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+**************************
+ What's New in Pylint 2.3
+**************************
+
+:Release: 2.3
+:Date: 2019-02-27
+
+
+Summary -- Release highlights
+=============================
+
+* This release improves the performance of the 2.X series after it was affected by a performance regression a couple of releases ago.
+
+New checkers
+============
+
+* We added a new check message ``wrong-exception-operation``.
+ This is emitted when an operation is done against an exception, but the operation
+ is not valid for the exception in question. Usually emitted when having
+ binary operations between exceptions in except handlers.
+
+ Closes #2494
+
+* We added a new ``no-else-raise`` warning similar to ``no-else-return``
+
+ Closes #2558
+
+* We added a new option ``check-str-concat-over-line-jumps`` to check
+ ``implicit-str-concat-in-sequence`` over multiple lines.
+
+
+Other Changes
+=============
+
+Quite a lot of bug fixes and improvements went into this release, here's a handful of them.
+For the full changes, check the Changelog.
+
+* We no longer emit ``*-not-iterating`` checks for builtins consumed by ``itertools``
+
+* We fixed some false positives for ``no-self-argument`` and ``unsubscriptable-object``
+ when using ``__class_getitem__`` (new in Python 3.7)
+
+* ``pylint`` now supports ``Ellipsis`` as a synonym for ``pass`` statements.
+
+* ``fixme`` gets triggered only on comments.
+
+* ``pylint`` exempts starred unpacking from ``*-not-iterating`` Python 3 checks.
+
+* ``compare-to-zero`` is now less zealous by checking against equality and identity.
+
+*``yield from`` is exempted from ``*-not-iterating`` Python 3 checks.
+
+* A false positive with ``not-async-context-manager`` caused by not understanding
+ ``contextlib.asynccontextmanager`` was fixed.
+
+* We refactored ``bad-reversed-sequence`` to account for more objects that can define ``__reversed__``.
+
+* ``no-member`` is now emitted for enums when they lack a member.
+
+* Plugins can now use the ``load_configuration()`` hook.
+ This hook is executed after configuration is loaded to prevent overwriting plugin
+ specific configuration via user-based configuration.
+
+* There's a new command line option ``list-groups`` for listing all the check groups
+ ``pylint`` knows about. This is useful to know what groups you can disable or enable
+ individually.