ESLint v3.17.0 released

We just pushed ESLint v3.17.0, which is a minor release upgrade of ESLint. This release adds a new feature and fixes several bugs found in the previous release.

Highlights

Two new rules were added:

• no-compare-neg-zero
• nonblock-statement-body-position

Two new methods were added to the SourceCode API for rules:

• getLocFromIndex and getIndexFromLoc

Two enhancements were made to the RuleTester utility:

• Error message assertions can now be regular expressions.
• output for a test case can be set to null to assert that the case is not autofixed.

Features

• dad20ad New: add SourceCode#getLocFromIndex and #getIndexFromLoc (fixes #8073) (#8158) (Teddy Katz)
• 20daea5 New: no-compare-neg-zero rule (#8091) (薛定谔的猫)
• 287e882 New: nonblock-statement-body-position rule (fixes #6067) (#8108) (Teddy Katz)
• 7ff42e8 New: Allow regexes in RuleTester (fixes #7837) (#8115) (Daniel Lo Nigro)

Enhancements

• 4fdf6d7 Update: deprecate applyDefaultPatterns in line-comment-position (#8183) (alberto)
• bf4d8cf Update: ignore eslint comments in lines-arount-comment (fixes #4345) (#8155) (alberto)
• 18a519f Update: let RuleTester cases assert that no autofix occurs (fixes #8157) (#8163) (Teddy Katz)
• ca1694b Update: ignore negative ranges in fixes (#8133) (alberto)
• da8e8af Update: include function name in report message if possible (fixes #7260) (#8058) (Dieter Luypaert)

Bug Fixes

• 25e5817 Fix: Don't autofix + +a to ++a in space-unary-ops (#8176) (Alan Pierce)
• d02bd11 Fix: padded-blocks autofix problems with comments (#8149) (alberto)
• 4d35a81 Fix: Add a utility to avoid autofix conflicts (fixes #7928, fixes #8026) (#8067) (Alan Pierce)
• 1ee5c27 Fix: Make RuleTester handle empty-string cases gracefully (fixes #8142) (#8143) (Teddy Katz)
• 4e52cfc Fix: Improve keyword-spacing typescript support (fixes #8110) (#8111) (Reyad Attiyat)
• 8f91e32 Fix: ignoreRestSiblings option didn't cover arguments (fixes #8119) (#8120) (Toru Nagashima)

Documentation

• a30eb8d Docs: improve documentation for RuleTester cases (#8162) (Teddy Katz)
• 9994889 Docs: Add missing space to create in no-use-before-define (#8166) (Justin Anastos)
• 4d542ba Docs: Remove unneeded statement about autofix (#8164) (alberto)
• 163d751 Docs: lines-around-comment doesn't disallow empty lines (#8151) (alberto)
• 044bc10 Docs: Add details about "--fix" option for "sort-imports" rule (#8077) (Olivier Audard)

Build Related

• a6ce8f9 Build: Sort rules before dumping them to doc files (#8154) (Danny Andrews)
• cbd7ded Build: display rules’ meta data in their docs (fixes #5774) (#8127) (Wilson Kurniawan)

Chores

• 0af9057 Chore: Upgrade to a patched version of mock-fs (fixes #8177) (#8188) (Teddy Katz)
• a78ec9f Chore: upgrade coveralls to ^2.11.16 (#8161) (alberto)
• 7f1f4e5 Chore: remove unneeded devDeps linefix and gh-got (#8160) (alberto)
• 1c84922 Chore: upgrade eslint-plugin-node (#8156) (alberto)