diff --git a/.golangci-kal.yml b/.golangci-kal.yml
index 606cb2359983..dcde078e43ec 100644
--- a/.golangci-kal.yml
+++ b/.golangci-kal.yml
@@ -186,11 +186,6 @@ linters:
       text: "optionalfields: field AddressRef is optional and should (be a pointer|have the omitempty tag)"
       linters:
         - kubeapilinter
-    # KAL does not handle enum markers on enum types yet: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kube-api-linter/issues/113
-    - path: ".*"
-      text: "optionalfields: field (Polarity|Format|Encoding|Type|DeletePolicy|FailurePolicy) is optional and (should be a pointer|has a valid zero value)"
-      linters:
-        - kubeapilinter
 
 issues:
   max-same-issues: 0
diff --git a/hack/tools/.custom-gcl.yaml b/hack/tools/.custom-gcl.yaml
index 0745d94d1367..3a3f7ba5116d 100644
--- a/hack/tools/.custom-gcl.yaml
+++ b/hack/tools/.custom-gcl.yaml
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ name: golangci-lint-kube-api-linter
 destination: ./bin
 plugins:
 - module: 'sigs.k8s.io/kube-api-linter'
-  version: v0.0.0-20250710131328-b566fe88b732
+  version: v0.0.0-20250716173026-43a29a6047dd