v2.8.1-rc1

This is the real 2.8.1 following a mistake when creating the tag for it, see #1199 (comment)

v2.8.1

• Adds support of type hints inside numpy's brains.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4326

• Enable inference of dataclass import from pydantic.dataclasses.
  This allows the dataclasses brain to recognize pydantic dataclasses.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4899

• Fix regression on ClassDef inference

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#5030
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#5036

• Fix regression on Compare node inference

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#5048

• Extended attrs brain to support the provisional APIs

• Astroid does not trigger it's own deprecation warning anymore.

• Improve brain for typing.Callable and typing.Type.

• Fix bug with importing namespace packages with relative imports

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#5059

• The is_typing_guard and is_sys_guard functions are deprecated and will
  be removed in 3.0.0. They are complex meta-inference functions that are better
  suited for pylint. Import them from pylint.checkers.utils instead
  (requires pylint 2.12).

• Suppress the conditional between applied brains and dynamic import authorized
  modules. (Revert the "The transforms related to a module are applied only if this
  module has not been explicitly authorized to be imported" of version 2.7.3)

• Adds a brain to infer the numpy.ma.masked_where function.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3342

v2.8.0

• Add additional deprecation warnings in preparation for astroid 3.0

  • Require attributes for some node classes with __init__ call.

    • name (str) for Name, AssignName, DelName
    • attrname (str) for Attribute, AssignAttr, DelAttr
    • op (str) for AugAssign, BinOp, BoolOp, UnaryOp
    • names (list[tuple[str, str | None]]) for Import

• Support pyz imports

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3887

• Add node_ancestors method to NodeNG for obtaining the ancestors of nodes.

• It's now possible to infer the value of comparison nodes

  Closes #846

• Fixed bug in inference of dataclass field calls.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4963

v2.7.3

• The transforms related to a module are applied only if this module has not been explicitly authorized to be imported
  (i.e is not in AstroidManager.extension_package_whitelist). Solves the following issues if numpy is authorized to be imported
  through the extension-pkg-allow-list option.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3342
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4326

• Fixed bug in attribute inference from inside method calls.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#400

• Fixed bug in inference for superclass instance methods called
  from the class rather than an instance.

  Closes #1008
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4377

• Fixed bug in inference of chained attributes where a subclass
  had an attribute that was an instance of its superclass.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4220

• Adds a brain for the ctypes module.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4896

• When processing dataclass attributes, exclude the same type hints from abc.collections
  as from typing.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4895

• Apply dataclass inference to pydantic's dataclasses.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4899

v2.7.2

• BaseContainer is now public, and will replace _BaseContainer completely in astroid 3.0.

• astroid.const.BUILTINS and astroid.bases.BUILTINS are not used internally anymore
  and will be removed in astroid 3.0. Simply replace this by the string 'builtins' for better
  performances and clarity.

• Add inference for dataclass initializer method.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3201

v2.7.1

• When processing dataclass attributes, only do typing inference on collection types.
  Support for instantiating other typing types is left for the future, if desired.

  Closes #1129

• Fixed LookupMixIn missing from astroid.node_classes.

v2.7.0

• Import from astroid.node_classes and astroid.scoped_nodes has been deprecated in favor of
  astroid.nodes. Only the imports from astroid.nodes will work in astroid 3.0.0.

• Add support for arbitrary Enum subclass hierachies

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#533
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#2224
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#2626

• Add inference tips for dataclass attributes, including dataclasses.field calls.
  Also add support for InitVar.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#2600
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#2698
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3405
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3794

• Adds a brain that deals with dynamic import of IsolatedAsyncioTestCase class of the unittest module.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4060

v2.6.6

• Added support to infer return type of typing.cast()

• Fix variable lookup's handling of exclusive statements

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3711

• Fix variable lookup's handling of function parameters

  Closes #180

• Fix variable lookup's handling of except clause variables

• Fix handling of classes with duplicated bases with the same name

  Closes #1088

v2.6.5

• Fix a crash when there would be a 'TypeError object does not support
  item assignment' in the code we parse.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4439

• Fix a crash when a AttributeInferenceError was raised when
  failing to find the real name in infer_import_from.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4692

v2.6.4

• Fix a crash when a StopIteration was raised when inferring
  a faulty function in a context manager.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4723