Bump pylint to 2.15.8, update changelog (#7899)

Author: Pierre-Sassoulas

CONTRIBUTORS.txt

@@ -99,34 +99,34 @@ contributors:
 - Joseph Young <[email protected]> (jpy-git)
 - Tim Martin <[email protected]>
 - Nicolas Chauvat <[email protected]>
+- Tushar Sadhwani <[email protected]> (tusharsadhwani)
 - Radu Ciorba <[email protected]>: not-context-manager and confusing-with-statement warnings.
 - Holger Peters <[email protected]>
 - Cosmin Poieană <[email protected]>: unichr-builtin and improvements to bad-open-mode.
-- Tushar Sadhwani <[email protected]> (tusharsadhwani)
 - Steven Myint <[email protected]>: duplicate-except.
 - Peter Kolbus <[email protected]> (Garmin)
 - Luigi Bertaco Cristofolini <[email protected]> (luigibertaco)
 - Glenn Matthews <[email protected]>:
   * autogenerated documentation for optional extensions,
   * bug fixes and enhancements for docparams (née check_docs) extension
+- Dani Alcala <[email protected]>
 - Vlad Temian <[email protected]>: redundant-unittest-assert and the JSON reporter.
 - Julien Jehannet <[email protected]>
-- Dani Alcala <[email protected]>
 - Boris Feld <[email protected]>
 - Anthony Sottile <[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]>
-- orSolocate <[email protected]>
 - Mariatta Wijaya <[email protected]>
   * Added new check `logging-fstring-interpolation`
   * Documentation typo fixes
 - Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>
 - Eli Fine <[email protected]> (eli88fine): Fixed false positive duplicate code warning for lines with symbols only
 - Andrew Haigh <[email protected]> (nelfin)
 - Émile Crater <[email protected]>
+- orSolocate <[email protected]>
 - Pavel Roskin <[email protected]>
 - David Gilman <[email protected]>
 - へーさん <[email protected]>
@@ -478,6 +478,7 @@ contributors:
 - Grégoire <[email protected]>
 - Grant Welch <[email protected]>
 - Giuseppe Valente <[email protected]>
+- Gideon <[email protected]>
 - Gary Tyler McLeod <[email protected]>
 - Felix von Drigalski <[email protected]>
 - Fabrice Douchant <[email protected]>

doc/whatsnew/2/2.15/index.rst

@@ -29,6 +29,39 @@ Marc Byrne became a maintainer, welcome to the team !
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+What's new in Pylint 2.15.8?
+----------------------------
+Release date: 2022-12-05
+
+
+False Positives Fixed
+---------------------
+
+- Document a known false positive for ``useless-suppression`` when disabling
+  ``line-too-long`` in a module with only comments and no code.
+
+  Closes #3368 (`#3368 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/3368>`_)
+
+- Fix ``logging-fstring-interpolation`` false positive raised when logging and
+  f-string with ``%s`` formatting.
+
+  Closes #4984 (`#4984 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/4984>`_)
+
+- Fixes false positive ``abstract-method`` on Protocol classes.
+
+  Closes #7209 (`#7209 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7209>`_)
+
+- Fix ``missing-param-doc`` false positive when function parameter has an
+  escaped underscore.
+
+  Closes #7827 (`#7827 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7827>`_)
+
+- ``multiple-statements`` no longer triggers for function stubs using inlined
+  ``...``.
+
+  Closes #7860 (`#7860 <https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/issues/7860>`_)
+
+
 What's new in Pylint 2.15.7?
 ----------------------------
 Release date: 2022-11-27

doc/whatsnew/fragments/3368.false_positive

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = "2.15.7"
+__version__ = "2.15.8"
 
 
 def get_numversion_from_version(v: str) -> tuple[int, int, int]:

doc/whatsnew/fragments/4984.false_positive

@@ -185,7 +185,8 @@
   "[email protected]": {
     "mails": [
       "66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com",
-      "49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
+      "49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com",
+      "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
     ],
     "name": "bot"
   },

doc/whatsnew/fragments/7209.false_positive

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 github_url = "https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint"
 
 [version]
-current = "2.15.7"
+current = "2.15.8"
 regex = '''
 ^(?P<major>0|[1-9]\d*)
 \.