- Added new “function‑paren‑newline” rule and refactored Linter components to be pure functions for better reliability.
- Fixed several bugs such as eslint comment handling, off‑by‑one errors in comment checks, sparse‑array crashes, and init‑without‑npm failures.
- Improved documentation (prefer‑arrow‑callback, Linter API, quotes rule) and updated messages (eslint version output, unused‑var patterns, generator star‑spacing configurability).
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Added handling for underflow without loss of precision and introduced checkConditionalExpressions to avoid unmodified loop conditions.
Fixed ASI hazard handling and false positives in various linting rules (e.g., no unused labels, getters, and unused vars).
Export ConfigObject from eslint/config to enable external usage.