Upgrading Golangci-lint to v2

Golangci-lint v2 was released in March 2025 , bringing major architectural improvements and a cleaner configuration format. Despite being available for over seven months, adoption remains low.

If you are maintaining a Go project, now is the time to upgrade. This article covers why you should make the switch and provides a step-by-step walkthrough using a real-world project.

Screenshot of Golangci-lint v2 website (dark theme)
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Found a group of malicious Go projects injected with trojan

I accidentally discovered malicious programs in the Go ecosystem that impersonate legitimate tools such as the linter ldez/usetesting , the HCL editor go.mercari.io/hcledit , the official MailerSend Go SDK mailersend/mailersend-go , and many more. These programs are not very popular but are still used by some developers. By the time I wrote this article, I had reported the malicious repositories to GitHub support, and most of them have been deleted.

VirusTotal scan results for the trojan `f0eee999`
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