diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index 235a4ec58..5ba08eedf 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ linters:
   disable:
     - cyclop            # covered by gocyclo
     - depguard          # not needed
-    - exhaustruct
+    - exhaustruct       # don't _always_ need to exhaustively create struct
+    - exhaustruct_v5    # don't _always_ need to exhaustively create struct
     - funlen            # rely on code review to limit function length
     - gochecknoglobals  # sometimes useful to declare constants
     - gocognit          # dubious "cognitive overhead" quantification
+    - goconst           # too noisy
+    - gomodguard        # replaced with gomodguard_v2
     - ireturn           # "accept interfaces, return structs" isn't ironclad
     - lll               # don't want hard limits for line length
     - maintidx          # covered by gocyclo
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6ab1dc9f4..2fd3f2e19 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ DOCKER_BUILD_EXTRA_ARGS ?=
 DOCKER_BUILDER := bufbuild-plugins
 DOCKER_CACHE_DIR ?= $(TMP)/dockercache
 GO ?= go
-GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION ?= v2.11.4
+GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION ?= v2.13.1
 GOLANGCI_LINT := $(TMP)/golangci-lint-$(GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION)
 # OUTPUT_DIR is the directory where plugin zip files are written by `make package`.
 OUTPUT_DIR ?= $(TMP)/plugins
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 53b0cfefc..53d87f46e 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/bufbuild/plugins
 
-go 1.26
+go 1.27
 
 require (
 	aead.dev/minisign v0.3.0
diff --git a/internal/cmd/release/candidates.go b/internal/cmd/release/candidates.go
index f8bd047b0..f4f8cd497 100644
--- a/internal/cmd/release/candidates.go
+++ b/internal/cmd/release/candidates.go
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ func (c *command) addPackageVersionCandidates(
 ) ([]pluginNameVersion, error) {
 	var added []pluginNameVersion
 	opts := &github.PackageListOptions{
-		ListOptions: github.ListOptions{PerPage: 100},
+		PerPage: 100,
 	}
 	for {
 		versions, resp, err := ghClient.GitHub.Organizations.PackageGetAllVersions(