Python: Update change note for 1.23.

change-notes/1.23/analysis-python.md

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 ## General improvements
 
+### Python 3.8 support
 
+Python 3.8 syntax is now supported. In particular, the following constructs are parsed correctly:
+
+- Assignment expressions using the "walrus" operator, such as `while chunk := file.read(1024): ...`.
+- The positional argument separator `/`, such as in `def foo(a, /, b, *, c): ...`.
+- Self-documenting expressions in f-strings, such as `f"{var=}"`.
+
+### General query improvements
+
+In an effort to deprecate the `Object` API (e.g. `ClassObject`) in favour of the
+`Value` API (e.g. `ClassValue`), many of the standard queries have been updated
+to use the `Value` API. This should result in more precise results.
 
 ## New queries
 
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 |----------------------------|------------------------|------------|
 | Unreachable code | Fewer false positives | Analysis now accounts for uses of `contextlib.suppress` to suppress exceptions. |
 | `__iter__` method returns a non-iterator | Better alert message | Alert now highlights which class is expected to be an iterator. |
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+| Explicit return in __init__ method | Fewer false positives | Instances where the `__init__` method returns the value of a call to a procedure are no longer flagged. |
+| Non-iterable used in for loop | Fewer false positives | `__aiter__` is now recognized as an iterator method. |
+| Unused import | Fewer false positives | Instances where a module is used in a forward-referenced type annotation, or only during type checking are no longer flagged. |
+| Module-level cyclic import | Fewer false positives | Instances where one of the links in an import cycle is never actually executed are no longer flagged. |
+| Undefined export | Fewer false positives | Instances where an exported value may be defined in a module that lacks points-to information are no longer flagged. |
+| Unreachable code | Fewer false positives | Unreachable `else` branches that do nothing but `assert` their non-reachability are no longer flagged. |
 
 ## Changes to QL libraries
 
 * Django library now recognizes positional arguments from a `django.conf.urls.url` regex (Django version 1.x)
+* Instances of the `Value` class now support the `isAbsent` method, indicating
+  whether the `Value` in question is missing points-to information, but has been
+  inferred to likely exist anyway. For instance, if a file contains `import
+  django`, but `django` was not extracted properly, there will be a
+  `ModuleValue` corresponding to this "unknown" module, and the `isAbsent`
+  method will hold for this `ModuleValue`.
+* The `Expr` class now has a nullary method `pointsTo` that returns the possible
+  instances of `Value` that this expression may have.