ESLint v8.6.0 released

We just pushed ESLint v8.6.0, which is a minor release upgrade of ESLint. This release adds some new features and fixes several bugs found in the previous release.

Highlights

ESLint v8.6.0 allows rule lists or descriptions in eslint-disable-next-line comments to wrap lines:

/* eslint-disable-next-line no-console --
 * Here's a very long description about why this configuration is necessary
 * along with some additional information.
 */
console.log('hello');

Features

• 6802a54 feat: handle logical assignment in no-self-assign (#14152) (Zzzen)
• 3b38018 feat: allow to define eslint-disable-next-line in multiple lines (#15436) (Nitin Kumar)
• 9d6fe5a feat: false negative with onlyDeclarations + properties in id-match (#15431) (Nitin Kumar)

Documentation

• 6c4dee2 docs: Document homedir is a configuration root (#15469) (Bas Bosman)
• 51c37b1 docs: consistency changes (#15404) (Bas Bosman)
• 775d181 docs: Mention character classes in no-useless-escape (#15421) (Sebastian Simon)

Chores

• 3a384fc chore: Upgrade espree to 9.3.0 (#15473) (Brandon Mills)
• 1443cc2 chore: Update blogpost.md.ejs (#15468) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• 28e907a refactor: remove unused parameter in linter.js (#15451) (Milos Djermanovic)
• eaa08d3 test: add tests for allowReserved parser option with flat config (#15450) (Milos Djermanovic)