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New refactoring message consider-using-with. This message is emitted if resource-allocating functions or methods of the
standard library (like open() or threading.Lock.acquire()) that can be used as a context manager are called without
a with block.

Closes #3413

Resolve false positives on unused variables in decorator functions

Closes #4252

Add new extension ConfusingConsecutiveElifChecker. This optional checker emits a refactoring message (R5601 confusing-consecutive-elif)
if if/elif statements with different indentation levels follow directly one after the other.

New option --output=<file> to output result to a file rather than printing to stdout.

Closes #1070

Use a prescriptive message for unidiomatic-typecheck

Closes #3891

Apply const-naming-style to module constants annotated with
typing.Final

The packaging is now done via setuptools exclusively. doc, tests, man, elisp and Changelog are
not packaged anymore - reducing the size of the package by 75%.

Debian packaging is now (officially) done in https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/pylint.

The 'doc' extra-require has been removed.

__pkginfo__ now only contain __version__ (also accessible with pylint.__version__), other meta-information are still
accessible with import importlib;metadata.metadata('pylint').

COPYING has been renamed to LICENSE for standardization.

Fix false-positive used-before-assignment in function returns.

Closes #4301

Updated astroid to 2.5.3

Closes #2822, #4206, #4284

Add consider-using-min-max-builtin check for if statement which could be replaced by Python builtin min or max

Closes #3406

Don't auto-enable postponed evaluation of type annotations with Python 3.10

Update astroid to 2.5.4

Add new extension TypingChecker. This optional checker can detect the use of deprecated typing aliases
and can suggest the use of the alternative union syntax where possible.
(For example, 'typing.Dict' can be replaced by 'dict', and 'typing.Unions' by '|', etc.)
Make sure to check the config options if you plan on using it!

Reactivates old counts in report mode.

Closes #3819

During detection of inconsistent-return-statements consider that assert False is a return node.

Closes #4019

Run will not fail if score exactly equals config.fail_under.

Functions that never returns may declare NoReturn as type hints, so that
inconsistent-return-statements is not emitted.

Closes #4122, #4188

Improved protected access checks to allow access inside class methods

Closes #1159

Fix issue with PEP 585 syntax and the use of collections.abc.Set

Fix issue that caused class variables annotated with typing.ClassVar to be
identified as class constants. Now, class variables annotated with
typing.Final are identified as such.

Closes #4277

Continuous integration with read the doc has been added.

Closes #3850

Don't show DuplicateBasesError for attribute access

Fix crash when checking setup.cfg for pylint config when there are non-ascii characters in there

Closes #4328

Allow code flanked in backticks to be skipped by spellchecker

Closes #4319

Allow Python tool directives (for black, flake8, zimports, isort, mypy, bandit, pycharm) at beginning of comments to be skipped by spellchecker

Closes #4320

Fix issue that caused emacs pylint to fail when used with tramp

Improve check for invalid PEP 585 syntax inside functions
if postponed evaluation of type annotations is enabled

Improve check for invalid PEP 585 syntax as default function arguments