ESLint 0.22.0 released

We just pushed ESLint 0.22.0, which is a minor release upgrade. This release includes new features and bug fixes.

Highlights

This is a summary of the major changes you need to know about for this version of ESLint.

New Rules

We added 3 new rules to ESLint this release:

• lines-around-comment - Enforces empty lines around comments (off by default)
• accessor-pairs - Enforces getter/setter pairs in objects (off by default)
• object-curly-spacing - Disallow or enforce spaces inside of curly braces in objects.

We also renamed existing rule no-empty-class to no-empty-character-class to prevent confusion with ES6 classes

Preparation for configuration validation

We added rule schemas as well as schema validation, in preparation of enabling validation of .eslintrc configuration files.

Bug Fixes

• Fix: “consistent-this” incorrectly flagging destructuring of this (fixes #2633) (David Aurelio)
• Fix: no-multiple-empty-lines and template strings (fixes #2605) (Jamund Ferguson)
• Fix: Shared config being clobbered by other config (fixes #2592) (Dominic Barnes)
• Fix: Improve around function/class names of no-shadow (fixes #2556, #2552) (Toru Nagashima)
• Fix: Improve code coverage (fixes #2590) (Ilya Volodin)
• Fix: Allow scoped configs to have sub-configs (fixes #2594) (Greg Cochard)
• Fix: counting of variables statements in one-var (fixes #2570) (Mathias Schreck)
• Fix: Object shorthand rule incorrectly flagging getters/setters (fixes #2563) (Brad Dougherty)

Features

• New: object-curly-spacing (fixes #2225) (Jamund Ferguson)
• New: lines-around-comment (fixes #1344) (Jamund Ferguson)
• New: accessor-pairs rule to object initializations (fixes #1638) (Gyandeep Singh)
• New: Add rule schemas (refs #2179) (Brandon Mills)
• New: Add config validator (refs #2179) (Brandon Mills)
• New: Add worker environment (fixes #2442) (Ilya Volodin)
• New no-empty-character class (fixes #2508) (Jamund Ferguson)
• New: Adds –ignore-pattern option. (fixes #1742) (Patrick McElhaney)

Enhancements

• Upgrade: escope 3.1.0 (fixes #2310, #2405) (Toru Nagashima)
• Upgrade: eslint-tester to 0.7.0 (Ilya Volodin)
• Update: allow shadowed references in no-alert (fixes #1105) (Mathias Schreck)
• Update: adds “functions” option to no-extra-parens (fixes #2477) (Jose Roberto Vidal)

Documentation

• Docs: minor fix for one-var rule (Jamund Ferguson)
• Docs: Fix json formatting for lines-around-comments rule (Gyandeep Singh)
• Docs: Fix typo in shareable-configs example (fixes #2571) (Ted Piotrowski)

Build Related

• Build: Add auto-update of release tag on github (fixes #2566) (Greg Cochard)
• Build: Unblock build by increasing code coverage (Ilya Volodin)
• Build: Add sudo:false for Travis (fixes [#2582](https://github.com/eslint/eslint/issues/2582)) (Ilya Volodin)
• Build: Relax markdownlint rules by disabling style-only items (David Anson)