diff --git a/.golangci.yaml b/.golangci.yaml
index dfd5fe5c..39a9e2e3 100644
--- a/.golangci.yaml
+++ b/.golangci.yaml
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
-run:
-  timeout: 10m
-linters-settings:
-  funlen:
-    lines: 75
+issues:
+  max-same-issues: 25
+
+  # TODO: enable this when we have coverage on docstring comments
+#  # The list of ids of default excludes to include or disable.
+#  include:
+#    - EXC0002 # disable excluding of issues about comments from golint
+
 linters:
   # inverted configuration with `enable-all` and `disable` is not scalable during updates of golangci-lint
   disable-all: true
   enable:
     - asciicheck
     - bodyclose
-    - depguard
     - dogsled
     - dupl
     - errcheck
@@ -37,18 +39,38 @@ linters:
     - unused
     - whitespace
 
+linters-settings:
+  funlen:
+    # Checks the number of lines in a function.
+    # If lower than 0, disable the check.
+    # Default: 60
+    lines: 70
+    # Checks the number of statements in a function.
+    # If lower than 0, disable the check.
+    # Default: 40
+    statements: 50
+output:
+  uniq-by-line: false
+run:
+  timeout: 10m
+
 # do not enable...
-#    - deadcode     # The owner seems to have abandoned the linter. Replaced by "unused".
+#    - deadcode          # The owner seems to have abandoned the linter. Replaced by "unused".
+#    - depguard          # We don't have a configuration for this yet
+#    - goprintffuncname  # does not catch all cases and there are exceptions
+#    - nakedret          # does not catch all cases and should not fail a build
 #    - gochecknoglobals
 #    - gochecknoinits    # this is too aggressive
+#    - rowserrcheck disabled per generics https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/issues/2649
 #    - godot
 #    - godox
 #    - goerr113
-#    - golint       # deprecated
-#    - gomnd        # this is too aggressive
-#    - interfacer   # this is a good idea, but is no longer supported and is prone to false positives
-#    - lll          # without a way to specify per-line exception cases, this is not usable
-#    - maligned     # this is an excellent linter, but tricky to optimize and we are not sensitive to memory layout optimizations
+#    - goimports   # we're using gosimports now instead to account for extra whitespaces (see https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20818)
+#    - golint      # deprecated
+#    - gomnd       # this is too aggressive
+#    - interfacer  # this is a good idea, but is no longer supported and is prone to false positives
+#    - lll         # without a way to specify per-line exception cases, this is not usable
+#    - maligned    # this is an excellent linter, but tricky to optimize and we are not sensitive to memory layout optimizations
 #    - nestif
 #    - nolintlint   # as of go1.19 this conflicts with the behavior of gofmt, which is a deal-breaker (lint-fix will still fail when running lint)
 #    - prealloc     # following this rule isn't consistently a good idea, as it sometimes forces unnecessary allocations that result in less idiomatic code
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 38651e08..dced9302 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ LINT_CMD = $(TEMP_DIR)/golangci-lint run --tests=false --config .golangci.yaml
 GOIMPORTS_CMD := $(TEMP_DIR)/gosimports -local github.com/anchore
 
 # Tool versions #################################
-GOLANGCILINT_VERSION := v1.52.2
+GOLANGCILINT_VERSION := v1.56.0
 GOSIMPORTS_VERSION := v0.3.8
 BOUNCER_VERSION := v0.4.0
 CHRONICLE_VERSION := v0.6.0
diff --git a/deprecated.go b/deprecated.go
index 65c52686..3d4d20d9 100644
--- a/deprecated.go
+++ b/deprecated.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package stereoscope
 
 import (
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 )
 
@@ -11,7 +12,6 @@ import (
 // in the user input text is not necessary and should be avoided due to some ambiguity this introduces
 func ExtractSchemeSource(userInput string, sources ...string) (source, newInput string) {
 	const SchemeSeparator = ":"
-
 	parts := strings.SplitN(userInput, SchemeSeparator, 2)
 	if len(parts) < 2 {
 		return "", userInput
@@ -19,11 +19,9 @@ func ExtractSchemeSource(userInput string, sources ...string) (source, newInput
 	// the user may have provided a source hint (or this is a split from a path or docker image reference, we aren't certain yet)
 	sourceHint := parts[0]
 	sourceHint = strings.TrimSpace(strings.ToLower(sourceHint))
-	// validate the hint against the possible tags
-	for _, source = range sources {
-		if source == sourceHint {
-			return source, parts[1]
-		}
+	// check the hint against the possible tags
+	if slices.Contains(sources, sourceHint) {
+		return sourceHint, parts[1]
 	}
 	// did not have any matching tags, scheme is not a valid provider scheme
 	return "", userInput
diff --git a/tagged/tagged.go b/tagged/tagged.go
index 9e3a9443..3b03bba9 100644
--- a/tagged/tagged.go
+++ b/tagged/tagged.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package tagged
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"reflect"
+	"slices"
 )
 
 // Value holds an arbitrary value with associated tags
@@ -117,14 +118,10 @@ func (t ValueSet[T]) Join(taggedValues ...Value[T]) ValueSet[T] {
 // Tags returns the unique set of tags from all entries
 func (t ValueSet[T]) Tags() (tags []string) {
 	for _, entry := range t {
-	nextTag:
 		for _, tag := range entry.Tags {
-			for _, existing := range tags {
-				if tag == existing {
-					continue nextTag
-				}
+			if !slices.Contains(tags, tag) {
+				tags = append(tags, tag)
 			}
-			tags = append(tags, tag)
 		}
 	}
 	return tags