Release v5.5.0 · palantir/tslint

Editor's note: This release features an important bugfix for overlapping fixes when using --project and --fix (#2864).

🎉 New rules and options

[bugfix] encoding closes files correctly (#2958)
[bugfix] whitespace fix whitespace "check-module" to properly lint and fix errors (#2401) (#2825)
[bugfix]: whitespace: now correctly handles dynamic imports introduced in typescript@2.4.0 (#2924)
[bugfix] switch-final-break: don't fail if break jumps to a label outside of the switch (#2914)
[bugfix] no-shadowed-variable: exempt this parameter (#2598)
[bugfix] prefer-for-of correctly handles variable scopes and other unrelated identifiers (#2984)
[bugfix] Don't leave blank lines when no-unused-variable autofix removes whole import (#2901)
[cli] restore -v option (#2926)
[enhancement] Print stack trace of exceptions (#2890)
[enhancement] Added allow-empty-catch option to no-empty (#2886)
[enhancement] prefer-const: handle destructuring in for-of loop initializer as if {"destructuring": "all"} was specified (#2904)
[enhancement] no-shadowed-variable: added checks for other shadowing declarations, e.g. interfaces, classes, type parameters, imports, etc. (#2598)
[rule-change] no-shadowed-variable no longer fails for declarations in the same scope, e.g. var foo; var foo;. Use the rule no-duplicate-variable to find such errors. (#2598)

Thanks to our contributors!