Bump pylint to 4.0.5, update changelog (#10860)

Author: Pierre-Sassoulas

CONTRIBUTORS.txt

@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ contributors:
 - Grizzly Nyo <[email protected]>
 - Gabriel R. Sezefredo <[email protected]>: Fixed "exception-escape" false positive with generators
 - Filipe Brandenburger <[email protected]>
+- Felix Preuschoff <[email protected]>
 - Fantix King <[email protected]> (UChicago)
 - Eric McDonald <[email protected]>
 - Elias Dorneles <[email protected]>: minor adjust to config defaults and docs
@@ -494,6 +495,7 @@ contributors:
 - Michael Giuffrida <[email protected]>
 - Melvin Hazeleger <[email protected]>
 - Meltem Kenis <[email protected]>
+- Mehraz Hossain Rumman <[email protected]>
 - Mehdi Drissi <[email protected]>
 - Matěj Grabovský <[email protected]>
 - Matthijs Blom <[email protected]>
@@ -524,6 +526,7 @@ contributors:
 - Kayran Schmidt <[email protected]>
 - Karthik Nadig <[email protected]>
 - Jürgen Hermann <[email protected]>
+- Julfried <[email protected]>
 - Josselin Feist <[email protected]>
 - Jonathan Kotta <[email protected]>
 - John Paraskevopoulos <[email protected]>: add 'differing-param-doc' and 'differing-type-doc'
@@ -565,7 +568,6 @@ 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]>

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