Scheduled release for February 26th, 2021

[eslint-deprecated]

The next scheduled release will occur on Friday, February 26th, 2021.

Release Day Checklist

• Remove the 'tsc agenda' label on this issue
• Review open pull requests and merge any that are ready
• Start the release on Jenkings
• Update the release blog post with a "Highlights" section
• Make a release announcement on Twitter
• Make a release announcement in the Discord '#announcements' channel
• Add a comment to this issue saying the release is out
• Add the 'patch release pending' label to this issue

Two Days After Release Day Checklist

Typically Monday for regular releases; two days after patch releases.

• Check the issues list for any regression issues

No Regressions Checklist

• Remove the 'patch release pending' label from this issue
• Close this issue

Patch Release Checklist

• Resolve the regression by merging any necessary fixes
• Start the release on Jenkings
• Update the release blog post with a "Highlights" section
• Make a release announcement on Twitter
• Make a release announcement in the Discord '#announcements' channel
• Add a comment to this issue saying the release is out
• Wait two days and repeat the Two Days After a Release checklist
• Close this issue

Followup

Please use this issue to document how the release went, any problems during the release, and anything the team might want to know about the release process. This issue should be closed after all patch releases have been completed (or there was no patch release needed).

Resources:

• Release guidelines

[mdjermanovic]

We have some problems with Jenkins, so the release is postponed until we fix it, hopefully soon.

[btmills]

We were able to give Jenkins a nudge today, so v7.21.0 has just been released. Please merge only semver-patch changes until we know whether a patch release is necessary.

@mdjermanovic I did today's release since I happened to be online when Jenkins woke up. Do you still plan to do the patch release if necessary? Let me know if you want me to take it.

[mdjermanovic]

Thanks @btmills! I can do the patch release if necessary.

[mdjermanovic]

We had a reported issue #14151 related to change #14126. Ignoring all symbolic links was a bug introduced in one of the previous versions. The #14126 change we made for v7.21.0 release restored the intended behavior, which is to follow symbolic links.

Symbolic links that should be ignored can be specified in ignorePatterns, .eslintignore, or by any other way to ignore code. User has confirmed that specifiying symlinks that should be ignored fixes the problem described in #14151 (loops).

This concludes the v7.21.0 release, please feel free to merge semver-minor PRs again.