Mega-Linter v4.20.0

• Flavors

  • Add ci_light flavor for only CI config files (Dockerfile,Jenkinsfile,JSON,YAML,XML)
  • Add salesforce flavor for Salesforce projects (DX or Metadata)
  • If all required linters are not in the current flavor, just skip them with a warning message

• Core

  • Add Json Schema for descriptors (allows validation and auto-completion from IDEs)
  • Add Json Schema for .mega-linter.yml configuration files

Mega-Linter v4.19.0

• Installation

  • Add a yeoman generator in mega-linter-runner to initialize configuration in a repository: npx mega-linter-runner --install

• Linters

  • New linter v8r to validate json and yaml files with schemastore.org

Mega-Linter v4.18.0

• Core

  • Do not suggest flavors when Mega-Linter validates only the diff files (VALIDATE_ALL_CODE_BASE: false)
  • Fix ConsoleReporter active linters table content
  • Check if linter is able to fix before flagging it as a fixing linter during runtime

• Flavors

  • New flavor: documentation

• Reporters

  • Support GitHub Enterprise for GitHub Comment Reporter
  • Support GitHub Enterprise for GitHub Status Reporter

• Doc

  • Add docker pulls badge in flavors documentation
  • Generate list of references to Mega-Linter

Mega-Linter v4.17.0

• Core
  • Allow to use remote linters configuration files with LINTER_RULES_PATH
  • Add .jekyll-cache in the list of ignored folders by default
  • Arrange display of Flavor suggestions (text and order) in reporter logs
• Build
  • Dynamically generate (build.py) the list of flavors in github actions workflows
• Doc
  • Reorganize online documentation menus
• Linters
  • Add new linter git_diff to check for git conflicts markers
  • Fix rakudo installation
  • Fix phpstan installation

Mega-Linter v4.16.0

• Flavored Mega-Linters

  • Generate lightweight docker images to improve Mega-Linter performances on some language based projects
  • During Mega-Linter run, suggest user to use a flavor and write it in reporters
  • Update descriptor YML files to define flavours
  • Update build.py to create one Dockerfile by Mega-Linter flavour & flavors documentation
  • New GHA workflows to build all flavoured Mega-Linters when pushing in master

• Fixes

  • Output reporter problems as warnings
  • Do not make Mega-Linter fail in case GitHubStatusReporter fails

• Doc

  • Rename "index" pages into more meaningful labels

Mega-Linter v4.15.0

• Add Vue.js linting (eslint-plugin-vue added in dependencies)

• Configuration parameters changes:

  • Change config setting logic: EXCLUDED_DIRECTORIES is now replacing original directory list instead of extending it
  • Add config setting: ADDITIONAL_EXCLUDED_DIRECTORIES extends EXCLUDED_DIRECTORIES directory list
  • Add config setting: <LINTER_KEY>_FILE_EXTENSIONS to override corresponding value from linter descriptor file
  • Add config setting: <LINTER_KEY>_FILE_NAMES_REGEX to override corresponding value from linter descriptor file

• Descriptor yaml schema changes:

  • Rename files_names_not_ends_with to file_names_not_ends_with
  • Rename files_names to files_names_regex and change behavior to expect regular expressions in the list.
    They are applied using full match (i.e. the whole text should match the regular expression)

• Fix error message from Email Reporter when SMTP password is not set

• Fix automerge action yml (skip if secrets.PAT is not set)

• Improve caching of compiled regular expressions

• Override mkdocs theme to make analytics work

• CI

  • Auto update linters and documentation: Create update PR only if linter versions has been updated
  • Build and deploy docker images only when it is relevant (not in case of just documentation update for example)

Mega-Linter v4.14.2

• Quick fix Github Comment Reporter
• Reorder linters for reports

Mega-Linter v4.14.1

• Fixes
  • Fix python error when File.io does not respond, + harmonize reporter logs

Mega-Linter v4.14.0

• Linters

  • Add Salesforce linter: sfdx-scanner

• Core architecture

  • Allow to call extra commands to build help content

Mega-Linter v4.13.0

• Major updates in online documentation generation

  • Reorganize TOC
  • Generate individual pages from README sections and update their internal links targets
  • Open external links in a new browser tab

• New configuration parameters

  • Allow disabling printing alpaca image to console using PRINT_ALPACA config parameter
  • Support list of additional excluded directory basenames via EXCLUDED_DIRECTORIES configuration parameter

• New reporters:

  • Email reporter, to send mega-linter reports by mail if smtp server is configured
  • File.io reporter, to access reports with a file.io hyperlink

• Fixes

  • Fix markdown comments generator when build on Windows
  • Fix terrascan unit test case
  • Run some actions/steps only when PR is from same repository
  • Add comments in markdown generated by build.py
  • Fix boolean variables not taken in account in .mega-linter.yml config file

• Performance

  • Change way to install linters in Dockerfile (replace FROM ... COPY) by package or sh installation, to reduce the docker build steps from 93 to 87
    • shellcheck
    • editorconfig-checker
    • dotenv-linter
    • golangci-lint
    • kubeval