diff --git a/.rubocop.yml b/.rubocop.yml
index 314c5196..c04ec855 100644
--- a/.rubocop.yml
+++ b/.rubocop.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # use the shared Yast defaults
 inherit_from:
-  /usr/share/YaST2/data/devtools/data/rubocop_yast_style.yml
+  /usr/share/YaST2/data/devtools/data/rubocop-0.71.0_yast_style.yml
 
 # Offense count: 82
 Metrics/AbcSize:
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ Metrics/AbcSize:
 Metrics/BlockNesting:
   Max: 5
 
+Metrics/BlockLength:
+  Exclude:
+    - "test/**/*"
+
 # Offense count: 6
 # Configuration parameters: CountComments.
 Metrics/ClassLength:
@@ -96,3 +100,7 @@ Style/VariableName:
     - 'src/modules/IUCVTerminalServer.rb'
     - 'src/modules/OnPanic.rb'
 
+# this needs more testing if we can have frozen string literals
+Style/FrozenStringLiteralComment:
+  Enabled: false
+