Roadmap

💡 Feature Requests

Please file an issue to suggest new features. Vote on feature requests by adding a 👍. This helps maintainers prioritize what to work on.

See Feature Requests

🐛 Bugs

Please file an issue for bugs, missing documentation, or unexpected behavior.

See Bugs

Thanks

Thanks to all contributors! Thanks to alecthomas/gometalinter for inspiration and amazing work. Thanks to bradleyfalzon/revgrep for cool diff tool.

Thanks to developers and authors of used linters:

• timakin
• kisielk
• golang
• jingyugao
• dominikh
• securego
• opennota
• mvdan
• mdempsky
• gordonklaus
• mibk
• jgautheron
• remyoudompheng
• alecthomas
• uudashr
• tdakkota
• OpenPeeDeeP
• client9
• walle
• alexkohler
• kyoh86
• go-critic
• leighmcculloch
• matoous
• ultraware
• bombsimon
• jirfag
• tommy-muehle
• Djarvur
• ryancurrah
• tetafro
• maratori
• nakabonne
• golangci-lint

Changelog

Follow the news and releases on our twitter and our blog. There is the most valuable changes log:

May 2020

1. Add new linters: nolintlint, goerr113
2. Updated linters: godot, staticcheck
3. Launch a website

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 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 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

Future Plans

1. Upstream all changes of forked linters.
2. Make it easy to write own linter/checker: it should take a minimum code, have perfect documentation, debugging and testing tooling.
3. Speed up SSA loading: on-disk cache and existing code profiling-optimizing.
4. Analyze (don't only filter) only new code: analyze only changed files and dependencies, make incremental analysis, caches.
5. Smart new issues detector: don't print existing issues on changed lines.
6. Minimize false-positives by fixing linters and improving testing tooling.
7. Automatic issues fixing (code rewrite, refactoring) where it's possible.
8. Documentation for every issue type.