Bump pylint to 3.0.0a8, update changelog

Author: Pierre-Sassoulas

CONTRIBUTORS.txt

@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ Maintainers
 - Dani Alcala <[email protected]>
 - Łukasz Rogalski <[email protected]>
 - Ashley Whetter <[email protected]>
+- Nick Drozd <[email protected]>: performance improvements to astroid
 - Bryce Guinta <[email protected]>
 - Yu Shao, Pang <[email protected]>
-- Nick Drozd <[email protected]>: performance improvements to astroid
 - Dimitri Prybysh <[email protected]>
   * multiple-imports, not-iterable, not-a-mapping, various patches.
 - Roy Williams <[email protected]> (Lyft)
@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ contributors:
   * Added new useless-return checker,
   * Added new try-except-raise checker
 - Téo Bouvard <[email protected]>
+- Stavros Ntentos <[email protected]>
+- Nicolas Boulenguez <[email protected]>
 - Mihai Balint <[email protected]>
 - Mark Bell <[email protected]>
 - Levi Gruspe <[email protected]>
@@ -172,7 +174,6 @@ contributors:
 - jpkotta <[email protected]>
 - Takahide Nojima <[email protected]>
 - Taewon D. Kim <[email protected]>
-- Stavros Ntentos <[email protected]>
 - Sneaky Pete <[email protected]>
 - Sergey B Kirpichev <[email protected]>
 - Sandro Tosi <[email protected]>: Debian packaging
@@ -205,6 +206,7 @@ contributors:
 - Alexey Pelykh <[email protected]>
 - wtracy <[email protected]>
 - jessebrennan <[email protected]>
+- crazybolillo <[email protected]>
 - chohner <[email protected]>
 - Tiago Honorato <[email protected]>
 - Steven M. Vascellaro <[email protected]>
@@ -245,7 +247,6 @@ contributors:
 - xmo-odoo <[email protected]>
 - tbennett0 <[email protected]>
 - omarandlorraine <[email protected]>
-- crazybolillo <[email protected]>
 - craig-sh <[email protected]>
 - bernie gray <[email protected]>
 - Wes Turner <[email protected]> (Google): added new check 'inconsistent-quotes'
@@ -378,9 +379,11 @@ contributors:
 - Tim Gates <[email protected]>
 - Théo Battrel <[email protected]>
 - Thomas Benhamou <[email protected]>
+- Theodore Ni <[email protected]>
 - Tanvi Moharir <[email protected]>: Fix for invalid toml config
 - T.Rzepka <[email protected]>
 - Svetoslav Neykov <[email protected]>
+- SubaruArai <[email protected]>
 - Stéphane Wirtel <[email protected]>: nonlocal-without-binding
 - Stephen Longofono <[email protected]>
 - Stephane Odul <[email protected]>
@@ -429,6 +432,7 @@ contributors:
 - Niko Wenselowski <[email protected]>
 - Nikita Sobolev <[email protected]>
 - Nick Smith <[email protected]>
+- Neowizard <[email protected]>
 - Ned Batchelder <[email protected]>
 - Natalie Serebryakova <[email protected]>
 - Moody <[email protected]>
@@ -532,6 +536,7 @@ contributors:
 - Daniele Procida <[email protected]>
 - Daniela Plascencia <[email protected]>
 - Daniel Werner <[email protected]>
+- Daniel Wang <[email protected]>
 - Daniel R. Neal <[email protected]> (danrneal)
 - Daniel Draper <[email protected]>
 - Daniel Dorani <[email protected]> (doranid)
@@ -580,11 +585,13 @@ contributors:
 - Alex Mor <[email protected]>
 - Alex Jurkiewicz <[email protected]>
 - Alex Hearn <[email protected]>
+- Aleksander Mamla <[email protected]>
 - Alan Evangelista <[email protected]>
 - Alan Chan <[email protected]>
 - Aivar Annamaa <[email protected]>
 - Aidan Haase <[email protected]>
 - Ahirnish Pareek <[email protected]>: 'keyword-arg-before-var-arg' check
+- Agustin Marquez <[email protected]>
 - Adrian Chirieac <[email protected]>
 - Aditya Gupta <[email protected]> (adityagupta1089)
   * Added ignore_signatures to duplicate checker

examples/pylintrc

@@ -482,8 +482,9 @@ evaluation=max(0, 0 if fatal else 10.0 - ((float(5 * error + warning + refactor
 # used to format the message information. See doc for all details.
 msg-template=
 
-# Set the output format. Available formats are text, parseable, colorized, json
-# and msvs (visual studio). You can also give a reporter class, e.g.
+# Set the output format. Available formats are: text, parseable, colorized,
+# json2 (improved json format), json (old json format) and msvs (visual
+# studio). You can also give a reporter class, e.g.
 # mypackage.mymodule.MyReporterClass.
 #output-format=
 

examples/pyproject.toml

@@ -406,9 +406,9 @@ evaluation = "max(0, 0 if fatal else 10.0 - ((float(5 * error + warning + refact
 # used to format the message information. See doc for all details.
 # msg-template =
 
-# Set the output format. Available formats are text, parseable, colorized, json
-# and msvs (visual studio). You can also give a reporter class, e.g.
-# mypackage.mymodule.MyReporterClass.
+# Set the output format. Available formats are: text, parseable, colorized, json2
+# (improved json format), json (old json format) and msvs (visual studio). You
+# can also give a reporter class, e.g. mypackage.mymodule.MyReporterClass.
 # output-format =
 
 # Tells whether to display a full report or only the messages.

pylint/__pkginfo__.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = "3.0.0a8-dev0"
+__version__ = "3.0.0a8"
 
 
 def get_numversion_from_version(v: str) -> tuple[int, int, int]:

tbump.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 github_url = "https://github.com./pylint-dev/pylint"
 
 [version]
-current = "3.0.0a8-dev0"
+current = "3.0.0a8"
 regex = '''
 ^(?P<major>0|[1-9]\d*)
 \.