diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
index 08e4272a..b0242893 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
     uses: pion/.goassets/.github/workflows/test.reusable.yml@master
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        go: ["1.22", "1.21"] # auto-update/supported-go-version-list
+        go: ["1.23", "1.22"] # auto-update/supported-go-version-list
       fail-fast: false
     with:
       go-version: ${{ matrix.go }}
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
     uses: pion/.goassets/.github/workflows/test-i386.reusable.yml@master
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        go: ["1.22", "1.21"] # auto-update/supported-go-version-list
+        go: ["1.23", "1.22"] # auto-update/supported-go-version-list
       fail-fast: false
     with:
       go-version: ${{ matrix.go }}
@@ -41,5 +41,5 @@ jobs:
   test-wasm:
     uses: pion/.goassets/.github/workflows/test-wasm.reusable.yml@master
     with:
-      go-version: "1.22" # auto-update/latest-go-version
+      go-version: "1.23" # auto-update/latest-go-version
     secrets: inherit
diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index e06de4d3..a3235bec 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 The Pion community <https://pion.ly>
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 
+run:
+  timeout: 5m
+
 linters-settings:
   govet:
     enable:
@@ -48,7 +51,7 @@ linters:
     - goconst          # Finds repeated strings that could be replaced by a constant
     - gocritic         # The most opinionated Go source code linter
     - godox            # Tool for detection of FIXME, TODO and other comment keywords
-    - goerr113         # Golang linter to check the errors handling expressions
+    - err113           # Golang linter to check the errors handling expressions
     - gofmt            # Gofmt checks whether code was gofmt-ed. By default this tool runs with -s option to check for code simplification
     - gofumpt          # Gofumpt checks whether code was gofumpt-ed.
     - goheader         # Checks is file header matches to pattern
@@ -83,17 +86,14 @@ linters:
     - depguard         # Go linter that checks if package imports are in a list of acceptable packages
     - containedctx     # containedctx is a linter that detects struct contained context.Context field
     - cyclop           # checks function and package cyclomatic complexity
-    - exhaustivestruct # Checks if all struct's fields are initialized
     - funlen           # Tool for detection of long functions
     - gocyclo          # Computes and checks the cyclomatic complexity of functions
     - godot            # Check if comments end in a period
     - gomnd            # An analyzer to detect magic numbers.
-    - ifshort          # Checks that your code uses short syntax for if-statements whenever possible
     - ireturn          # Accept Interfaces, Return Concrete Types
     - lll              # Reports long lines
     - maintidx         # maintidx measures the maintainability index of each function.
     - makezero         # Finds slice declarations with non-zero initial length
-    - maligned         # Tool to detect Go structs that would take less memory if their fields were sorted
     - nakedret         # Finds naked returns in functions greater than a specified function length
     - nestif           # Reports deeply nested if statements
     - nlreturn         # nlreturn checks for a new line before return and branch statements to increase code clarity
diff --git a/agent.go b/agent.go
index fad036e4..c7970a51 100644
--- a/agent.go
+++ b/agent.go
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ func NewAgent(config *AgentConfig) (*Agent, error) { //nolint:gocognit
 		return nil, ErrLiteUsingNonHostCandidates
 	}
 
-	if config.Urls != nil && len(config.Urls) > 0 && !containsCandidateType(CandidateTypeServerReflexive, a.candidateTypes) && !containsCandidateType(CandidateTypeRelay, a.candidateTypes) {
+	if len(config.Urls) > 0 && !containsCandidateType(CandidateTypeServerReflexive, a.candidateTypes) && !containsCandidateType(CandidateTypeRelay, a.candidateTypes) {
 		a.closeMulticastConn()
 		return nil, ErrUselessUrlsProvided
 	}
diff --git a/agent_config.go b/agent_config.go
index 562d8f35..93e88890 100644
--- a/agent_config.go
+++ b/agent_config.go
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ func (config *AgentConfig) initWithDefaults(a *Agent) {
 		a.checkInterval = *config.CheckInterval
 	}
 
-	if config.CandidateTypes == nil || len(config.CandidateTypes) == 0 {
+	if len(config.CandidateTypes) == 0 {
 		a.candidateTypes = defaultCandidateTypes()
 	} else {
 		a.candidateTypes = config.CandidateTypes
diff --git a/candidatepair.go b/candidatepair.go
index 7bbcdd7b..2139209e 100644
--- a/candidatepair.go
+++ b/candidatepair.go
@@ -66,13 +66,13 @@ func (p *CandidatePair) priority() uint64 {
 
 	// Just implement these here rather
 	// than fooling around with the math package
-	min := func(x, y uint32) uint64 {
+	localMin := func(x, y uint32) uint64 {
 		if x < y {
 			return uint64(x)
 		}
 		return uint64(y)
 	}
-	max := func(x, y uint32) uint64 {
+	localMax := func(x, y uint32) uint64 {
 		if x > y {
 			return uint64(x)
 		}
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func (p *CandidatePair) priority() uint64 {
 
 	// 1<<32 overflows uint32; and if both g && d are
 	// maxUint32, this result would overflow uint64
-	return (1<<32-1)*min(g, d) + 2*max(g, d) + cmp(g, d)
+	return (1<<32-1)*localMin(g, d) + 2*localMax(g, d) + cmp(g, d)
 }
 
 func (p *CandidatePair) Write(b []byte) (int, error) {