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ESLint 0.8.2 released

We just pushed ESLint 0.8.2, which is a patch update to fix bugs discovered in 0.8.1 as well as to upgrade dependencies.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix: load .eslintrc from HOME (fixes #1262) (Beau Gunderson)
  • Fix: Load .eslintrc in directory with $HOME as an ancestor (fixes #1266) (Beau Gunderson)
  • Fix: strict should check function expressions (fixes #1244) (Brandon Mills)

Enhancements

  • New: add ignoreCase option to sort-vars (fixes #1272) (Mathias Schreck)
  • New: Add sharable rule settings (fixes #1233) (Ilya Volodin)

Documentation

  • Docs: add finally to space-after-keywords documentation (Mathias Schreck)
  • Docs: add intellij plugin to integrations (ido)
  • Docs: Changing NPM to npm (Peter deHaan)
  • Docs: Fix broken Markdown on configuration page (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Docs: Fix reference to wrong rule name (Harry Wolff)
  • Docs: fix typo (Barry Handelman)
  • Docs: fix typo in no-ex-assign documentation (Michael Ficarra)
  • Docs: fix vars-on-top documentation (fixes #1234) (Mathias Schreck)
  • Docs: Fixed a typo in brace-style.md (Anton Antonov)
  • Docs: Update README with links and FAQs (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Docs: Updated contribution guidelines to add accepted/bounty issues descriptions (Nicholas C. Zakas)

Dependency Upgrades

  • Upgrade: doctrine to 0.5.2 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Upgrade: eslint-tester to latest (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Upgrade: esprima to 1.2.2 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Upgrade: Most dev dependencies (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Upgrade: shelljs to 0.3.0 (Nicholas C. Zakas)
  • Upgrade: upgrade outdated dependencies (fixes #1251) (Mathias Schreck)

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