New Release: 2.9.1-rc1

The JSHint team Nov 12th, 2015

Version 2.9.0 was revoked shortly after its release due to a number of regressions. Although the underlying issues have been resolved, we are sensitive to the possibility that there may be still more; as mentioned in 2.9.0's release notes, the variable tracking system saw a significant refactoring.

In an effort to minimize friction with a new version, we're publishing a release candidate and requesting feedback from early adopters. Please give it a try in your projects and let us know about any surprising behavior!

Bug Fixes

• latedef shouldn't warn when marking a var as exported (c630994), closes #2662
• Add File and FileList to browser global variables (7f2a729), closes #2690
• Allow comments and new lines after / falls through / (3b1c925), closes #2652 #1660
• Allow let and const to be in a block outside of a block (84a9145), closes #2685
• Always warn about missing "use strict" directive (e85c2a1), closes #2668
• Disallow incompatible option values (72ba5ad)
• Do not enable newcap within strict mode (acaf3f7)
• Don't throw W080 when the initializer starts with undefined (0d87919), closes #2699
• Don't warn that an exported function is used before it is defined. (d0433d2), closes #2658
• Enforce Identifier restrictions lazily (ceca549)
• Global "use strict" regressions (04b43d2), closes #2657 #2661
• Support property assignment when destructure assigning (b6df1f2), closes #2659 #2660
• Throw W119 instead of "Unexpected '`'" when using templates in ES5 mode. (87064e8)

Features

• Support QUnit's global notOk (73ac9b8)