ESLint v7.8.0 released

by Kai Cataldo - 31 August 2020

We just pushed ESLint v7.8.0, which is a minor release upgrade of ESLint. This release adds some new features and fixes several bugs found in the previous release.

Highlights

Support for logical assignment operators and numeric separators has landed in ESLint! To enable linting this syntax, please set ecmaVersion to 2021:

{
    "parserOptions": {
        "ecmaVersion": 2021
    }
}

Enhancements

58abd93 Update: support logical assignments in code path analysis (refs #13569) (#13612) (Milos Djermanovic)
db7488e Update: support logical assignments in core rules (refs #13569) (#13618) (Milos Djermanovic)
88a9ade Update: add es2021 environment (refs #13602) (#13603) (Milos Djermanovic)
0003dc0 Update: support numeric separators (refs #13568) (#13581) (Milos Djermanovic)
96b11a0 Update: Add exceptionPatterns to id-length rule (fixes #13094) (#13576) (sodam)
3439fea Update: support numeric-separator in no-loss-of-precision (refs #13568) (#13574) (Anix)
ed64767 Update: add comment to message in no-warning-comments (fixes #12327) (#13522) (Anix)
66442a9 Update: Add no-magic-numbers 'ignoreDefaultValues' option (#12611) (Dieter Luypaert)

Documentation

3729219 Docs: Update Step 1 of Development Environment documentation (klkhan)
483bf7f Docs: fix examples in object-curly-newline (#13605) (Soobin Bak)
1c35d57 Docs: Remove stale Keybase 2FA instructions (#13622) (Brandon Mills)
4111d21 Docs: Fix typo and missing article before noun in docs (#13611) (Patrice Sandhu)
b487164 Docs: add exponentiation operators to operator-assignment documentation (#13577) (Milos Djermanovic)

Dependency Upgrades

091e52a Upgrade: espree@7.3.0 (refs #13568) (#13609) (Kai Cataldo)

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