v5.8.0

⚠️ Deprecations

• [deprecation] typeof-compare is deprecated because typescript already does that check (#3286)
• [deprecation] CLI argument --type-check is no longer necessary and will be removed in the next major version (#3322)

⚠️ Updates to tslint:latest configuration

+    "ban-comma-operator": true,
+    "jsdoc-format": {
+        options: "check-multiline-start",
+    },
+    "no-duplicate-switch-case": true,
+    "no-implicit-dependencies": true,
+    "no-return-await": true,

🎉 Features

• [feature] Added linterOptions configuration field to tslint.json, which supports a list of exclude globs to disable linting for a subset of files (#2409)
• [new-rule] no-return-await (#3233)
• [new-rule] no-redundant-jsdoc (#2754)
• [new-rule] no-duplicate-switch-case (#2937)
• [new-rule] no-implicit-dependencies (#3343)
• [new-rule] no-unnecessary-class (#3119)
• [new-rule] ban-comma-operator (#3250)
• [new-fixer] one-line (#3200)
• [new-fixer] curly (#3262)
• [new-rule-option] jsdoc-format adds option "check-multiline-start" to enforce the first line of a multiline JSDoc comment to be empty. (#3181)
• [new-rule-option] trailing-comma adds option "esSpecCompliant" to make it compatible with the ES spec regarding trailing commas after object/array rest and rest parameters. (#3176)
• [new-rule-option] "check-parameter-property" option for member-access rule (#3325)
• [new-rule-option] "strict-bound-class-methods" option for semicolon rule (#3294)
• [new-rule-option] "grouped-imports" option for ordered-imports rule (#3138)
• [new-rule-option] "ignore-blank-lines" option for no-trailing-whitespace rule (#3346)
• [new-rule-option] "never" option for object-literal-shorthand disallows shorthand notation (#3268)
• [new-rule-option] "exclude-class-expressions" option for max-classes-per-file rule (#3281)
• [new-rule-option] no-unnecessary-type-assertion supports a whitelist of types to ignore (#3257)
• [new-rule-option] "module-source-path" for ordered-imports allows sorting imports by trailing end of path (#3178)
• [new-formatter] JUnit (#3194)

🛠️ Bugfixes & enhancements

• [bugfix] no-empty-interface allows providing type arguments for extended type (#3260)
• [bugfix] Fixed line switches to not disable failures in the next line following the disabled line (#3177)
• [bugfix] return-undefined handles union return types in async functions (#3298)
• [bugfix] deprecation checks correct constructor overload (#3203)
• [bugfix] return-undefined declared return type takes precedence over contextual type (#3298)
• [bugfix] Correctly mark inputFilePath as an optional parameter in Configuration.findConfiguration() (#3195)
• [bugfix] return-undefined fixed regressions: once again allows anything if return type is any (#3298)
• [bugfix] only-arrow-functions allow function if this is used in parameter initializer (#3315)
• [bugfix] no-conditional-assignment: exclude intentional assignments, e.g. inside functions (#2629)
• [bugfix] no-angle-bracket-type-assertion fixer adds parentheses when necessary (#3301)
• [bugfix] no-angle-bracket-type-assertion fixed order when autofixing consecutive assertions (#3301)
• [bugfix] vso formatter no longer duplicates output for fixed failures (#3348)
• [bugfix] no-unbound-method: Allow negation of method (#3349)
• [bugfix] arrow-parens with option "ban-single-arg-parens" no longer produces invalid code when fixed (#3247)
• [bugfix] Fixed regression where the lookup of tslint.json stopped at the current directory. (#3309)
• [bugfix] --test works correctly with any compilerOptions.target (#3296)
• [bugfix] whitepace handles files with BOM and other irregular whitespace (#3305)
• [bugfix] callable-types auto fix produces invalid results (#3342)
• [bugfix] no-string-literal correctly fix property names with leading underscores (#3184)
• [bugfix] variable-name fixed crash on empty variable name (#3292)
• [bugfix] trailing-comma fixed crash on arrow function without parens (#3246)
• [bugfix] Fix space-before-function-paren for anonymous/arrow generic functions (#3085)
• [bugfix] Removed warning printed to console when using the no-unused-variable along with the noUnusedLocals and noUnusedParameters compiler options (#3227)
• [bugfix] no-invalid-this ignores functions with a this param (#3267)
• [enhancement] Sort failures by line and character for formatters (#3345)
• [enhancement] import-blacklist also checks exports and dynamic imports (#3258)
• [enhancement] no-conditional-assignment added check for conditional (ternary) expressions (#2629)
• [enhancement] Allow completed-docs to list doc tags that mark a node as not requiring a documentation body. Tags can also provide a regexp matcher to validate that their contents are docs-valid. (#2415)
• [enhancement] await-promise enforces that for-await-of is only used with AsyncIterable (#3297)
• [enhancement] one-line checks type alias declarations (#3200)
• [enhancement] deprecation checks object destructuring (#3318)
• [enhancement] no-submodule-imports also checks exports (#3258)
• [enhancement] restrict-plus-operands: More specific error message when arguments include strings (#3220)
• [enhancement] no-unsafe-any checks more expressions, for example destructuring, yield, property initializer (#3196)
• [enhancement] object-literal-sort-keys: allow grouping of object properties via additional blank lines when using alphabetical ordering. (#3191)
• [enhancement] Migrated CLI from using colors module to chalk module (#3171)
• [enhancement] no-unused-variable applies the ignorePattern to imports (#3187)

Thanks to our contributors!

• Klaus Meinhardt
• Charles Samborski
• Donald Pipowitch
• Josh Goldberg
• mmkal
• Erik
• Csaba Miklos
• Dominik Moritz
• Khalid Saifullah
• Lukas Spieß
• Merott Movahedi
• Bowen Ni
• ksvitkovsky
• Hutson Betts
• Caleb Eggensperger
• Brent Erickson
• Trivikram
• Brandon Furtwangler
• Pavel Zet
• aervin_
• Holger Jeromin
• Danny Guo
• Jeremy Morton
• Cyril Gandon
• Andy Hanson
• yadan