ESLint v4.4.0 released

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)