v2.0.0

Breaking Changes

• Vale no longer includes write-good, proselint, or Joblint by default. These can now be installed at their own repositories, which can be found at the new styles library.
• The built-in vale style has been re-named to Vale and now only includes two rules.

New Features

• Vale now supports XML, including special support for DITA.

• Vale now supports an extended selection of scopes, allowing for more detailed style creation.

• Vale now includes a --config parameter that allows you to specify the location of a configuration file, effectively bypassing the 6-level search restriction.

• Vale now offers a --debug flag that instructs it to print debugging information to stdout.

• occurrence now optionally accepts a min key, allowing it to enforce a minimum number of times a particular token must appear in a given scope.

• Vale now includes support for Sphinx's superset of reStructuredText. In order to make use of this feature, you need to define SphinxBuildPath (and, optionally, SphinxAutoBuild) in your config file:

  MinAlertLevel = suggestion
  
  # `SphinxBuildPath` is the path to your `_build` directory 
  # (relative to the `.vale.ini` file).
  SphinxBuildPath = _build
  
  # `SphinxAutoBuild` is the command that builds your site 
  # (`make html` is the default for Sphinx).
  # 
  # If this is defined, Vale will re-build your site prior to linting 
  # any content -- which makes it possible to use Sphinx and 
  # Vale in lint-on-the-fly environments (e.g., text editors) at 
  # the cost of performance.
  SphinxAutoBuild = make html
  
  [*.rst]
  BasedOnStyles = Vale

  See #147 for more information.

Bug Fixes

• Vale now respects ICONV definitions in affix files (#148).
• Vale now uses yuin/goldmark to process Markdown, fixing some minor CommonMark-related inconsistencies.