diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 004d307e..aa5d842f 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ compile their code or execute their script to find them.
 
 At the time of this writing, syntastic has checking plugins for ActionScript,
 Ada, Ansible configurations, API Blueprint, AppleScript, AsciiDoc, ASM,
-BEMHTML, Bro, Bourne shell, C, C++, C#, Cabal, Chef, CoffeeScript, Coco,
-Coq, CSS, Cucumber, CUDA, D, Dart, DocBook, Dust, Elixir, Erlang, eRuby,
-Fortran, Gentoo metadata, GLSL, Go, Haml, Haskell, Haxe, Handlebars, HSS,
-HTML, Jade, Java, JavaScript, JSON, JSX, LESS, Lex, Limbo, LISP, LLVM
+BEMHTML, Bro, Bourne shell, C, C++, C#, Cabal, Chef, CoffeeScript, Coco, Coq,
+CSS, Cucumber, CUDA, D, Dart, DocBook, Dockerfile, Dust, Elixir, Erlang,
+eRuby, Fortran, Gentoo metadata, GLSL, Go, Haml, Haskell, Haxe, Handlebars,
+HSS, HTML, Jade, Java, JavaScript, JSON, JSX, LESS, Lex, Limbo, LISP, LLVM
 intermediate language, Lua, Markdown, MATLAB, Mercury, NASM, Nix, Objective-C,
 Objective-C++, OCaml, Perl, Perl POD, PHP, gettext Portable Object, OS X and
 iOS property lists, Puppet, Python, QML, R, Racket, Relax NG, reStructuredText,
diff --git a/autoload/syntastic/preprocess.vim b/autoload/syntastic/preprocess.vim
index 7ce90a86..a7ec48a9 100644
--- a/autoload/syntastic/preprocess.vim
+++ b/autoload/syntastic/preprocess.vim
@@ -62,26 +62,38 @@ endfunction " }}}2
 function! syntastic#preprocess#dockerfile_lint(errors) abort " {{{2
     let out = []
     let json = s:_decode_JSON(join(a:errors, ''))
-    let data = json['error']['data'] + json['warn']['data'] + json['info']['data']
 
     if type(json) == type({})
-        for e in data
-          let type = toupper(e['level'][0])
-          let type = (type ==# 'I') ? 'W' : type
-          let line = has_key(e, 'line') ? e['line'] : 1
-          let message = e['message']
-          if has_key(e, 'description') && e['description'] !=# 'None'
-            let message = message . '. ' . e['description']
-          endif
+        try
+            let data = json['error']['data'] + json['warn']['data'] + json['info']['data']
+            for e in data
+                let type = toupper(e['level'][0])
+                if type ==# 'I'
+                    let type = 'W'
+                    let style = 1
+                else
+                    let style = 0
+                endif
 
-          let msg =
-              \ type . ':' .
-              \ line . ':' .
-              \ message
-          call add(out, msg)
-        endfor
+                let line = get(e, 'line', 1)
+                let message = e['message']
+                if has_key(e, 'description') && e['description'] !=# 'None'
+                    let message = message . '. ' . e['description']
+                endif
+
+                let msg =
+                    \ type . ':' .
+                    \ style . ':' .
+                    \ line . ':' .
+                    \ message
+                call add(out, msg)
+            endfor
+        catch /\m^Vim\%((\a\+)\)\=:E716/
+            call syntastic#log#warn('checker dockerfile/dockerfile_lint: unrecognized error format')
+            let out = []
+        endtry
     else
-        call syntastic#log#warn('checker dockerfile/dockerfile-lint: unrecognized error format')
+        call syntastic#log#warn('checker dockerfile/dockerfile_lint: unrecognized error format')
     endif
     return out
 endfunction " }}}2
diff --git a/plugin/syntastic.vim b/plugin/syntastic.vim
index 4529af52..77fb7c31 100644
--- a/plugin/syntastic.vim
+++ b/plugin/syntastic.vim
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ if has('reltime')
     lockvar! g:_SYNTASTIC_START
 endif
 
-let g:_SYNTASTIC_VERSION = '3.7.0-37'
+let g:_SYNTASTIC_VERSION = '3.7.0-39'
 lockvar g:_SYNTASTIC_VERSION
 
 " Sanity checks {{{1
diff --git a/plugin/syntastic/registry.vim b/plugin/syntastic/registry.vim
index 64816709..069ae97e 100644
--- a/plugin/syntastic/registry.vim
+++ b/plugin/syntastic/registry.vim
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ let s:_DEFAULT_CHECKERS = {
         \ 'd':             ['dmd'],
         \ 'dart':          ['dartanalyzer'],
         \ 'docbk':         ['xmllint'],
+        \ 'dockerfile':    ['dockerfile_lint'],
         \ 'dustjs':        ['swiffer'],
         \ 'elixir':        [],
         \ 'erlang':        ['escript'],
diff --git a/syntax_checkers/dockerfile/dockerfile-lint.vim b/syntax_checkers/dockerfile/dockerfile_lint.vim
similarity index 74%
rename from syntax_checkers/dockerfile/dockerfile-lint.vim
rename to syntax_checkers/dockerfile/dockerfile_lint.vim
index ac92ba85..3a5b7694 100644
--- a/syntax_checkers/dockerfile/dockerfile-lint.vim
+++ b/syntax_checkers/dockerfile/dockerfile_lint.vim
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 "============================================================================
 "File:        dockerfile_lint.vim
-"Description: Syntax checking plugin for syntastic.vim using `dockerfile-lint`
+"Description: Syntax checking plugin for syntastic.vim using dockerfile-lint
 "             (https://github.com/projectatomic/dockerfile-lint).
 "Maintainer:  Tim Carry <tim at pixelastic dot com>
 "License:     This program is free software. It comes without any warranty,
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 "             See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.
 "
 "============================================================================
-"
+
 if exists('g:loaded_syntastic_dockerfile_dockerfile_lint_checker')
     finish
 endif
@@ -21,15 +21,26 @@ set cpo&vim
 
 function! SyntaxCheckers_dockerfile_dockerfile_lint_GetLocList() dict
     let makeprg = self.makeprgBuild({
-      \ 'args': '--json -f' })
+        \ 'args_after': '-j',
+        \ 'fname_before': '-f' })
 
-    let errorformat = '%t:%l:%m'
+    let errorformat = '%t:%n:%l:%m'
 
-    return SyntasticMake({
+    let loclist = SyntasticMake({
         \ 'makeprg': makeprg,
         \ 'errorformat': errorformat,
+        \ 'preprocess': 'dockerfile_lint',
         \ 'defaults': {'bufnr': bufnr('')},
-        \ 'preprocess': 'dockerfile_lint' })
+        \ 'returns': [0, 1] })
+
+    for e in loclist
+        if e['nr']
+            let e['subtype'] = 'Style'
+        endif
+        call remove(e, 'nr')
+    endfor
+
+    return loclist
 endfunction
 
 call g:SyntasticRegistry.CreateAndRegisterChecker({