2.17 is a small release that is the first to support python 3.11 officially
with the addition of TryStar nodes.

There's still two new default checks: bad-chained-comparison and
implicit-flag-alias, one of them already fixed a previously undetected
bug in sentry.

Thanks to the community effort our documentation is almost complete,
and almost all messages should have a proper documentation now.
A big thank you to everyone who participated !

The next release is going to be 3.0.0, bring breaking changes and
enact long announced deprecations. There's going to be frequent beta
releases, before the official releases, everyone is welcome to try the betas
so we find problems before the actual release.

What's new in Pylint 2.17.0?

Release date: 2023-03-08

New Features

• pyreverse now supports custom color palettes with the --color-palette
  option.

  Closes #6738

• Add invalid-name check for TypeAlias names.

  Closes #7081

• Accept values of the form <class name>.<attribute name> for the
  exclude-protected list.

  Closes #7343

• Add --version option to pyreverse.

  Refs #7851

• Adds new functionality with preferred-modules configuration to detect
  submodules.

  Refs #7957

• Support implicit namespace packages (PEP 420).

  Closes #8154

• Add globbing pattern support for --source-roots.

  Closes #8290

• Support globbing pattern when defining which file/directory/module to lint.

  Closes #8310

• pylint now supports TryStar nodes from Python 3.11 and should be fully
  compatible with Python 3.11.

  Closes #8387

New Checks

• Add a bad-chained-comparison check that emits a warning when
  there is a chained comparison where one expression is semantically
  incompatible with the other.

  Closes #6559

• Adds an implicit-flag-alias check that emits a warning when a class
  derived from enum.IntFlag assigns distinct integer values that share
  common bit positions.

  Refs #8102

False Positives Fixed

• Fix various false positives for functions that return directly from
  structural pattern matching cases.

  Closes #5288

• Fix false positive for used-before-assignment when
  typing.TYPE_CHECKING is used with if/elif/else blocks.

  Closes #7574

• Fix false positive for isinstance-second-argument-not-valid-type with union
  types.

  Closes #8205

• Fix false positive for used-before-assignment for named expressions
  appearing after the first element in a list, tuple, or set.

  Closes #8252

• Fix false positive for wrong-spelling-in-comment with class names in a
  python 2 type comment.

  Closes #8370

False Negatives Fixed

• Fix a false negative for 'missing-parentheses-for-call-in-test' when
  inference
  failed for the internal of the call as we did not need that information to
  raise
  correctly.

  Refs #8185

• Fix false negative for inconsistent-returns with while-loops.

  Closes #8280

Other Bug Fixes

• Fix used-before-assignment false positive when the walrus operator
  is used with a ternary operator in dictionary key/value initialization.

  Closes #8125

• Fix no-name-in-module false positive raised when a package defines a
  variable with the
  same name as one of its submodules.

  Closes #8148

• Fix a crash happening for python interpreter < 3.9 following a failed typing
  update.

  Closes #8161

• Fix nested-min-max suggestion message to indicate it's possible to splat
  iterable objects.

  Closes #8168

• Fix a crash happening when a class attribute was negated in the start
  argument of an enumerate.

  Closes #8207

• Prevent emitting invalid-name for the line on which a global
  statement is declared.

  Closes #8307

Other Changes

• Update explanation for global-variable-not-assigned and add confidence.

  Closes #5073

• The governance model and the path to become a maintainer have been documented
  as part of our effort to guarantee that the software supply chain in which pylint is included is secure.

  Refs #8329

False Positives Fixed

• Fix false positive for isinstance-second-argument-not-valid-type with union
  types.

  Closes #8205

False Positives Fixed

• Fix false positive for wrong-spelling-in-comment with class names in a
  python 2 type comment.

  Closes #8370

Other Bug Fixes

• Prevent emitting invalid-name for the line on which a global
  statement is declared.

  Closes #8307

New Features

• Add --version option to pyreverse.

  Refs #7851

False Positives Fixed

• Fix false positive for used-before-assignment when
  typing.TYPE_CHECKING is used with if/elif/else blocks.

  Closes #7574

• Fix false positive for used-before-assignment for named expressions
  appearing after the first element in a list, tuple, or set.

  Closes #8252

Other Bug Fixes

• Fix used-before-assignment false positive when the walrus operator
  is used with a ternary operator in dictionary key/value initialization.

  Closes #8125

• Fix no-name-in-module false positive raised when a package defines a
  variable with the same name as one of its submodules.

  Closes #8148

• Fix nested-min-max suggestion message to indicate it's possible to splat
  iterable objects.

  Closes #8168

• Fix a crash happening when a class attribute was negated in the start
  argument of an enumerate.

  Closes #8207

Other Bug Fixes

• Fix a crash happening for python interpreter < 3.9 following a failed typing
  update.

  Closes #8161

Summary -- Release highlights

In 2.16.0 we added aggregation and composition understanding in pyreverse, and a way to clear
the cache in between run in server mode (originally for the VS Code integration). Apart from the bug
fixes there's also a lot of new checks, and new extensions that have been asked for for a long time
that were implemented.

If you want to benefit from all the new checks load the following plugins::

pylint.extensions.dict_init_mutate,
pylint.extensions.dunder,
pylint.extensions.typing,
pylint.extensions.magic_value,

We still welcome any community effort to help review, integrate, and add good/bad examples to the doc for
#5953. This should be doable without any pylint or astroid
knowledge, so this is the perfect entrypoint if you want to contribute to pylint or open source without
any experience with our code!

Last but not least @clavedeluna and @nickdrozd became triagers, welcome to the team !

What's new in Pylint 2.16.0?

Changes requiring user actions

• The accept-no-raise-doc option related to missing-raises-doc will now
  be correctly taken into account all the time.

  Pylint will no longer raise missing-raises-doc (W9006) when no exceptions are
  documented and accept-no-raise-doc is true (issue #7208).
  If you were expecting missing-raises-doc errors to be raised in that case,
  you
  will now have to add accept-no-raise-doc=no in your configuration to keep
  the same behavior.
  Closes #7208

New Features

• Added the no-header output format. If enabled with
  --output-format=no-header, it will not include the module name in the
  output.
  Closes #5362

• Added configuration option clear-cache-post-run to support server-like
  usage.
  Use this flag if you expect the linted files to be altered between runs.
  Refs #5401

• Add --allow-reexport-from-package option to configure the
  useless-import-alias check not to emit a warning if a name
  is reexported from a package.
  Closes #6006

• Update pyreverse to differentiate between aggregations and compositions.
  pyreverse checks if it's an Instance or a Call of an object via method
  parameters (via type hints)
  to decide if it's a composition or an aggregation.
  Refs #6543

New Checks

• Adds a pointless-exception-statement check that emits a warning when an
  Exception is created and not assigned, raised or returned.
  Refs #3110

• Add a shadowed-import message for aliased imports.
  Closes #4836

• Add new check called unbalanced-dict-unpacking to check for unbalanced
  dict unpacking
  in assignment and for loops.
  Closes #5797

• Add new checker positional-only-arguments-expected to check for cases
  when
  positional-only arguments have been passed as keyword arguments.
  Closes #6489

• Added singledispatch-method which informs that @singledispatch should
  decorate functions and not class/instance methods.
  Added singledispatchmethod-function which informs that
  @singledispatchmethod should decorate class/instance methods and not
  functions.
  Closes #6917

• Rename broad-except to broad-exception-caught and add new checker
  broad-exception-raised
  which will warn if general exceptions BaseException or Exception are
  raised.
  Closes #7494

• Added nested-min-max which flags min(1, min(2, 3)) to simplify to
  min(1, 2, 3).
  Closes #7546

• Extended use-dict-literal to also warn about call to dict() when
  passing keyword arguments.
  Closes #7690

• Add named-expr-without-context check to emit a warning if a named
  expression is used outside a context like if, for, while, or
  a comprehension.
  Refs #7760

• Add invalid-slice-step check to warn about a slice step value of 0
  for common builtin sequences.
  Refs #7762

• Add consider-refactoring-into-while-condition check to recommend
  refactoring when
  a while loop is defined with a constant condition with an immediate if
  statement to check for break condition as a first statement.
  Closes #8015

Extensions

• Add new extension checker dict-init-mutate that flags mutating a
  dictionary immediately
  after the dictionary was created.
  Closes #2876

• Added bad-dunder-name extension check, which flags bad or misspelled
  dunder methods.
  You can use the good-dunder-names option to allow specific dunder names.
  Closes #3038

• Added consider-using-augmented-assign check for CodeStyle extension
  which flags x = x + 1 to simplify to x += 1.
  This check is disabled by default. To use it, load the code style extension
  with load-plugins=pylint.extensions.code_style and add
  consider-using-augmented-assign in the enable option.
  Closes #3391

• Add magic-number plugin checker for comparison with constants instead of
  named constants or enums.
  You can use it with --load-plugins=pylint.extensions.magic_value.
  Closes #7281

• Add redundant-typehint-argument message for typing plugin for duplicate
  assign typehints.
  Enable the plugin to enable the message with:
  --load-plugins=pylint.extensions.typing.
  Closes #7636

False Positives Fixed

• Fix false positive for unused-variable and unused-import when a name
  is only used in a string literal type annotation.
  Closes #3299

• Document a known false positive for useless-suppression when disabling
  line-too-long in a module with only comments and no code.
  Closes #3368

• trailing-whitespaces is no longer reported within strings.
  Closes #3822

• Fix false positive for global-variable-not-assigned when a global
  variable is re-assigned via an ImportFrom node.
  Closes #4809

• Fix false positive for use-maxsplit-arg with custom split method.
  Closes #4857

• Fix logging-fstring-interpolation false positive raised when logging and
  f-string with %s formatting.
  Closes #4984

• Fix false-positive for used-before-assignment in pattern matching
  with a guard.
  Closes #5327

• Fix use-sequence-for-iteration when unpacking a set with *.
  Closes #5788

• Fix deprecated-method false positive when alias for method is similar to
  name of deprecated method.
  Closes #5886

• Fix false positive assigning-non-slot when a class attribute is
  re-assigned.
  Closes #6001

• Fix false positive for too-many-function-args when a function call is
  assigned to a class attribute inside the class where the function is defined.
  Closes #6592

• Fixes false positive abstract-method on Protocol classes.
  Closes #7209

• Pylint now understands the kw_only keyword argument for dataclass.
  Closes #7290, closes #6550, closes #5857

• Fix false positive for undefined-loop-variable in for-else loops that
  use a function
  having a return type annotation of NoReturn or Never.
  Closes #7311

• Fix used-before-assignment for functions/classes defined in type checking
  guard.
  Closes #7368

• Fix false positive for unhashable-member when subclassing dict and
  using the subclass as a dictionary key.
  Closes #7501

• Fix the message for unnecessary-dunder-call for __aiter__ and
  __aneext__. Also
  only emit the warning when py-version >= 3.10.
  Closes #7529

• Fix used-before-assignment false positive when else branch calls
  sys.exit or similar terminating functions.
  Closes #7563

• Fix a false positive for used-before-assignment for imports guarded by
  typing.TYPE_CHECKING later used in variable annotations.
  Closes #7609

• Fix a false positive for simplify-boolean-expression when multiple values
  are inferred for a constant.
  Closes #7626

• unnecessary-list-index-lookup will not be wrongly emitted if
  enumerate is called with start.
  Closes #7682

• Don't warn about stop-iteration-return when using next() over
  itertools.cycle.
  Closes #7765

• Fixes used-before-assignment false positive when the walrus operator
  is used in a ternary operator.
  Closes #7779

• Fix missing-param-doc false positive when function parameter has an
  escaped underscore.
  Closes #7827

• Fixes method-cache-max-size-none false positive for methods inheriting
  from Enum.
  Closes #7857

• multiple-statements no longer triggers for function stubs using inlined
  ....
  Closes #7860

• Fix a false positive for used-before-assignment when a name guarded by
  if TYPE_CHECKING: is used as a type annotation in a function body and
  later re-imported in the same scope.
  Closes #7882

• Prevent used-before-assignment when imports guarded by if TYPE_CHECKING
  are guarded again when used.
  Closes #7979

• Fixes false positive for try-except-raise with multiple exceptions in one
  except statement if exception are in different namespace.
  Closes #8051

• Fix invalid-name errors for typing_extension.TypeVar.
  Refs #8089

• Fix no-kwoa false positive for context managers.
  Closes #8100

• Fix a false positive for redefined-variable-type when async methods
  are present.
  Closes #8120

False Negatives Fixed

• Code following a call to quit, exit, sys.exit or os._exit
  will be marked as unreachable.
  Refs #519

• Emit used-before-assignment when function arguments are redefined inside
  an inner function and accessed there before assignment.
  Closes #2374

...

New beta release following a performance fix in the new pointless exception statement checks in #8073 and a false positive fixed in the unreleased consider-using-augmented-assign check in #8088. We're also using the latest version of astroid (2.13.3).

The complete changelog will be published when the actual 2.16.0 is released.

This is the beta version of 2.16.0 the complete changelog will be published when the actual 2.16.0 is released.

In 2.16.0 we added aggregation and composition understanding in pyreverse, and a way to clear the cache in between run in server mode (originally for the VS Code integration). Apart from the bug fixes there's also a lot of new checks, and new extensions that have been asked for for a long time that were implemented.

If you want to benefit from all the new checks load the following plugins:

pylint.extensions.dict_init_mutate,
pylint.extensions.dunder,
pylint.extensions.typing,
pylint.extensions.magic_value,

We still welcome any community effort to help review, integrate, and add good/bad examples to the doc for #5953. This should be doable without any pylint or astroid knowledge, so this is the perfect entrypoint if you want to contribute to pylint or open source without any experience with our code!

Last but not least @clavedeluna and @nickdrozd became triagers, welcome to the team !

False Positives Fixed

• Fix use-sequence-for-iteration when unpacking a set with *.

  Closes #5788

• Fix false positive assigning-non-slot when a class attribute is
  re-assigned.

  Closes #6001

• Fixes used-before-assignment false positive when the walrus operator
  is used in a ternary operator.

  Closes #7779

• Prevent used-before-assignment when imports guarded by if TYPE_CHECKING
  are guarded again when used.

  Closes #7979

Other Bug Fixes

• Using custom braces in msg-template will now work properly.

  Closes #5636

False Positives Fixed

• Fix false-positive for used-before-assignment in pattern matching with a guard.

  Closes #5327

Other Bug Fixes

• Pylint will no longer deadlock if a parallel job is killed but fail immediately instead.

  Closes #3899

• When pylint exit due to bad arguments being provided the exit code will now be the expected 32.

  Refs #7931

• Fixes a ModuleNotFound exception when running pylint on a Django project with the pylint_django plugin enabled.

  Closes #7938