diff --git a/.github/workflows/gen_coverage_report.yml b/.github/workflows/gen_coverage_report.yml
index f54abfee95..3b58f05528 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/gen_coverage_report.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/gen_coverage_report.yml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ jobs:
           token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
       - name: Set up Go 1.x
         id: setup-go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@4b73464bb391d4059bd26b0524d20df3927bd417 # v6
+        uses: actions/setup-go@4a3601121dd01d1626a1e23e37211e3254c1c06c # v6
         with:
           go-version: "1.26"
           cache: false
diff --git a/.github/workflows/go_mod_tidy_examples.yml b/.github/workflows/go_mod_tidy_examples.yml
index 8b5f8d92e4..6467a21f0b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/go_mod_tidy_examples.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/go_mod_tidy_examples.yml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
           token: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}
       - name: Set up Go 1.x
         id: setup-go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@4b73464bb391d4059bd26b0524d20df3927bd417 # v6
+        uses: actions/setup-go@4a3601121dd01d1626a1e23e37211e3254c1c06c # v6
         with:
           go-version-file: go.mod
           cache: false
diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint_golang.yml b/.github/workflows/lint_golang.yml
index c975ae4727..8f34af2b4f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint_golang.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint_golang.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 10
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6
-      - uses: actions/setup-go@4b73464bb391d4059bd26b0524d20df3927bd417 # v6
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@4a3601121dd01d1626a1e23e37211e3254c1c06c # v6
         id: setup-go
         with:
           go-version-file: go.mod
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ jobs:
       - name: golangci-lint
         uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@1e7e51e771db61008b38414a730f564565cf7c20 # v9
         with:
-          version: v2.10.1
+          version: v2.11.4
diff --git a/.github/workflows/lint_markdown.yml b/.github/workflows/lint_markdown.yml
index 11c3fd5b11..754088501d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/lint_markdown.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/lint_markdown.yml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
           python3 -m venv "$venv"
           echo "$venv/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
       - name: Vale
-        uses: errata-ai/vale-action@dcded780f1ff68e2558e802a165a484a4a3e2fb8
+        uses: errata-ai/vale-action@0135b9fe2b3107365569cc3142b9a1c85221ea2f
         with:
           vale_flags: "--glob=!{docs/testdata/*,CHANGELOG.md,.github/styles/proselint/README.md,examples/simple_plugin/docs/*.md,coverage.md}"
           filter_mode: nofilter
diff --git a/.github/workflows/unittest.yml b/.github/workflows/unittest.yml
index b12a9e7911..e2a8e7d4e4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unittest.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unittest.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6
       - name: Set up Go 1.x
         id: setup-go
-        uses: actions/setup-go@4b73464bb391d4059bd26b0524d20df3927bd417 # v6
+        uses: actions/setup-go@4a3601121dd01d1626a1e23e37211e3254c1c06c # v6
         with:
           go-version-file: go.mod
           cache: false
diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index 7e4eedbb11..f4dc60dd10 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ linters:
           disabled: true
         - name: use-waitgroup-go
           disabled: true
+        - name: package-naming
+          disabled: true
   exclusions:
     generated: lax
     presets:
diff --git a/docs/generator.go b/docs/generator.go
index bb4e762699..9311b0c7ac 100644
--- a/docs/generator.go
+++ b/docs/generator.go
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 package docs
 
 import (
+	"cmp"
 	"embed"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"regexp"
-	"sort"
+	"slices"
 
 	"github.com/cloudquery/plugin-sdk/v4/caser"
 	"github.com/cloudquery/plugin-sdk/v4/schema"
@@ -87,8 +88,8 @@ func DefaultTitleTransformer(table *schema.Table) string {
 }
 
 func sortTables(tables schema.Tables) {
-	sort.SliceStable(tables, func(i, j int) bool {
-		return tables[i].Name < tables[j].Name
+	slices.SortStableFunc(tables, func(a, b *schema.Table) int {
+		return cmp.Compare(a.Name, b.Name)
 	})
 
 	for _, table := range tables {
diff --git a/plugin/sort.go b/plugin/sort.go
index cf59bfdb57..7cb3a55154 100644
--- a/plugin/sort.go
+++ b/plugin/sort.go
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 package plugin
 
 import (
-	"sort"
+	"cmp"
+	"slices"
 
 	"github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow"
 	"github.com/apache/arrow-go/v18/arrow/array"
@@ -18,16 +19,16 @@ func sortRecords(table *schema.Table, records []arrow.RecordBatch, columnName st
 		panic("table has no '" + columnName + "' column to sort on")
 	}
 	colIndex := sch.FieldIndices(columnName)[0]
-	sort.Slice(records, func(i, j int) bool {
-		switch records[i].Column(colIndex).DataType().(type) {
+	slices.SortFunc(records, func(a, b arrow.RecordBatch) int {
+		switch a.Column(colIndex).DataType().(type) {
 		case *arrow.Int64Type:
-			v1 := records[i].Column(colIndex).(*array.Int64).Value(0)
-			v2 := records[j].Column(colIndex).(*array.Int64).Value(0)
-			return v1 < v2
+			v1 := a.Column(colIndex).(*array.Int64).Value(0)
+			v2 := b.Column(colIndex).(*array.Int64).Value(0)
+			return cmp.Compare(v1, v2)
 		case *arrow.StringType:
-			v1 := records[i].Column(colIndex).(*array.String).Value(0)
-			v2 := records[j].Column(colIndex).(*array.String).Value(0)
-			return v1 < v2
+			v1 := a.Column(colIndex).(*array.String).Value(0)
+			v2 := b.Column(colIndex).(*array.String).Value(0)
+			return cmp.Compare(v1, v2)
 		default:
 			panic("unsupported type for sorting")
 		}
diff --git a/writers/writers_test.go b/writers/writers_test.go
index 98408e8729..5160fdfe0c 100644
--- a/writers/writers_test.go
+++ b/writers/writers_test.go
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"math/rand"
 	"runtime"
-	"sort"
+	"slices"
 	"strconv"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ func writerMatrix[T writers.Writer, C any, O ~func(T)](prefix string, constructo
 	bCases := make([]bCase, 0, len(optsMatrix))
 
 	k := maps.Keys(optsMatrix)
-	sort.Strings(k)
+	slices.Sort(k)
 
 	for _, name := range k {
 		opts := optsMatrix[name]