Release with Acorn 8.x

[robpalme]

Hello friends,

Espree now uses Acorn 8.x on main, which is excellent, but I don't think it has shipped yet in an Espree release (latest is v7.3.1)

This upgrade is particularly useful because Acorn 8.2.0 brings support for new JS syntax (class fields) to ESLint. Will there be a new release of Espree soon? Correspondingly, if you are looking for any help to unblock this release, please say. Otherwise feel free to close this if pings like this are not desired.

[nzakas]

The next release is pending resolution of this issue: #472

[robpalme]

Thank you for the guidance @nzakas - I have opened a PR to fix Acorn.

[aladdin-add]

I don't think #472 is blocking the release of espree v8.0.

it is a minor bug, and bugfixes can be landed in later patch/minor releases.