diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
index 26b1610..c013404 100644
--- a/.golangci.yml
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -10,14 +10,21 @@ run:
 
 linters:
   default: all
+  enable:
+    # Successor to the deprecated gomodguard. Named explicitly, rather than
+    # left to `default: all`, because it carries the module policy below.
+    - gomodguard_v2
   disable:
     # Genuinely incompatible with project patterns
     - exhaustruct      # Requires all struct fields
     - depguard         # Dependency allow/block lists
     - godot            # Requires comments to end with periods
-    - wsl              # Deprecated, replaced by wsl_v5
     - wrapcheck        # Too verbose for internal packages
     - varnamelen       # Short names like db, id are idiomatic Go
+    # Deprecated: the warning is attached to the old name, so it is
+    # silenced by disabling that name, not by enabling the successor.
+    - wsl              # Deprecated, replaced by wsl_v5
+    - gomodguard       # Deprecated, replaced by gomodguard_v2
   settings:
     lll:
       line-length: 88
@@ -28,6 +35,27 @@ linters:
       max-complexity: 15
     dupl:
       threshold: 100
+    # Only decisions already recorded in the Go package defaults are
+    # listed here. Entries match the module path exactly (the default
+    # match-type), so a differently-versioned module path is unaffected.
+    gomodguard_v2:
+      blocked:
+        - module: github.com/rs/zerolog
+          recommendations:
+            - log/slog
+          reason: "Structured logging is stdlib log/slog."
+        - module: github.com/go-redis/redis
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/redis/go-redis/v9
+          reason: "Pre-fork module; use the maintained go-redis v9."
+        - module: github.com/sergi/go-diff
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/aymanbagabas/go-udiff
+          reason: "No unified diff output; use go-udiff."
+        - module: github.com/hexops/gotextdiff
+          recommendations:
+            - github.com/aymanbagabas/go-udiff
+          reason: "Unmaintained fork; use go-udiff."
 
 issues:
   max-issues-per-linter: 0
diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index fac919c..544908c 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ fmt-check, and commit.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-08-31: Migrated the canonical `.golangci.yml` from the deprecated
+  `gomodguard` to `gomodguard_v2`: the old linter is disabled by name (which is
+  what silences the deprecation warning), the successor is named explicitly in
+  `linters.enable`, and it carries a `blocked` module list drawn only from
+  decisions already recorded in the Go package defaults.
 - 2026-08-07: Set the canonical `.golangci.yml` to the org-standard v2-schema
   config already deployed byte-identical across the org's Go repos (settings
   under `linters.settings` so thresholds like lll/funlen/cyclop/dupl actually