Merge maintenance into main following 4.0.5 release (#10861)

Author: Pierre-Sassoulas

CONTRIBUTORS.txt

@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ contributors:
   * redefined-variable-type
 - Harutaka Kawamura <[email protected]>
 - Alexandre Fayolle <[email protected]> (Logilab): TkInter gui, documentation, debian support
-- Ville Skyttä <[email protected]>
 - Zen Lee <[email protected]>
+- Ville Skyttä <[email protected]>
 - Julien Cristau <[email protected]> (Logilab): python 3 support
 - Moisés López <[email protected]>:
   * Support for deprecated-modules in modules not installed,
@@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ contributors:
 - Bastien Vallet <[email protected]> (Djailla)
 - Aru Sahni <[email protected]>: Git ignoring, regex-based ignores
 - Andreas Freimuth <[email protected]>: fix indentation checking with tabs
+- Alvaro Frias <[email protected]>
 - Alexandru Coman <[email protected]>
 - jpkotta <[email protected]>
 - Thomas Grainger <[email protected]>
@@ -206,12 +207,12 @@ contributors:
 - James Addison <[email protected]>
 - Ionel Maries Cristian <[email protected]>
 - Gergely Kalmár <[email protected]>
+- Emmanuel Ferdman <[email protected]>
 - Damien Baty <[email protected]>
 - Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>: contributing Debian Developer
 - Anubhav <[email protected]>
 - Antonio Quarta <[email protected]>
 - Andrew J. Simmons <[email protected]>
-- Alvaro Frias <[email protected]>
 - Alexey Pelykh <[email protected]>
 - Alex Prabhat Bara <[email protected]>
 - wtracy <[email protected]>
@@ -244,10 +245,10 @@ contributors:
 - Gideon <[email protected]>
 - Ganden Schaffner <[email protected]>
 - Frost Ming <[email protected]>
+- Felix Preuschoff <[email protected]>
 - Federico Bond <[email protected]>
 - Erik Wright <[email protected]>
 - Erik Eriksson <[email protected]>: Added overlapping-except error check.
-- Emmanuel Ferdman <[email protected]>
 - Dave Bunten <[email protected]>
 - Daniel Wang <[email protected]>
 - Daniel Mouritzen <[email protected]>
@@ -266,6 +267,7 @@ contributors:
 - craig-sh <[email protected]>
 - bernie gray <[email protected]>
 - azinneck0485 <[email protected]>
+- Zachary Wilkins-Olson <[email protected]>
 - Wing Lian <[email protected]>
 - Wes Turner <[email protected]> (Google): added new check 'inconsistent-quotes'
 - Tyler Thieding <[email protected]>
@@ -291,6 +293,7 @@ contributors:
 - Nedelcu Ioan-Andrei <[email protected]>
 - Nathan Marrow <[email protected]>
 - Mikhail Fesenko <[email protected]>
+- Mehraz Hossain Rumman <[email protected]>
 - Matthew Suozzo <[email protected]>
 - Matthew Beckers <[email protected]> (mattlbeck)
 - Mark Roman Miller <[email protected]>: fix inline defs in too-many-statements
@@ -301,6 +304,7 @@ contributors:
 - LCD 47 <[email protected]>
 - Jérome Perrin <[email protected]>
 - Justin Li <[email protected]>
+- Julfried <[email protected]>
 - John Kirkham <[email protected]>
 - Jens H. Nielsen <[email protected]>
 - Jake Lishman <[email protected]>
@@ -336,6 +340,7 @@ contributors:
 - Batuhan Taskaya <[email protected]>
 - Artem Yurchenko <[email protected]>
 - Alexander Kapshuna <[email protected]>
+- Alexander Grund <[email protected]>
 - Akshay Choudhary <[email protected]>
 - Adam Parkin <[email protected]>
 - 谭九鼎 <[email protected]>
@@ -348,6 +353,7 @@ contributors:
 - temyurchenko <[email protected]>
 - syutbai <[email protected]>
 - sur.la.route <[email protected]>
+- shifqu <[email protected]>
 - sdet_liang <[email protected]>
 - pavan-msys <[email protected]>
 - paschich <[email protected]>
@@ -405,6 +411,7 @@ contributors:
 - Val Lorentz <[email protected]>
 - Ulrich Eckhardt <[email protected]>
 - Udi Fuchs <[email protected]>
+- Trinh Quoc Anh <[email protected]>
 - Trevor Bekolay <[email protected]>
   * Added --list-msgs-enabled command
 - Tomer Chachamu <[email protected]>: simplifiable-if-expression
@@ -444,6 +451,7 @@ contributors:
 - Roman Ivanov <[email protected]>
 - Robert Schweizer <[email protected]>
 - Reverb Chu <[email protected]>
+- RetroEdit <[email protected]>
 - Renat Galimov <[email protected]>
 - Rebecca Turner <[email protected]> (9999years)
 - Randall Leeds <[email protected]>
@@ -521,6 +529,7 @@ contributors:
 - Kevin Phillips <[email protected]>
 - Kevin Jing Qiu <[email protected]>
 - Kenneth Schackart <[email protected]>
+- Kelvin Chiu <[email protected]>
 - Kayran Schmidt <[email protected]>
 - Karthik Nadig <[email protected]>
 - Jürgen Hermann <[email protected]>
@@ -533,6 +542,7 @@ contributors:
 - Johannes Maron <[email protected]>
 - Joffrey Mander <[email protected]>
 - Jochen Preusche <[email protected]>
+- Joao Faria <[email protected]>
 - Jeroen Seegers <[email protected]>:
   * Fixed `toml` dependency issue
 - Jeremy Fleischman <[email protected]>
@@ -565,7 +575,6 @@ contributors:
 - Giuseppe Valente <[email protected]>
 - Gary Tyler McLeod <[email protected]>
 - Felix von Drigalski <[email protected]>
-- Felix Preuschoff <[email protected]>
 - Fabrice Douchant <[email protected]>
 - Fabio Natali <[email protected]>
 - Fabian Damken <[email protected]>
@@ -617,6 +626,7 @@ contributors:
 - Brandon W Maister <[email protected]>
 - BioGeek <[email protected]>
 - Berker ŞAL <[email protected]>
+- Benjamin T. Vincent <[email protected]>
 - Benjamin Partzsch <[email protected]>
 - Benjamin Graham <[email protected]>
 - Benedikt Morbach <[email protected]>
@@ -659,6 +669,7 @@ contributors:
 - Adrian Chirieac <[email protected]>
 - Aditya Gupta <[email protected]> (adityagupta1089)
   * Added ignore_signatures to duplicate checker
+- Adarsh Kumar <[email protected]>
 - Adam Tuft <[email protected]>
 - Adam Dangoor <[email protected]>
 - 243f6a88 85a308d3 <[email protected]>

doc/user_guide/checkers/features.rst

@@ -1085,7 +1085,8 @@ Stdlib checker Messages
 :unspecified-encoding (W1514): *Using open without explicitly specifying an encoding*
   It is better to specify an encoding when opening documents. Using the system
   default implicitly can create problems on other operating systems. See
-  https://peps.python.org/pep-0597/
+  https://peps.python.org/pep-0597/ This message can't be emitted when using
+  Python >= 3.15.
 :forgotten-debug-statement (W1515): *Leaving functions creating breakpoints in production code is not recommended*
   Calls to breakpoint(), sys.breakpointhook() and pdb.set_trace() should be
   removed from code that is not actively being debugged.

doc/whatsnew/4/4.0/index.rst

@@ -74,6 +74,52 @@ to your liking.
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+What's new in Pylint 4.0.5?
+---------------------------
+Release date: 2026-02-20
+
+
+False Positives Fixed
+---------------------
+
+- Fix possibly-used-before-assignment false positive when using self.fail() in tests.
+
+  Closes #10743 (`#10743 <https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/10743>`_)
+
+- Fixed false positive for ``logging-unsupported-format`` when no arguments are provided to logging functions.
+
+  According to Python's logging documentation, no formatting is performed when no arguments are supplied, so strings like ``logging.error("%test")`` are valid.
+
+  Closes #10752 (`#10752 <https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/10752>`_)
+
+- Fix a false positive for ``invalid-name`` where a dataclass field typed with ``Final``
+  was evaluated against the ``class_const`` regex instead of the ``class_attribute`` regex.
+
+  Closes #10790 (`#10790 <https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/10790>`_)
+
+- Avoid emitting `unspecified-encoding` (W1514) when `py-version` is 3.15+.
+
+  Refs #10791 (`#10791 <https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/10791>`_)
+
+
+
+Other Bug Fixes
+---------------
+
+- Fix `--known_third_party` config being ignored.
+
+  Closes #10801 (`#10801 <https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/10801>`_)
+
+- Fixed dynamic color mapping for "fail-on" messages when using multiple reporter/output formats.
+
+  Closes #10825 (`#10825 <https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/10825>`_)
+
+- dependency on isort is now set to <9, permitting to use isort 8.
+
+  Closes #10857 (`#10857 <https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/10857>`_)
+
+
+
 What's new in Pylint 4.0.4?
 --------------------------------
 Release date: 2025-11-30