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v8.55.0

8.55.0 (2026-02-09)

🚀 Features

• utils: deprecate defaultOptions in favor of meta.defaultOptions (#11992)

🩹 Fixes

• eslint-plugin: [no-unused-vars] remove trailing newline when removing entire import (#11990)
• eslint-plugin: [no-useless-default-assignment] require strictNullChecks (#11966, #12000)
• eslint-plugin: [no-useless-default-assignment] report unnecessary defaults in ternary expressions (#11984)
• eslint-plugin: [no-useless-default-assignment] reduce param index to ts this handling (#11949)
• typescript-estree: forbid invalid modifier in object expression (#11931)

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• fisker Cheung @​fisker
• Josh Goldberg
• Maria Solano @​MariaSolOs
• Minyeong Kim @​minyeong981
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• Yukihiro Hasegawa @​y-hsgw

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Sourced from @​typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin's changelog.

8.55.0 (2026-02-09)

🚀 Features

• utils: deprecate defaultOptions in favor of meta.defaultOptions (#11992)

🩹 Fixes

• eslint-plugin: [no-useless-default-assignment] reduce param index to ts this handling (#11949)
• eslint-plugin: [no-useless-default-assignment] report unnecessary defaults in ternary expressions (#11984)
• eslint-plugin: [no-useless-default-assignment] require strictNullChecks (#11966, #12000)
• eslint-plugin: [no-unused-vars] remove trailing newline when removing entire import (#11990)

❤️ Thank You

• Christian Rose @​chrros95
• Josh Goldberg
• Maria Solano @​MariaSolOs
• Minyeong Kim @​minyeong981
• SungHyun627 @​SungHyun627
• Yukihiro Hasegawa @​y-hsgw

See GitHub Releases for more information.

You can read about our versioning strategy and releases on our website.

• fedfe86 chore(release): publish 8.55.0
• 8a95834 fix(eslint-plugin): [no-useless-default-assignment] reduce param index to ts ...
• 4ba1e72 fix(eslint-plugin): [no-useless-default-assignment] report unnecessary defaul...
• a1f8617 feat(utils): deprecate defaultOptions in favor of meta.defaultOptions (#11992)
• 3f0ce54 fix(eslint-plugin): [no-useless-default-assignment] require strictNullChecks ...
• 3df0002 fix(eslint-plugin): [no-unused-vars] remove trailing newline when removing en...
• b931f8c chore: use workspace refs for workspace deps (#12018)
• 1f17a79 chore: migrate to pnpm (#11248)
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