diff --git a/Justfile b/Justfile
index 2438b2f..ec554b0 100644
--- a/Justfile
+++ b/Justfile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ set shell := ["bash", "-u", "-c"]
 
 export scripts := ".github/workflows/scripts"
 export GOBIN := `echo $PWD/.bin`
-export GOTOOLCHAIN := 'go1.25.6'
+export GOTOOLCHAIN := 'go1.26.1'
 
 # show available commands
 [private]
@@ -25,13 +25,6 @@ tests:
 test unit:
     go test -v -count=1 -race -run {{unit}} 2>/dev/null
 
-# ensure copywrite headers present on source files
-[group('lint')]
-copywrite:
-    $GOBIN/copywrite \
-        --config {{scripts}}/copywrite.hcl headers \
-        --spdx "BSD-3-Clause"
-
 # apply go vet command on source tree
 [group('lint')]
 vet:
@@ -50,6 +43,4 @@ lint: vet
 # locally install build dependencies
 [group('build')]
 init:
-    go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@v2.8.0
-    go install github.com/hashicorp/copywrite@v0.24.0
-
+    go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@v2.11.4
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index fff92b1..df61b57 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module cattlecloud.net/go/webtools
 
-go 1.25
+go 1.26
 
 require (
 	cattlecloud.net/go/scope v1.2.1
diff --git a/useragent_test.go b/useragent_test.go
index 8fdca73..398fd83 100644
--- a/useragent_test.go
+++ b/useragent_test.go
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ func TestOrigins(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 
 	agent := "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
-	r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "https://example.org/v1/data", nil)
+	r := httptest.NewRequestWithContext(t.Context(), http.MethodPost, "https://example.org/v1/data", nil)
 	r.Header.Set("X-Forwarded-For", "10.1.1.1")
 	r.Header.Set("Referer", "https://dashboard.example.org/home")
 	r.Header.Set("User-Agent", agent)