ESLint v8.42.0 released

Features

• b8448ff feat: correct no-useless-return behaviour in try statements (#16996) (Nitin Kumar)

Bug Fixes

• a589636 fix: Config with ignores and without files should not always apply (#17181) (Milos Djermanovic)
• c4fad17 fix: Correct ignore message for “node_modules” subfolders (#17217) (Francesco Trotta)

Documentation

• 01d7142 docs: Update README (GitHub Actions Bot)
• e5182b7 docs: Update README (GitHub Actions Bot)

Chores

• 6ca5b7c chore: upgrade @eslint/js@8.42.0 (#17236) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 67fc5e7 chore: package.json update for @eslint/js release (ESLint Jenkins)
• 0892412 refactor: remove Identifier listener in no-irregular-whitespace (#17235) (Milos Djermanovic)
• f67d298 test: Add FlatESLint tests with missing config files (#17164) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 5b68d51 chore: Fix fixedsize attribute in code path analysis DOT debug output (#17202) (Milos Djermanovic)
• 37432f2 chore: update descriptions in key-spacing tests (#17195) (Milos Djermanovic)