ALE Files

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]