue, 04 Jul 2023 07:47:19 -0400
 
 k3s (1.27.2+k3s1+mel1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   * local package
   * Packaging k3s from meta-virtualization for Sokol Linux
 
- -- Joe MacDonald <joe.macdonald@siemens.com>  Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:14:13 -0400
+ -- Industrial OS Team <industrial-os@edge.siemens.cloud>  Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:14:13 -0400
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index c48c9790d830..eddfbd5d4117 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Rules-Requires-Root: no
 
 Package: k3s
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ca-certificates, conntrack-tools, iproute2, ipset, iptables, libc6 (>= 2.37), containerd
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ca-certificates, conntrack, iproute2, ipset, iptables, libc6 (>= 2.36), runc, libipset13, containerd
 Description: Lightweight Kubernetes client binary (k3s)
  K3s - Lightweight Kubernetes - is a portable, extensible, open-source
  platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that
diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 13e368695676..2e1444fdbc39 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@ License: Apache-2.0
  .
  On Debian systems, the complete text of the Apache version 2.0 license
  can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0".
+
+Files: debian/*
+Copyright: 2024, Siemens
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 12d2b28c22a5..4b0ccbcdb30c 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ export USE_DAPPER ?= 0
 # default solution to this problem for some packages:
 # 	https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2018/08/msg00003.html
 export HOME = $(CURDIR)
+# DRONE_TAG is used by dapper, which gets the version from the git tag, 
+# but because dapper is not used in the build process will initialize it
+# here based on the git tag
+DRONE_TAG=v1.31.1+k3s1
 
 %:
 	dh $@
@@ -22,6 +26,9 @@ override_dh_auto_configure:
 	make generate
 endif
 
+override_dh_auto_build:
+	dh_auto_build -- DRONE_TAG=$(DRONE_TAG)
+
 override_dh_auto_test:
 	@echo Skipping tests
 
diff --git a/debian/source/lintian-overrides b/debian/source/lintian-overrides
index 4d5b846de3fb..de00adfd5ee0 100644
--- a/debian/source/lintian-overrides
+++ b/debian/source/lintian-overrides
@@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ unsupported-source-format
 # upstream sources aren't part of the git source format
 empty-upstream-sources
 # this is the formatting used by the k3s.io project for their releases
-malformed-debian-changelog-version 1.27.2+k3s1+mel1 (for non-native)
+malformed-debian-changelog-version 1.31.1+k3s1+mel5 (for non-native)
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 3e922385d27c..e75765b7404a 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/k3s-io/k3s
 
-go 1.22.5
+go 1.22.6
 
 replace (
 	github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim => github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim v0.11.7