ALE v3.1.0

New Features

• :ALERename now just saves other buffers you have open and automatically reloads them when you next open them up again. #3332
• You can now apply code actions with the ALECodeAction command, such as quick fixes. #1466
• You can apply refactors and renames with the right click context menu. #1466 #3482
• You can now configure balloons to only appear for LSP/tsserver hover information. #2727
• Hover messages and detailed error messages can now be displayed in NeoVim floating windows. See :h g:ale_floating_preview. #3470 #3314
• ALE socket LSP connections now support named pipes in NeoVim. #3509
• Hints and suggestions can now be displayed for tsserver with the g:ale_lsp_suggestions setting #3362
• ALE now permits duplicate completion results when auto-imports are enabled. #3473
• ALE's Makefile detection will now also look for GNUmakefile. #3575
• ALE's automatic completion now only uses noselect for completeopt if Vim is configured that way already. #3433
• When selections are repeated with :ALERepeatSelection, ALE now jumps to the last selection made, so resuming a search is easier.

New Linters

• Ada - ada_language_server #2825
• APKBUILD - apkbuild-lint #3424, secfixes-check #3424
• Dart - analysis_server #3069
• Erlang - Elvis #3292
• Inko - inko #3494
• JSON - jq #3568, spectral` #3489
• Nix - rnix-lsp #3556
• OpenApi - ibm_validator #2711 #2782, yamllint #2711 #2782
• PHP - intelephense #3357, tlint #3291
• R - languageserver #3370
• Salt - salt-lint #3491
• TypeScript - deno #3533
• Vala - vala-lint #3519
• YAML - spectral #3489

New Fixers

• fish - fish_indent #2148 #3576
• Dhall - dhall format #3261, dhall freeze #3261, dhall lint #3261
• Haskell - ormolu #2903
• Lua - luafmt #3289
• OpenApi - prettier #2782
• Python - autoimport #3409
• TypeScript - deno #3533
• YAML - circleci, yamlfix #3461

Linter Enhancements

• The bibclean linter now parses more errors #3367
• Maven wrappers can now be run more easily #2934 #3374
• The sh linter now looks at Vim's buffer-local variables to determine the shell type #3427
• eslint and tsserver will now automatically be run from .yarn/sdks #3435
• The phpcs linter now parses more errors #3282
• The shellcheck linter now respects shellcheck directives #3216
• The sorbet linter now defaults to disabling watchman, which requires watchman to be separately installed #3403
• The elrc linter executable can now be customised #3531
• The Python project root detection now also looks for poetry.lock and pyproject.toml #3398
• A custom configuration file can now be used for Credo #3455
• -imacros flags are now included for linting with C compilers #3430
• The dafny linter now has a time limit setting and parses more errors #3475
• xo options can now be customised #3148
• The swipl linter for Prolog parses error messages from newer versions swipl
• Jar files for running eclipselsp are included more reliably #3559
• The nix linter works with newer versions of Nix #3227
• The dialyzer linter's options can now be configured #3425
• The cloudformation linter can now also be enabled with the alias cfn-lint, which matches the executable name. #2547
• The severity of problems can now be shown for newer versions of hadolint #3472
• Initialization options can now be set for gopls #3571

Fixer Enhancements

• You can now set additional options for the phpcbf fixer. #3383
• gofmt now runs via stdin, which helps with running it via Docker. #3381
• The isort fixer now works with pipenv #3386
• scalafmt is now suggested for sbt #3399
• The xo fixer now fixes files via stdin #3148
• xo options can now be customised #3148
• The standardrb fixers now use stdin #3521

Bugs Fixed

• Fixer performance is much improved in modern version so Vim and NeoVim. #3358
• Rename operations or other code actions should no longer trigger an indexing error now and again. #2801 #3344
• Additional spaces and line breaks for completion items are now collapsed into single spaces. #3354
• The Java checkstyle linter now checks errors properly in NeoVim on Windows. #3467
• The dafny linter now returns results for the correct filenames. #3390 #3557
• The phan linter now returns results for the correct filenames. #3529
• rust-analyzer now sends options in the initial configuration so the server recognises them #3453
• clang-tidy respect compile_commands.json better for header files #3551
• The Java tools fixer now longer throws errors when no Maven executable can be found #3547
• ALE wasn't parsing Makefile output unless there were already some compiler flags #3574
• An index error in the javac linter has been fixed. #3706