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### August 2020

1. new `nlreturn` linter: https://github.com/ssgreg/nlreturn
2. new `gci` linter: https://github.com/daixiang0/gci
3. support `latest` version of golangci-lint in golangci-lint-action
4. update `gosec` linter from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0
5. update `godot` linter from 0.4.2 to 0.4.8

### July 2020

1. `gofumpt` linter:
    * update linter
    * add `extra-rules` option
    * support auto-fixing
2. upgrade `exhaustive` linter
3. upgrade `exportloopref` linter
4. improve 'no such linter' error message
5. sorting result.Issues implementation
6. enhancements in CI:
    * Run `nancy` validation for all dependencies
    * Move dependabot config to `.github` folder
7. other
    * bump `lodash` from 4.17.15 to 4.17.19 in /tools
    * bump `golangci/golangci-lint-action` from v1.2.2 to v2
    * bump `github.com/valyala/quicktemplate` from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1


### June 2020
1. Add new linters: `gofumpt`

### May 2020

1. Add new linters: `nolintlint`, `goerr113`
2. Updated linters: `godot`, `staticcheck`
3. Launch a [website](https://golangci-lint.run)

### April 2020

1. Add new linters: `testpackage`, `nestif`, `godot`, `gomodguard`, `asciicheck`
2. Add github actions output format
3. Update linters: `wsl`, `gomodguard`, `gosec`
4. Support `disabled-tags` setting for `gocritic`
5. Mitigate OOM and "failed prerequisites"
6. Self-isolate due to unexpected pandemics
7. Support case-sensitive excludes
8. Allow granular re-enabling excludes by ID, e.g. `EXC0002`

### September 2019

1. Support go1.13
2. Add new linters: `funlen`, `whitespace` (with auto-fix) and `godox`
3. Update linters: `gochecknoglobals`, `scopelint`, `gosec`
4. Provide pre-built binary for ARM and FreeBSD
5. 2. Fix false-positives in `unused`
6. Support `--skip-dirs-use-default`
7. Add support for bash completions

### July 2019

1. Fix parallel writes race condition
2. Update bodyclose with fixed panic

### June 2019

1. Treat Go source files as a plain text by `misspell`: it allows detecting issues in strings, variable names, etc.
2. Implement richer and more stable auto-fix of `misspell` issues.

### May 2019

1. Add [bodyclose](https://github.com/timakin/bodyclose) linter.
2. Support junit-xml output.

### April 2019

1. Update go-critic, new checkers were added: badCall, dupImports, evalOrder, newDeref
2. Fix staticcheck panic on packages that do not compile
3. Make install script work on Windows
4. Fix compatibility with the latest x/tools version and update golang.org/x/tools
5. Correct import path of module sourcegraph/go-diff
6. Fix `max-issues-per-linter` name
7. Fix linting of preprocessed files (e.g. `*.qtpl.go`, goyacc)
8. Enable auto-fixing when running via pre-commit

### March 2019

1. Support the newest `go vet` (with `go/analysis`)
2. Support configuration of `go vet`: e.g. you can set print functions by `linters-settings.govet.settings.printf.funcs`
3. Update megacheck (staticcheck) to 2019.1.1
4. Add [information](https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint#memory-usage-of-golangci-lint) about controlling space-time trade-off into README
5. Exclude issues by source code line regexp by `issues.exclude-rules[i].source`
6. Build and test on go 1.12
7. Support `--color` option
8. Update x/tools to fix c++ issues
9. Include support for log level
10. Sort linters list in help commands
