diff --git a/package/balena-engine/balena-engine.hash b/package/balena-engine/balena-engine.hash
index 4adb8ce561..6a92a40cc8 100644
--- a/package/balena-engine/balena-engine.hash
+++ b/package/balena-engine/balena-engine.hash
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Locally computed
-sha256  4fb38109d133d499de366466a612fb6f523ea99d56fcd69b45dc494a75fbce0f  balena-engine-20.10.21.tar.gz
+sha256  1482b64e35d5406be719e362647ed7d0599cf4eead7770247ebd972c4c85ede5  balena-engine-20.10.26.tar.gz
 sha256  7c87873291f289713ac5df48b1f2010eb6963752bbd6b530416ab99fc37914a8  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/balena-engine/balena-engine.mk b/package/balena-engine/balena-engine.mk
index ecfb62bfbf..49d526a465 100644
--- a/package/balena-engine/balena-engine.mk
+++ b/package/balena-engine/balena-engine.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-BALENA_ENGINE_VERSION = 20.10.21
+BALENA_ENGINE_VERSION = 20.10.26
 BALENA_ENGINE_SITE = $(call github,balena-os,balena-engine,v$(BALENA_ENGINE_VERSION))
 
 BALENA_ENGINE_LICENSE = Apache-2.0
@@ -34,6 +34,17 @@ BALENA_ENGINE_TAGS = \
 
 BALENA_ENGINE_BUILD_TARGETS = cmd/balena-engine
 
+# create the go.mod file with language version go1.19
+# remove the conflicting vendor/modules.txt
+# remove the conflicting vendor/archive (not allowed in go1.20)
+# https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/44618#issuecomment-1343565705
+define BALENA_ENGINE_FIX_VENDORING
+	printf "module $(BALENA_ENGINE_GOMOD)\n\ngo 1.19\n" > $(@D)/go.mod
+	rm -f $(@D)/vendor/modules.txt
+	rm -rf $(@D)/vendor/archive
+endef
+BALENA_ENGINE_POST_EXTRACT_HOOKS += BALENA_ENGINE_FIX_VENDORING
+
 ifeq ($(BR2_INIT_SYSTEMD),y)
 BALENA_ENGINE_DEPENDENCIES += systemd
 BALENA_ENGINE_TAGS += journald