feat: update golangci-lint version (#250)

Updated golangci-lint version (which prevented the release workflow from
running successfully).

**Checklist**

- [ ] I covered my changes with tests.
- [ ] I Updated the documentation that is affected by my changes:
  - [ ] Change in the CLI arguments
  - [ ] Change in the configuration file

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           go-version: "^1.22"
       - name: Go Linter
-        run: docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/app -w /app golangci/golangci-lint:v1.57.2 golangci-lint run -v -E gofmt --timeout=5m
+        run: docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/app -w /app golangci/golangci-lint:v1.61.0 golangci-lint run -v -E gofmt --timeout=5m
 
       - name: Unit Tests
         run: go test ./...