Log Message:
py-pylint: updated to 2.8.1

What's New in Pylint 2.8.1?
===========================
Release date: 2021-04-25

..
  Put new features and bugfixes here and also in 'doc/whatsnew/2.9.rst'

* Add numversion back (temporarily) in ``__pkginfo__`` because it broke Pylama \ 
and revert the unnecessary
  ``pylint.version`` breaking change.

What's New in Pylint 2.8.0?
===========================
Release date: 2021-04-24

* New refactoring message ``consider-using-with``. This message is emitted if \ 
resource-allocating functions or methods of the
  standard library (like ``open()`` or ``threading.Lock.acquire()``) that can be \ 
used as a context manager are called without
  a ``with`` block.

* Resolve false positives on unused variables in decorator functions

* Add new extension ``ConfusingConsecutiveElifChecker``. This optional checker \ 
emits a refactoring message (R5601 ``confusing-consecutive-elif``)
  if if/elif statements with different indentation levels follow directly one \ 
after the other.

* New option ``--output=<file>`` to output result to a file rather than \ 
printing to stdout.

* Use a prescriptive message for ``unidiomatic-typecheck``

* Apply ``const-naming-style`` to module constants annotated with
  ``typing.Final``

* The packaging is now done via setuptools exclusively. ``doc``, ``tests``, \ 
``man``, ``elisp`` and ``Changelog`` are
  not packaged anymore - reducing the size of the package by 75%.

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

* The 'doc' extra-require has been removed.

* ``__pkginfo__`` now only contain ``__version__`` (also accessible with \ 
``pylint.__version__``), other meta-information are still
  accessible with ``from importlib import metadata;metadata.metadata('pylint')``.

* COPYING has been renamed to LICENSE for standardization.

* Fix false-positive ``used-before-assignment`` in function returns.

* Updated ``astroid`` to 2.5.3

* Add ``consider-using-min-max-builtin`` check for if statement which could be \ 
replaced by Python builtin min or max

* Don't auto-enable postponed evaluation of type annotations with Python 3.10

* Update ``astroid`` to 2.5.4

* Add new extension ``TypingChecker``. This optional checker can detect the use \ 
of deprecated typing aliases
  and can suggest the use of the alternative union syntax where possible.
  (For example, 'typing.Dict' can be replaced by 'dict', and 'typing.Unions' by \ 
'|', etc.)
  Make sure to check the config options if you plan on using it!

* Reactivates old counts in report mode.

* During detection of ``inconsistent-return-statements`` consider that ``assert \ 
False`` is a return node.

* Run will not fail if score exactly equals ``config.fail_under``.

* Functions that never returns may declare ``NoReturn`` as type hints, so that
  ``inconsistent-return-statements`` is not emitted.

* Improved protected access checks to allow access inside class methods

* Fix issue with PEP 585 syntax and the use of ``collections.abc.Set``

* Fix issue that caused class variables annotated with ``typing.ClassVar`` to be
  identified as class constants. Now, class variables annotated with
  ``typing.Final`` are identified as such.

* Continuous integration with read the doc has been added.

* Don't show ``DuplicateBasesError`` for attribute access

* Fix crash when checking ``setup.cfg`` for pylint config when there are \ 
non-ascii characters in there

* Allow code flanked in backticks to be skipped by spellchecker

* Allow Python tool directives (for black, flake8, zimports, isort, mypy, \ 
bandit, pycharm) at beginning of comments to be skipped by spellchecker

* Fix issue that caused emacs pylint to fail when used with tramp

* Improve check for invalid PEP 585 syntax inside functions
  if postponed evaluation of type annotations is enabled

* Improve check for invalid PEP 585 syntax as default function arguments