CHANGELOG.md

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

Mai 2021

1. new linters:
   • tagliatelle: https://github.com/ldez/tagliatelle
   • promlinter: https://github.com/yeya24/promlinter
2. update linters:
   • staticcheck: from 0.1.3 to 0.1.4
   • wastedassign: from 0.2.0 to 1.0.0
   • go-critic: from 0.5.5 to 0.5.6
   • wrapcheck: from 1.2.0 to 2.1.0
   • importas: bump to HEAD
   • errorlint: bump to HEAD
   • importas: allow repeated aliases
   • revive: convert hard coded excludes into default exclude patterns
   • govet: Update vet passes
3. documentation:
   • bump documentation dependencies
   • fix typos
4. Misc:
   • set the minimum Go version to go1.15

April 2021

1. new linters:
   • tagliatelle: https://github.com/ldez/tagliatelle
   • promlinter: https://github.com/yeya24/promlinter
2. update linters:
   • godot: from 1.4.4 to 1.4.6
   • wrapcheck: from 1.0.0 to 1.2.0
   • go-mnd: from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2
   • wsl: from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0
   • revive: from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6
   • importas: bump to HEAD
   • staticcheck: configurable Go version
   • gosec: add configuration
   • typecheck: improve error stack parsing
3. documentation:
   • bump documentation dependencies
   • fix typos
4. Misc:
   • fix: comma in exclude pattern leads to unexpected results

March 2021

1. new linters:
   • gomoddirectives: https://github.com/ldez/gomoddirectives
2. update linters:
   • go-critic: from 0.5.4 to 0.5.5
   • gofumpt: from v0.1.0 to v0.1.1
   • gosec: from 2.6.1 to 2.7.0
   • ifshort: bump to v1.0.2
   • importas: bump to HEAD
   • makezero: bump to HEAD
   • nolintlint: allow to fix //nolint lines
   • revive: from 1.0.3 to 1.0.5
   • revive: the default configuration is only applied when no dedicated configuration
   • rowserrcheck: bump to HEAD
   • ⚠ scopelint: deprecated
   • staticcheck: from v0.1.2 (2020.2.2) to v0.1.3 (2020.2.3)
   • 🎉 typecheck: display compilation errors as report instead of error
   • wastedassign: bump to v0.2.0
   • wrapcheck: bump to v1.0.0
3. documentation:
   • improve linters page (versions, deprecation, and presets)
   • add cache directory information
   • adding missing format options
   • fix typos
4. Misc:
   • Set version command output to Stdout
   • fix linters load mode
   • Restore fast linters meaning

February 2021

1. new linters:
   • durationcheck: https://github.com/charithe/durationcheck
   • revive: https://github.com/mgechev/revive
   • cyclop: https://github.com/bkielbasa/cyclop
   • wastedassign: https://github.com/sanposhiho/wastedassign
   • importas: https://github.com/julz/importas
   • nilerr: https://github.com/gostaticanalysis/nilerr
   • forcetypeassert: https://github.com/gostaticanalysis/forcetypeassert
   • govet: add stringintconv and ifaceassert
2. update linters:
   • prealloc: Use upstream version
   • errcheck: Use upstream version
   • ineffassign: Use upstream version
   • gocyclo: Use upstream version
   • godot from 1.3.2 to 1.4.3
   • exhaustivestruct from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0
   • forbidigo from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0
   • thelper from 0.2.1 to 0.3.1
   • ruleguard: print error message and exit with non-zero status when parsing error occurs
   • fix wrong load mode for asciicheck, exhaustivestruct, exportloopref, and makezero
   • wsl: bump to v3.2.0
   • durationcheck: from 0.0.4 to 0.0.6
   • staticcheck: from 2020.1.6 to v0.1.2 (2020.2.2)
   • thelper from 0.3.1 to 0.4.0
   • bodyclose: bump to HEAD
   • go-err113: bump to HEAD
   • ⚠ interfacer: deprecated
   • ⚠ maligned: deprecated (govet fieldalignment as replacement)
   • govet: use same default linter as go vet
   • go-printf-func-name: to v0.0.0-20200119135958-7558a9eaa5af
   • godox: to v0.0.0-20210227103229-6504466cf951
   • asciicheck: to v0.0.0-20200416200610-e657995f937b
   • wrapcheck: to v0.0.0-20201130113247-1683564d9756
   • unparam: to v0.0.0-20210104141923-aac4ce9116a7
3. CLI: truncate multiline descriptions
4. fix: new-from-rev for a large repository
5. Support RelatedInformation for analysis Diagnostic
6. use go1.16 to create binaries
7. fix: MIPS release
8. documentation:
   • bump documentation dependencies
   • fix go-header usage
   • improve gocritic description
   • update deprecated hyperlink for Sublime Text plugin
   • add docs on using homebrew tap

January 2021

1. new linters:
   • predeclared: https://github.com/nishanths/predeclared
   • ifshort: https://github.com/esimonov/ifshort
2. update linters:
   • go-critic from 0.5.2 to 0.5.3
   • thelper from 0.1.0 to 0.2.1
   • Validate go-critic settings
   • gofumpt to v0.1.0
   • gci to v0.2.8
   • go-mnd to v2.3.1
   • gosec from 2.5.0 to 2.6.1
   • godot from 1.3.2 to 1.4.3
   • ifshort to v1.0.1
   • rowserrcheck: fix reports false positive
3. fix: modules-download-mode support
4. documentation:
   • bump documentation dependencies

December 2020

1. new linters:
   • forbidigo: https://github.com/ashanbrown/forbidigo
   • makezero: https://github.com/ashanbrown/makezero
   • thelper: https://github.com/kulti/thelper
2. update linters:
   • go-header from v0.3.1 to v0.4.2
   • go-mnd from v2.0.0 to v2.2.0
   • godot from v1.3.0 to v1.3.2
   • gci from v0.2.4 to v0.2.7
   • gomodguard from v1.1.0 to v1.2.0
   • go-errorlint from v0.0.0-20201006195004-351e25ade6e3 to v0.0.0-20201127212506-19bd8db6546f
   • gofumpt from v0.0.0-20200802201014-ab5a8192947d to v0.0.0-20201129102820-5c11c50e9475
   • nolintlint fix comment analysis. (#1571)
3. result/processors: treat all non-Go source as special autogenerated files
4. throw an error on panic. (#1540)
5. resolve custom linters' path relative to config file directory (#1572)
6. treat all non-Go source as special autogenerated files
7. documentation:
   • add settings examples for gocritic (#1562)
   • removing reference to no-longer-existing linter-in-the-cloud (#1553)
8. others:
   • bump gopkg.in/yaml.v2 from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0 (#1528)
   • bump gatsby-remark-responsive-iframe in /docs (#1533)
   • bump gatsby-remark-images from 3.3.29 to 3.6.0 in /docs (#1531)
   • bump ini from 1.3.5 to 1.3.8 in /tools (#1560)
   • bump react-headroom from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 in /docs (#1532)
   • bump react-live from 2.2.2 to 2.2.3 in /docs (#1534)
   • bump react from 16.13.1 to 16.14.0 in /docs (#1481)
   • Fix forbidigo linter name in reports (#1590)

November 2020

1. new linters:
   • paralleltest: https://github.com/kunwardeep/paralleltest
2. update linters:
   • godot from v0.4.9 to v1.3.0
   • exportloopref from v0.1.7 to v0.1.8
   • gosec from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0
   • goconst using upstream https://github.com/jgautheron/goconst
3. DefaultExcludePatterns should only be used for specified linter (#1494)
4. unknown linter breaks //nolint (#1497)
5. report all unknown linters at once (#1477)
6. CI:
   • fix Docker tag for Alpine build
7. documentation:
   • missing sort-results in the docs (#1514)
   • add description of Homebrew's official formula (#1421)
8. others:
   • bump golang.org/x/text to v0.3.4 (#1293)
   • bump github.com/fatih/color to from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0 (#1485)
   • bump lodash from 4.17.15 to 4.17.19 in /.github/peril (#1252)
   • bump polished from 3.6.6 to 4.0.3 in /docs (#1482)
   • bump gatsby-alias-imports from 1.0.4 to 1.0.6 in /docs (#1479)
   • bump puppeteer from 5.3.1 to 5.4.1 in /docs (#1480)
   • bump gatsby-remark-embedder from 3.0.0 to 4.0.0 in /docs (#1478)

October 2020

1. new linters:
   • exhaustivestruct: https://github.com/mbilski/exhaustivestruct
   • go-errorlint: https://github.com/polyfloyd/go-errorlint
   • tparallel: https://github.com/moricho/tparallel
   • wrapcheck: https://github.com/tomarrell/wrapcheck
2. update linters:
   • honnef.co/go/tools from 2020.1.5 to 2020.1.6
   • exhaustivestruct from v1.0.1 to v1.1.0
   • exhaustive to v0.1.0
   • gochecknoglobals: use https://github.com/leighmcculloch/gochecknoglobals
3. add support for powershell completion (#1408)
4. add .golangci.yaml to list of configuration files searched on startup (#1364)
5. support for only specifying default severity (#1396)
6. documentation:
   • mention macports installation procedure on macOS (#1352)
   • sort linters (#1451)
7. CI:
   • add codeQL scanning (#1405)
   • fix version details in Docker image (#1471)
   • releasing docker image for arm64 (#1383)
   • change interval for npm to monthly (#1424)
8. others:
   • use tag version for cobra (#1458)
   • bump nancy to 1.0.1 (#1410)
   • bump gatsby-plugin-catch-links in /docs (#1415)
   • bump gatsby-plugin-mdx from 1.2.40 to 1.2.43 in /docs (#1419)
   • bump gatsby-plugin-sharp from 2.6.31 to 2.6.40 in /docs (#1423)
   • bump gatsby-plugin-sitemap from 2.4.12 to 2.4.14 in /docs (#1417)
   • bump github.com/mattn/go-colorable from 0.1.7 to 0.1.8 (#1413)
   • bump github.com/sirupsen/logrus from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 (#1412)
   • bump github.com/sourcegraph/go-diff from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1 (#1414)
   • bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from v2 to v2.3.0 (#1447) (#1469)
   • bump puppeteer from 3.3.0 to 5.3.1 in /docs (#1418)

September 2020

1. update linters:
   • godot from 0.4.8 to 0.4.9
   • exhaustive from v0.0.0-20200708172631-8866003e3856 to v0.0.0-20200811152831-6cf413ae40e0
   • gofumpt from v0.0.0-20200709182408-4fd085cb6d5f to v0.0.0-20200802201014-ab5a8192947d
2. add support for fish completion (#1201)
3. documentation:
   • fix typo in performance docs (#1350)
4. CI:
   • prevent macos to be marked as passing upon failure (#1381)
   • check only for go.mod file (#1397)
   • check if go.mod and go.sum are up to dated (#1377)
   • trigger Netlify (#1358)
5. others:
   • bump github.com/sourcegraph/go-diff from 0.5.3 to 0.6.0 (#1353)
   • bump github.com/valyala/quicktemplate from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 (#1385)
   • ignore known dependency failure in nancy (#1378)
   • bump @mdx-js/mdx from 1.6.16 to 1.6.18 in /docs (#1401)
   • bump gatsby from 2.24.52 to 2.24.65 in /docs (#1400)
   • bump gatsby-plugin-canonical-urls in /docs (#1390)
   • bump gatsby-plugin-google-analytics in /docs (#1388)
   • bump gatsby-plugin-manifest from 2.4.23 to 2.4.27 in /docs (#1355)
   • bump gatsby-plugin-mdx from 1.2.35 to 1.2.40 in /docs (#1386)
   • bump gatsby-plugin-offline from 3.2.23 to 3.2.27 in /docs (#1368)
   • bump gatsby-plugin-sharp from 2.6.25 to 2.6.31 in /docs (#1354)
   • bump gatsby-plugin-sitemap from 2.4.11 to 2.4.12 in /docs (#1344)
   • bump gatsby-remark-autolink-headers in /docs (#1387)
   • bump gatsby-remark-images from 3.3.25 to 3.3.28 in /docs (#1345)
   • bump gatsby-remark-images from 3.3.28 to 3.3.29 in /docs (#1365)
   • bump gatsby-remark-mermaid from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 in /docs (#1369)
   • bump gatsby-source-filesystem in /docs (#1366)
   • bump gatsby-source-filesystem in /docs (#1389)
   • bump gatsby-transformer-sharp in /docs (#1402)
   • bump gatsby-transformer-yaml from 2.4.10 to 2.4.11 in /docs (#1367)
   • bump node-fetch in /.github/contributors (#1363)
   • bump polished from 3.6.5 to 3.6.6 in /docs (#1347)

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