diff --git a/.ecrc.license b/.ecrc.license
index 37bf852..7a08db1 100644
--- a/.ecrc.license
+++ b/.ecrc.license
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Tobias Schmidl
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Tobias Schmidl
 
 SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
index 296fecd..c29fb47 100644
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Tobias Schmidl
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Tobias Schmidl
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9a65e46..af5e374 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Tobias Schmidl
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Tobias Schmidl
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 5d16bcc..832caa2 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Tobias Schmidl
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Tobias Schmidl
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 
 ---
 repos:
 - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-  rev: v4.4.0
+  rev: v4.6.0
   hooks:
   - id: check-yaml
   - id: end-of-file-fixer
@@ -13,18 +13,22 @@ repos:
   - id: check-merge-conflict
   - id: check-byte-order-marker
 - repo: https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool
-  rev: v2.1.0
+  rev: v3.1.0a1
   hooks:
   - id: reuse
 - repo: https://github.com/editorconfig-checker/editorconfig-checker.python
-  rev: '2.7.2'
+  rev: '2.7.3'
   hooks:
   - id: editorconfig-checker
     alias: ec
     stages: [commit]
 - repo: https://github.com/compilerla/conventional-pre-commit
-  rev: v2.4.0
+  rev: v3.2.0
   hooks:
   - id: conventional-pre-commit
     stages: [commit-msg]
+- repo: https://github.com/igorshubovych/markdownlint-cli
+  rev: v0.41.0
+  hooks:
+  - id: markdownlint
 ...
diff --git a/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml b/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
index 0a7c6b1..d5717b6 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-hooks.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Tobias Schmidl
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Tobias Schmidl
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 
diff --git a/.woodpecker.yml b/.woodpecker.yml
index dde54e0..a90dcae 100644
--- a/.woodpecker.yml
+++ b/.woodpecker.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Tobias Schmidl
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Tobias Schmidl
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0648835..2a943c1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Tobias Schmidl
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Tobias Schmidl
 
 SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 -->
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+- updated the pre-commit hooks of this repo
+- updated license date
+
+### Changed
+
 ## [1.0.0] - 2023-09-08
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1169494..e555503 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Tobias Schmidl
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Tobias Schmidl
 
 SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 -->
@@ -38,4 +38,5 @@ repos:
 
 ## Alternative Repos
 
-The base URL for this repository is and will always be on [git.schmidl.dev](https://git.schmidl.dev/schtobia/woodpecker-lint). However, I've enabled a push mirror to [Github](https://github.com/schtobia/woodpecker-lint).
+The base URL for this repository is and will always be on [git.schmidl.dev](https://git.schmidl.dev/schtobia/woodpecker-lint).
+However, I've enabled a push mirror to [Github](https://github.com/schtobia/woodpecker-lint).