ESLint 0.3.0 released

by Nicholas C. Zakas - 20 January 2014

We just pushed ESLint 0.3.0, which is a significant release due to the number of bug fixes and significant changes included.

Configuration Files

  • Breaking Change: Removed the ability to use JavaScript as a configuration file format (more info)
  • Added the ability to use JavaScript-style comments in configuration files.
  • Added support for .eslintignore files
  • Allow configuration files to have any extension and assume they contain JSON

Formatters

  • Breaking Change: Switched to using stylish format as the default for ESLint (more info)
  • Merged stylish formatter into the main repository
  • Added the rule ID to all formatter output to more easily identify which rule is causing a warning

Core

  • Added the ability to traverse comment nodes in rules
  • Ignore shebangs in JavaScript files so ESLint can validate all Node.js files

Rules

  • Breaking Change: unnecessary-strict rule was renamed to no-extra-strict
  • no-empty now disallows empty catch blocks when a finally block is present
  • no-unused-vars was incorrectly reporting function expressions weren't used when method calls were made on them - this was fixed
  • brace-style was incorrectly reporting a violation when an if statement conditional spanned multiple lines - this was fixed

Documentation

  • Lots of documentation updates and fixes
  • Setup eslint.org as the new home for documentation

Breaking Changes

The complete list of breaking changes are as follows:

Complete Changelog

The following is the complete list of changes in this version:

  • Config: Allow comments in JSON configuration files (fixes [#492](https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/492)) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Bug: max-len fix to report correct line number (fixes #552) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Build: Use browserify to create browser-ready ESLint (fixes #119) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Docs: Ensure all rules have entry on top-level rules index page (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Docs: Add docs for no-fallthrough rule (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Update README.md (Peter deHaan)
  • Update README.md (Peter deHaan)
  • Update package.json (Peter deHaan)
  • Docs: Added documentation for semi rule (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Build: Reset branch coverage target (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Update build system to generate eslint.org during release (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Updated setup doc (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Fix #525 & #528 (Mangled Deutz)
  • Improve no-negated-in-lhs description (David Bruant)
  • Fixing typo (David Bruant)
  • Update no-new.md (Tamas Fodor)
  • Update no-extra-semi.md (Tamas Fodor)
  • Fixing broken links in documentation (Ilya Volodin)
  • Update about page (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Site generation build step and documentation updates to support it (fixes #478) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Change message for brace-style rule (fixes #490) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Add question about ES6 support to FAQ (fixes #530) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Set unlimited number of listeners for event emitter (fixes #524) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Add support for comment events (fixes #531) Add :after events for comments (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Add :after events for comments (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Allow config files to have any name (fixes #486). (Aparajita Fishman)
  • List available formatters (fixes #533). (Aparajita Fishman)
  • Add support for comment events (fixes #531) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Add Stylish formatter and make it default. Fixes #517 (Sindre Sorhus)
  • Fix missing code exit (Mangled Deutz)
  • Added unit test for calling Config.getConfig with no arguments. (Aparajita Fishman)
  • Typo (Mangled Deutz)
  • Fixed docs typo (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Mark functions as used when any method is called on them (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Fixed: Config.getConfig is called either with a file path or with no args (fixes #520) (Aparajita Fishman)
  • Fix minor bug in no-empty rule (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • add more info for failure messages (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Add ruleId to all formatters output (fixes #472) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Remove unused code (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Correctly handle case with both finally and catch in no-empty (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Update documentation for no-unused-vars (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Ensure that bound function expressions are reported as being used (fixes #510) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Allow empty catch/finally blocks (fixes #514) and update documentation (fixes #513) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Updated contribution guidelines (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Add default setting for no-cond-assign (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Add build step to check rule consistency (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • update docs: explicit cli args are exempt from eslintignore exclusions (Michael Ficarra)
  • fixes #505: no-cond-assign should ignore doubly parenthesised tests (Michael Ficarra)
  • Renamed unnecessary-strict to no-extra-strict (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Fixed missing documentation links (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Add build task to check for missing docs and tests for rules (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Slight reorganization of rule groups (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Added one-var and sorted some rules (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Updated Travis badge for new location (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • fixes #494: allow shebangs in processed JS files (Michael Ficarra)
  • fixes #496: lint ignored files when explicitly specified via the CLI (Michael Ficarra)
  • More tests (Ilya Volodin)
  • Upgrade Istanbul (Ilya Volodin)
  • fixes #495: holey arrays cause no-comma-dangle rule to throw (Michael Ficarra)
  • Documentation and minor changes (Ilya Volodin)
  • Adding missing package registration (Ilya Volodin)
  • Adding support for .eslintignore and .jshintignore (Closes #484) (Ilya Volodin)
  • fixes #482: brace-style bug with multiline conditions (Michael Ficarra)
  • Switching Travis to use ESLint (Closes #462) (Ilya Volodin)