megalinter

• Quick fix Github Comment Reporter
• Reorder linters for reports

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

• Linters

  • Add Salesforce linter: sfdx-scanner

• Core architecture

  • Allow to call extra commands to build help content

• 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

• Performances
  • Update default workflow to get ride of has_updates action (replace by output has_updated_files from mega-linter github action)
  • Avoid duplicate runs in mega-linter.yml template and internal workflows, using skip-duplicate-actions
  • Give a proper name to each internal workflow
  • Fix issue about mkdirs failing

• Manage parallel processing of linters to improve performances

• Manage parallel processing of linters to improve performances

BROKEN, plz use 4.11.1

• Fallback to default behaviours instead of crashes when git not available

• mega-linter-runner

  • Allow to send env parameters to mega-linter-runner cli
  • Add examples in documentation
  • Publish mega-linter-runner beta version when pushing in master branch

• Add link to linters rules index in documentation

• Remove ANSI color codes from log files

• Add performances by linter in console log

• New option SHOW_ELAPSED_TIME , allowing the number of seconds elapsed by linter in reports

• NPM package Mega-Linter runner

  • runs Mega-Linter locally, using .mega-linter.yml configuration (requires docker installed on your computer)
  • test cases added in CI

• Core

  • Allow configuration to be defined in a .mega-linter.yml file

• Linters

  • Add Gherkin (Cucumber language) & gherkin-lint
  • Add RST linter : rst-lint
  • Add RST linter : rstcheck
  • Add RST formatter : rstfmt
  • Activate formatting for BASH_SHFMT
  • Activate formatting for SNAKEMAKE_SNAKEFMT
  • JsCpd: remove copy-paste HTML folder when no abuse copy-paste has been found

• Logs

  • Store log files as artifacts during test cases
  • Add examples of success and failed linter logs in documentation
  • Remove /tmp/lint and /github/workspace from log files

• Documentation

  • Add list of supported IDE in each linter documentation
  • Generate GitHub card on linter doc when available
  • Store link preview info during build

• New reporter: Updated sources

• Activate auto-fix for Groovy

• Update markdown-link-check default config
• Add tip in documentation about .cspell.json generated by Mega-Linter
• Remove /tmp/lint from logs
• Improve summary table for linters in project mode (all project linted in one call, not one file by one file)
• Add Reporters in documentation, with screenshots
• New Mega-Linter variables to activate/deactivate/configure reporters

• Automatic build of documentation with mkdocs-material
• Automatic deployment to https://nvuillam.github.io/mega-linter/
• Add markdown-link-check

• Add Visual Basic .NET language & dotnet-format
• Refactor removal of arguments for formatters (from custom class to Linter generic class)
• Perl: lint files with no extension containing Perl shebang
• Add automerge for PR issues from linter versions updates
• Fix ignored root files issue

• Add Python iSort
• Quick fix "PR Comment" reporter (orange light emoji)
• Refresh fork

• Fixes about APPLY_FIXES options
• More docs