Merge 'maintenance/4.0.x' into main

Author: cdce8p

CONTRIBUTORS.txt

@@ -224,5 +224,3 @@ under this name, or we did not manage to find their commits in the history.
 - carl
 - alain lefroy
 - Mark Gius
-- Robert Hofer <1058012+hofrob@users.noreply.github.com>
-- Emmanuel Ferdman <emmanuelferdman@gmail.com>

ChangeLog

@@ -17,10 +17,16 @@ Release date: TBA
   Closes pylint-dev/pylint#6094
 
 
-What's New in astroid 4.0.1?
+What's New in astroid 4.0.2?
 ============================
 Release date: TBA
 
+
+
+What's New in astroid 4.0.1?
+============================
+Release date: 2025-10-11
+
 * Suppress ``SyntaxWarning`` for invalid escape sequences and return in finally on
   Python 3.14 when parsing modules.
 

script/.contributors_aliases.json

@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
       "66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com",
       "49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com",
       "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com",
+      "212256041+pylint-backport[bot]@users.noreply.github.com",
       "212256041+pylint-backport-bot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
     ],
     "name": "bot"