ESLint v4.6.0 released

We just pushed ESLint v4.6.0, which is a minor release upgrade of ESLint. This release adds some new features andfixes several bugs found in the previous release.

Highlights

• One new rule has been added: function-paren-newline
• The generator-star-spacing rule is now configurable by function type.

Features

• 0e09973 New: function-paren-newline rule (fixes #6074) (#8102) (Teddy Katz)

Enhancements

• 6becf91 Update: add eslint version to error output. (fixes #9037) (#9071) (薛定谔的猫)
• 2db356b Update: no-unused-vars Improve message to include the allowed patterns (#9176) (Eli White)
• 8fbaf0a Update: Add configurability to generator-star-spacing (#8985) (Ethan Rutherford)

Bug Fixes

• 1bbac51 Fix: avoid breaking eslint-plugin-eslint-comments (fixes #9193) (#9196) (Teddy Katz)
• 3e8b70a Fix: off-by-one error in eslint-disable comment checking (#9195) (Teddy Katz)
• af4ad60 Fix: Handle error when running init without npm (#9169) (Gabriel Aumala)
• 5ab0434 Fix: indent crash on sparse arrays with "off" option (fixes #9157) (#9166) (Teddy Katz)
• d6e436f Fix: no-extra-parens reported some parenthesized IIFEs (fixes #9140) (#9158) (Teddy Katz)

Documentation

• 56dd769 Docs: fix link format in prefer-arrow-callback.md (#9198) (Vse Mozhet Byt)
• 73815f6 Docs: rewrite prefer-arrow-callback documentation (fixes #8950) (#9077) (Charles E. Morgan)
• de6dccd Docs: add documentation for Linter methods (refs #6525) (#9151) (Teddy Katz)
• ffa021e Docs: quotes rule - when does \n require backticks (#9135) (avimar)

Build Related

• e6b115c Build: Add an edit link to the rule docs’ metadata (#9049) (Jed Fox)

Chores

• 88a64cc Chore: Make parseJsonConfig() a pure function in Linter (#9186) (Teddy Katz)
• 0d3a854 Chore: avoid mutating report descriptors in report-translator (#9189) (Teddy Katz)
• 8ed779c Chore: remove currentScopes property from Linter instances (refs #9161) (#9187) (Teddy Katz)
• 4b94c6c Chore: make parse() a pure function in Linter (refs #9161) (#9183) (Teddy Katz)
• 1be5634 Chore: don't make Linter a subclass of EventEmitter (refs #9161) (#9177) (Teddy Katz)
• e95af9b Chore: don't include internal test helpers in npm package (#9160) (Teddy Katz)
• 6fb32e1 Chore: avoid using private Linter APIs in astUtils tests (refs #9161) (#9173) (Teddy Katz)
• 2d90030 Chore: remove unused assignment. (#9182) (薛定谔的猫)
• d672aef Chore: refactor reporting logic (refs #9161) (#9168) (Teddy Katz)
• c147b97 Chore: Make SourceCodeFixer accept text instead of a SourceCode instance (#9178) (Teddy Katz)
• f127423 Chore: avoid using private Linter APIs in Linter tests (refs #9161) (#9175) (Teddy Katz)
• 2334335 Chore: avoid using private Linter APIs in SourceCode tests (refs #9161) (#9174) (Teddy Katz)
• 2dc243a Chore: avoid using internal Linter APIs in RuleTester (refs #9161) (#9172) (Teddy Katz)
• fcb7bb4 Chore: avoid unnecessarily complex forEach calls in no-extra-parens (#9159) (Teddy Katz)
• 60c5148 Chore: improve coverage in lib/*.js (#9130) (Teddy Katz)