ESLint v7.21.0 released

by Milos Djermanovic - 27 February 2021

We just pushed ESLint v7.21.0, which is a minor release upgrade of ESLint. This release adds some new features and fixes several bugs found in the previous release.

Highlights

The new --cache-strategy CLI option can improve how ESlint detects changed files by looking at either file metadata or contents.

Features

08ae31e New: Implement cacheStrategy (refs eslint/rfcs#63) (#14119) (Manu Chambon)

Enhancements

5e51fd2 Update: do not ignore symbolic links (fixes #13551, fixes #13615) (#14126) (Pig Fang)

Bug Fixes

b8aea99 Fix: pluralize 'line' to 'lines' in max-lines-per-function description (#14115) (Trevin Hofmann)

Dependency Upgrades

3cd5440 Upgrade: @eslint/eslintrc to 0.4.0 (#14147) (Brandon Mills)
c0b8c71 Upgrade: Puppeteer to 7.1.0 (#14122) (Tim van der Lippe)

Chores

87c43a5 Chore: improve a few comments and fix typos (#14125) (Tobias Nießen)