ESLint v8.16.0 released

We just pushed ESLint v8.16.0, 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 no-misleading-character-class rule now provides suggestions for some of the problems reported by this rule.

Features

• cab0c22 feat: add Unicode flag suggestion in no-misleading-character-class (#15867) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 38ae956 feat: check Unicode code point escapes in no-control-regex (#15862) (Milos Djermanovic)
• ee69cd3 feat: Update global variables (#15871) (Sébastien Règne)

Bug Fixes

• 3f09aab fix: function-paren-newline crash on "new new Foo();" (#15850) (coderaiser)

Documentation

• 050d5f4 docs: Static further reading links (#15890) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• 36287c0 docs: fix absolute paths in related rules shortcode to work from /docs (#15892) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 90b6990 docs: fix absolute links in rule macro to work from /docs (#15891) (Milos Djermanovic)
• f437249 docs: Adjust docs site path prefix (#15889) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• 6e16025 docs: update 'Related Rules' and 'Further Reading' in remaining rules (#15884) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 1d39f69 docs: remove confusing examples for no-mixed-operators (#15875) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 3071d76 docs: Fix some grammar issues (#15837) (byodian)

Chores

• 1768d0d chore: upgrade @eslint/eslintrc@1.3.0 (#15903) (Milos Djermanovic)
• c686e4c chore: Add deploy workflow for docs site (#15894) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• c7894cd chore: enable some rules from eslint-plugin-unicorn internally (#15878) (Bryan Mishkin)
• ea65cb5 chore: upgrade eslint-plugin-eslint-plugin@^4.2.0 (#15882) (唯然)
• cc29c69 chore: Upgrade official GitHub actions to latest versions (#15880) (Darius Dzien)
• 5891c75 chore: Refactor rule docs format (#15869) (Nicholas C. Zakas)