ESLint v4.8.0 released

Highlights

–report-unused-disable-directives

This release includes a new CLI option that, when on, reports unused eslint-disable directives! Running this periodically will ensure that all eslint-disable comments are still relevant and up to date.

Please see the documentation for more information.

Features

• 3f2b908 New: add option to report unused eslint-disable directives (fixes #9249) (#9250) (Teddy Katz)

Bug Fixes

• ff2be59 Fix: dot notation rule failing to catch string template (fixes #9350) (#9357) (Phil Quinn)
• 06efe87 Fix: Add meta element with charset attribute. (#9365) (H1Gdev)
• 1c6bc67 Fix: special EventEmitter keys leak information about other rules (#9328) (Teddy Katz)
• 38d0cb2 Fix: fix wrong code-path about try-for-in (fixes #8848) (#9348) (Toru Nagashima)
• 434d9e2 Fix: Invalid font-size property value issue. (#9341) (H1Gdev)

Documentation

• cef6f8c Docs: remove line about removing rules from semver policy (#9367) (Teddy Katz)
• 458ca67 Docs: update architecture page (fixes #9337) (#9345) (Victor Hom)
• d593e61 Docs: update eslint.org links to use https (#9358) (Teddy Katz)

Chores

• b1372da Chore: remove sourceCode property from Linter (refs #9161) (#9363) (Teddy Katz)
• a7668c2 Chore: Remove unnecessary slice from logging utility (#9343) (Gyandeep Singh)
• 2ff6fb6 Chore: remove unused arguments in codebase (#9340) (Teddy Katz)