diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 0132d6983..f7bfb77a3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
       MDBOOK_VERSION: 0.4.21
-      MDBOOK_LINKCHECK_VERSION: 0.7.6
+      MDBOOK_LINKCHECK2_VERSION: 0.8.1
       MDBOOK_MERMAID_VERSION: 0.12.6
       MDBOOK_TOC_VERSION: 0.11.2
       DEPLOY_DIR: book/html
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           path: |
             ~/.cargo/bin
-          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ env.MDBOOK_VERSION }}--${{ env.MDBOOK_LINKCHECK_VERSION }}--${{ env.MDBOOK_TOC_VERSION }}--${{ env.MDBOOK_MERMAID_VERSION }}
+          key: ${{ runner.os }}-${{ env.MDBOOK_VERSION }}--${{ env.MDBOOK_LINKCHECK2_VERSION }}--${{ env.MDBOOK_TOC_VERSION }}--${{ env.MDBOOK_MERMAID_VERSION }}
 
       - name: Cache linkcheck
         uses: actions/cache@v4
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ jobs:
         if: steps.mdbook-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
         run: |
           cargo install mdbook --version ${{ env.MDBOOK_VERSION }}
-          cargo install mdbook-linkcheck --version ${{ env.MDBOOK_LINKCHECK_VERSION }}
+          cargo install mdbook-linkcheck2 --version ${{ env.MDBOOK_LINKCHECK2_VERSION }}
           cargo install mdbook-toc --version ${{ env.MDBOOK_TOC_VERSION }}
           cargo install mdbook-mermaid --version ${{ env.MDBOOK_MERMAID_VERSION }}
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 500dcf9e4..599de487b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ rustdocs][rustdocs].
 To build a local static HTML site, install [`mdbook`](https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook) with:
 
 ```
-> cargo install mdbook mdbook-linkcheck mdbook-toc mdbook-mermaid
+> cargo install mdbook mdbook-linkcheck2 mdbook-toc mdbook-mermaid
 ```
 
 and execute the following command in the root of the repository:
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ The build files are found in the `book/html` directory.
 
 ### Link Validations
 
-We use `mdbook-linkcheck` to validate URLs included in our documentation.
+We use `mdbook-linkcheck2` to validate URLs included in our documentation.
 `linkcheck` will be run automatically when you build with the instructions in the section above.
 
 ### Table of Contents
diff --git a/ci/linkcheck.sh b/ci/linkcheck.sh
index 5f523f874..b3d8a4444 100755
--- a/ci/linkcheck.sh
+++ b/ci/linkcheck.sh
@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@ if [ "$GITHUB_EVENT_NAME" = "schedule" ] ; then # running in scheduled job
 
   echo "Doing full link check."
 elif [ "$GITHUB_EVENT_NAME" = "pull_request" ] ; then # running in PR CI build
-  echo "*** WARNING: linkcheck temporarily disabled due to bugs ***"
-  exit 0
-
   if [ -z "$BASE_SHA" ]; then
     echo "error: unexpected state: BASE_SHA must be non-empty in CI"
     exit 1
@@ -28,9 +25,6 @@ elif [ "$GITHUB_EVENT_NAME" = "pull_request" ] ; then # running in PR CI build
 
   echo "Checking files changed since $BASE_SHA: $CHANGED_FILES"
 else # running locally
-  echo "*** WARNING: linkcheck temporarily disabled due to bugs ***"
-  exit 0
-
   COMMIT_RANGE=master...
   CHANGED_FILES=$(git diff --name-only $COMMIT_RANGE | sed 's#^src/##' | tr '\n' ' ')
   FLAGS="-f $CHANGED_FILES"
@@ -38,10 +32,10 @@ else # running locally
   echo "Checking files changed in $COMMIT_RANGE: $CHANGED_FILES"
 fi
 
-echo "exec mdbook-linkcheck $FLAGS"
+echo "exec mdbook-linkcheck2 $FLAGS"
 if [ "$USE_TOKEN" = 1 ]; then
   config=$(set_github_token)
-  exec mdbook-linkcheck $FLAGS <<<"$config"
+  exec mdbook-linkcheck2 $FLAGS <<<"$config"
 else
-  exec mdbook-linkcheck $FLAGS
+  exec mdbook-linkcheck2 $FLAGS
 fi