golangci-lint/CHANGELOG.md

Follow the news and releases on our twitter and our blog. There is the most valuable changes log:

Septempber 2020

1. update exhaustive linter (#1339)

August 2020

1. new nlreturn linter: https://github.com/ssgreg/nlreturn
2. new gci linter: https://github.com/daixiang0/gci
3. support latest version of golangci-lint in golangci-lint-action
4. update gosec linter from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0
5. update godot linter from 0.4.2 to 0.4.8
6. update go-critic from 0.5.0 to 0.5.2 (#1307)
7. update nlreturn from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2 (#1287), 2.0.2 to 2.1.0 (#1327)
8. update gci to v0.2.1 (#1292), to v0.2.2 (#1305), to v0.2.4 (#1337),
9. update funlen from 0.0.2 to 0.0.3 (#1341)
10. upgrade to golang 1.15 for smaller binary (#1303)
11. support short and json formats for version cmd (#1315)
12. add home directory to config file search paths (#1325)
13. allow for serializing multiple golangci-lint invocations (#1302)

July 2020

1. gofumpt linter:
   • update linter
   • add extra-rules option
   • support auto-fixing
2. upgrade exhaustive linter
3. upgrade exportloopref linter
4. improve 'no such linter' error message
5. sorting result.Issues implementation
6. enhancements in CI:
   • Run nancy validation for all dependencies
   • Move dependabot config to .github folder
7. other
   • bump lodash from 4.17.15 to 4.17.19 in /tools
   • bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from v1.2.2 to v2
   • bump github.com/valyala/quicktemplate from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1

June 2020

1. Add new linters: gofumpt

May 2020

1. Add new linters: nolintlint, goerr113
2. Updated linters: godot, staticcheck
3. Launch a website

April 2020

1. Add new linters: testpackage, nestif, godot, gomodguard, asciicheck
2. Add github actions output format
3. Update linters: wsl, gomodguard, gosec
4. Support disabled-tags setting for gocritic
5. Mitigate OOM and "failed prerequisites"
6. Self-isolate due to unexpected pandemics
7. Support case-sensitive excludes
8. Allow granular re-enabling excludes by ID, e.g. EXC0002

September 2019

1. Support go1.13
2. Add new linters: funlen, whitespace (with auto-fix) and godox
3. Update linters: gochecknoglobals, scopelint, gosec
4. Provide pre-built binary for ARM and FreeBSD
5. 2. Fix false-positives in unused
6. Support --skip-dirs-use-default
7. Add support for bash completions

July 2019

1. Fix parallel writes race condition
2. Update bodyclose with fixed panic

June 2019

1. Treat Go source files as a plain text by misspell: it allows detecting issues in strings, variable names, etc.
2. Implement richer and more stable auto-fix of misspell issues.

May 2019

1. Add bodyclose linter.
2. Support junit-xml output.

April 2019

1. Update go-critic, new checkers were added: badCall, dupImports, evalOrder, newDeref
2. Fix staticcheck panic on packages that do not compile
3. Make install script work on Windows
4. Fix compatibility with the latest x/tools version and update golang.org/x/tools
5. Correct import path of module sourcegraph/go-diff
6. Fix max-issues-per-linter name
7. Fix linting of preprocessed files (e.g. *.qtpl.go, goyacc)
8. Enable auto-fixing when running via pre-commit

March 2019

1. Support the newest go vet (with go/analysis)
2. Support configuration of go vet: e.g. you can set print functions by linters-settings.govet.settings.printf.funcs
3. Update megacheck (staticcheck) to 2019.1.1
4. Add information about controlling space-time trade-off into README
5. Exclude issues by source code line regexp by issues.exclude-rules[i].source
6. Build and test on go 1.12
7. Support --color option
8. Update x/tools to fix c++ issues
9. Include support for log level
10. Sort linters list in help commands