v2.5.0

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1. New linters
   • Add godoclint linter https://github.com/godoc-lint/godoc-lint
   • Add unqueryvet linter https://github.com/MirrexOne/unqueryvet
   • Add iotamixing linter https://github.com/AdminBenni/iota-mixing
2. Linters new features or changes
   • embeddedstructfieldcheck: from 0.3.0 to 0.4.0 (new option: empty-line)
   • err113: from aea10b5 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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1. Linters bug fixes

• varnamelen: fix configuration

v2.2.0

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1. New linters
   • Add arangolint linter https://github.com/Crocmagnon/arangolint
   • Add embeddedstructfieldcheck linter https://github.com/manuelarte/embeddedstructfieldcheck
   • Add noinlineerr linter https://github.com/AlwxSin/noinlineerr
   • Add swaggo formatter https://github.com/golangci/swaggoswag
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
   • Add funcorder linter https://github.com/manuelarte/funcorder
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

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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

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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

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1. Enhancements
   • 🌟 New golangci-lint fmt command with dedicated formatter configuration
   • ♻️ New golangci-lint migrate command to help migration from v1 to v2 (cf. Migration guide)
   • ⚠️ New default values (cf. Migration guide)
   • ⚠️ No exclusions by default (cf. Migration guide)
   • ⚠️ New default sort order (cf. Migration guide)
   • 🌟 New option run.relative-path-mode (cf. Migration guide)
   • 🌟 New linters configuration (cf. Migration guide)
   • 🌟 New output format configuration (cf. Migration guide)
   • 🌟 New --fast-only flag (cf. Migration guide)
   • 🌟 New option linters.exclusions.warn-unused to log a warning if an exclusion rule is unused.
2. New linters/formatters
   • Add golines formatter https://github.com/segmentio/golines
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 8a5130c to 0df0534
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
   • Migration guide