diff --git a/.ansible-lint b/.ansible-lint
index 70a52f711..026ee3a50 100644
--- a/.ansible-lint
+++ b/.ansible-lint
@@ -6,8 +6,28 @@ skip_list:
   - no-tabs  # Most files should not contain tabs
   - role-name  # Role name does not match ``^[a-z][a-z0-9_]+$`` pattern
   - fqcn-builtins  # It would probably be good to enforce this, but it's a lot
+  - fqcn  # similar to above
   - risky-file-permissions  # It would probably also good to enforce this if someone wants to look at them
   - schema  # This is a stricter form of schema per https://github.com/ansible/schemas.  might also be good if someone has motivation?
+
+  # NOTE(ianw) After following the jinja formatting extensions in
+  # ansible-lint for a few releases, this does not seem to be
+  # appropriate for us.  It has broken in a couple of releases [1,2]
+  # -- but more importantly as discussed in [1] this is a bit
+  # opinonated in ways we may not like; for example
+  #  varibale|int > 123
+  # I would argue is clearer than
+  #  variable | int > 123
+  # which it tries to enforce.  This is a bit unfortunate because it
+  # does pick up some other things were people have clearly forgotten
+  # spaces around variables, etc.  Let's leave it up to humans to
+  # decide on good jinja here.
+  #  [1] https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/issues/2330
+  #  [2] https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/issues/2461
+  #  [3] https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/issues/2605
+  - jinja[spacing]
+  - jinja[invalid]
+
 use_default_rules: true
 verbosity: 1
 mock_modules:
diff --git a/linters-requirements.txt b/linters-requirements.txt
index a797c4a6a..bfff238c2 100644
--- a/linters-requirements.txt
+++ b/linters-requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ flake8
 yamllint>=1.23.0
 # 6.5.0 : https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/issues/2330
 # 6.5.1 : https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/issues/2320
-ansible-lint>6.0.0,<6.5.0
+ansible-lint>6.8.0
diff --git a/roles/stage-output/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/stage-output/tasks/main.yaml
index e798e0e76..738f9a419 100644
--- a/roles/stage-output/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/roles/stage-output/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -96,8 +96,6 @@
     # gzip will however return 1 if any compressed file is encountered, so we
     # must ignore that (there's no specific error code).
     - name: Archive everything from logs
-      # https://github.com/ansible/ansible-lint/issues/2241
-      # noqa var-spacing
       shell: gzip --recursive --best {{ zj_log_file.path }} || true
       args:
         chdir: "{{ stage_dir }}/logs"