Relax Upper Bound for httpx Dependency (#4148)

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ repos:
     -   id: ruff
         name: ruff
         additional_dependencies:
-          - httpx~=0.27.0
+          - httpx~=0.27
           - tornado~=6.4
           - APScheduler~=3.10.4
           - cachetools~=5.3.3
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ repos:
     -   id: pylint
         files: ^(?!(tests|docs)).*\.py$
         additional_dependencies:
-          - httpx~=0.27.0
+          - httpx~=0.27
           - tornado~=6.4
           - APScheduler~=3.10.4
           - cachetools~=5.3.3
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ repos:
           - types-pytz
           - types-cryptography
           - types-cachetools
-          - httpx~=0.27.0
+          - httpx~=0.27
           - tornado~=6.4
           - APScheduler~=3.10.4
           - cachetools~=5.3.3

README.rst

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ As these features are *optional*, the corresponding 3rd party dependencies are n
 Instead, they are listed as optional dependencies.
 This allows to avoid unnecessary dependency conflicts for users who don't need the optional features.
 
-The only required dependency is `httpx ~= 0.27.0 <https://www.python-httpx.org>`_ for
+The only required dependency is `httpx ~= 0.27 <https://www.python-httpx.org>`_ for
 ``telegram.request.HTTPXRequest``, the default networking backend.
 
 ``python-telegram-bot`` is most useful when used along with additional libraries.

README_RAW.rst

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ As these features are *optional*, the corresponding 3rd party dependencies are n
 Instead, they are listed as optional dependencies.
 This allows to avoid unnecessary dependency conflicts for users who don't need the optional features.
 
-The only required dependency is `httpx ~= 0.27.0 <https://www.python-httpx.org>`_ for
+The only required dependency is `httpx ~= 0.27 <https://www.python-httpx.org>`_ for
 ``telegram.request.HTTPXRequest``, the default networking backend.
 
 ``python-telegram-bot`` is most useful when used along with additional libraries.

requirements.txt

@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@
 # When dependencies release new versions and tests succeed, we should try to expand the allowed
 # versions and only increase the lower bound if necessary
 
-# httpx has no stable release yet, so let's be cautious for now
-httpx ~= 0.27.0
+# httpx has no stable release yet, but we've had no stability problems since v20.0a0 either
+# Since there have been requests to relax the bound a bit, we allow versions < 1.0.0
+httpx ~= 0.27