diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/eclass/coreos-go-depend.eclass b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/eclass/coreos-go-depend.eclass
index 1177d8fa3f..724ed36fca 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/eclass/coreos-go-depend.eclass
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/eclass/coreos-go-depend.eclass
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
 # @CODE
 # COREOS_GO_VERSION=go1.20
 # @CODE
-export COREOS_GO_VERSION="${COREOS_GO_VERSION:-go1.22}"
+export COREOS_GO_VERSION="${COREOS_GO_VERSION:-go1.23}"
 
 case "${EAPI:-0}" in
-	7|8) BDEPEND="dev-lang/go:${COREOS_GO_VERSION#go}=" ;;
+	7|8) BDEPEND=">=dev-lang/go-${COREOS_GO_VERSION#go}:=" ;;
 	*) die "Unsupported EAPI=${EAPI} for ${ECLASS}"
 esac