Release branch 3.0.0a6

CONTRIBUTORS.txt

@@ -116,12 +116,12 @@ contributors:
 - Julien Jehannet <[email protected]>
 - Boris Feld <[email protected]>
 - Anthony Sottile <[email protected]>
+- Zen Lee <[email protected]>
 - Pedro Algarvio <[email protected]> (s0undt3ch)
 - Julien Palard <[email protected]>
 - David Liu <[email protected]> (david-yz-liu)
 - Dan Goldsmith <[email protected]>: support for msg-template in HTML reporter.
 - Buck Evan <[email protected]>
-- Zen Lee <[email protected]>
 - Robert Hofer <[email protected]>
 - Mariatta Wijaya <[email protected]>
   * Added new check `logging-fstring-interpolation`
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ contributors:
 - Sergei Lebedev <[email protected]>
 - Scott Worley <[email protected]>
 - Saugat Pachhai <[email protected]>
+- Samuel FORESTIER <[email protected]>
 - Rémi Cardona <[email protected]>
 - Rogdham <[email protected]>
 - Raphael Gaschignard <[email protected]>
@@ -339,6 +340,7 @@ contributors:
 - danields <[email protected]>
 - cosven <[email protected]>
 - cordis-dev <[email protected]>
+- cherryblossom <[email protected]>
 - bluesheeptoken <[email protected]>
 - anatoly techtonik <[email protected]>
 - agutole <[email protected]>
@@ -373,6 +375,7 @@ contributors:
 - Svetoslav Neykov <[email protected]>
 - Stéphane Wirtel <[email protected]>: nonlocal-without-binding
 - Stephen Longofono <[email protected]>
+- Stephane Odul <[email protected]>
 - Stanislav Levin <[email protected]>
 - Sorin Sbarnea <[email protected]>
 - Slavfox <[email protected]>
@@ -384,7 +387,6 @@ contributors:
 - Sardorbek Imomaliev <[email protected]>
 - Santiago Castro <[email protected]>
 - Samuel Freilich <[email protected]> (sfreilich)
-- Samuel FORESTIER <[email protected]>
 - Sam Vermeiren <[email protected]>
 - Ryan McGuire <[email protected]>
 - Ry4an Brase <[email protected]>
@@ -543,6 +545,7 @@ contributors:
 - Benedikt Morbach <[email protected]>
 - Ben Greiner <[email protected]>
 - Banjamin Freeman <[email protected]>
+- Avram Lubkin <[email protected]>
 - Athos Ribeiro <[email protected]>: Fixed dict-keys-not-iterating false positive for inverse containment checks
 - Arun Persaud <[email protected]>
 - Arthur Lutz <[email protected]>

doc/whatsnew/fragments/8404.breaking

@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 Everything related to the ``__implements__`` construct was removed. It was based on PEP245
-that was proposed in 2001 and rejected in 2006. It includes all the classes inheriting
-``Interface`` in ``pylint.interfaces``
-
-``Checker`` should only inherit ``BaseChecker`` or any of the other checker types from ``pylint.checkers``.
-``Reporter`` should only inherit ``BaseReporter``.
+that was proposed in 2001 and rejected in 2006.
 
 The capability from pyreverse to take ``__implements__`` into account when generating diagrams
 was also removed.

doc/whatsnew/fragments/8404.internal

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Everything related to the ``__implements__`` construct was removed. It was based on PEP245
+that was proposed in 2001 and rejected in 2006.
+
+All the classes inheriting ``Interface`` in ``pylint.interfaces`` were removed.
+``Checker`` should only inherit ``BaseChecker`` or any of the other checker types
+from ``pylint.checkers``. ``Reporter`` should only inherit ``BaseReporter``.
+
+Refs #8404

pylint/__pkginfo__.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = "3.0.0a6"
+__version__ = "3.0.0b1"
 
 
 def get_numversion_from_version(v: str) -> tuple[int, int, int]:

tbump.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 github_url = "https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint"
 
 [version]
-current = "3.0.0a6"
+current = "3.0.0b1"
 regex = '''
 ^(?P<major>0|[1-9]\d*)
 \.

towncrier.toml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [tool.towncrier]
-version = "2.17.1"
+version = "3.0.0"
 directory = "doc/whatsnew/fragments"
-filename = "doc/whatsnew/2/2.17/index.rst"
+filename = "doc/whatsnew/3/3.0/index.rst"
 template = "doc/whatsnew/fragments/_template.rst"
 issue_format = "`#{issue} <https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint/issues/{issue}>`_"
 wrap = true