ESLint v7.8.0 released

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)

Chores

• a320324 Chore: Test formatted integers in no-dupe-keys (refs #13568) (#13626) (Brandon Mills)
• 82669fa Chore: Extract some functionality to eslintrc (refs #13481) (#13613) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• bdb65ec Chore: add 3rd party parsers in BUG_REPORT template (#13606) (YeonJuan)
• f954476 Chore: add common 3rd party parsers to issue template (#13596) (Kai Cataldo)
• 2bee6d2 Chore: Mark config-related files (refs #13481) (#13597) (Nicholas C. Zakas)