now tried version latest for golangci-lint

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@v6
         with:
           # must be specified without patch version
-          version: v1.36
+          version: latest
 
   format:
     name: Format

.golangci.yml

@@ -8,16 +8,16 @@ run:
 linters:
   disable-all: true # Disable defaults, then enable the ones we want
   enable:
-    - deadcode
+    # - deadcode
     - errcheck
     - gosimple
     - govet
     - ineffassign
     - staticcheck
-    - structcheck
+    # - structcheck
     - typecheck
     - unused
-    - varcheck
+    # - varcheck
     - bodyclose
     - stylecheck
     - gosec

cmd/utils_test.go

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
-	"io/ioutil"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"os"
@@ -220,7 +219,6 @@ func TestReadXML(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Run("test local xml file fails to read", func(t *testing.T) {
 		errString := "failed to read file"
 
-		// ioutil.ReadAll is just an alias to io.ReadAll
 		monkey.Patch(io.ReadAll, func(r io.Reader) ([]byte, error) {
 			var empty []byte
 			return empty, errors.New(errString)
@@ -320,7 +318,7 @@ func TestWriteXML(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("WriteXML should not return error on valid xml and valid file: %s", err)
 		}
 
-		written, err2 := ioutil.ReadFile(fileName)
+		written, err2 := os.ReadFile(fileName)
 		if err2 != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("Can't open file %s to test if XML got actually written: %s", fileName, err2)
 		}