What's New in Pylint 2.11

Release: 2.11
Date: TBA

Summary -- Release highlights

New checkers

Added consider-using-f-string: Emitted when .format() or '%' is being used to format a string.

Closes #3592

Extensions

Added new extension SetMembershipChecker with use-set-for-membership check: Emitted when using an in-place defined list or tuple to do a membership test. sets are better optimized for that.

Closes #4776
CodeStyleChecker
- Added consider-using-assignment-expr: Emitted when an assignment is directly followed by an if statement and both can be combined by using an assignment expression :=. Requires Python 3.8
  
  Closes #4862

Other Changes

Added py-version config key (if [MASTER] section). Used for version dependant checks. Will default to whatever Python version pylint is executed with.
The invalid-name message is now more detailed when using multiple naming style regexes.
Fix false positive for function-redefined for simple type annotations

Closes #4936