CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[1.2.0] - 2024-05-24

Features

• Add builtin standards support for minetest (#108) — @BuckarooBanzay and @appgurueu

Performance

• Memoize results to addresses speed refression from new feature in v0.26 (#105) — @tomlau10

[1.1.2] - 2023-12-08

Features

• Support NO_COLOR environment variable (#102) — @ligurio

Bug Fixes

• Update SILE builtin with more allowed variables — @alerque

[1.1.1] - 2023-06-09

Features

• Update Löve standard to 11.4 (#95) — @RunningDroid
• Documentation improvements (#92 and #89) — @rcloran and @hramrach

Bug Fixes

• Correct compound operators to not crash on modifying upvalues (#96) — @arichard4
• Fix warning 582 (error prone negation) not applying to subexpressions (#94) — @appgurueu

[1.1.0] - 2022-12-19

Features

• Add builtin rule set for SILE globals (#79) — @alerque
• Implement support for compound operators (#66) — @a2 & @arichard4

Bug Fixes

• Correct circular reference detection visavis OpSet — @arichard4
• Remove unnecessary symbol from Playdate std (#84) — @DidierMalenfant

v1.0.0 (2022-08-24)

Documentation

• [breaking] Follow semver guidelines, next release will be v1.x.y

Features

• Overhaul docker container to run on Lua 5.4 — @alerque
• Store cached luacheck values per-version in case of changes — @arichard4
• Set_default_std for ldoc — @Aire-One
• Add builtin std option for Ldoc globals — @Aire-One
• Add builtin std option for the Playdate SDK — @DidierMalenfant

v0.26.1 (2022-04-23)

Bug Fixes

• Exempt special builtin _ENV from 214 warning

Features

• In case of no home environment, default to caching in CWD (#60)
• Add multi-thread support to container (#59)

Miscellaneous Tasks

• Tweak warning message for 214 to be more explicit

v0.26.0 (2022-03-23)

New Features

• Add "unused hint" flag — @javierguerragiraldez Function arguments that start with a single underscore get an "unused hint". Leaving them unused doesn't result in a warning. Using them, on the other hand, is a new warning (№ 214).
• Add hook to enable Luacheck for use in pre-commit — @mblayman
• Warn on error-prone and unnecessary negations — @arichard4 Two new warnings (№ 581 and 582) flag error-prone operator orders.
• Add Dockerfile implementation — @MartinBroers A 6.34MB containerized image with everything needed to run the linter. Build your own or pull prebuilt images from GHRC.
• Setup repository for use as a GitHub Action — @alerque Lint your repositories using GitHub Action workflows with just a single uses: step.

Fixes

• Don't mark variables as accessed if only references are circular — @arichard4
• Make test suite Lua 5.4 compatible — @alerque
• Correct small issues in documentation — various

Miscellaneous

• Overhaul CI workflows for testing, linting, building, and releasing — @alerque
• Update URLs and documentation reflecting new repository home — @lunarmodules

0.25.0 (2020-08-25)

New features

• New values for CLI option --std: lua54, lua54c
• New lua54 standard library definitions

Fixes

• Lua 5.4 allows 31bits utf8 codepoint

0.24.0 (2020-08-20)

Changes

• Caching now uses files in a global directory instead of local .luacheckcache file. Default cache directory is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Luacheck\Cache on Windows, ~/Library/Caches/Luacheck on OS X/macOS, and $XDG_CACHE_HOME/luacheck or ~/.config/luacheck on other systems.

Fixes

• Fixes for using Luacheck with Lua 5.4:
  • Parse 5.4 attributes in local declarations (but ignores them for now)
  • Luacheck itself can also run with Lua 5.4
• Fixed randomize missing from busted set of standard globals (#183).
• Added additional table and thread definitions for ngx_lua.
• Added additional match definition for busted.

Miscellaneous

• Upgraded Windows binary components: Lua 5.3.4 -> 5.3.5, LuaFileSystem 1.6.3 -> 1.7.0.

0.23.0 (2018-09-18)

Breaking changes

• Removed --no-inline CLI option and inline config option, inline options are now always enabled.
• Inline comments are now supposed to be only in short comments but not long ones.
• Installer script (install.lua) is removed. Luacheck can still be installed manually by recursively copying src/* to a directory in package.path and copying bin/luacheck.lua to a directory in PATH as luacheck.

New features and improvements

• Warning columns are now reported in Unicode codepoints if input is valid UTF-8 (#45).
• Added indentaion-based guessing of a better location for missing end and until syntax errors.
• Added luacheckrc set of allowed globals containing globals used in Luacheck config to set options.
• Added default stds equivalent to predefined per-path std overrides in config:
  • files["**/spec/**/*_spec.lua"].std = "+busted";
  • files["**/test/**/*_spec.lua"].std = "+busted";
  • files["**/tests/**/*_spec.lua"].std = "+busted";
  • files["**/*.rockspec"].std = "+rockspec";
  • files["**/*.luacheckrc"].std = "+luacheckrc".
• Added detection of numeric for loops going from #t to 1 without negative step (#160).
• Added support for LuaRocks 3 module autodetection when checking rockspecs (#176).
• Updated love standard for LÖVE 11.1 (#178).

Changes

• Default set of standard globals is now always max, allowing globals of all Lua versions. _G std is deprecated.

Fixes

• Added missing globals to rockspec std: hooks, deploy, build_dependencies, test_dependencies, and test.
• Fixed line lengths appearing in the output before other warnings on the same line even if their column numbers are smaller.

Miscellaneous

• Luacheck now depends on argparse instead of bundling it.
• LuaFileSystem dependency is now required.

0.22.1 (2018-07-01)

Improvements

• Reduced amount of RAM used when checking a large number of files.

0.22.0 (2018-05-09)

New features and improvements

• Added detection of cyclomatic complexity, with warnings emitted for functions with complexity higher than a configurable limit; disabled by default (#141).
• Added a built-in formatter printing warnings and errors in a format understood by MSBuild/Visual Studio if luacheck is used as a custom build step (#142).
• ranges and quiet options can now be used in config, e.g. quiet = 1 to disable OK lines in default formatter output.
• luacheck module now adds prev_line, prev_column, and prev_end_column fields to syntax error events if they refer to some extra location: redefined label errors point to the previous definition, unpaired tokens such as function/end point to the the first token (#134).
• luacheck module now adds prev_end_column field to warning events that already have prev_line and prev_column fields, and overwritten_end_column for warnings with overwritten_line and overwritten_column.
• Improved error messages for invalid options and config: when an option is invalid, extra context is provided instead of just the name.
• Custom stds are now validated on config load.
• When recursively checking a directory, each failure to list a nested directory is now reported separately, and other found files and directories are checked anyway. Previously any error when listing any nested directory resulted in immediate failure for the entire parent directory (#159).
• When --[no-]cache CLI option is used with LuaFileSystem not found, it is now ignored instead of causing an error. Missing LuaFileSystem is now mentioned in the help message next to features disabled without it.

Fixes

• Fixed errors or incorrect reporting when unused mutually recursive functions have other values assigned to their local variables.
• Fixed unused values in infinite loops sometimes reported as overwritten by another value.
• Fixed caching not working properly when cache is enabled in config loaded from a parent directory.
• Fixed per-path config overrides not working on Windows when paths in config and input paths use different case (#150).
• Added missing definition of love.handlers to love std (#161).

Miscellaneous

• Installer script (install.lua) is deprecated. Future versions of Luacheck may have required dependencies. Luacheck can still be installed manually by recursively copying src/luacheck to a directory in package.path and copying bin/luacheck.lua to a directory in PATH as luacheck.

0.21.2 (2017-11-13)

Fixes

• Fixed error when an upvalue is accessed from an unreachable closure (#139).
• Fixed unreachable code and accessing uninitialized variables not being detected inside unreachable functions.

0.21.1 (2017-09-10)

Fixes

• Added missing definition of ngx.ERROR constant to ngx_lua std (#123).
• Fixed unused values and initialized accesses not being reported when the access is in a closure defined in code path incompatible with the value assignment (#126).

0.21.0 (2017-09-04)

New features and improvements

• Column range for line is too long warning now starts at the first character beyond the length limit instead of the very first character of the line (#117).
• Error messages for invalid inline options are now a bit better, including reason why an inline option invocation is invalid and what is the name of the option at fault.
• ngx_lua std now contains full API definition for lua-nginx-module 0.10.10, so that operations on unknown fields within ngx global are now reported (#118).

Fixes

• luacheck no longer aborts on internal error while checking files in parallel.

0.20.0 (2017-05-08)

Breaking changes

• luacheck now exits with 2 instead of 1 if there are syntax errors or invalid inline options present. It now exits with 3 instead of 2 if I/O errors are present. It now exits with 4 instead of 3 on a critical error (#94).

New features and improvements

• If project-specific .luacheckrc is not found, luacheck will now use config from some global location if it is present there. Default global location is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Luacheck\.luacheckrc on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/Luacheck/.luacheckrc on OS X/macOS, and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/luacheck/.luacheckrc or ~/.config/luacheck/.luacheckrc on other systems. This behaviour can be tweaked with --default-config and --no-default-config options (#102).
• New --[no-]max-code-line-length, --[no-]max-string-line-length, --[no-]max-comment-line-length CLI options and corresponding config and inline options that limit line length only for subsets of lines based on line type: string lines have their line endings within a string, comment lines have their line endings within a comment, other lines are code lines (#100).
• New love std set containing globals added by Love2D framework (#108).
• For warnings about unused values and fields, if the value is always overwritten by a single other value, location of the overwriting assignment is mentioned in the warning message (#106).
• When attempting to check a directory while LuaFileSystem is not installed, luacheck now mentions that LuaFileSystem is required in the error message (#103).
• Improved warning message for unbalanced assignment warnings (#104).

0.19.1 (2017-03-12)

Miscellaneous

• Added warning code for line is too long warnings to documentation (#98).
• Added binary executable file for Windows.

0.19.0 (2017-03-03)

Breaking changes

• New format for defining standard sets of globals that can describe all allowed fields of each global.

New features and improvements

• Luacheck can now detect mutations and accesses of specific fields within globals. Standard global definitions have been updated to provide precise lists of allowed fields. This also works through local aliases (e.g. local t = table; t.upsert() produces a warning, but local t = table; t.insert() does not).
• Default set of allowed globals is now equal to globals normally provided by version of Lua used to run Luacheck, instead of all globals set in the interpreter while it runs Luacheck.
• All options that operate on lists of global names can now use field names as well. E.g. --not-globals string.len undefines standard field string.len. Additionally, config options globals, new_globals, read_globals, new_read_globals can use a table-based format to define trees of allowed fields.
• Lines that are longer than some maximum length are now reported. Default limit is 120. Limit can be changed using max_line_length option.
• Warnings related to trailing whitespace in comments and inside string literals now use separate warning codes.
• Luacheck no longer reports a crash with a long traceback when interrupted, instead it simply exits with an error message.

Fixes

• Fixed inconsistent indentation not being detected on lines with trailing whitespace.

0.18.0 (2017-01-10)

New features and improvements

• Indirect mutations of read-only globals through local aliases are now detected (e.g. local t = table; t.foo = "bar").
• New CLI, config, and inline option not_globals for removing defined standard and custom globals (#88).
• Custom globals defined as mutable using globals option can now be set to read-only using read_globals option in overwriting settings (previously globals had priority over read_globals even if read_globals was the last option used).
• Luacheck exit codes are now documented.

Fixes

• Warnings that are explictly enabled by inline options are now correctly reported. E.g. --luacheck: std none now results in warnings for any used globals (#51).

0.17.1 (2016-12-22)

Fixes

• Fixed error when using cache and there are warnings with codes 314 or 521.
• Globals in rockspec std and ngx global in ngx_lua std are no longer read-only (#87).
• Reverted changes to exit codes that conflicted with assumptions made by luacheck checker in Syntastic (#85).

0.17.0 (2016-11-18)

New features and improvements

• Trailing whitespace and inconsistent indentation (tabs after spaces) are now detected (#79).

0.16.3 (2016-10-27)

Fixes

• Fixed version number (#75).

0.16.2 (2016-10-25)

Fixes

• Fixed error in some cases when a function declaration is unreachable (#74).

0.16.1 (2016-09-29)

Fixes

• Fixed false positive for variable/value is mutated but never accessed warning when initial value of a variable comes from X and Y, X or Y, or (X()) expression (#72).

0.16.0 (2016-08-30)

New features and improvements

• Local tables which are mutated but not used are now detected (#61).
• Mutations of global variables with key chains of length > 1 are now correctly reported as mutations, not accesses.
• Completely unused variables named _ are now reported (#66).

Fixes

• luacheck: ignore now correctly filters out 5xx and 314 warnings (#71).

0.15.1 (2016-06-09)

Fixes

• Fixed JUnit formatter not escaping XML entities (#62).

0.15.0 (2016-04-18)

New features and improvements

• New rockspec std set containing globals allowed in rockspecs (#55).

Fixes

• Fixed error when checking a file with a hexadecimal number using Lua 5.1 on Windows (#57).
• Fixed luacheck using wrong path when checking a file in a subdirectory with single character name (#59).

0.14.0 (2016-02-25)

New features and improvements

• Duplicated keys in table literals are detected (#48).
• Unused recursive and mutually recursive functions assigned to local variables are detected (#50).
• Globs can be used to select paths when applying option overrides in config (#52).
• Inline options can contain notes in parentheses.
• --jobs option (multithreading) is used by default with LuaLanes found, number of threads used is set to number of available processing units.
• Better error messages are provided on I/O and other errors when reading files, loading configs and rockspecs, etc.
• Better path handling when recursively checking directories ending with slash.

0.13.0 (2016-01-04)

New features and improvements

• Empty statements (semicolons without preceding statements) are reported (#44).
• Inline option luacheck: push can be followed by other options on the same line, e.g. luacheck: push ignore.
• Better syntax error messages.
• When recursively checking directories and --include-files is used, files are not filtered by .lua extension (#43).

Fixes

• Fixed crash when source ends with ., "\ or "\u{.

0.12.0 (2015-11-02)

New features and improvements

• New ngx_lua globals set for Openresty ngx_lua module (#41).
• Better CLI error messages.

Fixes

• Fixed duplicate uninitialized access and unreachable code warnings in nested functions.

Miscellaneous

• RTD theme is no longer required when building docs.
• HTML docs are no longer stored in the repo.

0.11.1 (2015-08-09)

Improvements

• More accurate analysis around literal conditions, e.g. while true do ... end.
• Extra threads are not created when number of files is less than value of --jobs option.

Fixes

• Fixed crash on unreachable repeat condition (#36).
• Fixed crash when using --ranges with cache.
• Fixed incorrect output or crashes when loading cache created by a different version (#37).
• Fixed crash when an upvalue is followed by an infinite loop.

0.11.0 (2015-07-18)

Breaking changes

• Removed --no-unused-globals option, use --ignore 13 instead.
• Removed .vararg field for warnings related to varargs, check .name == "..." instead.
• Errors now also have codes, starting with 0, and are returned together with warnings from luacheck.* functions (#31).

New features and improvements

• During config lookup all directories starting from current one and up to file system root are traversed in search of config. Path-related data from config loaded from an upper directory is adjusted to work as if Luacheck was started from the directory with config (#20).
• New --exclude-files and --include-files options for file filtering using globbing patterns (#21).
• More CLI and config options can be used inline.
• Underscores in inline option names can be replaced with spaces.
• Inline options without arguments can be prefixed with no to invert meaning.
• New built-in global set busted containing globals of Busted testing framework.
• Stable interface for editor plugins.
• New luacheck.get_message function for formatting a message for a warning or error.
• Sets of standard globals can be merged using +.
• If value of std option starts with +, new set is added to the old one instead of overwriting it,
• New --filename option allows using real file name for picking config per-path overrides while passing source through stdin or a temporary file.
• New --ranges option provides column ranges for tokens related to warnings (#32).
• New --no-self option for ignoring warnings related to implicit self argument.
• Config options can now be returned as a table.
• Config now has access to all regular globals in its environment.
• New sets of standard globals can be created by mutating global stds in config.
• formatter config option now accepts functions.
• Warnings returned from luacheck.* functions now have = .end_column field with last column of related token.
• JUnit formatter now produces a testcase per each issue.

Fixes

• Fixed validation error when attempting to use formatter option in config.
• Fixed incorrect error location for invalid escape sequence syntax errors.
• FIxed spurious quotes in typecheck error messages in luacheck.* functions.
• UTF BOM is now stripped when reading files.

0.10.0 (2015-03-13)

Breaking changes

• Removed --limit/-l option, use inline options to ignore warnings that are OK.
• Removed --no-unused-values/-v option, use --no-unused-secondaries/-s instead.
• Removed --no-unset option, use --ignore 221 instead.

New features and improvements

• Added caching of check results (--cache and --no-cache options).
• Added parallel checking (--jobs/-j option).
• Added reporting of syntax error message and location in CLI (#17).
• Added --version command for showing versions of Luacheck and its dependencies.
• Added more functions to luacheck Lua module.

Fixes

• Fixed file status label not being colored when using -qq.

Miscellaneous

• Added installer script (install.lua).

0.9.0 (2015-02-15)

New features and improvements

• Added inline options: a way to precisely configure luacheck using inline comments of special format (#16).
• Added an option to use custom output formatters; TAP and JUnit formatters are built-in (#19).

Fixes

• Fixed crash when checking stdin using a config with overrides.

0.8.0 (2015-01-19)

New features and improvements

• Added detection of unused labels.
• Added detection of unreachable code.
• Added detection of loops that can be executed at most once.
• Added detection of uninitialized variables.
• Added detection of shadowed local variables.
• Added detection of empty blocks.
• Added detection of unbalanced assignments.
• New warning categorization system using warning codes.
• Added possibility to mark globals as read-only (most standard globals are so by default).
• Added possibility to overwrite options on per-directory basis in config.
• Some CLI-specific options can now be used in config (e.g. color).
• Added standard global sets for Lua 5.3.

Miscellaneous

• Removed unnecessary dependencies.
• Simplified manual installation (#12).
• Added executable wrapper for Windows (#14).

0.7.3 (2015-01-05)

Fixes

• Fixed false unused variable and unused value warnings when a closure accessing a variable is created in a nested block (#10).

0.7.2 (2015-01-03)

Improvements

• Improved analysis quality w.r.t unused values using flow-sensitive analysis.

0.7.1 (2014-12-16)

Improvements

• When --no-color is used, identifiers are now quoted in warning messages (#8).

Fixes

• Fixed priority of options: CLI options override config per-file overrides, which override general config.
• Fixed ignoring std option in CLI when compat option is used in config.

0.7.0 (2014-11-23)

New features and improvements

• Added --allow-defined-top and --module options for more flexible checking of files which are supposed to set globals (#7).
• Added --no-unused-secondaries option for removing warnings about unused values set together with used ones.
• Added detection of variables that are used but never set.

Fixes

• Fixed ignoring std config option.
• Fixed incompatibility with Lua 5.3.

0.6.0 (2014-11-01)

New features and improvements

• Luacheck can now check programs which use syntax introduced in Lua 5.2, Lua 5.3 and LuaJIT 2.0.
• Luacheck is now faster.
• Luacheck now exits with an error if it couldn't load a config due to an I/O, syntax, runtime or validation error.

Miscellaneous

• Removed dependency on MetaLua parser.

0.5.0 (2014-09-06)

Breaking changes

• Changed the interface of luacheck module.
• Changed what -qq and -qqq do.

New features and improvements

• Added an option to disable colourization of output (#2).
• Added an option to allow implicit global variable definition.
• Filter out warnings about redefined _ (#5).
• --globals, --ignore and --only can now be used several times.
• Passing - as an argument now checks stdin.
• Passing a directory as an argument checks all .lua files inside it.
• Added config loading (#1).
• Added --std option, adding globals via --globals now does not require passing a dash.
• Added --new-globals option.

0.4.1 (2014-08-25)

Miscellaneous

• Updated to argparse 0.3.0

0.4.0 (2014-05-31)

New features and improvements

• Unused values (e.g. local a = expr1; ... a = expr2) are now detected.
• In CLI, rockspecs (arguments ending with .rockspec) now expand into list of related .lua files.
• Unused varargs are now detected.

0.3.0 (2014-04-25)

New features and improvements

• Luacheck is now _ENV-aware: "globals" inside chunks with custom _ENV are ignored, but their presence marks the _ENV variable as used; accessing the outermost ("default") _ENV is permitted, too.
• In --globals option of the CLI hyphen now expands to all standard global variables.
• New -c/--compat flag defines some additional globals for Lua 5.1/5.2 compatibility (e.g. setfenv).
• New -l/--limit option allows setting a limit of warnings. If the limit is not exceeded, the CLI exits with 0.
• The -q/--quiet flag now can be used several times (-q/-qq/-qqq) to make the CLI more or less quiet.

0.2.0 (2014-04-05)

New features and improvements

• Command-line interface now prints per-file reports as they are produced instead of waiting for all files to be checked.
• Luacheck now recognizes different types of variables (normal locals, function arguments and loop variables) and reports them accordingly.
• Luacheck now distinguishes accessing global variables from setting them.
• In command-line interface -q switch makes luacheck only print total number of warnings instead of suppressing output completely.

0.1.0 (2014-03-25)

The first release.