diff --git a/internal/registry/errors.go b/internal/registry/errors.go
index 9b321ab015..e27eb3e7a6 100644
--- a/internal/registry/errors.go
+++ b/internal/registry/errors.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.23
+
 package registry
 
 import (
@@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ func invalidParam(err error) error {
 	return invalidParameterErr{err}
 }
 
-func invalidParamf(format string, args ...interface{}) error {
+func invalidParamf(format string, args ...any) error {
 	return invalidParameterErr{fmt.Errorf(format, args...)}
 }
 
diff --git a/internal/registry/registry_mock_test.go b/internal/registry/registry_mock_test.go
index 6ccabce5bc..13c637852e 100644
--- a/internal/registry/registry_mock_test.go
+++ b/internal/registry/registry_mock_test.go
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func writeHeaders(w http.ResponseWriter) {
 	h.Add("Cache-Control", "no-cache")
 }
 
-func writeResponse(w http.ResponseWriter, message interface{}, code int) {
+func writeResponse(w http.ResponseWriter, message any, code int) {
 	writeHeaders(w)
 	w.WriteHeader(code)
 	body, err := json.Marshal(message)