Bump pylint to 2.15.1, update changelog

Author: Pierre-Sassoulas

CONTRIBUTORS.txt

@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ contributors:
 - Ry4an Brase <[email protected]>
 - Ruro <[email protected]>
 - Roman Ivanov <[email protected]>
+- Rogdham <[email protected]>
 - Robert Schweizer <[email protected]>
 - Reverb Chu <[email protected]>
 - Renat Galimov <[email protected]>
@@ -422,6 +423,7 @@ contributors:
 - Louis Sautier <[email protected]>
 - Lorena Buciu <[email protected]>
 - Logan Miller <[email protected]>
+- Levi Gruspe <[email protected]>
 - Kári Tristan Helgason <[email protected]>
 - Kurian Benoy <[email protected]>
 - Krzysztof Czapla <[email protected]>
@@ -500,6 +502,7 @@ contributors:
 - Craig Citro <[email protected]>
 - Clément Pit-Claudel <[email protected]>
 - Christopher Zurcher <[email protected]>
+- Christoph Blessing <[email protected]>
 - Carl Crowder <[email protected]>: don't evaluate the value of arguments for 'dangerous-default-value'
 - Carey Metcalfe <[email protected]>: demoted `try-except-raise` from error to warning
 - Cameron Olechowski <[email protected]>

doc/whatsnew/2/2.15/index.rst

@@ -29,6 +29,50 @@ Marc Byrne became a maintainer, welcome to the team !
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+
+What's new in Pylint 2.15.1?
+----------------------------
+Release date: 2022-09-06
+
+- Fix ``used-before-assignment`` for functions/classes defined in type checking guard.
+
+  Closes #7368 (`#7368 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7368>`_)
+- Update ``modified_iterating`` checker to fix a crash with ``for`` loops on empty list.
+
+  Closes #7380 (`#7380 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7380>`_)
+- The ``docparams`` extension now considers typing in Numpy style docstrings
+  as "documentation" for the ``missing-param-doc`` message.
+
+  Refs #7398 (`#7398 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7398>`_)
+- Fix false positive for ``unused-variable`` and ``unused-import`` when a name is only used in a string literal type annotation.
+
+  Closes #3299 (`#3299 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/3299>`_)
+- Fix false positive for ``too-many-function-args`` when a function call is assigned to a class attribute inside the class where the function is defined.
+
+  Closes #6592 (`#6592 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/6592>`_)
+- Fix ``used-before-assignment`` for functions/classes defined in type checking guard.
+
+  Closes #7368 (`#7368 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7368>`_)
+- Fix ignored files being linted when passed on stdin.
+
+  Closes #4354 (`#4354 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/4354>`_)
+- ``missing-return-doc``, ``missing-raises-doc`` and ``missing-yields-doc`` now respect
+  the ``no-docstring-rgx`` option.
+
+  Closes #4743 (`#4743 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/4743>`_)
+- Don't crash on ``OSError`` in config file discovery.
+
+  Closes #7169 (`#7169 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7169>`_)
+- ``disable-next`` is now correctly scoped to only the succeeding line.
+
+  Closes #7401 (`#7401 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7401>`_)
+- Update ``modified_iterating`` checker to fix a crash with ``for`` loops on empty list.
+
+  Closes #7380 (`#7380 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7380>`_)
+
+What's new in Pylint 2.15.0?
+----------------------------
+
 New Checks
 ----------