diff --git a/.circleci/main.yml b/.circleci/main.yml
index 7f0ec1abd93..1fdcc9230fb 100644
--- a/.circleci/main.yml
+++ b/.circleci/main.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ default_environment: &default_environment
 executors:
   golang:
     docker:
-      - image: cimg/go:1.18
+      - image: cimg/go:1.17.8
     working_directory: ~/ipfs/go-ipfs
     environment:
       <<: *default_environment
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ executors:
       E2E_IPFSD_TYPE: go
   dockerizer:
     docker:
-      - image: cimg/go:1.18
+      - image: cimg/go:1.17.8
     environment:
       IMAGE_NAME: ipfs/go-ipfs
       WIP_IMAGE_TAG: wip
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@ jobs:
     - run: sudo apt update
     - run: |
         mkdir ~/localgo && cd ~/localgo
-        wget https://golang.org/dl/go1.18.linux-amd64.tar.gz
-        tar xfz go1.18.linux-amd64.tar.gz
+        wget https://golang.org/dl/go1.17.8.linux-amd64.tar.gz
+        tar xfz go1.17.8.linux-amd64.tar.gz
         echo "export PATH=$(pwd)/go/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
     - run: go version
     - run: sudo apt install socat net-tools
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ jobs:
       - *store_gomod
   interop:
     docker:
-      - image: cimg/go:1.18-node
+      - image: cimg/go:1.17.8-node
     parallelism: 4
     resource_class: large
     steps:
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 114388b9294..239a7fa6d61 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Note: when updating the go minor version here, also update the go-channel in snap/snapcraft.yml
-FROM golang:1.18-buster
+FROM golang:1.17.8-buster
 LABEL maintainer="Steven Allen <steven@stebalien.com>"
 
 # Install deps
diff --git a/snap/snapcraft.yaml b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
index c9d73395f61..5852fa8846b 100644
--- a/snap/snapcraft.yaml
+++ b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ parts:
     source-tag: master
     plugin: go
     # keep me up to date with the go version that go-ipfs expects to be built with.
-    go-channel: 1.18/stable
+    go-channel: 1.17/stable
     go-importpath: github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs
     build-packages:
         - build-essential