v2.5.8

• Improve support for Pattern Matching

• Add lineno and col_offset for Keyword nodes and Python 3.9+

• Add global inference cache to speed up inference of long statement blocks

• Add a limit to the total number of nodes inferred indirectly as a result
  of inferring some node

v2.5.7

• Fix six.with_metaclass transformation so it doesn't break user defined transformations.

• Fix detection of relative imports.
  Closes #930
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4186

• Fix inference of instance attributes defined in base classes

  Closes #932

• Update infer_named_tuple brain to reject namedtuple definitions
  that would raise ValueError

  Closes #920

• Do not set instance attributes on builtin object()

Closes #945
Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4232
Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4221
Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3970
Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3595

• Fix some spurious cycles detected in context.path leading to more cases
  that can now be inferred

  Closes #926

• Add kind field to Const nodes, matching the structure of the built-in ast Const.
  The kind field is "u" if the literal is a u-prefixed string, and None otherwise.

  Closes #898

• Fix property inference in class contexts for properties defined on the metaclass

  Closes #940

• Update enum brain to fix definition of members for subclass-defined Enums

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3535
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4358

• Update random brain to fix a crash with inference of some sequence elements

  Closes #922

• Fix inference of attributes defined in a base class that is an inner class

  Closes #904

• Allow inferring a return value of None for non-abstract empty functions and
  functions with no return statements (implicitly returning None)

  Closes #485

• scm_setuptools has been added to the packaging.

• Astroid's tags are now the standard form vX.Y.Z and not astroid-X.Y.Z anymore.

• Add initial support for Pattern Matching in Python 3.10

v2.5.6

Semantic tag so scm_setuptools work.

astroid-2.5.6

• Fix retro-compatibility issues with old version of pylint
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4402

astroid-2.5.5: Fix discord server invitation

• Fixes the discord link in the project urls of the package.
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4393

astroid-2.5.4

• The packaging is now done via setuptools exclusively. doc, tests, and Changelog are
  not packaged anymore - reducing the size of the package greatly.

• Debian packaging is now (officially) done in https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/astroid.

• __pkginfo__ now only contain __version__ (also accessible with astroid.__version__),
  other meta-information are still accessible with import importlib;metadata.metadata('astroid').

• Added inference tip for typing.Tuple alias

• Fix crash when evaluating typing.NamedTuple

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4383

• COPYING was removed in favor of COPYING.LESSER and the latter was renamed to LICENSE to make more apparent
  that the code is licensed under LGPLv2 or later.

• Moved from appveyor and travis to Github Actions for continuous integration.

astroid-2.5.3

• Takes into account the fact that subscript inferring for a ClassDef may involve class_getitem method

• Reworks the collections and typing brain so that pylint`s acceptance tests are fine.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4206

• Use inference_tip for typing.TypedDict brain.

• Fix mro for classes that inherit from typing.Generic

• Add inference tip for typing.Generic and typing.Annotated with __class_getitem__

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#2822

astroid-2.5.2

• Detects import numpy as a valid numpy import.

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3974

• Iterate over Keywords when using ClassDef.get_children

  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3202

astroid-2.5.1

• The context.path is reverted to a set because otherwise it leads to false positives
  for non numpy functions.

  Closes #895 #899

• Don't transform dataclass ClassVars

• Improve typing.TypedDict inference

• Fix the Duplicates found in MROs false positive.

  Closes #905
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#2717
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#3247
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4093
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4131
  Closes pylint-dev/pylint#4145

astroid 2.5

• Adds attr_fset in the PropertyModel class.

  Fixes pylint-dev/pylint#3480

• Remove support for Python 3.5.

• Remove the runtime dependency on six. The six brain remains in
  astroid.

  Fixes #863

• Enrich the brain_collection module so that __class_getitem__ method is added to deque for
  python version above 3.9.

• The context.path is now a dict and the context.push method
  returns True if the node has been visited a certain amount of times.

  Close #669

• Adds a brain for type object so that it is possible to write type[int] in annotation.

  Fixes pylint-dev/pylint#4001

• Add __class_getitem__ method to subprocess.Popen brain under Python 3.9 so that it is seen as subscriptable by pylint.

  Fixes pylint-dev/pylint#4034

• Adds degrees, radians, which are numpy ufunc functions, in the numpy brain. Adds random function in the numpy.random brain.

  Fixes pylint-dev/pylint#3856

• Fix deprecated importlib methods

  Closes #703

• Fix a crash in inference caused by Uninferable container elements

  Close #866

• Add python 3.9 support.

• The flat attribute of numpy.ndarray is now inferred as an numpy.ndarray itself.
  It should be a numpy.flatiter instance, but this class is not yet available in the numpy brain.

  Fixes pylint-dev/pylint#3640

• Fix a bug for dunder methods inference of function objects

  Fixes #819

• Fixes a bug in the signature of the ndarray.__or__ method,
  in the brain_numpy_ndarray.py module.

  Fixes #815

• Fixes a to-list cast bug in starred_assigned_stmts method,
  in the ``protocols.py` module.

• Added a brain for hypothesis.strategies.composite

• The transpose of a numpy.ndarray is also a numpy.ndarray

  Fixes pylint-dev/pylint#3387

• Added a brain for sqlalchemy.orm.session

• Separate string and bytes classes patching

  Fixes pylint-dev/pylint#3599

• Prevent recursion error for self referential length calls

  Close #777

• Added missing methods to the brain for mechanize, to fix pylint false positives

  Close #793

• Added more supported parameters to subprocess.check_output

• Fix recursion errors with pandas

  Fixes pylint-dev/pylint#2843
  Fixes pylint-dev/pylint#2811

• Added exception inference for UnicodeDecodeError

  Close pylint-dev/pylint#3639

• FunctionDef.is_generator properly handles yield nodes in If tests

  Close pylint-dev/pylint#3583

• Fixed exception-chaining error messages.

• Fix failure to infer base class type with multiple inheritance and qualified names

  Fixes #843

• Fix interpretation of six.with_metaclass class definitions.

  Fixes #713

• Reduce memory usage of astroid's module cache.

• Remove dependency on imp.

  Close #594
  Close #681

• Do not crash when encountering starred assignments in enums.

  Close #835

• Fix a crash in functools.partial inference when the arguments cannot be determined

  Close pylint-dev/pylint#3776

• Fix a crash caused by a lookup of a monkey-patched method

  Close pylint-dev/pylint#3686

• is_generator correctly considers Yield nodes in AugAssign nodes

  This fixes a false positive with the assignment-from-no-return pylint check.

  Close pylint-dev/pylint#3904

• Corrected the parent of function type comment nodes.

  These nodes used to be parented to their original ast.FunctionDef parent
  but are now correctly parented to their astroid.FunctionDef parent.

  Close #851