chore: upgrade golangci-lint to v2.6 (#348)

Author: G-Rath

.github/workflows/checks.yml

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run golangci-lint
         uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@0a35821d5c230e903fcfe077583637dea1b27b47 # v9.0.0
         with:
-          version: v2.5
+          version: v2.6
   go-fmt:
     permissions:
       contents: read # to fetch code (actions/checkout)

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run golangci-lint
         uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@0a35821d5c230e903fcfe077583637dea1b27b47 # v9.0.0
         with:
-          version: v2.5
+          version: v2.6
   go-fmt:
     permissions:
       contents: read # to fetch code (actions/checkout)

.golangci.yaml

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ linters:
     - wrapcheck       # not (yet) convinced
     - wsl             # disagree with, for now
     - wsl_v5          # disagree with, for now
+
+    - modernize
   settings:
     depguard:
       rules:

Makefile

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ test-with-coverage:
 lint:	lint-with-golangci-lint lint-with-go-fmt
 
 lint-with-golangci-lint:
-	go run github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@v2.5.0 run ./...
+	go run github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@v2.6.2 run ./...
 
 lint-with-go-fmt:
 	gofmt -s -d */**.go