v2.12.2

• Fixed crash in modulo operations for divisions by zero.

  Closes #1700

• Fixed crash with recursion limits during inference.

  Closes #1646

v2.12.1

• Fix a crash when inferring old-style string formatting (%) using tuples.

• Fix a crash when None (or a value inferred as None) participates in a
  ** expression.

• Fix a crash involving properties within if blocks.

v2.12.0

• Fix signal has no connect member for PySide2 5.15.2+ and PySide6

  Closes #4040, #5378

• astroid now requires Python 3.7.2 to run.

• Avoid setting a Call as a base for classes created using six.with_metaclass().

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#5935

• Fix detection of builtins on PyPy 3.9.

• Fix re brain on Python 3.11. The flags now come from re._compile.

• Build nodes.Module for frozen modules which have location information in their
  ModuleSpec.

  Closes #1512

• The astroid.mixins module has been deprecated and marked for removal in 3.0.0.

  Closes #1633

• Capture and log messages emitted by C extensions when importing them.
  This prevents contaminating programmatic output, e.g. pylint's JSON reporter.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3518

• Calls to str.format are now correctly inferred.

  Closes #104, Closes #1611

• __new__ and __init__ have been added to the ObjectModel and are now
  inferred as BoundMethods.

• Old style string formatting (using % operators) is now correctly inferred.

  Closes #151

• Adds missing enums from ssl module.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3691

• Remove dependency on pkg_resources from setuptools.

  Closes #1103

• Allowed AstroidManager.clear_cache to reload necessary brain plugins.

• Fixed incorrect inferences after rebuilding the builtins module, e.g. by calling
  AstroidManager.clear_cache.

  Closes #1559

• On Python versions >= 3.9, astroid now understands subscripting
  builtin classes such as enumerate or staticmethod.

• Fixed inference of Enums when they are imported under an alias.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#5776

• Rename ModuleSpec -> module_type constructor parameter to match attribute
  name and improve typing. Use type instead.

• ObjectModel and ClassModel now know about their __new__ and __call__ attributes.

• Fixed pylint not-callable false positive with nested-tuple assignment in a for-loop.

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#5113

• Instances of builtins created with __new__(cls, value) are now inferred.

• Infer the return value of the .copy() method on dict, list, set,
  and frozenset.

  Closes #1403

• Fixed inference of elements of living container objects such as tuples and sets in the
  sys and ssl modules.

• Add pathlib brain to handle pathlib.PurePath.parents inference.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#5783

• Avoid inferring the results of ** operations involving values greater than 1e5
  to avoid expensive computation.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#6745

• Fix test for Python 3.11. In some instances err.__traceback__ will
  be uninferable now.

• Add brain for numpy core module einsumfunc.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#5821

• Infer the DictUnpack value for Dict.getitem calls.

  Closes #1195

• Fix a crash involving properties within try ... except blocks.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#6592

• Prevent creating Instance objects that proxy other Instances when there is
  ambiguity (or user error) in calling __new__(cls).

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#7109

v2.11.7

• Added support for usedforsecurity keyword to hashlib constructors.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#6017

• Updated the stdlib brain for subprocess.Popen to accommodate Python 3.9+.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#7092

v2.11.6

• The Qt brain now correctly treats calling .disconnect() (with no
  arguments) on a slot as valid.

• The argparse brain no longer incorrectly adds "Namespace" to the locals
  of functions that return an argparse.Namespace object.

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#6895

v2.11.5

• Fix crash while obtaining object_type() of an Unknown node.

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#6539

• Fix a bug where in attempting to handle the patching of distutils by virtualenv,
  library submodules called distutils (e.g. numpy.distutils) were included also.

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#6497

v2.11.4

• Fix col_offset attribute for nodes involving with on PyPy.

• Fixed a crash involving two starred expressions: one inside a comprehension,
  both inside a call.

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#6372

• Made FunctionDef.implicit_parameters return 1 for methods by making
  FunctionDef.is_bound return True, as it does for class methods.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#6464

• Fixed a crash when _filter_stmts encounters an EmptyNode.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#6438

v2.11.3

• Fixed an error in the Qt brain when building instance_attrs.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#6221

• Fixed a crash in the gi brain.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#6371

v2.11.2

• Avoided adding the name of a parent namedtuple to its child's locals.

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#5982

v2.11.1

• Promoted getattr() from astroid.scoped_nodes.FunctionDef to its parent
  astroid.scoped_nodes.Lambda.

• Fixed crash on direct inference via nodes.FunctionDef._infer.

  Closes #817