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+ChangeLog for Pylint
+====================
+
+--
+    * Fix unused-import false positive with Python 3 metaclasses (#143).
+
+2014-04-30  --  1.2.1
+    * Restore the ability to specify the init-hook option via the
+      configuration file, which was accidentally broken in 1.2.0.
+
+    * Add a new warning [bad-continuation] for badly indentend continued
+      lines.
+
+    * Emit [assignment-from-none] when the function contains bare returns.
+      Fixes BitBucket issue #191.
+
+    * Added a new warning for closing over variables that are
+      defined in loops. Fixes Bitbucket issue #176.
+
+    * Do not warn about \u escapes in string literals when Unicode literals
+      are used for Python 2.*. Fixes BitBucket issue #151.
+
+    * Extend the checking for unbalanced-tuple-unpacking and
+      unpacking-non-sequence to instance attribute unpacking as well.
+
+    * Fix explicit checking of python script (1.2 regression, #219)
+
+    * Restore --init-hook, renamed accidentally into --init-hooks in 1.2.0
+      (#211)
+
+    * Add 'indexing-exception' warning, which detects that indexing
+      an exception occurs in Python 2 (behaviour removed in Python 3).
+
+
+
+2014-04-18  --  1.2.0
+    * Pass the current python paths to pylint process when invoked via
+      epylint.  Fixes BitBucket issue #133.
+
+    * Add -i / --include-ids and -s / --symbols back as completely ignored
+      options. Fixes BitBucket issue #180.
+
+    * Extend the number of cases in which logging calls are detected. Fixes
+      bitbucket issue #182.
+
+    * Improve pragma handling to not detect pylint:* strings in non-comments.
+      Fixes BitBucket issue #79.
+
+    * Do not crash with UnknownMessage if an unknown message ID/name appears
+      in disable or enable in the configuration. Patch by Cole Robinson.
+      Fixes bitbucket issue #170.
+
+    * Add new warning 'eval-used', checking that the builtin function `eval`
+      was used.
+
+    * Make it possible to show a naming hint for invalid name by setting
+      include-naming-hint. Also make the naming hints configurable. Fixes
+      BitBucket issue #138.
+
+    * Added support for enforcing multiple, but consistent name styles for
+      different name types inside a single module; based on a patch written
+      by morbo@google.com.
+
+    * Also warn about empty docstrings on overridden methods; contributed
+      by sebastianu@google.com.
+
+    * Also inspect arguments to constructor calls, and emit relevant
+      warnings; contributed by sebastianu@google.com.
+
+    * Added a new configuration option logging-modules to make the list
+      of module names that can be checked for 'logging-not-lazy' et. al.
+      configurable; contributed by morbo@google.com.
+
+    * ensure init-hooks is evaluated before other options, notably load-plugins
+      (#166)
+
+    * Python 2.5 support restored: fixed small issues preventing pylint to run
+      on python 2.5. Bitbucket issues #50 and #62.
+
+    * bitbucket #128: pylint doesn't crash when looking
+      for used-before-assignment in context manager
+      assignments.
+
+    * Add new warning, 'bad-reversed-sequence', for checking that the
+      reversed() builtin receive a sequence (implements __getitem__ and __len__,
+      without being a dict or a dict subclass) or an instance which implements
+      __reversed__.
+
+    * Mark `file` as a bad function when using python2 (closes #8).
+
+    * Add new warning 'bad-exception-context', checking
+      that `raise ... from ...` uses a proper exception context
+      (None or an exception).
+
+    * Enhance the check for 'used-before-assignment' to look
+      for 'nonlocal' uses.
+
+    * Emit 'undefined-all-variable' if a package's __all__
+      variable contains a missing submodule (closes #126).
+
+    * Add a new warning 'abstract-class-instantiated' for checking
+      that abstract classes created with `abc` module and
+      with abstract methods are instantied.
+
+    * Do not warn about 'return-arg-in-generator' in Python 3.3+.
+
+    * Do not warn about 'abstract-method' when the abstract method
+      is implemented through assignment (#155).
+
+    * Improve cyclic import detection in the case of packages, patch by Buck
+      Golemon
+
+    * Add new warnings for checking proper class __slots__:
+     'invalid-slots-object' and 'invalid-slots'.
+
+    * Search for rc file in `~/.config/pylintrc` if `~/.pylintrc`
+      doesn't exists (#121)
+
+    * Don't register the newstyle checker w/ python >= 3
+
+    * Fix unused-import false positive w/ augment assignment (#78)
+
+    * Fix access-member-before-definition false negative wrt aug assign (#164)
+
+    * Do not attempt to analyze non python file, eg .so file (#122)
+
+
+
+2013-12-22  --  1.1.0
+    * Add new check for use of deprecated pragma directives "pylint:disable-msg"
+      or "pylint:enable-msg" (I0022, deprecated-pragma) which was previously
+      emmited as a regular warn().
+
+    * Avoid false used-before-assignment for except handler defined
+      identifier used on the same line (#111).
+
+    * Combine 'no-space-after-operator', 'no-space-after-comma' and
+      'no-space-before-operator' into a new warning 'bad-whitespace'.
+
+    * Add a new warning 'superfluous-parens' for unnecessary
+      parentheses after certain keywords.
+
+    * Fix a potential crash in the redefine-in-handler warning
+      if the redefined name is a nested getattr node.
+
+    * Add a new option for the multi-statement warning to
+      allow single-line if statements.
+
+    * Add 'bad-context-manager' error, checking that '__exit__'
+      special method accepts the right number of arguments.
+
+    * Run pylint as a python module 'python -m pylint' (anatoly techtonik).
+
+    * Check for non-exception classes inside an except clause.
+
+    * epylint support options to give to pylint after the file to analyze and
+      have basic input validation (bitbucket #53 and #54), patches provided by
+      felipeochoa and Brian Lane.
+
+    * Added a new warning, 'non-iterator-returned', for non-iterators
+      returned by '__iter__'.
+
+    * Add new checks for unpacking non-sequences in assignments
+      (unpacking-non-sequence) as well as unbalanced tuple unpacking
+      (unbalanced-tuple-unpacking).
+
+    * useless-else-on-loop not emited if there is a break in the
+      else clause of inner loop (#117).
+
+    * don't mark `input` as a bad function when using python3 (#110).
+
+    * badly-implemented-container caused several problems in its
+      current implementation. Deactivate it until we have something
+      better. See #112 for instance.
+
+    * Use attribute regexp for properties in python3, as in python2
+
+    * Create the PYLINTHOME directory when needed, it might fail and lead to
+      spurious warnings on import of pylint.config.
+
+    * Fix setup.py so that pylint properly install on Windows when using python3
+
+    * Various documentation fixes and enhancements
+
+    * Fix issue #55 (false-positive trailing-whitespace on Windows)
+
+
+
+2013-08-06  --  1.0.0
+    * Add check for the use of 'exec' function
+
+    * New --msg-template option to control output, deprecating "msvc" and
+      "parseable" output formats as well as killing `--include-ids` and `--symbols`
+      options
+
+    * Do not emit [fixme] for every line if the config value 'notes'
+      is empty, but [fixme] is enabled.
+
+    * Emit warnings about lines exceeding the column limit when
+      those lines are inside multiline docstrings.
+
+    * Do not double-check parameter names with the regex for parameters and
+      inline variables.
+
+    * Added a new warning missing-final-newline (C0304) for files missing
+      the final newline.
+
+    * Methods that are decorated as properties are now treated as attributes
+      for the purposes of name checking.
+
+    * Names of derived instance class member are not checked any more.
+
+    * Names in global statements are now checked against the regular
+      expression for constants.
+
+    * For toplevel name assignment, the class name regex will be used if
+      pylint can detect that value on the right-hand side is a class
+      (like collections.namedtuple()).
+
+    * Simplified invalid-name message
+
+    * Added a new warning invalid-encoded-data (W0512) for files that
+      contain data that cannot be decoded with the specified or
+      default encoding.
+
+    * New warning bad-open-mode (W1501) for calls to open (or file) that
+      specify invalid open modes (Original implementation by Sasha Issayev).
+
+    * New warning old-style-class (C1001) for classes that do not have any
+      base class.
+
+    * Add new name type 'class_attribute' for attributes defined
+      in class scope. By default, allow both const and variable names.
+
+    * New warning trailing-whitespace (C0303) that warns about
+      trailing whitespace.
+
+    * Added a new warning unpacking-in-except (W0712) about unpacking
+      exceptions in handlers, which is unsupported in Python 3.
+
+    * Add a configuration option for missing-docstring to
+      optionally exempt short functions/methods/classes from
+      the check.
+
+    * Add the type of the offending node to missing-docstring
+      and empty-docstring.
+
+    * New utility classes for per-checker unittests in testutils.py
+
+    * Do not warn about redefinitions of variables that match the
+      dummy regex.
+
+    * Do not treat all variables starting with _ as dummy variables,
+      only _ itself.
+
+    * Make the line-too-long warning configurable by adding a regex for lines
+      for with the length limit should not be enforced
+
+    * Do not warn about a long line if a pylint disable
+      option brings it above the length limit
+
+    * Do not flag names in nested with statements as undefined.
+
+    * Added a new warning 'old-raise-syntax' for the deprecated syntax
+      raise Exception, args
+
+    * Support for PEP 3102 and new missing-kwoa (E1125) message for missing
+      mandatory keyword argument (logilab.org's #107788)
+
+    * Fix spelling of max-branchs option, now max-branches
+
+    * Added a new base class and interface for checkers that work on the
+      tokens rather than the syntax, and only tokenize the input file
+      once.
+
+    * Follow astng renaming to astroid
+
+    * bitbucket #37: check for unbalanced unpacking in assignments
+
+    * bitbucket #25: fix incomplete-protocol false positive for read-only
+      containers like tuple
+
+    * bitbucket #16: fix False positive E1003 on Python 3 for argument-less super()
+
+    * bitbucket #6: put back documentation in source distribution
+
+    * bitbucket #15: epylint shouldn't hang anymore when there is a large
+      output on pylint'stderr
+
+    * bitbucket #7: fix epylint w/ python3
+
+    * bitbucket #3: remove string module from the default list of deprecated
+      modules
+
+
+
+2013-04-25  --  0.28.0
+    * bitbucket #1: fix "dictionary changed size during iteration" crash
+
+    * #74013: new E1310[bad-str-strip-call] message warning when a call to a
+      {l,r,}strip method contains duplicate characters (patch by Torsten Marek)
+
+    * #123233: new E0108[duplicate-argument-name] message reporting duplicate
+      argument names
+
+    * #81378: emit W0120[useless-else-on-loop] for loops without break
+
+    * #124660: internal dependencies should not appear in external dependencies
+      report
+
+    * #124662: fix name error causing crash when symbols are included in output
+      messages
+
+    * #123285: apply pragmas for warnings attached to lines to physical source
+      code lines
+
+    * #123259: do not emit E0105 for yield expressions inside lambdas
+
+    * #123892: don't crash when attempting to show source code line that can't
+      be encoded with the current locale settings
+
+    * Simplify checks for dangerous default values by unifying tests for all
+      different mutable compound literals.
+
+    * Improve the description for E1124[redundant-keyword-arg]
+
+
+
+2013-02-26  --  0.27.0
+    * #20693: replace pylint.el by Ian Eure version (patch by J.Kotta)
+
+    * #105327: add support for --disable=all option and deprecate the
+      'disable-all' inline directive in favour of 'skip-file' (patch by
+      A.Fayolle)
+
+    * #110840: add messages I0020 and I0021 for reporting of suppressed
+      messages and useless suppression pragmas. (patch by Torsten Marek)
+
+    * #112728: add warning E0604 for non-string objects in __all__
+      (patch by Torsten Marek)
+
+    * #120657: add warning W0110/deprecated-lambda when a map/filter
+      of a lambda could be a comprehension (patch by Martin Pool)
+
+    * #113231: logging checker now looks at instances of Logger classes
+      in addition to the base logging module. (patch by Mike Bryant)
+
+    * #111799: don't warn about octal escape sequence, but warn about \o
+      which is not octal in Python (patch by Martin Pool)
+
+    * #110839: bind <F5> to Run button in pylint-gui
+
+    * #115580: fix erroneous W0212 (access to protected member) on super call
+      (patch by Martin Pool)
+
+    * #110853: fix a crash when an __init__ method in a base class has been
+      created by assignment rather than direct function definition (patch by
+      Torsten Marek)
+
+    * #110838: fix pylint-gui crash when include-ids is activated (patch by
+      Omega Weapon)
+
+    * #112667: fix emission of reimport warnings for mixed imports and extend
+      the testcase (patch by Torsten Marek)
+
+    * #112698: fix crash related to non-inferable __all__ attributes and
+      invalid __all__ contents (patch by Torsten Marek)
+
+    * Python 3 related fixes:
+
+    * #110213: fix import of checkers broken with python 3.3, causing
+        "No such message id W0704" breakage
+
+    * #120635: redefine cmp function used in pylint.reporters
+
+    * Include full warning id for I0020 and I0021 and make sure to flush
+      warnings after each module, not at the end of the pylint run.
+      (patch by Torsten Marek)
+
+    * Changed the regular expression for inline options so that it must be
+      preceeded by a # (patch by Torsten Marek)
+
+    * Make dot output for import graph predictable and not depend
+      on ordering of strings in hashes. (patch by Torsten Marek)
+
+    * Add hooks for import path setup and move pylint's sys.path
+      modifications into them. (patch by Torsten Marek)
+
+
+
+2012-10-05  --  0.26.0
+    * #106534: add --ignore-imports option to code similarity checking
+      and 'symilar' command line tool (patch by Ry4an Brase)
+
+    * #104571: check for anomalous backslash escape, introducing new
+      W1401 and W1402 messages (patch by Martin Pool)
+
+    * #100707: check for boolop being used as exception class, introducing
+      new W0711 message (patch by Tim Hatch)
+
+    * #4014: improve checking of metaclass methods first args, introducing
+      new C0204 message (patch by lothiraldan@gmail.com finalized by sthenault)
+
+    * #4685: check for consistency of a module's __all__ variable,
+      introducing new E0603 message
+
+    * #105337: allow custom reporter in output-format (patch by Kevin Jing Qiu)
+
+    * #104420: check for protocol completness and avoid false R0903
+      (patch by Peter Hammond)
+
+    * #100654: fix grammatical error for W0332 message (using 'l' as
+      long int identifier)
+
+    * #103656: fix W0231 false positive for missing call to object.__init__
+      (patch by lothiraldan@gmail.com)
+
+    * #63424: fix similarity report disabling by properly renaming it to RP0801
+
+    * #103949: create a console_scripts entry point to be used by
+      easy_install, buildout and pip
+
+    * fix cross-interpreter issue (non compatible access to __builtins__)
+
+    * stop including tests files in distribution, they causes crash when
+      installed with python3 (#72022, #82417, #76910)
+
+
+
+2012-07-17  --  0.25.2
+    * #93591: Correctly emit warnings about clobbered variable names when an
+      except handler contains a tuple of names instead of a single name.
+      (patch by tmarek@google.com)
+
+    * #7394: W0212 (access to protected member) not emited on assigments
+    (patch by lothiraldan@gmail.com)
+
+    * #18772; no prototype consistency check for mangled methods (patch by
+    lothiraldan@gmail.com)
+
+    * #92911: emit W0102 when sets are used as default arguments in functions
+      (patch by tmarek@google.com)
+
+    * #77982: do not emit E0602 for loop variables of comprehensions
+      used as argument values inside a decorator (patch by tmarek@google.com)
+
+    * #89092: don't emit E0202 (attribute hiding a method) on @property methods
+
+    * #92584: fix pylint-gui crash due to internal API change
+
+    * #87192: fix crash when decorators are accessed through more than one dot
+      (for instance @a.b is fine, @a.b.c crash)
+
+    * #88914: fix parsing of --generated-members options, leading to crash
+      when using a regexp value set
+
+    * fix potential crashes with utils.safe_infer raising InferenceError
+
+
+
+2011-12-08  --  0.25.1
+    * #81078: Warn if names in  exception handlers clobber overwrite
+      existing names (patch by tmarek@google.com)
+
+    * #81113: Fix W0702 messages appearing with the wrong line number.
+      (patch by tmarek@google.com)
+
+    * #50461, #52020, #51222: Do not issue warnings when using 2.6's
+      property.setter/deleter functionality (patch by dneil@google.com)
+
+    * #9188, #4024: Do not trigger W0631 if a loop variable is assigned
+      in the else branch of a for loop.
+
+
+
+2011-10-07  --  0.25.0
+    * #74742: make allowed name for first argument of class method configurable
+      (patch by Google)
+
+    * #74087: handle case where inference of a module return YES; this avoid
+      some cases of "TypeError: '_Yes' object does not support indexing" (patch
+      by Google)
+
+    * #74745: make "too general" exception names configurable (patch by Google)
+
+    * #74747: crash occurs when lookup up a special attribute in class scope
+      (patch by google)
+
+    * #76920: crash if on eg "pylint --rcfile" (patch by Torsten Marek)
+
+    * #77237: warning for E0202 may be very misleading
+
+    * #73941: HTML report messages table is badly rendered
+
+
+
+2011-07-18  --  0.24.0
+    * #69738: add regular expressions support for "generated-members"
+
+    * ids of logging and string_format checkers have been changed:
+      logging: 65 -> 12, string_format: 99 -> 13
+      Also add documentation to say that ids of range 1-50 shall be reserved
+      to pylint internal checkers
+
+    * #69993: Additional string format checks for logging module:
+      check for missing arguments, too many arguments, or invalid string
+      formats in the logging checker module. Contributed by Daniel Arena
+
+    * #69220: add column offset to the reports. If you've a custom reporter,
+      this change may break it has now location gain a new item giving the
+      column offset.
+
+    * #60828: Fix false positive in reimport check
+
+    * #70495: absolute imports fail depending on module path (patch by Jacek Konieczny)
+
+    * #22273: Fix --ignore option documentation to match reality
+
+
+
+2011-01-11  --  0.23.0
+    * documentation update, add manpages
+
+    * several performance improvements
+
+    * finalize python3 support
+
+    * new W0106 warning 'Expression "%s" is assigned to nothing'
+
+    * drop E0501 and E0502 messages about wrong source encoding: not anymore
+     interesting since it's a syntax error for python >= 2.5 and we now only
+     support this python version and above.
+
+    * don't emit W0221 or W0222 when methods as variable arguments (eg *arg
+     and/or **args). Patch submitted by Charles Duffy.
+
+
+
+2010-11-15  --  0.22.0
+    * python versions: minimal python3.x support; drop python < 2.5 support
+
+
+
+2010-10-27  --  0.21.4
+    * fix #48066: pylint crashes when redirecting output containing non-ascii characters
+
+    * fix #19799: "pylint -blah" exit with status 2
+
+    * update documentation
+
+
+
+2010-09-28  --  0.21.3
+    * restored python 2.3 compatibility. Along with logilab-astng
+      0.21.3 and logilab-common 0.52, this will much probably be the
+      latest release supporting python < 2.5.
+
+
+
+2010-08-26  --  0.21.2
+    * fix #36193: import checker raise exception on cyclic import
+
+    * fix #28796: regression in --generated-members introduced pylint 0.20
+
+    * some documentation cleanups
+
+
+
+2010-06-04  --  0.21.1
+    * fix #28962: pylint crash with new options, due to missing stats data while
+      writing the Statistics by types report
+
+    * updated man page to 0.21 or greater command line usage (fix debian #582494)
+
+
+
+2010-05-11  --  0.21.0
+    * command line updated (closes #9774, #9787, #9992, #22962):
+
+    * all enable-* / disable-* options have been merged into --enable / --disable
+
+    * BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: short name of --errors-only becomes -E, -e being
+       affected to --enable
+
+    * pylint --help output much simplified, with --long-help available to get the
+       complete one
+
+    * revisited gui, thanks to students from Toronto university (they are great
+     contributors to this release!)
+
+    * fix #21591: html reporter produces no output if reports is set to 'no'
+
+    * fix #4581: not Missing docstring (C0111) warning if a method is overridden
+
+    * fix #4683: Non-ASCII characters count double if utf8 encode
+
+    * fix #9018: when using defining-attr-method, method order matters
+
+    * fix #4595: Comma not followed by a space should not occurs on trailing comma
+     in list/tuple/dict definition
+
+    * fix #22585: [Patch] fix man warnings for pyreverse.1 manpage
+
+    * fix #20067: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name' with with
+
+
+
+2010-03-01  --  0.20.0
+    * fix #19498: fix windows batch file
+
+    * fix #19339: pylint.el : non existing py-mod-map
+      (closes Debian Bug report logs - #475939)
+
+    * implement #18860, new W0199 message on assert (a, b)
+
+    * implement #9776, 'W0150' break or return statement in finally block may
+      swallow exception.
+
+    * fix #9263, __init__ and __new__ are checked for unused arguments
+
+    * fix #20991, class scope definitions ignored in a genexpr
+
+    * fix #5975, Abstract intermediate class not recognized as such
+
+    * fix #5977, yield and return statement have their own counters, no more R0911
+      (Too many return statements) when a function have many yield stamtements
+
+    * implement #5564, function / method arguments with leading "_" are ignored in
+      arguments / local variables count.
+
+    * implement #9982, E0711 specific error message when raising NotImplemented
+
+    * remove --cache-size option
+
+
+
+2009-12-18  --  0.19.0
+    * implement #18947, #5561: checker for function arguments
+
+    * include James Lingard string format checker
+
+    * include simple message (ids) listing by Vincent Férotin (#9791)
+
+    * --errors-only does not hide fatal error anymore
+
+    * include james Lingard patches for ++/-- and duplicate key in dicts
+
+    * include James Lingard patches for function call arguments checker
+
+    * improved flymake code and doc provided by Derek Harland
+
+    * refactor and fix the imports checker
+
+    * fix #18862: E0601 false positive with lambda functions
+
+    * fix #8764: More than one statement on a single line false positive with
+      try/except/finally
+
+    * fix #9215: false undefined variable error in lambda function
+
+    * fix for w0108 false positive (Nathaniel)
+
+    * fix test/fulltest.sh
+
+    * #5821 added a utility function to run pylint in another process (patch provide by Vincent Férotin)
+
+
+
+2009-03-25  --  0.18.0
+    * tests ok with python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6. 2.3 not tested
+
+    * fix #8687, W0613 false positive on inner function
+
+    * fix #8350, C0322 false positive on multi-line string
+
+    * fix #8332: set E0501 line no to the first line where non ascii character
+      has been found
+
+    * avoid some E0203 / E0602 false negatives by detecting respectively
+      AttributeError / NameError
+
+    * implements #4037: don't issue W0142 (* or ** magic) when they are barely
+      passed from */** arguments
+
+    * complete #5573: more complete list of special methods, also skip W0613
+      for python internal method
+
+    * don't show information messages by default
+
+    * integration of Yuen Ho Wong's patches on emacs lisp files
+
+
+
+2009-03-19  --  0.17.0
+    * semicolon check : move W0601 to W0301
+
+    * remove rpython : remove all rpython checker, modules and tests
+
+    * astng 0.18 compatibility: support for _ast module modifies interfaces
+
+
+
+2009-01-28  --  0.16.0
+    * change [en|dis]able-msg-cat options: only accept message categories
+      identified by their first letter (eg IRCWEF) without the need for comma
+      as separator
+
+    * add epylint.bat script to fix Windows installation
+
+    * setuptools/easy_install support
+
+    * include a modified version of Maarten ter Huurne patch to avoid W0613
+      warning on arguments from overridden method
+
+    * implement #5575  drop dumb W0704 message) by adding W0704 to ignored
+      messages by default
+
+    * new W0108 message, checking for suspicious lambda (provided by  Nathaniel
+      Manista)
+
+    * fix W0631, false positive reported by Paul Hachmann
+
+    * fix #6951: false positive with W0104
+
+    * fix #6949
+
+    * patches by Mads Kiilerich:
+
+    * implement #4691, make pylint exits with a non zero return
+	  status if any messages other then Information are issued
+
+    * fix #3711, #5626 (name resolution bug w/ decorator and class members)
+
+    * fix #6954
+
+
+
+2008-10-13  --  0.15.2
+    * fix #5672: W0706 weirdness ( W0706 removed )
+
+    * fix #5998: documentation points to wrong url for mailing list
+
+    * fix #6022: no error message on wrong module names
+
+    * fix #6040: pytest doesn't run test/func_test.py
+
+
+
+2008-09-15  --  0.15.1
+    * fix #4910: default values are missing in manpage
+
+    * fix #5991: missing files in 0.15.0 tarball
+
+    * fix #5993: epylint should work with python 2.3
+
+
+
+2008-09-10  --  0.15.0
+    * include pyreverse package and class diagram generation
+
+    * included Stefan Rank's patch to deal with 2.4 relative import
+
+    * included Robert Kirkpatrick's tutorial and typos fixes
+
+    * fix bug in reenabling message
+
+    * fix #2473: invoking pylint on __init__.py (hopefully)
+
+    * typecheck: acquired-members option has been dropped in favor of the more
+      generic generated-members option. If the zope option is set, the behaviour
+      is now to add some default values to generated-members.
+
+    * flymake integration: added bin/epylint and elisp/pylint-flymake.el
+
+
+
+2008-01-14  --  0.14.0
+    * fix #3733: Messages (dis)appear depending on order of file names
+
+    * fix #4026: pylint.el should require compile
+
+    * fix a bug in colorized reporter, spotted by Dave Borowitz
+
+    * applied patch from Stefan Rank to avoid W0410 false positive when
+      multiple "from __future__" import statements
+
+    * implement #4012: flag back tick as deprecated (new W0333 message)
+
+    * new ignored-class option on typecheck checker allowing to skip members
+      checking based on class name (patch provided by Thomas W Barr)
+
+
+
+2007-06-07  --  0.13.2
+    * fix disable-checker option so that it won't accidentally enable the
+      rpython checker which is disabled by default
+
+    * added note about the gedit plugin into documentation
+
+
+
+2007-03-02  --  0.13.1
+    * fix some unexplained 0.13.0 packaging issue which led to a bunch of
+      files missing from the distribution
+
+
+
+2007-02-28  --  0.13.0
+    * new RPython (Restricted Python) checker for PyPy fellow or people
+      wanting to get a compiled version of their python program using the
+      translator of the PyPy project. For more information about PyPy or
+      RPython, visit http://codespeak.net/pypy/
+
+    * new E0104 and E0105 messages introduced to respectively warn about
+      "return" and "yield" outside function or method
+
+    * new E0106 message when "yield" and "return something" are mixed in a
+      function or method
+
+    * new W0107 message for unnecessary pass statement
+
+    * new W0614 message to differentiate between unused `import X` and
+      unused `from X import *` (#3209, patch submitted by Daniel Drake)
+
+    * included Daniel Drake's patch to have a different message E1003 instead of
+      E1001 when a missing member is found but an inference failure has been
+      detected
+
+    * msvs reporter for Visual Studio line number reporting (#3285)
+
+    * allow disable-all option inline (#3218, patch submitted by Daniel Drake)
+
+    * --init-hook option to call arbitrary code necessary to set
+      environment (eg sys.path) (#3156)
+
+    * One more Daniel's patch fixing a command line option parsing
+      problem, this'll definitely be the DDrake release :)
+
+    * fix #3184: crashes on "return" outside function
+
+    * fix #3205: W0704 false positive
+
+    * fix #3123: W0212 false positive on static method
+
+    * fix #2485: W0222 false positive
+
+    * fix #3259: when a message is explicitly enabled, check the checker
+      emitting it is enabled
+
+
+
+2006-11-23  --  0.12.2
+    * fix #3143: W0233 bug w/ YES objects
+
+    * fix #3119: Off-by-one error counting lines in a file
+
+    * fix #3117: ease sys.stdout overriding for reporters
+
+    * fix #2508: E0601 false positive with lambda
+
+    * fix #3125: E1101 false positive and a message duplication. Only the last part
+      is actually fixed since the initial false positive is due to dynamic setting of
+      attributes on the decimal.Context class.
+
+    * fix #3149: E0101 false positives and introduced E0100 for generator __init__
+      methods
+
+    * fixed some format checker false positives
+
+
+
+2006-09-25  --  0.12.1
+    * fixed python >= 2.4 format false positive with multiple lines statement
+
+    * fixed some 2.5 issues
+
+    * fixed generator expression scope bug (depends on astng 0.16.1)
+
+    * stop requiring __revision__
+
+
+
+2006-08-10  --  0.12.0
+    * usability changes:
+
+        - parseable, html and color options are now handled by a single
+	output-format option
+        - enable-<checkerid> and disable-all options are now handled by
+	two (exclusive) enable-checker and disable-checker options
+	taking a comma separated list of checker names as value
+        - renamed debug-mode option to errors-only
+
+    * started a reference user manual
+
+    * new W0212 message for access to protected member from client code
+      (close #14081)
+
+    * new W0105 and W0106 messages extracted from W0104 (statement seems
+      to have no effect) respectively when the statement is actually string
+      (that's sometimes used instead of comments for documentation) or an
+      empty  statement generated by a useless semicolon
+
+    * reclassified W0302 to C0302
+
+    * fix so that global messages are not anymore connected to the last
+      analyzed module (close #10106)
+
+    * fix some bugs related to local disabling of messages
+
+    * fix cr/lf pb when generating the rc file on windows platforms
+
+
+
+2006-04-19  --  0.11.0
+    * fix crash caused by the exceptions checker in some case
+
+    * fix some E1101 false positive with abstract method or classes defining
+      __getattr__
+
+    * dirty fix to avoid "_socketobject" has not "connect" member. The actual
+      problem is that astng isn't able to understand the code used to create
+      socket.socket object with exec
+
+    * added an option in the similarity checker to ignore docstrings, enabled
+      by default
+
+    * included patch from Benjamin Niemann to allow block level
+      enabling/disabling of messages
+
+
+
+2006-03-06  --  0.10.0
+    * WARNING, this release include some configuration changes (see below),
+      so you may have to check and update your own configuration file(s) if
+      you use one
+
+    * this release require the 0.15 version of astng or superior (it will save
+      you a lot of pylint crashes...)
+
+    * W0705 has been reclassified to E0701, and is now detecting more
+      inheriting problem, and a false positive when empty except clause is
+      following an Exception catch has been fixed (close #10422)
+
+    * E0212 and E0214 (metaclass/class method should have mcs/cls as first
+      argument have been reclassified to C0202 and C0203 since this not as
+      well established as "self" for instance method (E0213)
+
+    * W0224 has been reclassified into F0220 (failed to resolve interfaces
+      implemented by a class)
+
+    * a new typecheck checker, introducing the following checks:
+
+        - E1101, access to unexistent member (implements #10430), remove
+          the need of E0201 and so some options has been moved from the
+          classes checker to this one
+        - E1102, calling a non callable object
+        - E1111 and W1111 when an assignment is done on a function call but the
+          inferred function returns None (implements #10431)
+
+    * change in the base checker:
+
+        - checks module level and instance attribute names (new const-rgx
+          and attr-rgx configuration option) (implements #10209  and
+          #10440)
+        - list comprehension and generator expression variables have their
+          own regular expression  (the inlinevar-rgx option) (implements
+          #9146)
+        - the C0101 check with its min-name-length option has
+          been removed (this can be specified in the regxp after all...)
+        - W0103 and W0121 are now handled by the variables checker
+          (W0103 is now W0603 and W0604 has been splitted into different messages)
+        - W0131 and W0132 messages  have been reclassified to C0111 and
+          C0112 respectively
+        - new W0104 message on statement without effect
+
+    * regexp support for dummy-variables (dummy-variables-rgx option
+      replace dummy-variables) (implements #10027)
+
+    * better global statement handling, see W0602, W0603, W0604 messages
+      (implements #10344 and #10236)
+
+    * --debug-mode option, disabling all checkers without error message
+      and filtering others to only display error
+
+    * fixed some R0201 (method could be a function) false positive
+
+
+
+2006-01-10  --  0.9.0
+    * a lot of updates to follow astng 0.14 API changes, so install
+      logilab-astng  0.14 or greater before using this version of pylint
+
+    * checker number 10 ! newstyle will search for problems regarding old
+      style / new style classes usage problems (rely on astng 0.14 new
+      style detection feature)
+
+    * new 'load-plugins' options to load additional pylint plugins (usable
+      from the command line or from a configuration file) (implements
+      #10031)
+
+    * check if a "pylintrc" file exists in the current working directory
+      before using the one specified in the PYLINTRC environment variable
+      or the default ~/.pylintrc or /etc/pylintrc
+
+    * fixed W0706 (Identifier used to raise an exception is assigned...)
+      false positive and reraising a catched exception instance
+
+    * fixed E0611 (No name get in module blabla) false positive when accessing
+      to a class'__dict__
+
+    * fixed some E0203 ("access to member before its definition") false
+      positive
+
+    * fixed E0214 ("metaclass method first argument should be mcs) false
+      positive with staticmethod used on a metaclass
+
+    * fixed packaging which was missing the test/regrtest_data directory
+
+    * W0212 (method could be a function) has been reclassified in the
+      REFACTOR category as R0201, and is no more considerer when a method
+      overrides an abstract method from an ancestor class
+
+    * include module name in W0401 (wildcard import), as suggested by
+      Amaury
+
+    * when using the '--parseable', path are written relative to the
+      current working directory if in a sub-directory of it (#9789)
+
+    * 'pylint --version' shows logilab-astng and logilab-common versions
+
+    * fixed pylint.el to handle space in file names
+
+    * misc lint style fixes
+
+
+
+2005-11-07  --  0.8.1
+    * fix "deprecated module" false positive when the code imports a
+      module whose name starts with a deprecated module's name (close
+      #10061)
+
+    * fix "module has no name __dict__" false positive (close #10039)
+
+    * fix "access to undefined variable __path__" false positive (close
+      #10065)
+
+    * fix "explicit return in __init__" false positive when return is
+      actually in an inner function (close #10075)
+
+
+
+2005-10-21  --  0.8.0
+    * check names imported from a module exists in the module (E0611),
+      patch contributed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
+
+    * print a warning (W0212) for methods that could be a function
+      (implements #9100)
+
+    * new --defining-attr-methods option on classes checker
+
+    * new --acquired-members option on the classes checker, used when
+      --zope=yes to avoid false positive on acquired attributes (listed
+      using this new option) (close #8616)
+
+    * generate one E0602 for each use of an undefined variable
+      (previously, only one for the first use but not for the following)
+      (implements #1000)
+
+    * make profile option saveable
+
+    * fix Windows .bat file,  patch contributed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
+
+    * fix one more false positive for E0601 (access before definition)
+      with for loop such as "for i in range(10): print i" (test
+      func_noerror_defined_and_used_on_same_line)
+
+    * fix false positive for E0201 (undefined member) when accessing to
+      __name__ on a class object
+
+    * fix astng checkers traversal order
+
+    * fix bug in format checker when parsing a file from a platform
+      using different new line characters (close #9239)
+
+    * fix encoding detection regexp
+
+    * fix --rcfile handling (support for --rcfile=file, close #9590)
+
+
+
+2005-05-27  --  0.7.0
+    * WARNING: pylint is no longer a logilab subpackage. Users may have to
+      manually remove the old logilab/pylint directory.
+
+    * introduce a new --additional-builtins option to handle user defined
+      builtins
+
+    * --reports option has now -r as short alias, and -i for --include-ids
+
+    * fix a bug in the variables checker which may causing some false
+      positives when variables are defined and used within the same
+      statement (test func_noerror_defined_and_used_on_same_line)
+
+    * this time, real fix of the "disable-msg in the config file" problem,
+      test added to unittest_lint
+
+    * fix bug with --list-messages and python -OO
+
+    * fix possible false positive for W0201
+
+
+
+2005-04-14  --  0.6.4
+    * allow to parse files without extension when a path is given on the
+      command line (test noext)
+
+    * don't fail if we are unable to read an inline option  (e.g. inside a
+      module), just produce an information message (test func_i0010)
+
+    * new message E0103 for break or continue outside loop (close #8883,
+      test func_continue_not_in_loop)
+
+    * fix bug in the variables checker, causing non detection of some
+      actual name error (close #8884, test
+      func_nameerror_on_string_substitution)
+
+    * fix bug in the classes checker which was making pylint crash if
+      "object" is assigned in a class inheriting from it (test
+      func_noerror_object_as_class_attribute)
+
+    * fix problem with the similar checker when related options are
+      defined in a configuration file
+
+    * new --generate-man option to generate pylint's man page (require the
+      latest logilab.common (>= 0.9.3)
+
+    * packaged (generated...) man page
+
+
+
+2005-02-24  --  0.6.3
+    * fix scope problem which may cause false positive and true negative
+      on E0602
+
+    * fix problem with some options such as disable-msg causing error when
+      they are coming from the configuration file
+
+
+
+2005-02-16  --  0.6.2
+    * fix false positive on E0201 ("access to undefined member") with
+      metaclasses
+
+    * fix false positive on E0203 ("access to member before its
+      definition") when attributes are defined in a parent class
+
+    * fix false positive on W0706 ("identifier used to raise an exception
+      assigned to...")
+
+    * fix interpretation of "\t" as value for the indent-string
+      configuration variable
+
+    * fix --rcfile so that --rcfile=pylintrc (only --rcfile pylintrc was
+      working in earlier release)
+
+    * new raw checker example in the examples/ directory
+
+
+
+2005-02-04  --  0.6.1
+    * new --rcfile option to specify the configuration file without the
+      PYLINTRC environment variable
+
+    * added an example module for a custom pylint checker (see the
+      example/ directory)
+
+    * some fixes to handle fixes in common 0.9.1 (should however still working
+      with common 0.9.0, even if upgrade is recommended)
+
+
+
+2005-01-20  --  0.6.0
+    * refix pylint emacs mode
+
+    * no more traceback when just typing "pylint"
+
+    * fix a bug which may cause crashes on resolving parent classes
+
+    * fix problems with the format checker: don't chock on files
+      containing multiple CR, avoid C0322, C0323, C0324 false positives
+      with triple quoted string with quote inside
+
+    * correctly detect access to member defined latter in __init__ method
+
+    * now depends on common 0.8.1 to fix problem with interface resolution
+      (close #8606)
+
+    * new --list-msgs option describing available checkers and their
+      messages
+
+    * added windows specific documentation to the README file, contributed
+      by Brian van den Broek
+
+    * updated doc/features.txt (actually this file is now generated using
+      the --list-msgs option), more entries into the FAQ
+
+    * improved tests coverage
+
+
+
+2004-10-19  --  0.5.0
+    * avoid to import analyzed modules !
+
+    * new Refactor and Convention message categories. Some Warnings have been
+      remaped into those new categories
+
+    * added "similar", a tool to find copied and pasted lines of code,
+      both using a specific command line tool and integrated as a
+      pylint's checker
+
+    * imports checker may report import dependencies as a dot graph
+
+    * new checker regrouping most Refactor detection (with some new metrics)
+
+    * more command line options storable in the configuration file
+
+    * fix bug with total / undocumented number of methods
+
+
+
+2004-07-08  --  0.4.2
+    * fix pylint emacs mode
+
+    * fix classes checkers to handler twisted interfaces
+
+
+
+2004-05-14  --  0.4.1
+    * fix the setup.py script to allow bdist_winst (well, the generated
+      installer has not been tested...) with the necessary
+      logilab/__init__.py file
+
+    * fix file naming convention as suggested by Andreas Amoroso
+
+    * fix stupid crash bug with bad method names
+
+
+
+2004-05-10  --  0.4.0
+    * fix file path with --parsable
+
+    * --parsable option has been renamed to --parseable
+
+    * added patch from Andreas Amoroso to output message to files instead
+      of standard output
+
+    * added Run to the list of correct variable names
+
+    * fix variable names regexp and checking of local classes names
+
+    * some basic handling of metaclasses
+
+    * no-docstring-rgx apply now on classes too
+
+    * new option to specify a different regexp for methods than for
+      functions
+
+    * do not display the evaluation report when no statements has been
+      analysed
+
+    * fixed crash with a class nested in a method
+
+    * fixed format checker to deals with triple quoted string and
+      lines with code and comment mixed
+
+    * use logilab.common.ureports to layout reports
+
+
+
+2004-02-17  --  0.3.3
+    * added a parsable text output, used when the --parsable option is
+      provided
+
+    * added an emacs mode using this output, available in the distrib's
+      elisp directory
+
+    * fixed some typos in messages
+
+    * change include-ids options to yn, and allow it to be in the
+      configuration file
+
+    * do not chock on corrupted stats files
+
+    * fixed bug in the format checker which may stop pylint execution
+
+    * provide scripts for unix and windows to wrap the minimal pylint tk
+      gui
+
+
+
+2003-12-23  --  0.3.2
+    * html-escape messages in the HTML reporter (bug reported by Juergen
+      Hermann)
+
+    * added "TODO" to the list of default note tags
+
+    * added "rexec" to the list of default deprecated modules
+
+    * fixed typos in some messages
+
+
+
+2003-12-05  --  0.3.1
+    * bug fix in format and classes checkers
+
+    * remove print statement from imports checkers
+
+    * provide a simple tk gui, essentially useful for windows users
+
+
+
+2003-11-20  --  0.3.0
+    * new exceptions checker, checking for string exception and empty
+      except clauses.
+
+    * imports checker checks for reimport of modules
+
+    * classes checker checks for calls to ancestor's __init__ and abstract
+      method not overridden. It doesn't complain anymore for unused import in
+      __init__ files, and provides a new option ignore-interface-methods,
+      useful when you're using zope Interface implementation in your project
+
+    * base checker checks for black listed builtins call (controled by the
+      bad-functions option) and for use of * and **
+
+    * format checker checks for use of <> and "l" as long int marker
+
+    * major internal API changes
+
+    * use the rewrite of astng, based on compiler.ast
+
+    * added unique id for messages, as suggested by Wolfgang Grafen
+
+    * added unique id for reports
+
+    * can take multiple modules or files as argument
+
+    * new options command line options : --disable-msg, --enable-msg,
+      --help-msg, --include-ids, --reports, --disable-report, --cache-size
+
+    * --version shows the version of the python interpreter
+
+    * removed some options which are now replaced by [en|dis]able-msg, or
+      disable-report
+
+    * read disable-msg and enable-msg options in source files (should be
+      in comments on the top of the file, in the form
+      "# pylint: disable-msg=W0402"
+
+    * new message for modules importing themselves instead of the "cyclic
+      import" message
+
+    * fix bug with relative and cyclic imports
+
+    * fix bug in imports checker (cycle was not always detected)
+
+    * still fixes in format checker : don't check comment and docstring,
+      check first line after an indent
+
+    * black and white list now apply to all identifiers, not only
+      variables,  so changed the configuration option from
+      (good|bad)-variable-names to (good|bad)-names
+
+    * added string, rexec and Bastion to the default list of deprecated
+      modules
+
+    * do not print redefinition warning for function/class/method defined
+      in mutually exclusive branches
+
+
+
+2003-10-10  --  0.2.1
+    * added some documentation, fixed some typos
+
+    * set environment variable PYLINT_IMPORT to 1 during pylint execution.
+
+    * check that variables "imported" using the global statement exist
+
+    * indentation problems are now warning instead of errors
+
+    * fix checkers.initialize to try to load all files with a known python
+      extension (patch from wrobell)
+
+    * fix a bunch of messages
+
+    * fix sample configuration file
+
+    * fix the bad-construction option
+
+    * fix encoding checker
+
+    * fix format checker
+
+
+
+2003-09-12  --  0.2.0
+    * new source encoding / FIXME checker (pep 263)
+
+    * new --zope option which trigger Zope import. Useful to check Zope
+      products code.
+
+    * new --comment option which enable the evaluation note comment
+      (disabled by default).
+
+    * a ton of bug fixes
+
+    * easy functional test infrastructure
+
+
+
+2003-06-18  --  0.1.2
+    * bug fix release
+
+    * remove dependency to pyreverse
+
+
+
+2003-06-01  --  0.1.1
+    * much more functionalities !
+
+
+
+2003-05-19  --  0.1
+    * initial release
+
+
+