From 389e14c36819cb87190fd412d3f366a3283f0078 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre Sassoulas <pierre.sassoulas@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:17:48 +0200
Subject: Bump pylint to 2.17.3, update changelog (#8620)

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diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/2/2.17/index.rst b/doc/whatsnew/2/2.17/index.rst
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--- 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
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