Releasing v2.8.3

CHANGES.rst

@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+2015-09-10
+  Released 2.8.3
+  Moved Bot._requestURL to its own class (telegram.utils.request)
+  Much better, such wow, Telegram Objects tests
+  Add consistency for str properties on Telegram Objects
+  Better design to test if chat_id is invalid
+  Add ability to set custom filename on Bot.sendDocument(..,filename='')
+  Fix Sticker as InputFile
+  Send JSON requests over urlencoded post data
+  Markdown support for Bot.sendMessage(..., parse_mode=ParseMode.MARKDOWN)
+  Refactor of TelegramError class (no more handling IOError or URLError)
+
+
 2015-09-05
   Released 2.8.2
   Fix regression on Telegram ReplyMarkup

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ author = u'Leandro Toledo'
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '2.8'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.8.2'
+release = '2.8.3'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.

setup.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ def read(*paths):
 
 setup(
     name='python-telegram-bot',
-    version='2.8.2',
+    version='2.8.3',
     author='Leandro Toledo',
     author_email='leandrotoledodesouza@gmail.com',
     license='LGPLv3',

telegram/__init__.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 """A library that provides a Python interface to the Telegram Bot API"""
 
 __author__ = 'leandrotoledodesouza@gmail.com'
-__version__ = '2.8.2'
+__version__ = '2.8.3'
 
 from .base import TelegramObject
 from .user import User