v2.12.8

• Fixed a crash in the dataclass brain for InitVars without subscript typing.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#7422

• Fixed parsing of default values in dataclass attributes.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#7425

v2.12.7

• Fixed a crash in the dataclass brain for uninferable bases.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#7418

v2.12.6

• Fix a crash involving Uninferable arguments to namedtuple().

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#7375

• The dataclass brain now understands the kw_only keyword in dataclass decorators.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#7290

v2.12.5

• Prevent first-party imports from being resolved to site-packages.

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#7365

• Fix astroid.interpreter._import.util.is_namespace() incorrectly
  returning True for frozen stdlib modules on PyPy.

  Closes #1755

v2.12.4

• Fixed a crash involving non-standard type comments such as # type: # any comment.

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#7347

v2.12.3

• Fixed crash in ExplicitNamespacePackageFinder involving _SixMetaPathImporter.

  Closes #1708

• Fix unhandled FutureWarning from pandas import in cython modules

  Closes #1717

• Fix false positive with inference of type-annotated Enum classes.

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#7265

• Fix crash with inference of type-annotated Enum classes where the member has no value.

• Fix a crash inferring invalid old-style string formatting with %.

  Closes #1737

• Fix false positive with inference of http module when iterating HTTPStatus.

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#7307

• Bumped minimum requirement of wrapt to 1.14 on Python 3.11.

• Don't add dataclass fields annotated with KW_ONLY to the list of fields.

  Refs pylint-dev/pylint#5767

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