diff --git a/.mise.toml b/.mise.toml
index 13a387b24..6bf9d9a0f 100644
--- a/.mise.toml
+++ b/.mise.toml
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ python = "3.12"
 just = "latest"
 shellcheck = "0.11.0"
 actionlint = "1.7.12"
-rumdl = "0.3.2"
+rumdl = "0.3.3"
diff --git a/.rumdl.toml b/.rumdl.toml
index fea6c52a1..2c756d059 100644
--- a/.rumdl.toml
+++ b/.rumdl.toml
@@ -25,14 +25,12 @@ enable = [
     "MD012", "MD018", "MD019", "MD020", "MD021", "MD022", "MD023", "MD024",
     "MD025", "MD026", "MD027", "MD028", "MD029", "MD030", "MD031", "MD032",
     "MD033", "MD034", "MD035", "MD036", "MD037", "MD038", "MD039", "MD040",
-    "MD042", "MD044", "MD045", "MD046", "MD047", "MD048", "MD049",
+    "MD041", "MD042", "MD044", "MD045", "MD046", "MD047", "MD048", "MD049",
     "MD050", "MD051", "MD052", "MD053", "MD054", "MD055", "MD056", "MD058",
     "MD059",
     # Not enabled:
     # MD013: docs have long URLs and code lines that would be awkward to wrap
     # MD014: `$ command` style is intentional in docs/testing.md and README shell snippets
-    # MD041: MyST `(label)=` ref targets must come before the first heading, so the
-    #        first line of many docs/*.md files is not an H1
     # MD043: the docs share no single heading structure to require
 ]
 
@@ -74,6 +72,12 @@ list-items = true
 [MD036]
 punctuation = ".,;:!?。，；：！？"
 
+# markdownlint matches a front matter title key case-insensitively. Unlike
+# markdownlint, rumdl can let lines of only inline images or inline-linked
+# badges precede the first heading; it has no option to disallow them.
+[MD041]
+front-matter-title-pattern = '(?i)^\s*"?title"?\s*[:=]'
+
 [MD051]
 ignore-case = false
 
@@ -84,9 +88,6 @@ ignore = ["x"]
 ignored-definitions = ["//"]
 
 # Spell project and library names consistently in prose; code is exempt.
-# rumdl also checks MyST `(label)=` targets, so the labels that contain one of
-# these names disable MD044 for their line; remove those comments once the
-# pinned rumdl skips targets (https://github.com/rvben/rumdl/issues/983).
 [MD044]
 names = ["PyAthena", "Athena", "SQLAlchemy", "fsspec", "Polars", "PyArrow", "pandas"]
 code-blocks = false
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 46bb58632..a893a6ad4 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ See LICENSE or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
 SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 -->
 
-<!-- rumdl-disable-next-line MD044 -->
 (pyathena)=
 
 ![PyAthena](_static/header.png)
diff --git a/docs/polars.md b/docs/polars.md
index 8ac4a962f..30400fc60 100644
--- a/docs/polars.md
+++ b/docs/polars.md
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-<!-- rumdl-disable-next-line MD044 -->
 (polars)=
 
 # Polars
diff --git a/docs/sqlalchemy.md b/docs/sqlalchemy.md
index b09539ee0..5a6cf8b78 100644
--- a/docs/sqlalchemy.md
+++ b/docs/sqlalchemy.md
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-<!-- rumdl-disable-next-line MD044 -->
 (sqlalchemy)=
 
 # SQLAlchemy