Update copyright year to 2026

[zinduolis]

Pull Request

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Category

Documentation, Core Functionality

Feature/Issue Description

Q: Please give a brief summary of your feature/fix
A: This PR updates the project's copyright year across the entire BeEF codebase from 2025 (and previous legacy years) to 2026.

Q: Give a technical rundown of what you have changed (if applicable)
A:

• Maintenance Script Enhancement: Updated tools/maintenance/copyright_update.rb to use a robust regular expression ((?:Copyright (c) |(C) )2006-)20\d{2}. This captures the prefix and project start year while flexibly matching various previous end years (e.g., 2020, 2024, 2025).
• Global Update: Automated the update for over 1,200 files, including core Ruby logic, configuration files (config.yaml), documentation (doc/COPYING, doc/boilerplate), extensions, and modules.
• Documentation Refresh: Updated the year in the existing docs/ HTML files generated by JSDoc.
• Selective Modification: Ensured that only BeEF-specific copyright notices were updated, preserving third-party copyrights (e.g., Oracle or individual contributors using different formats).

Test Cases

Q: Describe your test cases, what you have covered and if there are any use cases that still need addressing.
A:

• Automated Check: Verified using grep that no instances of "Copyright ... Wade Alcorn" with older years (2020-2025) remain.
• Preservation Check: Confirmed that third-party copyright notices (e.g., Junio C Hamano, Oracle) were correctly excluded from the update.
• Manual Verification: Inspected key files including core/api.rb, config.yaml, doc/COPYING, and doc/boilerplate to confirm the format and year are correct.

Wiki Page

N/A - This is a routine maintenance update.

[kaitozaw]

The changes look good to me 👍

(The CI failure is not related to this PR. It is caused by the CodeQL workflow using a deprecated version of the CodeQL action and requires a repository workflow update (v3).)