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  What's New In Pylint 1.0
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Release date: 2013-08-06

* 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

  Closes Logilab #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

* Check for unbalanced unpacking in assignments

  Closes BitBucket #37

* Fix incomplete-protocol false positive for read-only containers like tuple

  Closes BitBucket #25

* Fix False positive E1003 on Python 3 for argument-less super()

  Closes BitBucket #16

* Put back documentation in source distribution

  Closes BitBucket #6

* epylint shouldn't hang anymore when there is a large output on pylint'stderr

  Closes BitBucket #15

* Fix epylint w/ python3

  Closes BitBucket #7

* Remove string module from the default list of deprecated modules

  Closes BitBucket #3