Merge branch 'maintenance/2.17.x' following 2.17.3 release

2 files changed, 67 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
index 95cdef6b9..6241ecae2 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
@@ -106,17 +106,18 @@ contributors:
 - Radu Ciorba <radu@devrandom.ro>: not-context-manager and confusing-with-statement warnings.
 - Holger Peters <email@holger-peters.de>
 - Cosmin Poieană <cmin@ropython.org>: unichr-builtin and improvements to bad-open-mode.
+- Zen Lee <53538590+zenlyj@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Steven Myint <hg@stevenmyint.com>: duplicate-except.
 - Peter Kolbus <peter.kolbus@gmail.com> (Garmin)
 - Luigi Bertaco Cristofolini <lucristofolini@gmail.com> (luigibertaco)
 - Glenn Matthews <glenn@e-dad.net>:
   * autogenerated documentation for optional extensions,
   * bug fixes and enhancements for docparams (née check_docs) extension
+- Yilei "Dolee" Yang <yileiyang@google.com>
 - Vlad Temian <vladtemian@gmail.com>: redundant-unittest-assert and the JSON reporter.
 - Julien Jehannet <julien.jehannet@logilab.fr>
 - Boris Feld <lothiraldan@gmail.com>
 - Anthony Sottile <asottile@umich.edu>
-- Zen Lee <53538590+zenlyj@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Pedro Algarvio <pedro@algarvio.me> (s0undt3ch)
 - Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr>
 - David Liu <david@cs.toronto.edu> (david-yz-liu)
@@ -133,7 +134,6 @@ contributors:
 - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
 - David Gilman <davidgilman1@gmail.com>
 - へーさん <hira9603859504@gmail.com>
-- Yilei "Dolee" Yang <yileiyang@google.com>
 - Thomas Hisch <t.hisch@gmail.com>
 - Marianna Polatoglou <mpolatoglou@bloomberg.net>: minor contribution for wildcard import check
 - Manuel Vázquez Acosta <mva.led@gmail.com>
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ contributors:
 - Sneaky Pete <sneakypete81@gmail.com>
 - Sergey B Kirpichev <skirpichev@gmail.com>
 - Sandro Tosi <sandro.tosi@gmail.com>: Debian packaging
+- Rogdham <contact@rogdham.net>
 - Rene Zhang <rz99@cornell.edu>
 - Paul Lichtenberger <paul.lichtenberger.rgbg@gmail.com>
 - Or Bahari <or.ba402@gmail.com>
@@ -233,9 +234,11 @@ contributors:
 - Federico Bond <federicobond@gmail.com>
 - Erik Wright <erik.wright@shopify.com>
 - Erik Eriksson <molobrakos@users.noreply.github.com>: Added overlapping-except error check.
+- Daniel Mouritzen <dmrtzn@gmail.com>
 - Dan Hemberger <846186+hemberger@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Chris Rebert <code@rebertia.com>: unidiomatic-typecheck.
 - Aurelien Campeas <aurelien.campeas@logilab.fr>
+- Alvaro Frias <alvarofriasgaray@gmail.com>
 - Alexander Pervakov <frost.nzcr4@jagmort.com>
 - Alain Leufroy <alain.leufroy@logilab.fr>
 - Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
@@ -255,7 +258,6 @@ contributors:
 - Saugat Pachhai <suagatchhetri@outlook.com>
 - Samuel FORESTIER <HorlogeSkynet@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Rémi Cardona <remi.cardona@polyconseil.fr>
-- Rogdham <contact@rogdham.net>
 - Raphael Gaschignard <raphael@makeleaps.com>
 - Ram Rachum <ram@rachum.com> (cool-RR)
 - Radostin Stoyanov <rst0git@users.noreply.github.com>
@@ -289,10 +291,10 @@ contributors:
 - Fantix King <fantix@uchicago.edu> (UChicago)
 - Eric McDonald <221418+emcd@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Elias Dorneles <eliasdorneles@gmail.com>: minor adjust to config defaults and docs
+- Elazrod56 <thomas.lf5629@gmail.com>
 - Derek Harland <derek.harland@finq.co.nz>
 - David Pursehouse <david.pursehouse@gmail.com>
 - Dave Bunten <dave.bunten@cuanschutz.edu>
-- Daniel Mouritzen <dmrtzn@gmail.com>
 - Daniel Miller <millerdev@gmail.com>
 - Christoph Blessing <33834216+cblessing24@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Chris Murray <chris@chrismurray.scot>
@@ -307,7 +309,6 @@ contributors:
 - Ben James <benjames1999@hotmail.co.uk>
 - Ben Green <benhgreen@icloud.com>
 - Batuhan Taskaya <batuhanosmantaskaya@gmail.com>
-- Alvaro Frias <alvarofriasgaray@gmail.com>
 - Alexander Kapshuna <kapsh@kap.sh>
 - Adam Parkin <pzelnip@users.noreply.github.com>
 - 谭九鼎 <109224573@qq.com>
@@ -369,6 +370,7 @@ contributors:
 - Tom <tsarantis@proton.me>
 - Tim Hatch <tim@timhatch.com>
 - Tim Gates <tim.gates@iress.com>
+- Théo Battrel <theo.util@protonmail.ch>
 - Thomas Benhamou <thomas@lightricks.com>
 - Tanvi Moharir <74228962+tanvimoharir@users.noreply.github.com>: Fix for invalid toml config
 - T.Rzepka <Tobias.Rzepka@gmail.com>
@@ -399,6 +401,7 @@ contributors:
 - Randall Leeds <randall@bleeds.info>
 - Ramon Saraiva <ramonsaraiva@gmail.com>
 - Ramiro Leal-Cavazos <ramiroleal050@gmail.com> (ramiro050): Fixed bug preventing pylint from working with Emacs tramp
+- RSTdefg <34202999+RSTdefg@users.noreply.github.com>
 - R. N. West <98110034+rnwst@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Qwiddle13 <32040075+Qwiddle13@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Quentin Young <qlyoung@users.noreply.github.com>
@@ -563,6 +566,7 @@ contributors:
 - Alok Singh <8325708+alok@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Allan Chandler <95424144+allanc65@users.noreply.github.com> (allanc65)
   * Fixed issue 5452, false positive missing-param-doc for multi-line Google-style params
+- Alex Mor <5476113+nashcontrol@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Alex Jurkiewicz <alex@jurkiewi.cz>
 - Alex Hearn <alex.d.hearn@gmail.com>
 - Alan Evangelista <alanoe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/2/2.17/index.rst b/doc/whatsnew/2/2.17/index.rst
index 7ea69bf68..f8395c30f 100644
--- a/doc/whatsnew/2/2.17/index.rst
+++ b/doc/whatsnew/2/2.17/index.rst
@@ -29,6 +29,64 @@ so we find problems before the actual release.
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+What's new in Pylint 2.17.3?
+----------------------------
+Release date: 2023-04-24
+
+
+False Positives Fixed
+---------------------
+
+- Fix `unused-argument` false positive when `__new__` does not use all the
+  arguments of `__init__`.
+
+  Closes #3670 (`#3670 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/3670>`_)
+
+- Fix ``unused-import`` false positive for usage of ``six.with_metaclass``.
+
+  Closes #7506 (`#7506 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7506>`_)
+
+- `logging-not-lazy` is not longer emitted for explicitly concatenated string
+  arguments.
+
+  Closes #8410 (`#8410 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/8410>`_)
+
+- Fix false positive for isinstance-second-argument-not-valid-type when union
+  types contains None.
+
+  Closes #8424 (`#8424 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/8424>`_)
+
+- Fixed `unused-import` so that it observes the `dummy-variables-rgx` option.
+
+  Closes #8500 (`#8500 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/8500>`_)
+
+- `Union` typed variables without assignment are no longer treated as
+  `TypeAlias`.
+
+  Closes #8540 (`#8540 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/8540>`_)
+
+- Fix false positive for ``positional-only-arguments-expected`` when a function
+  contains both a positional-only parameter that has a default value, and
+  ``**kwargs``.
+
+  Closes #8555 (`#8555 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/8555>`_)
+
+- Fix false positive for ``keyword-arg-before-vararg`` when a positional-only
+  parameter with a default value precedes ``*args``.
+
+  Closes #8570 (`#8570 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/8570>`_)
+
+
+
+Other Bug Fixes
+---------------
+
+- Improve output of ``consider-using-generator`` message for ``min()` calls
+  with ``default`` keyword.
+
+  Closes #8563 (`#8563 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/8563>`_)
+
+
 What's new in Pylint 2.17.2?
 ----------------------------
 Release date: 2023-04-03