diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 848fbbc..83608fa 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -27,15 +27,9 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          python -m pip install flake8 pytest pytest-cov coveralls pylint
+          python -m pip install ruff pytest pytest-cov coveralls
           pip install -r requirements.txt
           pip install .
-      - name: Lint with flake8
-        run: |
-          # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
-          flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
-          # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
-          flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
       - name: Run default linting script
         run: |
           ./lint.sh
diff --git a/.hypothesis/unicode_data/13.0.0/charmap.json.gz b/.hypothesis/unicode_data/13.0.0/charmap.json.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67b0e0b
Binary files /dev/null and b/.hypothesis/unicode_data/13.0.0/charmap.json.gz differ
diff --git a/gtfparse/__init__.py b/gtfparse/__init__.py
index 952fc05..fcdb15a 100644
--- a/gtfparse/__init__.py
+++ b/gtfparse/__init__.py
@@ -14,20 +14,19 @@
 from .create_missing_features import create_missing_features
 from .parsing_error import ParsingError
 from .read_gtf import (
-    read_gtf, 
+    read_gtf,
     parse_gtf,
-    parse_gtf_pandas, 
-    parse_gtf_and_expand_attributes, 
+    parse_gtf_pandas,
+    parse_gtf_and_expand_attributes,
     REQUIRED_COLUMNS,
 )
 
-__version__ = "2.6.0"
+__version__ = "2.6.2"
 
 __all__ = [
     "__version__",
     "expand_attribute_strings",
     "create_missing_features",
-
     "parse_gtf_and_expand_attributes",
     "REQUIRED_COLUMNS",
     "ParsingError",
diff --git a/lint.sh b/lint.sh
index 880566b..3ec86eb 100755
--- a/lint.sh
+++ b/lint.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -o errexit
 
-find . -name '*.py' \
-  | xargs pylint \
-  --errors-only 
+ruff check gtfparse/ tests/
 
-echo 'Passes pylint check'
+echo 'Passes ruff check'
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b9d8e59..3619c98 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,3 +25,11 @@ packages = ["gtfparse"]
 [project.urls]
 "Homepage" = "https://github.com/openvax/gtfparse"
 "Bug Tracker" = "https://github.com/openvax/gtfparse"
+
+[tool.ruff.lint]
+select = ["E", "F"]
+ignore = ["F821", "E501", "F841", "E731", "E741", "E722", "E721"]
+
+[tool.ruff.lint.per-file-ignores]
+"__init__.py" = ["F401"]
+"test*/*" = ["F401"]