diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 0e17828..d2b6a04 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ISC License
 
-Copyright (c) 2015-2023, The Decred developers
+Copyright (c) 2015-2025, The Decred developers
 Copyright (c) 2017, Jonathan Chappelow
 
 Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3402fb1..1b699b2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ information about consensus rule voting.
 
 ## Developing
 
-It is recommended to use Go 1.17 (or newer) for development.
+It is recommended to use Go 1.24 (or newer) for development.
 
 To build the code:
 
diff --git a/lint.sh b/lint.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..937f7f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+golangci-lint run
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index 4df4eb4..665e982 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2017-2023 The Decred developers
+// Copyright (c) 2017-2025 The Decred developers
 // Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ var (
 		"changesubsidysplit":   "Change PoW/PoS Subsidy Split",
 		"changesubsidysplitr2": "Change PoW/PoS Subsidy Split To 1/89",
 		"blake3pow":            "Change PoW to BLAKE3 and ASERT",
-		"maxtreasuryspend":     "Change maximum treasury expenditure policy",
+		"maxtreasuryspend":     "Change Maximum Treasury Expenditure Policy",
 	}
 	longAgendaDescriptions = map[string]string{
 		"sdiffalgorithm":       "Specifies a proposed replacement algorithm for determining the stake difficulty (commonly called the ticket price). This proposal resolves all issues with a new algorithm that adheres to the referenced ideals.",
diff --git a/run_tests.sh b/run_tests.sh
index 59c2437..e4ed886 100755
--- a/run_tests.sh
+++ b/run_tests.sh
@@ -1,16 +1,12 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# The script does automatic checking on a Go package and its sub-packages, including:
-# 1. gofmt         (http://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/)
-# 2. golint        (https://github.com/golang/lint)
-# 3. go vet        (http://golang.org/cmd/vet)
-# 4. gosimple      (https://github.com/dominikh/go-simple)
-# 5. unconvert     (https://github.com/mdempsky/unconvert)
-# 6. ineffassign   (https://github.com/gordonklaus/ineffassign)
-# 7. race detector (http://blog.golang.org/race-detector)
-# 8. test coverage (http://blog.golang.org/cover)
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 set -ex
 
 # run tests
 env GORACE="halt_on_error=1" go test -race ./...
 
+# run linters when not running as a GitHub action
+[ -z "$GITHUB_ACTIONS" ] && source ./lint.sh
+
+echo "------------------------------------------"
+echo "Tests completed successfully!"