**2015-11-11**

*Released 2.9.2*

- Error handling on request timeouts has been improved

**2015-11-10**

*Released 2.9.1*

- Add parameter ``network_delay`` to Bot.getUpdates for slow connections

**2015-11-10**

*Released 2.9*

- Emoji class now uses ``bytes_to_native_str`` from ``future`` 3rd party lib
- Make ``user_from`` optional to work with channels
- Raise exception if Telegram times out on long-polling

*Special thanks to @jh0ker for all hard work*


**2015-10-08**

*Released 2.8.7*

- Type as optional for ``GroupChat`` class


**2015-10-08**

*Released 2.8.6*

- Adds type to ``User`` and ``GroupChat`` classes (pre-release Telegram feature)


**2015-09-24**

*Released 2.8.5*

- Handles HTTP Bad Gateway (503) errors on request
- Fixes regression on ``Audio`` and ``Document`` for unicode fields


**2015-09-20**

*Released 2.8.4*

- ``getFile`` and ``File.download`` is now fully supported


**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
- Add certificate to ``is_inputfile`` method


**2015-09-05**

*Released 2.8.1*

- Fix regression on Telegram objects with thumb properties


**2015-09-04**

*Released 2.8*

- TelegramError when ``chat_id`` is empty for send* methods
- ``setWebhook`` now supports sending self-signed certificate
- Huge redesign of existing Telegram classes
- Added support for PyPy
- Added docstring for existing classes


**2015-08-19**

*Released 2.7.1*

- Fixed JSON serialization for ``message``


**2015-08-17**

*Released 2.7*

- Added support for ``Voice`` object and ``sendVoice`` method
- Due backward compatibility performer or/and title will be required for ``sendAudio``
- Fixed JSON serialization when forwarded message


**2015-08-15**

*Released 2.6.1*

- Fixed parsing image header issue on < Python 2.7.3


**2015-08-14**

*Released 2.6.0*

- Depreciation of ``require_authentication`` and ``clearCredentials`` methods
- Giving ``AUTHORS`` the proper credits for their contribution for this project
- ``Message.date`` and ``Message.forward_date`` are now ``datetime`` objects


**2015-08-12**

*Released 2.5.3*

- ``telegram.Bot`` now supports to be unpickled


**2015-08-11**

*Released 2.5.2*

- New changes from Telegram Bot API have been applied
- ``telegram.Bot`` now supports to be pickled
- Return empty ``str`` instead ``None`` when ``message.text`` is empty


**2015-08-10**

*Released 2.5.1*

- Moved from GPLv2 to LGPLv3


**2015-08-09**

*Released 2.5*

- Fixes logging calls in API


**2015-08-08**

*Released 2.4*

- Fixes ``Emoji`` class for Python 3
- ``PEP8`` improvements


**2015-08-08**

*Released 2.3*

- Fixes ``ForceReply`` class
- Remove ``logging.basicConfig`` from library


**2015-07-25**

*Released 2.2*

- Allows ``debug=True`` when initializing ``telegram.Bot``


**2015-07-20**

*Released 2.1*

- Fix ``to_dict`` for ``Document`` and ``Video``


**2015-07-19**

*Released 2.0*

- Fixes bugs
- Improves ``__str__`` over ``to_json()``
- Creates abstract class ``TelegramObject``


**2015-07-15**

*Released 1.9*

- Python 3 officially supported
- ``PEP8`` improvements


**2015-07-12**

*Released 1.8*

- Fixes crash when replying an unicode text message (special thanks to JRoot3D)


**2015-07-11**

*Released 1.7*

- Fixes crash when ``username`` is not defined on ``chat`` (special thanks to JRoot3D)


**2015-07-10**

*Released 1.6*

- Improvements for GAE support


**2015-07-10**

*Released 1.5*

- Fixes randomly unicode issues when using ``InputFile``


**2015-07-10**

*Released 1.4*

- ``requests`` lib is no longer required
- Google App Engine (GAE) is supported


**2015-07-10**

*Released 1.3*

- Added support to ``setWebhook`` (special thanks to macrojames)


**2015-07-09**

*Released 1.2*

- ``CustomKeyboard`` classes now available
- Emojis available
- ``PEP8`` improvements


**2015-07-08**

*Released 1.1*

- PyPi package now available


**2015-07-08**

*Released 1.0*

- Initial checkin of python-telegram-bot