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coala v0.6.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2016-04-28 // almost 8 years ago 
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    🚀 This release is shaped a lot by working on high quality bear writing tools. Our
    ✅ codebase has matured further (improved tests, various internal improvements)
    and key features for writing and organizing bears were introduced.

    Over the last 1.5 months, 22 unique contributors have helped us at the coala
    core project.

    🚀 This time, the release logo is carefully hand crafted by Max Scholz!

    🆕 New features:

    • Smart globbing: use backslashes without an extra escape now if they don't
      escape delimiters.
    • Results now can have additional information appended.
    • 👍 Bears expose information on which languages they support. You can query for
      bears e.g. with coala --show-language-bears C++ for C++.

    🛠 Bugfixes:

    • 👕 Linters suppress the output correctly now when checking for linter
      availibility. (#1888)
    • The result filter algorithms can handle file additions and deletions now.
      (#1866)
    • Ignore statements without a stop statement are now accepted as well
      (#2003).

    For bear writers:

    • 📚 A tutorial for managing bear dependencies is available in our documentation
      now.
    • The Result object has a field additional_info which can be used to give
      an elaborate description of the problem.
    • A typechain() function is now available for easy conditional type
      conversion. (#1859)
    • Bears have a name() shortcut now which provides the bear class name.
    • A get_config_directory() function is available that returns the root
      directory of the project guessed by coala or provided (overridden) by the
      👉 user.
    • 👕 A new linter decorator makes it even easier to write new linter
      wrappers. (#1928)

    Notable internal/API changes:

    • 📇 FunctionMetadata has a new merge function that can be used to merge
      📚 function signatures and documentation comments.