commitlint checks if your commit messages meet the conventional commit format. commitlint helps your team adhere to a commit convention. By supporting npm-installed configurations it makes sharing of commit conventions easy. We're not a sponsored OSS project. Therefore we can't promise that we will release patch versions for older releases in a timely manner. If you are stuck on an older version and need a security patch we're happy if you can provide a PR. If something in between fails...