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v2.5.0

  1. New linters
  2. Linters new features or changes
    • embeddedstructfieldcheck: from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0 (new option: empty-line)
    • err113: from aea10b59be24 to 0.1.1 (skip internals of Is methods for error type)
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.20.0 to 0.21.0 (new option: force-tonot)
    • gofumpt: from 0.8.0 to 0.9.1 (new rule is to “clothe” naked returns for the sake of clarity)
    • ineffassign: from 0.1.0 to 0.2.0 (new option: check-escaping-errors)
    • musttag: from 0.13.1 to 0.14.0 (support interface methods)
    • revive: from 1.11.0 to 1.12.0 (new options: identical-ifelseif-branches, identical-ifelseif-conditions, identical-switch-branches, identical-switch-conditions, package-directory-mismatch, unsecure-url-scheme, use-waitgroup-go, useless-fallthrough)
    • thelper: from 0.6.3 to 0.7.1 (skip t.Helper in functions passed to synctest.Test)
    • wsl: from 5.1.1 to 5.2.0 (improvements related to subexpressions)
  3. Linters bug fixes
    • asciicheck: from 0.4.1 to 0.5.0
    • errname: from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1
    • fatcontext: from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1
    • go-printf-func-name: from 0.1.0 to 0.1.1
    • godot: from 1.5.1 to 1.5.4
    • gosec: from 2.22.7 to 2.22.8
    • nilerr: from 0.1.1 to a temporary fork
    • nilnil: from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1
    • protogetter: from 0.3.15 to 0.3.16
    • tagliatelle: from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2
    • testifylint: from 1.6.1 to 1.6.4
  4. Misc.
    • fix: “no export data” errors are now handled as a standard typecheck error
  5. Documentation
    • Improve nolint section about syntax

v2.4.0

  1. Enhancements
    • 🎉 go1.25 support
  2. Linters new features or changes
    • exhaustruct: from v3.3.1 to 4.0.0 (new options: allow-empty, allow-empty-rx, allow-empty-returns, allow-empty-declarations)
  3. Linters bug fixes
    • godox: trim filepath from report messages
    • staticcheck: allow empty options
    • tagalign: from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3
  4. Documentation
    • 🌟 New website (with a search engine)

v2.3.1

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • gci: from 0.13.6 to 0.13.7
    • gosec: from 2.22.6 to 2.22.7
    • noctx: from 0.3.5 to 0.4.0
    • wsl: from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1
    • tagliatelle: force upper case for custom initialisms

v2.3.0

  1. Linters new features or changes
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.19.1 to 0.20.0 (new option: force-assertion-description)
    • iface: from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 (report message improvements)
    • noctx: from 0.3.4 to 0.3.5 (new detections: log/slog, exec, crypto/tls)
    • revive: from 1.10.0 to 1.11.0 (new rule: enforce-switch-style)
    • wsl: from 5.0.0 to 5.1.0
  2. Linters bug fixes
    • gosec: from 2.22.5 to 2.22.6
    • noinlineerr: from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5
    • sloglint: from 0.11.0 to 0.11.1
  3. Misc.
    • fix: panic close of closed channel

v2.2.2

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • noinlineerr: from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4
  2. Documentation
    • Improve debug keys documentation
  3. Misc.
    • fix: panic close of closed channel
    • godot: add noinline value into the JSONSchema

v2.2.1

  1. Linters bug fixes
  • varnamelen: fix configuration

v2.2.0

  1. New linters
  2. Linters new features or changes
    • errcheck: add verbose option
    • funcorder: from 0.2.1 to 0.5.0 (new option alphabetical)
    • gomoddirectives: from 0.6.1 to 0.7.0 (new option ignore-forbidden)
    • iface: from 1.3.1 to 1.4.0 (new option unexported)
    • noctx: from 0.1.0 to 0.3.3 (new report messages, and new rules related to database/sql)
    • noctx: from 0.3.3 to 0.3.4 (new SQL functions detection)
    • revive: from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0 (new rules: time-date, unnecessary-format, use-fmt-print)
    • usestdlibvars: from 1.28.0 to 1.29.0 (new option time-date-month)
    • wsl: deprecation
    • wsl_v5: from 4.7.0 to 5.0.0 (major version with new configuration)
  3. Linters bug fixes
    • dupword: from 0.1.3 to 0.1.6
    • exptostd: from 0.4.3 to 0.4.4
    • forbidigo: from 1.6.0 to 2.1.0
    • gci: consistently format the code
    • go-spancheck: from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5
    • goconst: from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2
    • gosec: from 2.22.3 to 2.22.4
    • gosec: from 2.22.4 to 2.22.5
    • makezero: from 1.2.0 to 2.0.1
    • misspell: from 0.6.0 to 0.7.0
    • usetesting: from 0.4.3 to 0.5.0
  4. Misc.
    • exclusions: fix path-expect
    • formatters: write the input to stdout when using stdin and there are no changes
    • migration: improve the error message when trying to migrate a migrated config
    • typecheck: deduplicate errors
    • typecheck: stops the analysis after the first error
    • Deprecate print-resources-usage flag
    • Unique version per custom build
  5. Documentation
    • Improves typecheck FAQ
    • Adds plugin systems recommendations
    • Add description for linters.default sets

v2.1.6

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • godot: from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1
    • musttag: from 0.13.0 to 0.13.1
  2. Documentation
    • Add note about golangci-lint v2 integration in VS Code

v2.1.5

Due to an error related to Snapcraft, some artifacts of the v2.1.4 release have not been published.

This release contains the same things as v2.1.3.

v2.1.4

Due to an error related to Snapcraft, some artifacts of the v2.1.3 release have not been published.

This release contains the same things as v2.1.3.

v2.1.3

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • fatcontext: from 0.7.2 to 0.8.0
  2. Misc.
    • migration: fix nakedret.max-func-lines: 0
    • migration: fix order of staticcheck settings
    • fix: add go.mod hash to the cache salt
    • fix: use diagnostic position for related information position

v2.1.2

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • exptostd: from 0.4.2 to 0.4.3
    • gofumpt: from 0.7.0 to 0.8.0
    • protogetter: from 0.3.13 to 0.3.15
    • usetesting: from 0.4.2 to 0.4.3

v2.1.1

The release process of v2.1.0 failed due to a regression inside goreleaser.

The binaries of v2.1.0 have been published, but not the other artifacts (AUR, Docker, etc.).

v2.1.0

  1. Enhancements
    • Add an option to display absolute paths (--path-mode=abs)
    • Add configuration path placeholder (${config-path})
    • Add warn-unused option for fmt command
    • Colored diff for fmt command (golangci-lint fmt --diff-colored)
  2. New linters
  3. Linters new features or changes
    • go-errorlint: from 1.7.1 to 1.8.0 (automatic error comparison and type assertion fixes)
    • ⚠️ goconst: ignore-strings is deprecated and replaced by ignore-string-values
    • goconst: from 1.7.1 to 1.8.1 (new options: find-duplicates, eval-const-expressions)
    • govet: add httpmux analyzer
    • nilnesserr: from 0.1.2 to 0.2.0 (detect more cases)
    • paralleltest: from 1.0.10 to 1.0.14 (checks only _test.go files)
    • revive: from 1.7.0 to 1.9.0 (support kebab case for setting names)
    • sloglint: from 0.9.0 to 0.11.0 (autofix, new option msg-style, suggest slog.DiscardHandler)
    • wrapcheck: from 2.10.0 to 2.11.0 (new option report-internal-errors)
    • wsl: from 4.6.0 to 4.7.0 (cgo files are always excluded)
  4. Linters bug fixes
    • fatcontext: from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2
    • gocritic: fix importshadow checker
    • gosec: from 2.22.2 to 2.22.3
    • ireturn: from 0.3.1 to 0.4.0
    • loggercheck: from 0.10.1 to 0.11.0
    • nakedret: from 2.0.5 to 2.0.6
    • nonamedreturns: from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6
    • protogetter: from 0.3.12 to 0.3.13
    • testifylint: from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1
    • unconvert: update to HEAD
  5. Misc.
    • Fixes memory leaks when using go1.(N) with golangci-lint built with go1.(N-X)
    • Adds golangci-lint-fmt pre-commit hook
  6. Documentation
    • Improvements
    • Updates section about vscode integration

v2.0.2

  1. Misc.
    • Fixes flags parsing for formatters
    • Fixes the filepath used by the exclusion source option
  2. Documentation
    • Adds a section about flags migration
    • Cleaning pages with v1 options

v2.0.1

  1. Linters/formatters bug fixes
    • golines: fix settings during linter load
  2. Misc.
    • Validates the version field before the configuration
    • forbidigo: fix migration

v2.0.0

  1. Enhancements
  2. New linters/formatters
  3. Linters new features
    • ⚠️ Merge staticcheck, stylecheck, gosimple into one linter (staticcheck) (cf. Migration guide)
    • go-critic: from 0.12.0 to 0.13.0
    • gomodguard: from 1.3.5 to 1.4.1 (block explicit indirect dependencies)
    • nilnil: from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0 (new option: only-two)
    • perfsprint: from 0.8.2 to 0.9.1 (checker name in the diagnostic message)
    • staticcheck: new quickfix set of rules
    • testifylint: from 1.5.2 to 1.6.0 (new options: equal-values, suite-method-signature, require-string-msg)
    • wsl: from 4.5.0 to 4.6.0 (new option: allow-cuddle-used-in-block)
  4. Linters bug fixes
    • bidichk: from 0.3.2 to 0.3.3
    • errchkjson: from 0.4.0 to 0.4.1
    • errname: from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0
    • funlen: fix ignore-comments option
    • gci: from 0.13.5 to 0.13.6
    • gosmopolitan: from 1.2.2 to 1.3.0
    • inamedparam: from 0.1.3 to 0.2.0
    • intrange: from 0.3.0 to 0.3.1
    • protogetter: from 0.3.9 to 0.3.12
    • unparam: from 8a5130ca722f to 0df0534333a4
  5. Misc.
    • 🧹 Configuration options renaming (cf. Migration guide)
    • 🧹 Remove options (cf. Migration guide)
    • 🧹 Remove flags (cf. Migration guide)
    • 🧹 Remove alternative names (cf. Migration guide)
    • 🧹 Remove or replace deprecated elements (cf. Migration guide)
    • Adds an option to display some commands as JSON:
      • golangci-lint config path --json
      • golangci-lint help linters --json
      • golangci-lint help formatters --json
      • golangci-lint linters --json
      • golangci-lint formatters --json
      • golangci-lint version --json
  6. Documentation

v1.64.8

  • Detects use of configuration files from golangci-lint v2

v1.64.7

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • depguard: from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1
    • dupl: from 3e9179ac440a to f665c8d69b32
    • gosec: from 2.22.1 to 2.22.2
    • staticcheck: from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1
  2. Documentation
    • Add GitLab documentation

v1.64.6

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • asciicheck: from 0.4.0 to 0.4.1
    • contextcheck: from 1.1.5 to 1.1.6
    • errcheck: from 1.8.0 to 1.9.0
    • exptostd: from 0.4.1 to 0.4.2
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.19.0 to 0.19.1
    • go-exhaustruct: from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1
    • gocheckcompilerdirectives: from 1.2.1 to 1.3.0
    • godot: from 1.4.20 to 1.5.0
    • perfsprint: from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2
    • revive: from 1.6.1 to 1.7.0
    • tagalign: from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2

v1.64.5

  1. Bug fixes
    • Add missing flag new-from-merge-base-flag
  2. Linters bug fixes
    • asciicheck: from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0
    • forcetypeassert: from 0.1.0 to 0.2.0
    • gosec: from 2.22.0 to 2.22.1

v1.64.4

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • gci: fix standard packages list for go1.24

v1.64.3

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.18.4 to 0.19.0
    • go-critic: from 0.11.5 to 0.12.0
    • revive: from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1
    • gci: fix standard packages list for go1.24
  2. Misc.
    • Build Docker images with go1.24

v1.64.2

This is the last minor release of golangci-lint v1. The next release will be golangci-lint v2.

  1. Enhancements
    • 🎉 go1.24 support
    • New issues.new-from-merge-base option
    • New run.relative-path-mode option
  2. Linters new features
    • copyloopvar: from 1.1.0 to 1.2.1 (support suggested fixes)
    • exptostd: from 0.3.1 to 0.4.1 (handles golang.org/x/exp/constraints.Ordered)
    • fatcontext: from 0.5.3 to 0.7.1 (new option: check-struct-pointers)
    • perfsprint: from 0.7.1 to 0.8.1 (new options: integer-format, error-format, string-format, bool-format, and hex-format)
    • revive: from 1.5.1 to 1.6.0 (new rules: redundant-build-tag, use-errors-new. New option early-return.early-return)
  3. Linters bug fixes
    • go-errorlint: from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1
    • gochecknoglobals: from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2
    • godox: from 006bad1f9d26 to 1.1.0
    • gosec: from 2.21.4 to 2.22.0
    • iface: from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
    • nilnesserr: from 0.1.1 to 0.1.2
    • protogetter: from 0.3.8 to 0.3.9
    • sloglint: from 0.7.2 to 0.9.0
    • spancheck: fix default StartSpanMatchersSlice values
    • staticcheck: from 0.5.1 to 0.6.0
  4. Deprecations
    • ⚠️ tenv is deprecated and replaced by usetesting.os-setenv: true.
    • ⚠️ exportloopref deprecation step 2
  5. Misc.
    • Sanitize severities by output format
    • Avoid panic with plugin without description
  6. Documentation
    • Clarify depguard configuration

v1.64.1

Cancelled due to CI failure.

v1.64.0

Cancelled due to CI failure.

v1.63.4

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • dupl, gomodguard, revive: keep only Go-files.

v1.63.3

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • gofmt, gofumpt, goimports, gci: panic with several trailing EOL
    • goheader: skip issues with invalid positions

v1.63.2

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • gofmt, gofumpt, goimports, gci: panic with missing trailing EOL

v1.63.1

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • cgi: invalid reports with cgo
    • gofumpt: panic with autofix and cgo

v1.63.0

  1. Enhancements
    • Add support for SuggestedFixes 🎉 (35 linters can “autofix” reports).
    • Formatters (gofmt, goimports, gofumpt, gci) are applied after the suggested fixes.
  2. New linters
  3. Linters new features
    • gci: new options: no-inline-comments, no-prefix-comments
    • gomoddirectives: from 0.2.4 to 0.6.0 (new options: go-version-pattern, toolchain-pattern,toolchain-forbidden, tool-forbidden, go-debug-forbidden)
    • govet: new stdversion, waitgroup analyzers
    • importas: allow multiple empty aliases
    • loggercheck: new slog option
    • recvcheck: from 0.1.2 to 0.2.0 (new options: disable-builtin, exclusions)
    • tagliatelle: from 0.5.0 to 0.7.1 (new options: ignored-fields, extended-rules,overrides, pkg, ignore)
    • usestdlibvars: from 1.27.0 to 1.28.0 (autofix)
    • wrapcheck: from 2.9.0 to 2.10.0 (new option: extra-ignore-sigs)
  4. Linters bug fixes
    • asciicheck: from 0.2.0 to 0.3.0
    • bodyclose: from 574207250966 to ed6a65f985e
    • funlen: from 0.1.0 to 0.2.0
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.18.3 to 0.18.4
    • gochecksumtype: from 0.2.0 to 0.3.1
    • gocognit: from 1.1.3 to 1.2.0
    • godot: from 1.4.18 to 1.4.20
    • goheader: report position improvement
    • gosec: handling of global nosec option when it is false
    • iface: from 1.2.1 to 1.3.0
    • importas: from 0.1.0 to 0.2.0
    • intrange: from 0.2.1 to 0.3.0
    • makezero: from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0
    • mirror: from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0
    • nilnil: from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1
    • nosprintfhostport: from 0.1.1 to 0.2.0
    • reassign: from 0.2.0 to 0.3.0
    • spancheck: from 0.6.2 to 0.6.4
    • tagalign: from 1.3.4 to 1.4.1
    • wastedassign: from 2.0.7 to 2.1.0
    • whitespace: from 0.1.1 to 0.2.0
    • wsl: from 4.4.1 to 4.5.0
  5. Deprecations
    • ⚠️ output.uniq-by-line is deprecated and replaced by issues.uniq-by-line.
  6. Misc.
    • Improvements of the help command (color and JSON support).
    • Removes decoder, sloglint, tagalign from format preset.
    • Enables paths with junction inside Windows.
    • The timeout is disabled if run.timeout <= 0.

v1.62.2

  1. Linters bug fixes
    • fatcontext: from 0.5.2 to 0.5.3
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.18.0 to 0.18.3
    • errorlint: from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0
    • iface: from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1
    • revive: from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1
    • testifylint: from 1.5.0 to 1.5.2
  2. Misc.
    • fix: ignore cache error when file not found

v1.62.1

Cancelled due to CI failure.

v1.62.0

  1. New linters
  2. Linters new features
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.17.0 to 0.18.0 (new option: force-succeed)
    • gochecksumtype: from 0.1.4 to 0.2.0 (new option: default-signifies-exhaustive)
    • loggercheck: from 0.9.4 to 0.10.1 (log/slog support)
    • nilnil: from 0.1.9 to 1.0.0 (new option: detect-opposite)
    • revive: from 1.3.9 to 1.5.0 (new rules: filename-format, and file-length-limit)
    • tenv: from 1.10.0 to 1.12.1 (handle dot import)
    • testifylint: from 1.4.3 to 1.5.0 (new checkers: contains, encoded-compare, regexp)
  3. Linters bug fixes
    • bidichk: from 0.2.7 to 0.3.2 (important performance improvement)
    • canonicalheader: from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
    • cyclop: from 1.2.1 to 1.2.3
    • dupword: from 0.1.1 to 0.1.3
    • errcheck: from 1.7.0 to 1.8.0
    • errchkjson: from 0.3.6 to 0.4.0
    • errname: from 0.1.13 to 1.0.0
    • gocritic: from 0.11.4 to 0.11.5
    • goprintffuncname: from 7558a9eaa5af to v0.1.0
    • godot: from 1.4.17 to 1.4.18
    • gosec: from 2.21.2 to 2.21.4
    • intrange: from 0.2.0 to 0.2.1
    • musttag: from 0.12.2 to 0.13.0
    • nakedret: from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5
    • noctx: from 0.0.2 to 0.1.0
    • protogetter: from 0.3.6 to 0.3.8
  4. Deprecations
    • ⚠️ execinquery: deprecation step 2
    • ⚠️ gomnd: deprecation step 2 (replaced by mnd)
  5. Misc.
    • Type sizing when cross-compiling (32-bit).
    • code-climate: add check_name field
    • Improve Go version detection
    • Fix Go version propagation
  6. Documentation
    • Adds a section about exclude-dirs-use-default
    • Improve ‘install from sources’ section
    • Improve FAQ about Go versions
    • Improve linter/rule/check docs
    • Improve new linter section
    • Improve forbidigo pattern examples for built-in functions

v1.61.0

  1. Enhancements
    • Add junit-xml-extended format
    • Exclude Swagger Codegen files by default
  2. Linters new features
    • gci: from 0.13.4 to 0.13.5 (new option no-lex-order)
    • nolintlint: remove the empty line in the directive replacement
  3. Linters bug fixes
    • dupword: from 0.0.14 to 0.1.1
    • fatcontext: from 0.4.0 to 0.5.2
    • go-ruleguard: from 0.4.2 to 0fe6f58b47b1 (fix panic with custom linters)
    • godot: from 1.4.16 to 1.4.17
    • gomodguard: from 1.3.3 to 1.3.5
    • gosec: disable temporarily G407
    • gosec: from ab3f6c1c83a0 to 2.21.2 (partially fix G115)
    • intrange: from 0.1.2 to 0.2.0
  4. Misc.
    • Improve runtime version parsing
  5. Documentation
    • Add additional info about typecheck

v1.60.3

  1. Updated linters
    • gosec: from 81cda2f91fbe to ab3f6c1c83a0 (fix G115 false positives)
  2. Misc.
    • Check that the Go version use to build is greater or equals to the Go version of the project

v1.60.2

  1. Linters new features
    • gosec: from 5f0084eb01a9 to 81cda2f91fbe (adds G115, G405, G406, G506, G507)
  2. Linters bug fixes
    • gofmt: update to HEAD (go1.22)
    • gofumpt: from 0.6.0 to 0.7.0
    • gosec: fix G602 analyzer
    • staticcheck: from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1
    • staticcheck: propagate Go version
    • wrapcheck: from 2.8.3 to 2.9.0
  3. Deprecations
    • ⚠️ exportloopref: deprecation

v1.60.1

  1. Misc.
    • 🎉 go1.23 support
  2. Linters new features
    • exhaustruct: from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0 (recognize custom error values in return)
    • govet (printf): report non-constant format, no args
    • lll: advertise max line length instead of just reporting failure
    • revive: from 1.3.7 to 1.3.9 (new rule: comments-density)
    • staticcheck: from 0.4.7 to 0.5.0
    • testifylint: from 1.3.1 to 1.4.3 (new options: formatter, suite-broken-parallel, suite-subtest-run)
  3. Linters bug fixes
    • errorlint: from 1.5.2 to 1.6.0
    • fatcontext: from 0.2.2 to 0.4.0 (fix false positives for context stored in structs)
    • gocognit: from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3
    • gomodguard: from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3
    • sloglint: from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2
    • spancheck: from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2
    • tenv: from 1.7.1 to 1.10.0 (remove reports on fuzzing)
    • tparallel: from 0.3.1 to 0.3.2
    • usestdlibvars: from 1.26.0 to 1.27.0 (fix false-positive with number used inside a mathematical operations)
    • wsl: from 4.2.1 to 4.4.1
  4. Deprecations
    • ️⚠️ unused: remove exported-is-used option
  5. Fixes
    • SARIF: sanitize level property
    • ️⚠️ typecheck issues should never be ignored
  6. Documentation
    • Add link on linter without configuration
    • Remove ’trusted by’ page
    • wsl update documentation of the configuration

v1.60.0

Cancelled due to a CI problem.

v1.59.1

  1. Updated linters
    • errorlint: from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2
    • gomnd: deprecated configuration compatibility
    • intrange: add style preset
    • misspell: from 0.5.1 to 0.6.0
    • sloglint: from 0.7.0 to 0.7.1
    • testifylint: from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
    • unparam: bump to HEAD
    • usestdlibvars: from 1.25.0 to 1.26.0
  2. Fixes
    • SARIF: init empty result slice
    • SARIF: issue column >= 1
  3. Documentation
    • revive: update documentation of the configuration

v1.59.0

  1. Enhancements
    • Add SARIF output format
    • Allow the analysis of generated files (issues.exclude-generated: disable)
  2. Updated linters
    • errcheck: fix deprecation warning
    • gocritic: from 0.11.3 to 0.11.4
    • gosec: from 2.20.0 to 5f0084eb01a9 (fix G601 and G113 performance issues)
    • sloglint: from 0.6.0 to 0.7.0 (new option forbidden-keys)
    • testifylint: from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0 (new checker negative-positive and new option go-require.ignore-http-handlers)
  3. Misc.
    • ️️⚠️ Deprecate github-action output format
    • ️️⚠️ Deprecate issues.exclude-generated-strict option (replaced by issues.exclude-generated: strict)
    • ️️⚠️ Add warning about disabled and deprecated linters (level 2)

v1.58.2

  1. Updated linters
    • canonicalheader: from 1.0.6 to 1.1.1
    • gosec: from 2.19.0 to 2.20.0
    • musttag: from 0.12.1 to 0.12.2
    • nilnil: from 0.1.8 to 0.1.9
  2. Documentation
    • Improve integrations and install pages

v1.58.1

  1. Updated linters
    • tagalign: from 1.3.3 to 1.3.4
    • protogetter: from 0.3.5 to 0.3.6
    • gochecknoinits: fix analyzer name
  2. Fixes
    • Restores previous github-actions output format (removes GitHub Action problem matchers)

v1.58.0

  1. New linters
  2. Updated linters
    • copyloopvar: from 1.0.10 to 1.1.0 (ignore-alias is replaced by check-alias with the opposite behavior)
    • decorder: from 0.4.1 to 0.4.2
    • errname: from 0.1.12 to 0.1.13
    • errorlint: from 1.4.8 to 1.5.1 (new options allowed-errors and allowed-errors-wildcard)
    • execinquery: deprecate linter ⚠️
    • gci: from 0.12.3 to 0.13.4 (new section localModule)
    • gocritic: from 0.11.2 to 0.11.3
    • spancheck: from 0.5.3 to 0.6.1
    • goerr113 is replaced by err113 ⚠️
    • gomnd is replaced by mnd ⚠️
    • gomodguard: from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2
    • grouper: from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
    • intrange: from 0.1.1 to 0.1.2
    • mirror: from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0
    • misspell: from 0.4.1 to 0.5.1
    • musttag: from 0.9.0 to 0.12.1
    • nilnil: from 0.1.7 to 0.1.8
    • nonamedreturns: from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5
    • promlinter: from 0.2.0 to 0.3.0
    • sloglint: from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0
    • unparam: bump to HEAD (063aff900ca150b80930c8de76f11d7e6488222f)
    • whitespace: from 0.1.0 to 0.1.1
  3. Enhancements
    • Speed up “fast” linters when only “fast” linters are run: between 40% and 80% faster at first run (i.e. without cache)
  4. Fixes
    • Use version with module plugins
    • Skip go.mod report inside autogenerated processor
    • Keep only typecheck issues when needed
    • Don’t hide typecheck errors inside diff processor
  5. Misc.
    • ⚠️ log an error when using previously deprecated linters (Linter Deprecation Cycle)
      • deadcode: deprecated since v1.49.0 (2022-08-23).
      • exhaustivestruct: deprecated since v1.46.0 (2022-05-08).
      • golint: deprecated since v1.41.0 (2021-06-15).
      • ifshort: deprecated since v1.48.0 (2022-08-04).
      • interfacer: deprecated since v1.38.0 (2021-03-03).
      • maligned: deprecated since v1.38.0 (2021-03-03).
      • nosnakecase: deprecated since v1.48.0 (2022-08-04).
      • scopelint: deprecated since v1.39.0 (2021-03-25).
      • structcheck: deprecated since v1.49.0 (2022-08-23).
      • varcheck: deprecated since v1.49.0 (2022-08-23).
    • ⚠️ Deprecate usage of linter alternative names
    • Remove help display on errors with config verify command
    • Add pre-commit hook to run config verify
    • Improve github-action output
  6. Documentation
    • Remove deprecated Atom from Editor Integrations

GitHub Action (v5.1.0) for golangci-lint:

  • supports for pull, pull_request_target, and merge_group events with the option only-new-issues.
  • ️️⚠️ skip-pkg-cache and skip-build-cache have been removed because the cache related to Go itself is already handled by actions/setup-go.
  • with golangci-lint v1.58, the file information (path and position) will be displayed on the log.

v1.57.2

  1. Updated linters
    • contextcheck: from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5
    • copyloopvar: from 1.0.8 to 1.0.10
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.16.1 to 0.16.2
    • goconst: from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1
    • gomoddirectives: from 0.2.3 to 0.2.4
    • intrange: from 0.1.0 to 0.1.1
  2. Misc.
    • Display warnings on deprecated linter options
    • Fix missing colored-tab output format
    • Fix TeamCity inspectionType service message
  3. Documentation
    • Remove invalid example about mixing files and directory
    • Improve linters page

v1.57.1

  1. Fixes
    • Ignore issues with invalid position (e.g. contextcheck).

v1.57.0

  1. New linters
  2. Updated linters
    • dupword: from 0.0.13 to 0.0.14
    • gci: from 0.12.1 to 0.12.3
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.15.2 to 0.16.1 (new option force-expect-to, validate-async-intervals, and forbid-spec-pollution)
    • go-critic: from 0.11.1 to 0.11.2
    • go-critic: support of enable-all and disable-all options
    • go-spancheck: from 0.5.2 to 0.5.3
    • gomodguard: from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
    • govet: deprecation of check-shadowing ⚠️
    • govet: disable temporarily httpresponse because of a bug https://github.com/golang/go/issues/66259
    • misspell: add extra-words
    • musttag: from 0.8.0 to 0.9.0
    • nakedret: from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4
    • paralleltest: from 1.0.9 to 1.0.10
    • perfsprint: from 0.6.0 to 0.7.1 (new option strconcat)
    • protogetter: from 0.3.4 to 0.3.5
    • revive: add exclude option
    • sloglint: from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0 (new option no-global)
    • staticcheck: from 0.4.6 to 0.4.7
    • testifylint: from 1.1.2 to 1.2.0 (new option bool-compare)
    • unconvert: to HEAD (new options fast-math and safe)
    • wrapcheck: from 2.8.1 to 2.8.3
    • Disable copyloopvar and intrange on Go < 1.22
  3. Enhancements
    • 🧩New custom linters system https://golangci-lint.run/docs/plugins/module-plugins/
    • Allow running only a specific linter without modifying the file configuration (--enable-only)
    • Allow custom sort order for the reports (output.sort-order)
    • Automatically adjust the maximum concurrency to the container CPU quota if run.concurrency=0
    • Add config verify command to check the configuration against the JSON Schema
    • Option to strictly follow Go generated file convention (issues.exclude-generated-strict)
    • Syntax to not override severity from linters (@linter)
    • Use severities from gosec
    • Create automatically directory related to output.formats.path
    • Use the first issue without inline on mergeLineIssues on multiple issues
  4. Misc.
    • ⚠️ Inactivate deprecated linters (deadcode, exhaustivestruct, golint, ifshort, interfacer, maligned, nosnakecase, scopelint, structcheck, varcheck)
    • ⚠️ Deprecated CLI flags have been removed (deprecated since 2018)
    • ⚠️ Move show-stats option from run to output configuration section
    • ⚠️ Replace run.skip-xxx options by issues.exclude-xxx options
    • ⚠️ Replace output.format by output.formats with a new file configuration syntax
    • Internal rewrite of the CLI
    • Improve ’no go files to analyze’ message
    • Use GOTOOLCHAIN=auto inside the Docker images
  5. Documentation

⚠️ Important ⚠️

  1. Deprecated linters are inactivated, you still need to disable them if you are using enable-all.
  2. Deprecated CLI flags (about linter settings and deadline) have been removed.

v1.56.2

  1. updated linters
    • go-critic: from 0.11.0 to 0.11.1
    • gosec: from 2.18.2 to 2.19.0
    • testifylint: from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
    • usestdlibvars: from 1.24.0 to 1.25.0
    • wsl: from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1
  2. misc.
    • Fix missing version in Docker image
  3. Documentation
    • Explain the limitation of new-from-rev and new-from-patch

v1.56.1

  1. updated linters
    • errcheck: from 1.6.3 to 1.7.0
    • govet: disable loopclosure with go1.22
    • revive: from 1.3.6 to 1.3.7
    • testifylint: from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1

v1.56.0

  1. new linters
  2. updated linters
    • depguard: from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0
    • exhaustive: from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0
    • exhaustruct: from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0
    • gci: from 0.11.2 to 0.12.1
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.14.1 to 0.15.2
    • go-check-sumtype: from 0.1.3 to 0.1.4
    • go-critic: from 0.9.0 to 0.11.0
    • go-errorlint: from 1.4.5 to 1.4.8
    • go-spancheck: from 0.4.2 to 0.5.2
    • goconst: from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0
    • godot: from 1.4.15 to 1.4.16
    • gofumpt: from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0
    • inamedparam: from 0.1.2 to 0.1.3
    • ineffassign: from 0.0.0-20230610083614-0e73809eb601 to 0.1.0
    • ireturn: from 0.2.2 to 0.3.0
    • misspell: add mode option
    • musttag: from v0.7.2 to v0.8.0
    • paralleltest: from 1.0.8 to 1.0.9
    • perfsprint: from 0.2.0 to 0.6.0
    • protogetter: from 0.2.3 to 0.3.4
    • revive: from 1.3.4 to 1.3.6
    • sloglint: add static-msg option
    • sloglint: from 0.1.2 to 0.4.0
    • testifylint: from 0.2.3 to 1.1.0
    • unparam: from 20221223090309-7455f1af531d to 20240104100049-c549a3470d14
    • whitespace: update after moving to the analysis package
    • wsl: from 3.4.0 to 4.2.0
    • zerologlint: from 0.1.3 to 0.1.5
  3. misc.
    • 🎉 go1.22 support
    • Implement stats per linter with a flag
    • Make versioning inside Docker image consistent with binaries
    • Parse Go RC version
  4. Documentation
    • Fix noctx description
    • Add missing fields to .golangci.reference.yml
    • Improve .golangci.reference.yml defaults
    • typecheck: improve FAQ
    • exhaustruct: note that struct regular expressions are expected to match the entire package/name/structname
    • wrapcheck: adjust ignoreSigs to new defaults

Important

testifylint has breaking changes about enabling/disabling checks:

  • If you were using the option enable with a filtered list of checks, you should either add disable-all: true (1) or use disable field (2).

      # Example (1)
  testifylint:
    disable-all: true
    enable:
      - bool-compare
      - compares
      - empty
      - error-is-as
      - error-nil
      - expected-actual
      - go-require
      - float-compare
      - len
      - nil-compare
      - require-error
      # - suite-dont-use-pkg
      - suite-extra-assert-call
      - suite-thelper
      # Example (2)
  testifylint:
    disable:
      - suite-dont-use-pkg

v1.55.2

  1. updated linters
    • ireturn: from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.14.0 to 0.14.1

v1.55.1

  1. updated linters
    • gosec: from 2.18.1 to 2.18.2
  2. misc.
    • revgrep: from v0.5.0 to v0.5.2 (support git < 2.41.0)
    • output: convert backslashes to forward slashes for GitHub Action annotations printer

v1.55.0

  1. new linters
  2. updated linters
    • bidichk: from 0.2.4 to 0.2.7
    • decorder: from 0.4.0 to 0.4.1
    • dupword: from 0.0.12 to 0.0.13
    • errchkjson: from 0.3.1 to 0.3.6
    • gci: from 0.11.0 to 0.11.2
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.13.5 to 0.14.0
    • go-errorlint: from 1.4.4 to 1.4.5
    • gocognit: from 1.0.7 to 1.1.0
    • goconst: from 1.5.1 to 1.6.0
    • godot: from 1.4.14 to 1.4.15
    • gofmt: update to HEAD
    • goimports: update to HEAD
    • gosec: from 2.17.0 to 2.18.1
    • gosmopolitan: from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2
    • govet: add appends analyzer
    • ireturn: from 0.2.0 to 0.2.1
    • protogetter: from 0.2.2 to 0.2.3
    • revgrep: from 745bb2f7c2e6 to v0.5.0
    • revive: from 1.3.2 to 1.3.4
    • sqlclosecheck: from 0.4.0 to 0.5.1
    • staticcheck: from 0.4.5 to 0.4.6
    • tagalign: from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3
    • unused: support passing in options
  3. misc.
    • Add a pre-commit hook to check all files
  4. Documentation
    • add source options to exclude-rules docs
    • gosec: add G602 to includes/excludes inside .golangci.reference.yml

v1.54.2

  1. updated linters:
    • errname: from 0.1.10 to 0.1.12
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.13.3 to 0.13.5
    • go-errorlint: from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4
    • godot: from 1.4.11 to 1.4.14
    • gosec: from 2.16.0 to 2.17.0
    • musttag: from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2
    • nilnil: from 0.1.5 to 0.1.7
    • staticcheck: from 0.4.3 to 0.4.5
    • usestdlibvars: from 1.23.0 to 1.24.0
    • govet: add missing directive and slog passes

v1.54.1

  1. updated linters:
    • go-critic: from 0.8.2 to 0.9.0
  2. misc.
    • plugin: temporarily hide warning about using plugins using the old API

v1.54.0

  1. updated linters:
    • decorder: from 0.2.3 to 0.4.0
    • dupword: from 0.0.11 to 0.0.12
    • errorlint: from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3
    • exhaustruct: from 2.3.0 to 3.1.0
    • forbidigo: from 1.5.3 to 1.6.0
    • funlen: from 0.0.3 to 0.1.0
    • gci: from 0.10.1 to 0.11.0
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.12.1 to 0.13.3
    • go-critic: from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2
    • go-errorlint: from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3
    • go-exhaustruct: from 2.3.0 to 3.1.0
    • gocognit: from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7
    • gocritic: from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2
    • gofmt: autofix missing newline at EOF
    • misspell: 0.4.0 to 0.4.1
    • musttag: from 0.7.0 to 0.7.1
    • paralleltest: from 1.0.7 to 1.0.8
    • tagalign: from 1.2.2 to 1.3.2
    • typecheck: explain it and remove it from the linter list
    • zerologlint: from 0.1.2 to 0.1.3
  2. misc.
    • 🎉 go1.21 support
    • plugin: include custom linters in enable-all
    • plugin: allow to use settings for plugins
  3. Documentation
    • Add linter descriptions.

Important

ruleguard (a “rule” inside gocritic) was disabled in this release (v1.54.0) and was enabled again in the next release (v1.54.1).

exhaustruct has breaking changes with regular expressions, more details here.

v1.53.3

  1. updated linters:
    • cyclop: from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1
    • exhaustive: from 0.10.0 to 0.11.0
    • forbidigo: from 1.5.1 to 1.5.3
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.12.2 to 0.12.1
    • ineffassign: bump to HEAD
    • nakedret: from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2
    • zerologlint: from 0.1.1 to 0.1.2
  2. misc.
    • codeclimate: reduce memory allocation
    • support illumos/amd64

v1.53.2

  1. updated linters
    • depguard: from v2.0.1 to 2.1.0
  2. misc.
    • depguard: throw error only when the linter is called

v1.53.1

  1. misc.
    • depguard: fix GOROOT detection
    • importas: fix duplication detection when aliases use regular expression replacement pattern

v1.53.0

  1. new linters
  2. updated linters
    • bodyclose: bump to HEAD
    • containedctx: from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3
    • depguard: migrate to v2
    • errname: from 0.1.9 to 0.1.10
    • exhaustive: from 0.9.5 to 0.10.0
    • forbidigo: better support for configuring complex rules
    • gci: improve error message
    • ginkgolinter: add suppress-async-assertion option
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.9.0 to 0.12.0
    • go-critic: from 0.7.0 to 0.8.1
    • go-errorlint: from 1.4.0 to 1.4.2
    • gofumpt: from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0
    • gosec: convert global settings as map with proper key type
    • gosec: from 2.15.0 to 2.16.0
    • importas: detect duplicate alias or package in the configuration
    • importas: fix typo in logs
    • ireturn: from 0.1.1 to 0.2.0
    • musttag: from 0.5.0 to 0.7.0
    • nakedret: to 2.0.1
    • nilnil: from 0.1.3 to 0.1.5
    • paralleltest: from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7
    • revive: from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2
    • tagliatelle: from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0
    • usestdlibvars: fix configuration
  3. misc.
    • golang.org/x/tools: from 0.7.0 to 0.9.2
    • add loongarch64 to the install script
    • output: add colored-tab
    • remove warning when the config file is explicitly stdin
    • rules: support inverted path match
  4. Documentation
    • mnd: clarify ignore usage examples to be regexps
    • tagliatelle: update documentation
    • improve features section
    • update supported Go versions FAQ

v1.52.2

  1. updated linters
    • tparallel: from 0.3.0 to 0.3.1
  2. misc.
    • fix: pre-commit require_serial and pass_filenames

v1.52.1

  1. misc.
    • fix: improve panic management
    • fix: the combination of –fix and –path-prefix

v1.52.0

  1. updated linters
    • asciicheck: from 0.1.1 to 0.2.0
    • bidichk: from 0.2.3 to 0.2.4
    • contextcheck: from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4
    • dupword: from 0.0.9 to 0.0.11
    • durationcheck: from 0.0.9 to 0.0.10
    • errchkjson: from 0.3.0 to 0.3.1
    • errname: from 0.1.7 to 0.1.9
    • forbidigo: from 1.4.0 to 1.5.1
    • gci: from 0.9.1 to 0.10.1
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.8.1 to 0.9.0
    • go-critic: from 0.6.7 to 0.7.0
    • go-errorlint: from 1.1.0 to 1.4.0
    • godox: bump to HEAD
    • lll: skip go command
    • loggercheck: from 0.9.3 to 0.9.4
    • musttag: from 0.4.5 to 0.5.0
    • nilnil: from 0.1.1 to 0.1.3
    • noctx: from 0.0.1 to 0.0.2
    • revive: from 1.2.5 to 1.3.1
    • rowserrcheck: remove limitation related to generics support
    • staticcheck: from 0.4.2 to 0.4.3
    • testpackage: from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1
    • tparallel: from 0.2.1 to 0.3.0
    • wastedassign: remove limitation related to generics support
    • wrapcheck: from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1
  2. misc.
    • Add TeamCity output format
    • Consider path prefix when matching path patterns
    • Add Go version to version information
  3. Documentation
    • Add Tekton in Trusted By page
    • Clarify that custom linters are not enabled by default
    • Remove description for deprecated “go” option

v1.51.2

  1. updated linters
    • forbidigo: from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0
    • gci: from 0.9.0 to 0.9.1
    • go-critic: from 0.6.5 to 0.6.7
    • go-errorlint: from 1.0.6 to 1.1.0
    • gosec: from 2.14.0 to 2.15.0
    • musttag: from 0.4.4 to 0.4.5
    • staticcheck: from 0.4.0 to 0.4.2
    • tools: from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0
    • usestdlibvars: from 1.21.1 to 1.23.0
    • wsl: from 3.3.0 to 3.4.0
    • govet: enable timeformat by default
  2. misc.
    • fix: cache status size calculation
    • add new source archive
  3. Documentation
    • Improve installation section
    • Replace links to godoc.org with pkg.go.dev

v1.51.1

  1. updated linters
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.7.1 to 0.8.1
    • ineffassign: bump to HEAD
    • musttag: from 0.4.3 to 0.4.4
    • sqlclosecheck: from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0
    • staticcheck: bump to v0.4.0
    • wastedassign: from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7
    • wrapcheck: from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0

v1.51.0

  1. new linters
  2. updated linters
    • bodyclose: to HEAD
    • dupword: from 0.0.7 to 0.0.9
    • errcheck: from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3
    • exhaustive: from 0.8.3 to 0.9.5
    • exportloopref: from 0.1.8 to 0.1.11
    • gci: from 0.8.1 to 0.9.0
    • ginkgolinter: from 0.6.0 to 0.7.1
    • go-errorlint: from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6
    • go-ruleguard: from 0.3.21 to 0.3.22
    • gocheckcompilerdirectives: from 1.1.0 to 1.2.1
    • gochecknoglobals: from 0.1.0 to 0.2.1
    • gomodguard: from 1.2.4 to 1.3.0
    • gosec: from 2.13.1 to 2.14.0
    • govet: Add timeformat to analysers
    • grouper: from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1
    • musttag: from 0.4.1 to 0.4.3
    • revive: from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5
    • tagliatelle: from 0.3.1 to 0.4.0
    • tenv: from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1
    • unparam: bump to HEAD
    • usestdlibvars: from 1.20.0 to 1.21.1
    • wsl: fix force-err-cuddling flag
  3. misc.
    • go1.20 support
    • remove deprecated linters from presets
    • Build NetBSD binaries
    • Build loong64 binaries
  4. Documentation
    • goimport: improve documentation for local-prefixes
    • gomnd: add missing always ignored functions
    • nolint: fix typo
    • tagliatelle usage typo
    • add note about binary requirement for plugin
    • cache preserving and colored output on docker runs
    • improve documentation about debugging.
    • improve Editor Integration section
    • More specific default cache directory
    • update output example to use valid checkstyle example; add json example

v1.50.1

  1. updated linters
    • contextcheck: from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3
    • go-mnd: from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1
    • wrapcheck: from 2.6.2 to 2.7.0
    • revive: fix configuration parsing
    • lll: skip imports
  2. misc.
    • windows: remove redundant character escape ‘/’
    • code-climate: add default severity

v1.50.0

  1. new linters
  2. updated linters
    • contextcheck: change owner
    • contextcheck: from 1.0.6 to 1.1.2
    • depguard: from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1
    • exhaustive: add missing config
    • exhaustive: from 0.8.1 to 0.8.3
    • gci: from 0.6.3 to 0.8.0
    • go-critic: from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5
    • go-errorlint: from 1.0.2 to 1.0.5
    • go-reassign: v0.1.2 to v0.2.0
    • gofmt: add option rewrite-rules
    • gofumpt from 0.3.1 to 0.4.0
    • goimports: update to HEAD
    • interfacebloat: fix configuration loading
    • logrlint: rename logrlint to loggercheck
    • paralleltest: add tests of the ignore-missing option
    • revive: from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4
    • usestdlibvars: from 1.13.0 to 1.20.0
    • wsl: support all configs and update docs
  3. misc.
    • Normalize exclude-rules paths for Windows
    • add riscv64 to the install script
  4. Documentation
    • cli: remove reference to old service

v1.49.0

IMPORTANT: varcheck and deadcode has been removed of default linters.

  1. new linters
  2. updated linters
    • go-colorable: from 0.1.12 to 0.1.13
    • go-critic: from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4
    • go-errorlint: from 1.0.0 to 1.0.2
    • go-exhaustruct: from 2.2.2 to 2.3.0
    • gopsutil: from 3.22.6 to 3.22.7
    • gosec: from 2.12.0 to 2.13.1
    • revive: from 1.2.1 to 1.2.3
    • usestdlibvars: from 1.8.0 to 1.13.0
    • contextcheck: from v1.0.4 to v1.0.6 && re-enable
    • nosnakecase: This linter is deprecated.
    • varcheck: This linter is deprecated use unused instead.
    • deadcode: This linter is deprecated use unused instead.
    • structcheck: This linter is deprecated use unused instead.
  3. documentation
    • revive: fix wrong URL
    • Add a section about default exclusions
    • usestdlibvars: fix typo in documentation
    • nolintlint: remove allow-leading-space option
    • Update documentation and assets
  4. misc.
    • dev: rewrite the internal tests framework
    • fix: exit early on run –version
    • fix: set an explicit GOROOT in the Docker image for go-critic

v1.48.0

  1. new linters
    • usestdlibvars:https://github.com/sashamelentyev/usestdlibvars
  2. updated linters
    • contextcheck: disable linter
    • errcheck: from 1.6.1 to 1.6.2
    • gci: add missing custom-order setting
    • gci: from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0
    • ifshort: deprecate linter
    • nolint: drop allow-leading-space option and add “nolint:all”
    • revgrep: bump to HEAD
  3. documentation
    • remove outdated info on source install
  4. misc
    • go1.19 support

v1.47.3

  1. updated linters:
    • remove some go1.18 limitations
    • asasalint: from 0.0.10 to 0.0.11
    • decorder: from 0.2.2 to v0.2.3
    • gci: fix panic with invalid configuration option
    • gci: from 0.4.3 to v0.5.0
    • go-exhaustruct: from 2.2.0 to 2.2.2
    • gomodguard: from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4
    • nosnakecase: from 1.5.0 to 1.7.0
    • honnef.co/go/tools: from 0.3.2 to v0.3.3
  2. misc
    • cgo: fix linters ignoring CGo files

v1.47.2

  1. updated linters:
    • revive: ignore slow rules

v1.47.1

  1. updated linters:
    • gci: from 0.4.2 to 0.4.3
    • gci: remove the use of stdin
    • gci: fix options display
    • tenv: from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0
    • unparam: bump to HEAD

v1.47.0

  1. new linters:
  2. updated linters:
    • decorder: from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2
    • errcheck: from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1
    • errname: from 0.1.6 to 0.1.7
    • exhaustive: from 0.7.11 to 0.8.1
    • gci: fix issues and re-enable autofix
    • gci: from 0.3.4 to 0.4.2
    • go-exhaustruct: from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0
    • go-ruleguard: from 0.3.19 to 0.3.21
    • gocognit: from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6
    • gocyclo: from 0.5.1 to 0.6.0
    • golang.org/x/tools: bump to HEAD
    • gosec: allow global config
    • gosec: from 2.11.0 to 2.12.0
    • nonamedreturns: from 1.0.1 to 1.0.4
    • paralleltest: from 1.0.3 to 1.0.6
    • staticcheck: fix generics
    • staticcheck: from 0.3.1 to 0.3.2
    • tenv: from 1.5.0 to 1.6.0
    • testpackage: from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0
    • thelper: from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3
    • wrapcheck: from 2.6.1 to 2.6.2
  3. documentation:
    • add thanks page
    • add a clear explanation about the staticcheck integration.
    • depguard: add ignore-file-rules
    • depguard: adjust phrasing
    • gocritic: add enable and disable ruleguard settings
    • gomnd: fix typo
    • gosec: add configs for all existing rules
    • govet: add settings for shadow and unusedresult
    • thelper: add fuzz config and description
    • linters: add defaults

v1.46.2

  1. updated linters:
    • execinquery: bump from v1.2.0 to v1.2.1
    • errorlint: bump to v1.0.0
    • thelper: allow to disable one option
  2. documentation:
    • rename .golangci.example.yml to .golangci.reference.yml
    • add containedctx linter to the list of available linters

v1.46.1

  1. updated linters:
    • execinquery: bump from v0.6.0 to v0.6.1
  2. documentation:
    • add missing linters

v1.46.0

  1. new linters:
  2. updated linters:
    • bidichk: from 0.2.2 to 0.2.3
    • deadcode: bump to HEAD
    • errchkjson: from 0.2.3 to 0.3.0
    • errname: from 0.1.5 to 0.1.6
    • go-critic: from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3
    • gocyclo: from 0.4.0 to 0.5.1
    • gofumpt from 0.3.0 to 0.3.1
    • gomoddirectives: from 0.2.2 to 0.2.3
    • gosec: from 2.10.0 to 2.11.0
    • honnef.co/go/tools: from 0.2.2to 0.3.1 (go1.18 support)
    • nilnil: from 0.1.0 to 0.1.1
    • nonamedreturns: bump from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1
    • predeclared: from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2
    • promlinter: bump to v0.2.0
    • revive: from 1.1.4 to 1.2.1
    • tenv: from 1.4.7 to 1.5.0
    • thelper: from 0.5.1 to 0.6.2
    • unused: fix false-positive
    • varnamelen: bump to v0.8.0
    • wrapcheck: from 2.5.0 to 2.6.1
    • exhaustivestruct: This linter is deprecated use exhaustruct instead.
  3. documentation:
    • Update “Shell Completion” instruction on Linux
    • Update FAQ page
  4. misc:
    • log: enable override coloring based on CLICOLOR and CLICOLOR_FORCE

v1.45.2

  1. misc:
    • fix: help command

v1.45.1

  1. updated linters:
    • interfacer: inactivate with go1.18
    • govet: inactivate unsupported analyzers (go1.18)
    • depguard: reduce requirements
    • structcheck: inactivate with go1.18
    • varnamelen: bump from v0.6.0 to v0.6.1
  2. misc:
    • Automatic Go version detection 🎉 (go1.18)
    • docker: update base images (go1.18)

v1.45.0

  1. updated linters:
    • cobra: from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0
    • containedctx: from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2
    • errcheck: add an option to remove default exclusions
    • gci: from 0.3.1 to 0.3.2
    • go-header: from 0.4.2 to 0.4.3
    • gofumpt: add module-path setting
    • gofumpt: from 0.2.1 to 0.3.0
    • gopsutil: from 3.22.1 to 3.22.2
    • gosec: from 2.9.6 to 2.10.0
    • makezero: from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1
    • revive: fix default values
    • wrapcheck: from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0
  2. documentation:
    • docs: add “back to the top” button
    • docs: add forbidigo example that uses comments
    • docs: improve linters page
  3. misc:
    • go1.18 support 🎉
    • Add an option to manage the targeted version of Go
    • Default to YAML when config file has no extension

v1.44.2

  1. updated linters:
    • gci: bump to HEAD
    • gci: restore defaults for sections
    • whitespace: from 0.0.4 to 0.0.5
  2. documentation:
    • add link to configuration in the linters list

v1.44.1

  1. updated linters:
    • bidichk: from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2
    • errchkjson: from 0.2.1 to 0.2.3
    • thelper: from 0.5.0 to 0.5.1
    • tagliatelle: from 0.3.0 to 0.3.1
    • gopsutil: from 3.21.12 to 3.22.1
    • gci: from 0.2.9 to 0.3.0
    • revive: from v1.1.3 to v1.1.4
    • varnamelen: from v0.5.0 to v0.6.0
  2. documentation:
    • linters: improve configuration pages
    • decorder: fix disable-init-func-first-check: false elaboration
  3. misc:
    • fix debug output

v1.44.0

  1. new linters:
  2. updated linters:
    • asciicheck: bump to v0.1.1
    • bidichk: from 0.1.1 to 0.2.1
    • bodyclose: bump to HEAD
    • decorder: from 0.2.0 to 0.2.1
    • depguard: from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0
    • errchkjson: from 0.2.0 to 0.2.1
    • errorlint: bump to HEAD
    • exhaustive: drop deprecated/unused settings
    • exhaustive: from v0.2.3 to 0.7.11
    • forbidigo: from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0
    • forcetypeassert: bump to v0.1.0
    • gocritic: from 0.6.1 to 0.6.2
    • gocritic: support autofix
    • gocyclo: from 0.3.1 to 0.4.0
    • godot: add period option
    • gofumpt: from 0.1.1 to 0.2.1
    • gomnd: from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0
    • gomnd: new configuration
    • gosec: from 2.9.1 to 2.9.6
    • ifshort: from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4
    • ineffassign: bump to HEAD
    • makezero: to v1.1.0
    • promlinter: from v0.1.0 to HEAD
    • revive: fix enableAllRules
    • revive: from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3
    • staticcheck: from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2
    • tagliatelle: from 0.2.0 to 0.3.0
    • thelper: from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0
    • unparam: bump to HEAD
    • varnamelen: bump to v0.5.0
    • wrapcheck: update configuration to include ignoreSignRegexps
  3. documentation:
    • linters: improve pages about configuration
    • improve page about false-positive
    • nolintlint: fix wrong default value in comment
    • revive: add a more detailed configuration
  4. misc:
    • outputs: Add support for multiple outputs
    • outputs: Print error text in <failure> tag content for more readable JUnit output
    • outputs: ensure that the Issues key in JSON format is a list
    • Return error if any linter fails to run
    • cli: Show deprecated mark in the CLI linters help

November 2021

  1. new linters:
  2. update linters:
    • nestif: from 0.3.0 to 0.3.1
    • rowserrcheck: from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1
    • gopsutil: from 3.21.9 to 3.21.10
    • wrapcheck: from 2.3.1 to 2.4.0
    • gocritic: add support for variable substitution in ruleguard path settings
  3. documentation:
    • improve go-critic documentation
    • improve nolintlint documentation
  4. Misc:
    • cli: don’t hide enable-all option

october 2021

  1. new linters:
  2. update linters:
    • gochecknoglobals: to v0.1.0
    • gosec: filter issues according to the severity and confidence
    • errcheck: empty selector name.
    • ifshort: from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3
    • go-critic: from 0.5.6 to 0.6.0
    • gosec: from 2.8.1 to 2.9.1
    • durationcheck: from 0.0.8 to 0.0.9
    • wrapcheck: from 2.3.0 to 2.3.1
    • revive: from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2

September 2021

  1. new linters:
  2. update linters:
    • errcheck: update to HEAD
    • errname: from 0.1.4 to 0.1.5
    • gci: Parse the settings more similarly to the CLI
    • godot: from 1.4.9 to 1.4.11
    • ireturn: from 0.1.0 to 0.1.1
    • nlreturn: add block-size option
    • paralleltest: from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3
  3. Misc:
    • new-from-rev: add support for finding issues in entire files in a diff

August 2021

  1. new linters:
  2. update linters:
    • errname: from 0.1.3 to 0.1.4
    • go-critic: fix invalid type conversions.
    • godot: from 1.4.8 to 1.4.9
    • gomodguard: from 1.2.2 to 1.2.3
    • revive: from 1.0.9 to 1.1.1
    • staticcheck: bump to 2021.1.1 (v0.2.1)
    • wrapcheck: bump to v2.3.0
  3. Misc:
    • build binaries and Docker images with go1.17

July 2021

  1. update linters:
    • errcheck: allow exclude config without extra file
    • exhaustive: from 0.1.0 to 0.2.3
    • gocognit: from 1.0.1 to 1.0.5
    • godot: from 1.4.7 to 1.4.8
    • gomoddirectives: from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2
    • revive: from 1.0.8 to 1.0.9
  2. documentation:
    • improve goconst documentation
    • improve goimports description

June 2021

  1. update linters:
    • durationcheck: from 0.0.7 to 0.0.8
    • gci: from 0.2.8 to 0.2.9
    • goconst: from 0.5.6 to 0.5.7
    • gofumpt: Add lang-version option
    • gomodguard: from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2
    • gosec: from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1
    • revive: add enable-all-rules.
    • revive: allow to disable rule
    • revive: fix exclude comment rule for const block
    • revive: from 1.0.7 to 1.0.8
    • wrapcheck: from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0
  2. documentation:
    • add all integrations to docs introduction page
  3. Misc:
    • 🎉 Un-deprecate enable-all option
    • output: generate HTML report
    • Support RISV64

May 2021

  1. new linters:
  2. update linters:
    • durationcheck: from 0.0.6 to 0.0.7
    • errorlint: bump to HEAD
    • forbidigo: from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0
    • go-critic: from 0.5.5 to 0.5.6
    • godot: from 1.4.6 to 1.4.7
    • ⚠ golint: deprecated
    • gomnd: from 2.3.2 to 2.4.0
    • gomodguard: fix problem where duplicate issues were reported
    • gosec: from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0
    • govet: fix sigchanyzer
    • govet: Update vet passes
    • importas: allow repeated aliases
    • importas: bump to HEAD
    • makezero: bump to HEAD
    • nolintlint: fix false positive
    • revive: convert hard coded excludes into default exclude patterns
    • revive: fix add-constant rule support
    • revive: fix excludes
    • revive: from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7
    • revive: improve ’exported’ rule output
    • rowserrcheck: bump to v1.1.0
    • staticcheck: configuration for staticcheck, gosimple, stylecheck
    • staticcheck: from 0.1.3 to 0.1.4
    • staticcheck: from v0.1.4 to v0.2.0
    • wastedassign: from 0.2.0 to 1.0.0
    • wastedassign: from 1.0.0 to v2.0.6
    • wrapcheck: from 1.2.0 to 2.1.0
  3. documentation:
    • improve linters page
    • exhaustivestruct example explanation
    • fix pattern of forbidigo in example config yaml
    • bump documentation dependencies
    • fix typos
  4. Misc:
    • set the minimum Go version to go1.15
    • non-zero exit code when a linter produces a panic

April 2021

  1. new linters:
  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:
  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:
  4. Misc:
    • Set version command output to Stdout
    • fix linters load mode
    • Restore fast linters meaning

February 2021

  1. new linters:
  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:
  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:
  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:
  2. update linters:
  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:
  2. update linters:
  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. 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
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