ESLint v8.38.0 released

Highlights

• Rules can now use SourceCode#getDeclaredVariables(node) and SourceCode#getAncestors(node) methods. These methods work the same as context.getDeclaredVariables(node) and context.getAncestors() respectively, except that SourceCode#getAncestors isn’t limited to the currently traversed node and the node argument is mandatory. context.getDeclaredVariables and context.getAncestors are now considered deprecated in favor of the SourceCode methods. This change is part of the implementation of language plugins.

Features

• a1d561d feat: Move getDeclaredVariables and getAncestors to SourceCode (#17059) (Nicholas C. Zakas)

Bug Fixes

• 1c1ece2 fix: do not report on RegExp(...args) in require-unicode-regexp (#17037) (Francesco Trotta)

Documentation

• 7162d34 docs: Mention new config system is complete (#17068) (Nicholas C. Zakas)
• 0fd6bb2 docs: Update README (GitHub Actions Bot)
• c83531c docs: Update/remove external links, eg. point to eslint-community (#17061) (Pelle Wessman)
• a3aa6f5 docs: Clarify no-div-regex rule docs (#17051) (Francesco Trotta)
• b0f11cf docs: Update README (GitHub Actions Bot)
• da8d52a docs: Update the second object instance for the “no-new” rule (#17020) (Ahmadou Waly NDIAYE)
• 518130a docs: switch language based on current path (#16687) (Percy Ma)
• 24206c4 docs: Update README (GitHub Actions Bot)

Chores

• 59ed060 chore: upgrade @eslint/js@8.38.0 (#17069) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 88c0898 chore: package.json update for @eslint/js release (ESLint Jenkins)
• cf682d2 refactor: simplify new-parens rule schema (#17060) (MHO)
• 0dde022 ci: bump actions/add-to-project from 0.4.1 to 0.5.0 (#17055) (dependabot[bot])