I have tried to switch to v1.5.0 from v4.1.2+incompatible but because the version number decreased it caused a downgrade of all other dependencies using chi. For example, I have started with this:

git.example.com/commons/pkg/rest v1.3.2
github.com/go-chi/chi v4.1.2+incompatible
github.com/go-chi/render v1.0.1

After running go get github.com/go-chi/[email protected] I got:

git.example.com/commons/pkg/rest v1.1.0
github.com/go-chi/chi v1.5.1
github.com/go-chi/render v1.0.1

As you can see my pkg/rest downgraded to some old version and such side effects can be very unexpected and unpleasant.

Is there a reason why you decided to go with v1.5.x and not with a more traditional (and less dangerous) approach with v5 (also changing the package name to "/v5")? I'm not sure how to deal with this. In order to avoid those unexpected downgrades I have to have all of my dependencies migrated to v1.5, but unfortunately some of them not under my control.