ESLint v8.41.0 released

Highlights

• Integrations can now use the new function shouldUseFlatConfig() to determine whether to use the FlatESLint class instead of the ESLint class.
• The performance of the indent rule has been significantly improved.

Features

• 880a431 feat: change default ignore pattern to **/node_modules/ in flat config (#17184) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 8bf5505 feat: expose shouldUseFlatConfig (#17169) (Connor Prussin)

Bug Fixes

• 4f5440d fix: incorrect warning message for ignored dotfiles (#17196) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 94da96c fix: unify LintMessage type (#17076) (Brandon Mills)
• 0c415cd fix: validate ignorePatterns constructor option in FlatESLint class (#17139) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 9682d66 fix: switch grapheme-splitter to graphemer (#17160) (fisker Cheung)

Documentation

• 7709b14 docs: Update README (GitHub Actions Bot)
• 7f183e0 docs: Update triage process description (#17157) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• b68346b docs: fix license to reflect relicensing of jshint (#17165) (Stefan Bischof)

Chores

• f43216a chore: upgrade @eslint/js@8.41.0 (#17200) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 95c3007 chore: package.json update for @eslint/js release (ESLint Jenkins)
• ddc5291 chore: don’t use deprecated context methods in ast-utils tests (#17194) (Milos Djermanovic)
• b1516db chore: Fix return type of findFlatConfigFile (#17161) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 918b0fd perf: Store indent descriptors in a plain array (#17148) (Francesco Trotta)
• 4caa344 refactor: locateConfigFileToUse returns an Error object (#17159) (唯然)