ESLint v4.4.0 released

We just pushed ESLint v4.4.0, which is a minor release upgrade of ESLint. This release adds some new features and fixes several bugs found in the previous release.

Highlights

Initial support for ECMAScript 2018

Because ECMAScript 2018 is still under development, we are implementing features as they are finalized. This release includes the following:

• Invalid escape sequences in tagged template literals

Enhancements

• 62911e4 Update: Add ImportDeclaration option to indent rule (#8955) (David Irvine)
• 7247b6c Update: handle indentation of custom destructuring syntax (fixes #8990) (#9027) (Teddy Katz)
• 3d020b9 Update: emit a warning for ecmaFeatures rather than throwing an error (#8974) (Teddy Katz)

Bug Fixes

• b3e4598 Fix: clarify AST and don't use node.start/node.end (fixes #8956) (#8984) (Toru Nagashima)
• 78a85e0 Fix: no-extra-parens incorrectly reports async function expressions (#9035) (薛定谔的猫)
• c794f86 Fix: getter-return reporting method named 'get' (fixes #8919) (#9004) (薛定谔的猫)
• 5ab282f Fix: Print error message in bin/eslint.js (fixes #9011) (#9041) (Victor Hom)
• cdb82f2 Fix: padding-line-between-statements crash on semicolons after blocks (#8748) (Alexander Madyankin)
• 0f97279 Fix: refactor no-multi-spaces to avoid regex backtracking (fixes #9001) (#9008) (Teddy Katz)
• b74514d Fix: refactor RuleContext to not modify report locations (fixes #8980) (#8997) (Teddy Katz)
• 31d7fd2 Fix: inconsistent indent behavior on computed properties (fixes #8989) (#8999) (Teddy Katz)
• 3393894 Fix: avoid reporting the entire AST for missing rules (#8998) (Teddy Katz)
• d2f8f9f Fix: include name of invalid config in validation messages (fixes #8963) (#8973) (Teddy Katz)

Documentation

• 5ae8458 Docs: fix typo in object-shorthand.md (#9066) (Jon Berry)
• c3d5b39 Docs: clarify options descriptions (fixes #8875) (#9060) (Brandon Mailhiot)
• 37158c5 Docs: clarified behavior of globalReturn option (fixes #8953) (#9058) (Brandon Mailhiot)
• c2f3553 Docs: Update example for MemberExpression option of indent (fixes #9056) (#9057) (Jeff)
• d0f78ec Docs: update rule deprecation policy (fixes #8635) (#9033) (Teddy Katz)
• 50e3cf3 Docs: Update sort-keys doc to define natural ordering (fixes #9043) (#9045) (Karan Sharma)
• 66c1d43 Docs: Create SUPPORT.md (#9031) (Teddy Katz)

Dependency Upgrades

• 89196fd Upgrade: Espree to 3.5.0 (#9074) (Gyandeep Singh)
• ad32697 Upgrade: js-yaml to 3.9.1 (refs #9011) (#9044) (Teddy Katz)
• 9b6c552 Upgrade: eslint-plugin-eslint-plugin@0.8.0 (#9012) (薛定谔的猫)

Chores

• de75f9b Chore: enable object-curly-newline & object-property-newline.(fixes #9042) (#9068) (薛定谔的猫)
• 7ecfe6a Chore: enable eslint-plugin/test-case-property-ordering (#9040) (薛定谔的猫)
• 3141872 Chore: remove unnecessary eslint-disable comments in codebase (#9032) (Teddy Katz)
• b3b95b8 Chore: enable additional rules on ESLint codebase (#9013) (Teddy Katz)
• acbe86a Chore: disallow .substr and .substring in favor of .slice (#9010) (Teddy Katz)
• d0536d6 Chore: Optimizes adding Linter methods (fixes #9000) (#9007) (Sean C Denison)
• 0a0401f Chore: fix spelling error. (#9003) (薛定谔的猫)
• c3ee46b Chore: fix misleading comment in RuleTester (#8995) (Teddy Katz)