diff --git a/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.38.2.ebuild b/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.38.2.ebuild
index 0403a4b112a0c..9e57eec4aadd5 100644
--- a/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.38.2.ebuild
+++ b/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.38.2.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=8
 inherit go-module shell-completion systemd
 
 # Starting at v0.37.0 migrations are builtin. Older versions still needs
-# external programs to migrate so we should let the deprecated method for a 
+# external programs to migrate so we should let the deprecated method for a
 # couple of releases more.
 
 # Upstreams has a directory for each migration, for example fs-repo-15-to-16,
diff --git a/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.40.1.ebuild b/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.40.1.ebuild
index b45d4989c3da4..f0c6e7ce87a0b 100644
--- a/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.40.1.ebuild
+++ b/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.40.1.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=8
 inherit go-module shell-completion systemd
 
 # Starting at v0.37.0 migrations are builtin. Older versions still needs
-# external programs to migrate so we should let the deprecated method for a 
+# external programs to migrate so we should let the deprecated method for a
 # couple of releases more.
 
 # Upstreams has a directory for each migration, for example fs-repo-15-to-16,
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ LICENSE="Apache-2.0 BSD BSD-2 CC0-1.0 ISC MIT MPL-2.0"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 ~x86"
 
+BDEPEND="
+	>=dev-lang/go-1.25.0
+"
 DEPEND="
 	acct-group/ipfs
 	acct-user/ipfs
diff --git a/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.41.0.ebuild b/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.41.0.ebuild
index 5e66bb17a364b..e6810b700f614 100644
--- a/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.41.0.ebuild
+++ b/net-p2p/kubo/kubo-0.41.0.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=8
 inherit go-module shell-completion systemd
 
 # Starting at v0.37.0 migrations are builtin. Older versions still needs
-# external programs to migrate so we should let the deprecated method for a 
+# external programs to migrate so we should let the deprecated method for a
 # couple of releases more.
 
 # Upstreams has a directory for each migration, for example fs-repo-15-to-16,
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ LICENSE="Apache-2.0 BSD BSD-2 CC0-1.0 ISC MIT MPL-2.0"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
 
+BDEPEND="
+	>=dev-lang/go-1.26.2
+"
 DEPEND="
 	acct-group/ipfs
 	acct-user/ipfs