ESLint v5.15.0 released

We just pushed ESLint v5.15.0, which is a minor release upgrade of ESLint. This release adds some new features and fixes several bugs found in the previous release.

Highlights

The prefer-named-capture-group rule has been added. This rule encourages the use of named capture groups over numbered capture groups.

Features

• ec59ec0 New: add rule “prefer-named-capture-group” (fixes #11381) (#11392) (Pig Fang)

Enhancements

• de5cbc5 Update: remove invalid defaults from core rules (fixes #11415) (#11427) (Teddy Katz)

Bug Fixes

• 6489518 Fix: no-extra-parens crash when code is “((let))” (#11444) (Teddy Katz)

Documentation

• 8f3d717 Docs: Add non-attending TSC member info (#11411) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• ce0777d Docs: use more common spelling (#11417) (薛定谔的猫)

Dependency Upgrades

• a44f750 Upgrade: eslint-scope@4.0.2 (#11461) (Teddy Katz)

Build Related

• 4088c6c Build: Remove path.resolve in webpack build (#11462) (Kevin Partington)
• eb0650b Build: fix linting errors on master (#11428) (Teddy Katz)
• db0c5e2 Build: switch from browserify to webpack (fixes #11366) (#11398) (Pig Fang)

Chores

• ee88475 Chore: add utils for rule tests (#11453) (薛定谔的猫)
• 5018378 Chore: enable require-unicode-regexp on ESLint codebase (#11422) (Teddy Katz)
• f6ba633 Chore: lint all files in the repo at the same time (#11425) (Teddy Katz)
• b9aabe3 Chore: run fuzzer along with unit tests (#11404) (Teddy Katz)