diff --git a/common/.commonfiles.sha b/common/.commonfiles.sha
index 6c6d7474..a99e94ce 100644
--- a/common/.commonfiles.sha
+++ b/common/.commonfiles.sha
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0d85ad5c87d38bd06ea5d08814df61e747e9135a
+6943246e9954e4ba267186479cae64173ca0d102
diff --git a/common/config/.golangci.yml b/common/config/.golangci.yml
index 59dd3321..7bcf7cb3 100644
--- a/common/config/.golangci.yml
+++ b/common/config/.golangci.yml
@@ -5,30 +5,13 @@
 # common-files repo, make the change there and check it in. Then come back to this repo and run
 # "make update-common".
 
-service:
-  # When updating this, also update the version stored in docker/build-tools/Dockerfile in the istio/tools repo.
-  golangci-lint-version: 1.57.x # use the fixed version to not introduce new linters unexpectedly
 run:
-  # timeout for analysis, e.g. 30s, 5m, default is 1m
-  deadline: 20m
+  # Timeout for analysis, e.g. 30s, 5m.
+  # Default: 1m
+  timeout: 20m
   build-tags:
     - integ
     - integfuzz
-  # which dirs to skip: they won't be analyzed;
-  # can use regexp here: generated.*, regexp is applied on full path;
-  # default value is empty list, but next dirs are always skipped independently
-  # from this option's value:
-  #   	vendor$, third_party$, testdata$, examples$, Godeps$, builtin$
-  skip-dirs:
-    - genfiles$
-    - vendor$
-  # which files to skip: they will be analyzed, but issues from them
-  # won't be reported. Default value is empty list, but there is
-  # no need to include all autogenerated files, we confidently recognize
-  # autogenerated files. If it's not please let us know.
-  skip-files:
-    - ".*\\.pb\\.go"
-    - ".*\\.gen\\.go"
 linters:
   disable-all: true
   enable:
@@ -62,15 +45,13 @@ linters-settings:
     # default is false: such cases aren't reported by default.
     check-blank: false
   govet:
-    # report about shadowed variables
-    check-shadowing: false
+    disable:
+      # report about shadowed variables
+      - shadow
   goimports:
     # put imports beginning with prefix after 3rd-party packages;
     # it's a comma-separated list of prefixes
     local-prefixes: istio.io/
-  maligned:
-    # print struct with more effective memory layout or not, false by default
-    suggest-new: true
   misspell:
     # Correct spellings using locale preferences for US or UK.
     # Default is to use a neutral variety of English.
@@ -88,8 +69,6 @@ linters-settings:
     ignore-generated-header: false
     severity: "warning"
     confidence: 0.0
-    error-code: 2
-    warning-code: 1
     rules:
       - name: blank-imports
       - name: context-keys-type
@@ -146,16 +125,7 @@ linters-settings:
         # - name: flag-parameter
         # - name: unhandled-error
         # - name: if-return
-  unused:
-    # treat code as a program (not a library) and report unused exported identifiers; default is false.
-    # XXX: if you enable this setting, unused will report a lot of false-positives in text editors:
-    # if it's called for subdir of a project it can't find funcs usages. All text editor integrations
-    # with golangci-lint call it on a directory with the changed file.
-    check-exported: false
   unparam:
-    # call graph construction algorithm (cha, rta). In general, use cha for libraries,
-    # and rta for programs with main packages. Default is cha.
-    algo: cha
     # Inspect exported functions, default is false. Set to true if no external program/library imports your code.
     # XXX: if you enable this setting, unparam will report a lot of false-positives in text editors:
     # if it's called for subdir of a project it can't find external interfaces. All text editor integrations
@@ -167,6 +137,11 @@ linters-settings:
       - default # Contains all imports that could not be matched to another section type.
       - prefix(istio.io/) # Groups all imports with the specified Prefix.
   gocritic:
+    # Disable all checks.
+    # Default: false
+    disable-all: true
+    # Which checks should be enabled in addition to default checks. Since we don't want
+    # all of the default checks, we do the disable-all first.
     enabled-checks:
       - appendCombine
       - argOrder
@@ -212,24 +187,6 @@ linters-settings:
       - unslice
       - valSwap
       - weakCond
-      # Unused
-      # - yodaStyleExpr
-      # - appendAssign
-      # - commentFormatting
-      # - emptyStringTest
-      # - exitAfterDefer
-      # - ifElseChain
-      # - hugeParam
-      # - importShadow
-      # - nestingReduce
-      # - paramTypeCombine
-      # - ptrToRefParam
-      # - rangeValCopy
-      # - singleCaseSwitch
-      # - sloppyReassign
-      # - unlabelStmt
-      # - unnamedResult
-      # - wrapperFunc
   depguard:
     rules:
       DenyGogoProtobuf:
@@ -250,6 +207,24 @@ issues:
   # excluded by default patterns execute `golangci-lint run --help`
   exclude:
     - composite literal uses unkeyed fields
+  # Which dirs to exclude: issues from them won't be reported.
+  # Can use regexp here: `generated.*`, regexp is applied on full path,
+  # including the path prefix if one is set.
+  # Default dirs are skipped independently of this option's value (see exclude-dirs-use-default).
+  # "/" will be replaced by current OS file path separator to properly work on Windows.
+  # Default: []
+  exclude-dirs:
+    - genfiles$
+    - vendor$
+  # Which files to exclude: they will be analyzed, but issues from them won't be reported.
+  # There is no need to include all autogenerated files,
+  # we confidently recognize autogenerated files.
+  # If it's not, please let us know.
+  # "/" will be replaced by current OS file path separator to properly work on Windows.
+  # Default: []
+  exclude-files:
+    - ".*\\.pb\\.go"
+    - ".*\\.gen\\.go"
   exclude-rules:
     # Exclude some linters from running on test files.
     - path: _test\.go$|^tests/|^samples/
@@ -270,7 +245,9 @@ issues:
   # excluded by default patterns execute `golangci-lint run --help`.
   # Default value for this option is true.
   exclude-use-default: true
-  # Maximum issues count per one linter. Set to 0 to disable. Default is 50.
-  max-per-linter: 0
+  # Maximum issues count per one linter.
+  # Set to 0 to disable.
+  # Default: 50
+  max-issues-per-linter: 0
   # Maximum count of issues with the same text. Set to 0 to disable. Default is 3.
   max-same-issues: 0