========= Changelog ========= Version 13.3 ============ *Released 2021-02-19* **Major Changes:** - Make ``cryptography`` Dependency Optional & Refactor Some Tests (`#2386`_, `#2370`_) - Deprecate ``MessageQueue`` (`#2393`_) **Bug Fixes:** - Refactor ``Defaults`` Integration (`#2363`_) - Add Missing ``telegram.SecureValue`` to init and Docs (`#2398`_) **Minor changes:** - Doc Fixes (`#2359`_) .. _`#2386`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2386 .. _`#2370`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2370 .. _`#2393`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2393 .. _`#2363`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2363 .. _`#2398`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2398 .. _`#2359`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2359 Version 13.2 ============ *Released 2021-02-02* **Major Changes:** - Introduce ``python-telegram-bot-raw`` (`#2324`_) - Explicit Signatures for Shortcuts (`#2240`_) **New Features:** - Add Missing Shortcuts to ``Message`` (`#2330`_) - Rich Comparison for ``Bot`` (`#2320`_) - Add ``run_async`` Parameter to ``ConversationHandler`` (`#2292`_) - Add New Shortcuts to ``Chat`` (`#2291`_) - Add New Constant ``MAX_ANSWER_CALLBACK_QUERY_TEXT_LENGTH`` (`#2282`_) - Allow Passing Custom Filename For All Media (`#2249`_) - Handle Bytes as File Input (`#2233`_) **Bug Fixes:** - Fix Escaping in Nested Entities in ``Message`` Properties (`#2312`_) - Adjust Calling of ``Dispatcher.update_persistence`` (`#2285`_) - Add ``quote`` kwarg to ``Message.reply_copy`` (`#2232`_) - ``ConversationHandler``: Docs & ``edited_channel_post`` behavior (`#2339`_) **Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes and type hinting:** - Doc Fixes (`#2253`_, `#2225`_) - Reduce Usage of ``typing.Any`` (`#2321`_) - Extend Deeplinking Example (`#2335`_) - Add pyupgrade to pre-commit Hooks (`#2301`_) - Add PR Template (`#2299`_) - Drop Nightly Tests & Update Badges (`#2323`_) - Update Copyright (`#2289`_, `#2287`_) - Change Order of Class DocStrings (`#2256`_) - Add macOS to Test Matrix (`#2266`_) - Start Using Versioning Directives in Docs (`#2252`_) - Improve Annotations & Docs of Handlers (`#2243`_) .. _`#2324`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2324 .. _`#2240`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2240 .. _`#2330`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2330 .. _`#2320`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2320 .. _`#2292`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2292 .. _`#2291`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2291 .. _`#2282`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2282 .. _`#2249`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2249 .. _`#2233`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2233 .. _`#2312`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2312 .. _`#2285`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2285 .. _`#2232`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2232 .. _`#2339`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2339 .. _`#2253`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2253 .. _`#2225`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2225 .. _`#2321`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2321 .. _`#2335`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2335 .. _`#2301`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2301 .. _`#2299`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2299 .. _`#2323`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2323 .. _`#2289`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2289 .. _`#2287`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2287 .. _`#2256`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2256 .. _`#2266`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2266 .. _`#2252`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2252 .. _`#2243`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2243 Version 13.1 ============ *Released 2020-11-29* **Major Changes:** - Full support of Bot API 5.0 (`#2181`_, `#2186`_, `#2190`_, `#2189`_, `#2183`_, `#2184`_, `#2188`_, `#2185`_, `#2192`_, `#2196`_, `#2193`_, `#2223`_, `#2199`_, `#2187`_, `#2147`_, `#2205`_) **New Features:** - Add ``Defaults.run_async`` (`#2210`_) - Improve and Expand ``CallbackQuery`` Shortcuts (`#2172`_) - Add XOR Filters and make ``Filters.name`` a Property (`#2179`_) - Add ``Filters.document.file_extension`` (`#2169`_) - Add ``Filters.caption_regex`` (`#2163`_) - Add ``Filters.chat_type`` (`#2128`_) - Handle Non-Binary File Input (`#2202`_) **Bug Fixes:** - Improve Handling of Custom Objects in ``BasePersistence.insert``/``replace_bot`` (`#2151`_) - Fix bugs in ``replace/insert_bot`` (`#2218`_) **Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes and type hinting:** - Improve Type hinting (`#2204`_, `#2118`_, `#2167`_, `#2136`_) - Doc Fixes & Extensions (`#2201`_, `#2161`_) - Use F-Strings Where Possible (`#2222`_) - Rename kwargs to _kwargs where possible (`#2182`_) - Comply with PEP561 (`#2168`_) - Improve Code Quality (`#2131`_) - Switch Code Formatting to Black (`#2122`_, `#2159`_, `#2158`_) - Update Wheel Settings (`#2142`_) - Update ``timerbot.py`` to ``v13.0`` (`#2149`_) - Overhaul Constants (`#2137`_) - Add Python 3.9 to Test Matrix (`#2132`_) - Switch Codecov to ``GitHub`` Action (`#2127`_) - Specify Required pytz Version (`#2121`_) .. _`#2181`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2181 .. _`#2186`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2186 .. _`#2190`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2190 .. _`#2189`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2189 .. _`#2183`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2183 .. _`#2184`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2184 .. _`#2188`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2188 .. _`#2185`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2185 .. _`#2192`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2192 .. _`#2196`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2196 .. _`#2193`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2193 .. _`#2223`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2223 .. _`#2199`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2199 .. _`#2187`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2187 .. _`#2147`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2147 .. _`#2205`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2205 .. _`#2210`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2210 .. _`#2172`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2172 .. _`#2179`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2179 .. _`#2169`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2169 .. _`#2163`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2163 .. _`#2128`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2128 .. _`#2202`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2202 .. _`#2151`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2151 .. _`#2218`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2218 .. _`#2204`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2204 .. _`#2118`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2118 .. _`#2167`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2167 .. _`#2136`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2136 .. _`#2201`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2201 .. _`#2161`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2161 .. _`#2222`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2222 .. _`#2182`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2182 .. _`#2168`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2168 .. _`#2131`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2131 .. _`#2122`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2122 .. _`#2159`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2159 .. _`#2158`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2158 .. _`#2142`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2142 .. _`#2149`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2149 .. _`#2137`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2137 .. _`#2132`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2132 .. _`#2127`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2127 .. _`#2121`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2121 Version 13.0 ============ *Released 2020-10-07* **For a detailed guide on how to migrate from v12 to v13, see this** `wiki page `_. **Major Changes:** - Deprecate old-style callbacks, i.e. set ``use_context=True`` by default (`#2050`_) - Refactor Handling of Message VS Update Filters (`#2032`_) - Deprecate ``Message.default_quote`` (`#1965`_) - Refactor persistence of Bot instances (`#1994`_) - Refactor ``JobQueue`` (`#1981`_) - Refactor handling of kwargs in Bot methods (`#1924`_) - Refactor ``Dispatcher.run_async``, deprecating the ``@run_async`` decorator (`#2051`_) **New Features:** - Type Hinting (`#1920`_) - Automatic Pagination for ``answer_inline_query`` (`#2072`_) - ``Defaults.tzinfo`` (`#2042`_) - Extend rich comparison of objects (`#1724`_) - Add ``Filters.via_bot`` (`#2009`_) - Add missing shortcuts (`#2043`_) - Allow ``DispatcherHandlerStop`` in ``ConversationHandler`` (`#2059`_) - Make Errors picklable (`#2106`_) **Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes or bug fixes:** - Fix Webhook not working on Windows with Python 3.8+ (`#2067`_) - Fix setting thumbs with ``send_media_group`` (`#2093`_) - Make ``MessageHandler`` filter for ``Filters.update`` first (`#2085`_) - Fix ``PicklePersistence.flush()`` with only ``bot_data`` (`#2017`_) - Add test for clean argument of ``Updater.start_polling/webhook`` (`#2002`_) - Doc fixes, refinements and additions (`#2005`_, `#2008`_, `#2089`_, `#2094`_, `#2090`_) - CI fixes (`#2018`_, `#2061`_) - Refine ``pollbot.py`` example (`#2047`_) - Refine Filters in examples (`#2027`_) - Rename ``echobot`` examples (`#2025`_) - Use Lock-Bot to lock old threads (`#2048`_, `#2052`_, `#2049`_, `#2053`_) .. _`#2050`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2050 .. _`#2032`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2032 .. _`#1965`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1965 .. _`#1994`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1994 .. _`#1981`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1981 .. _`#1924`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1924 .. _`#2051`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2051 .. _`#1920`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1920 .. _`#2072`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2072 .. _`#2042`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2042 .. _`#1724`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1724 .. _`#2009`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2009 .. _`#2043`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2043 .. _`#2059`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2059 .. _`#2106`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2106 .. _`#2067`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2067 .. _`#2093`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2093 .. _`#2085`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2085 .. _`#2017`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2017 .. _`#2002`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2002 .. _`#2005`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2005 .. _`#2008`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2008 .. _`#2089`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2089 .. _`#2094`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2094 .. _`#2090`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2090 .. _`#2018`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2018 .. _`#2061`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2061 .. _`#2047`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2047 .. _`#2027`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2027 .. _`#2025`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2025 .. _`#2048`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2048 .. _`#2052`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2052 .. _`#2049`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2049 .. _`#2053`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2053 Version 12.8 ============ *Released 2020-06-22* **Major Changes:** - Remove Python 2 support (`#1715`_) - Bot API 4.9 support (`#1980`_) - IDs/Usernames of ``Filters.user`` and ``Filters.chat`` can now be updated (`#1757`_) **Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes or bug fixes:** - Update contribution guide and stale bot (`#1937`_) - Remove ``NullHandlers`` (`#1913`_) - Improve and expand examples (`#1943`_, `#1995`_, `#1983`_, `#1997`_) - Doc fixes (`#1940`_, `#1962`_) - Add ``User.send_poll()`` shortcut (`#1968`_) - Ignore private attributes en ``TelegramObject.to_dict()`` (`#1989`_) - Stabilize CI (`#2000`_) .. _`#1937`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1937 .. _`#1913`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1913 .. _`#1943`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1943 .. _`#1757`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1757 .. _`#1940`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1940 .. _`#1962`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1962 .. _`#1968`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1968 .. _`#1989`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1989 .. _`#1995`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1995 .. _`#1983`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1983 .. _`#1715`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1715 .. _`#2000`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/2000 .. _`#1997`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1997 .. _`#1980`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1980 Version 12.7 ============ *Released 2020-05-02* **Major Changes:** - Bot API 4.8 support. **Note:** The ``Dice`` object now has a second positional argument ``emoji``. This is relevant, if you instantiate ``Dice`` objects manually. (`#1917`_) - Added ``tzinfo`` argument to ``helpers.from_timestamp``. It now returns an timezone aware object. This is relevant for ``Message.{date,forward_date,edit_date}``, ``Poll.close_date`` and ``ChatMember.until_date`` (`#1621`_) **New Features:** - New method ``run_monthly`` for the ``JobQueue`` (`#1705`_) - ``Job.next_t`` now gives the datetime of the jobs next execution (`#1685`_) **Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes or bug fixes:** - Stabalize CI (`#1919`_, `#1931`_) - Use ABCs ``@abstractmethod`` instead of raising ``NotImplementedError`` for ``Handler``, ``BasePersistence`` and ``BaseFilter`` (`#1905`_) - Doc fixes (`#1914`_, `#1902`_, `#1910`_) .. _`#1902`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1902 .. _`#1685`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1685 .. _`#1910`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1910 .. _`#1914`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1914 .. _`#1931`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1931 .. _`#1905`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1905 .. _`#1919`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1919 .. _`#1621`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1621 .. _`#1705`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1705 .. _`#1917`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1917 Version 12.6.1 ============== *Released 2020-04-11* **Bug fixes:** - Fix serialization of ``reply_markup`` in media messages (`#1889`_) .. _`#1889`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1889 Version 12.6 ============ *Released 2020-04-10* **Major Changes:** - Bot API 4.7 support. **Note:** In ``Bot.create_new_sticker_set`` and ``Bot.add_sticker_to_set``, the order of the parameters had be changed, as the ``png_sticker`` parameter is now optional. (`#1858`_) **Minor changes, CI improvements or bug fixes:** - Add tests for ``swtich_inline_query(_current_chat)`` with empty string (`#1635`_) - Doc fixes (`#1854`_, `#1874`_, `#1884`_) - Update issue templates (`#1880`_) - Favor concrete types over "Iterable" (`#1882`_) - Pass last valid ``CallbackContext`` to ``TIMEOUT`` handlers of ``ConversationHandler`` (`#1826`_) - Tweak handling of persistence and update persistence after job calls (`#1827`_) - Use checkout@v2 for GitHub actions (`#1887`_) .. _`#1858`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1858 .. _`#1635`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1635 .. _`#1854`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1854 .. _`#1874`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1874 .. _`#1884`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1884 .. _`#1880`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1880 .. _`#1882`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1882 .. _`#1826`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1826 .. _`#1827`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1827 .. _`#1887`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1887 Version 12.5.1 ============== *Released 2020-03-30* **Minor changes, doc fixes or bug fixes:** - Add missing docs for `PollHandler` and `PollAnswerHandler` (`#1853`_) - Fix wording in `Filters` docs (`#1855`_) - Reorder tests to make them more stable (`#1835`_) - Make `ConversationHandler` attributes immutable (`#1756`_) - Make `PrefixHandler` attributes `command` and `prefix` editable (`#1636`_) - Fix UTC as default `tzinfo` for `Job` (`#1696`_) .. _`#1853`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1853 .. _`#1855`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1855 .. _`#1835`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1835 .. _`#1756`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1756 .. _`#1636`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1636 .. _`#1696`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1696 Version 12.5 ============ *Released 2020-03-29* **New Features:** - `Bot.link` gives the `t.me` link of the bot (`#1770`_) **Major Changes:** - Bot API 4.5 and 4.6 support. (`#1508`_, `#1723`_) **Minor changes, CI improvements or bug fixes:** - Remove legacy CI files (`#1783`_, `#1791`_) - Update pre-commit config file (`#1787`_) - Remove builtin names (`#1792`_) - CI improvements (`#1808`_, `#1848`_) - Support Python 3.8 (`#1614`_, `#1824`_) - Use stale bot for auto closing stale issues (`#1820`_, `#1829`_, `#1840`_) - Doc fixes (`#1778`_, `#1818`_) - Fix typo in `edit_message_media` (`#1779`_) - In examples, answer CallbackQueries and use `edit_message_text` shortcut (`#1721`_) - Revert accidental change in vendored urllib3 (`#1775`_) .. _`#1783`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1783 .. _`#1787`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1787 .. _`#1792`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1792 .. _`#1791`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1791 .. _`#1808`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1808 .. _`#1614`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1614 .. _`#1770`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1770 .. _`#1824`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1824 .. _`#1820`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1820 .. _`#1829`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1829 .. _`#1840`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1840 .. _`#1778`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1778 .. _`#1779`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1779 .. _`#1721`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1721 .. _`#1775`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1775 .. _`#1848`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1848 .. _`#1818`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1818 .. _`#1508`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1508 .. _`#1723`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1723 Version 12.4.2 ============== *Released 2020-02-10* **Bug Fixes** - Pass correct parse_mode to InlineResults if bot.defaults is None (`#1763`_) - Make sure PP can read files that dont have bot_data (`#1760`_) .. _`#1763`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1763 .. _`#1760`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1760 Version 12.4.1 ============== *Released 2020-02-08* This is a quick release for `#1744`_ which was accidently left out of v12.4.0 though mentioned in the release notes. Version 12.4.0 ============== *Released 2020-02-08* **New features:** - Set default values for arguments appearing repeatedly. We also have a `wiki page for the new defaults`_. (`#1490`_) - Store data in ``CallbackContext.bot_data`` to access it in every callback. Also persists. (`#1325`_) - ``Filters.poll`` allows only messages containing a poll (`#1673`_) **Major changes:** - ``Filters.text`` now accepts messages that start with a slash, because ``CommandHandler`` checks for ``MessageEntity.BOT_COMMAND`` since v12. This might lead to your MessageHandlers receiving more updates than before (`#1680`_). - ``Filters.command`` new checks for ``MessageEntity.BOT_COMMAND`` instead of just a leading slash. Also by ``Filters.command(False)`` you can now filters for messages containing a command `anywhere` in the text (`#1744`_). **Minor changes, CI improvements or bug fixes:** - Add ``disptacher`` argument to ``Updater`` to allow passing a customized ``Dispatcher`` (`#1484`_) - Add missing names for ``Filters`` (`#1632`_) - Documentation fixes (`#1624`_, `#1647`_, `#1669`_, `#1703`_, `#1718`_, `#1734`_, `#1740`_, `#1642`_, `#1739`_, `#1746`_) - CI improvements (`#1716`_, `#1731`_, `#1738`_, `#1748`_, `#1749`_, `#1750`_, `#1752`_) - Fix spelling issue for ``encode_conversations_to_json`` (`#1661`_) - Remove double assignement of ``Dispatcher.job_queue`` (`#1698`_) - Expose dispatcher as property for ``CallbackContext`` (`#1684`_) - Fix ``None`` check in ``JobQueue._put()`` (`#1707`_) - Log datetimes correctly in ``JobQueue`` (`#1714`_) - Fix false ``Message.link`` creation for private groups (`#1741`_) - Add option ``--with-upstream-urllib3`` to `setup.py` to allow using non-vendored version (`#1725`_) - Fix persistence for nested ``ConversationHandlers`` (`#1679`_) - Improve handling of non-decodable server responses (`#1623`_) - Fix download for files without ``file_path`` (`#1591`_) - test_webhook_invalid_posts is now considered flaky and retried on failure (`#1758`_) .. _`wiki page for the new defaults`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/wiki/Adding-defaults-to-your-bot .. _`#1744`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1744 .. _`#1752`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1752 .. _`#1750`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1750 .. _`#1591`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1591 .. _`#1490`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1490 .. _`#1749`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1749 .. _`#1623`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1623 .. _`#1748`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1748 .. _`#1679`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1679 .. _`#1711`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1711 .. _`#1325`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1325 .. _`#1746`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1746 .. _`#1725`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1725 .. _`#1739`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1739 .. _`#1741`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1741 .. _`#1642`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1642 .. _`#1738`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1738 .. _`#1740`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1740 .. _`#1734`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1734 .. _`#1680`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1680 .. _`#1718`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1718 .. _`#1714`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1714 .. _`#1707`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1707 .. _`#1731`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1731 .. _`#1673`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1673 .. _`#1684`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1684 .. _`#1703`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1703 .. _`#1698`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1698 .. _`#1669`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1669 .. _`#1661`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1661 .. _`#1647`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1647 .. _`#1632`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1632 .. _`#1624`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1624 .. _`#1716`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1716 .. _`#1484`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1484 .. _`#1758`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1484 Version 12.3.0 ============== *Released 2020-01-11* **New features:** - `Filters.caption` allows only messages with caption (`#1631`_). - Filter for exact messages/captions with new capability of `Filters.text` and `Filters.caption`. Especially useful in combination with ReplyKeyboardMarkup. (`#1631`_). **Major changes:** - Fix inconsistent handling of naive datetimes (`#1506`_). **Minor changes, CI improvements or bug fixes:** - Documentation fixes (`#1558`_, `#1569`_, `#1579`_, `#1572`_, `#1566`_, `#1577`_, `#1656`_). - Add mutex protection on `ConversationHandler` (`#1533`_). - Add `MAX_PHOTOSIZE_UPLOAD` constant (`#1560`_). - Add args and kwargs to `Message.forward()` (`#1574`_). - Transfer to GitHub Actions CI (`#1555`_, `#1556`_, `#1605`_, `#1606`_, `#1607`_, `#1612`_, `#1615`_, `#1645`_). - Fix deprecation warning with Py3.8 by vendored urllib3 (`#1618`_). - Simplify assignements for optional arguments (`#1600`_) - Allow private groups for `Message.link` (`#1619`_). - Fix wrong signature call for `ConversationHandler.TIMEOUT` handlers (`#1653`_). .. _`#1631`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1631 .. _`#1506`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1506 .. _`#1558`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1558 .. _`#1569`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1569 .. _`#1579`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1579 .. _`#1572`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1572 .. _`#1566`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1566 .. _`#1577`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1577 .. _`#1533`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1533 .. _`#1560`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1560 .. _`#1574`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1574 .. _`#1555`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1555 .. _`#1556`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1556 .. _`#1605`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1605 .. _`#1606`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1606 .. _`#1607`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1607 .. _`#1612`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1612 .. _`#1615`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1615 .. _`#1618`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1618 .. _`#1600`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1600 .. _`#1619`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1619 .. _`#1653`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1653 .. _`#1656`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1656 .. _`#1645`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1645 Version 12.2.0 ============== *Released 2019-10-14* **New features:** - Nested ConversationHandlers (`#1512`_). **Minor changes, CI improvments or bug fixes:** - Fix CI failures due to non-backward compat attrs depndency (`#1540`_). - travis.yaml: TEST_OFFICIAL removed from allowed_failures. - Fix typos in examples (`#1537`_). - Fix Bot.to_dict to use proper first_name (`#1525`_). - Refactor ``test_commandhandler.py`` (`#1408`_). - Add Python 3.8 (RC version) to Travis testing matrix (`#1543`_). - test_bot.py: Add to_dict test (`#1544`_). - Flake config moved into setup.cfg (`#1546`_). .. _`#1512`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1512 .. _`#1540`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1540 .. _`#1537`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1537 .. _`#1525`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1525 .. _`#1408`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1408 .. _`#1543`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1543 .. _`#1544`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1544 .. _`#1546`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1546 Version 12.1.1 ============== *Released 2019-09-18* **Hot fix release** Fixed regression in the vendored urllib3 (`#1517`_). .. _`#1517`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1517 Version 12.1.0 ================ *Released 2019-09-13* **Major changes:** - Bot API 4.4 support (`#1464`_, `#1510`_) - Add `get_file` method to `Animation` & `ChatPhoto`. Add, `get_small_file` & `get_big_file` methods to `ChatPhoto` (`#1489`_) - Tools for deep linking (`#1049`_) **Minor changes and/or bug fixes:** - Documentation fixes (`#1500`_, `#1499`_) - Improved examples (`#1502`_) .. _`#1464`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1464 .. _`#1502`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1502 .. _`#1499`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1499 .. _`#1500`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1500 .. _`#1049`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1049 .. _`#1489`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1489 .. _`#1510`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1510 Version 12.0.0 ================ *Released 2019-08-29* Well... This felt like decades. But here we are with a new release. Expect minor releases soon (mainly complete Bot API 4.4 support) **Major and/or breaking changes:** - Context based callbacks - Persistence - PrefixHandler added (Handler overhaul) - Deprecation of RegexHandler and edited_messages, channel_post, etc. arguments (Filter overhaul) - Various ConversationHandler changes and fixes - Bot API 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 support - Python 3.4 is no longer supported - Error Handler now handles all types of exceptions (`#1485`_) - Return UTC from from_timestamp() (`#1485`_) **See the wiki page at https://git.io/fxJuV for a detailed guide on how to migrate from version 11 to version 12.** Context based callbacks (`#1100`_) ---------------------------------- - Use of ``pass_`` in handlers is deprecated. - Instead use ``use_context=True`` on ``Updater`` or ``Dispatcher`` and change callback from (bot, update, others...) to (update, context). - This also applies to error handlers ``Dispatcher.add_error_handler`` and JobQueue jobs (change (bot, job) to (context) here). - For users with custom handlers subclassing Handler, this is mostly backwards compatible, but to use the new context based callbacks you need to implement the new collect_additional_context method. - Passing bot to ``JobQueue.__init__`` is deprecated. Use JobQueue.set_dispatcher with a dispatcher instead. - Dispatcher makes sure to use a single `CallbackContext` for a entire update. This means that if an update is handled by multiple handlers (by using the group argument), you can add custom arguments to the `CallbackContext` in a lower group handler and use it in higher group handler. NOTE: Never use with @run_async, see docs for more info. (`#1283`_) - If you have custom handlers they will need to be updated to support the changes in this release. - Update all examples to use context based callbacks. Persistence (`#1017`_) ---------------------- - Added PicklePersistence and DictPersistence for adding persistence to your bots. - BasePersistence can be subclassed for all your persistence needs. - Add a new example that shows a persistent ConversationHandler bot Handler overhaul (`#1114`_) --------------------------- - CommandHandler now only triggers on actual commands as defined by telegram servers (everything that the clients mark as a tabable link). - PrefixHandler can be used if you need to trigger on prefixes (like all messages starting with a "/" (old CommandHandler behaviour) or even custom prefixes like "#" or "!"). Filter overhaul (`#1221`_) -------------------------- - RegexHandler is deprecated and should be replaced with a MessageHandler with a regex filter. - Use update filters to filter update types instead of arguments (message_updates, channel_post_updates and edited_updates) on the handlers. - Completely remove allow_edited argument - it has been deprecated for a while. - data_filters now exist which allows filters that return data into the callback function. This is how the regex filter is implemented. - All this means that it no longer possible to use a list of filters in a handler. Use bitwise operators instead! ConversationHandler ------------------- - Remove ``run_async_timeout`` and ``timed_out_behavior`` arguments (`#1344`_) - Replace with ``WAITING`` constant and behavior from states (`#1344`_) - Only emit one warning for multiple CallbackQueryHandlers in a ConversationHandler (`#1319`_) - Use warnings.warn for ConversationHandler warnings (`#1343`_) - Fix unresolvable promises (`#1270`_) Bug fixes & improvements ------------------------ - Handlers should be faster due to deduped logic. - Avoid compiling compiled regex in regex filter. (`#1314`_) - Add missing ``left_chat_member`` to Message.MESSAGE_TYPES (`#1336`_) - Make custom timeouts actually work properly (`#1330`_) - Add convenience classmethods (from_button, from_row and from_column) to InlineKeyboardMarkup - Small typo fix in setup.py (`#1306`_) - Add Conflict error (HTTP error code 409) (`#1154`_) - Change MAX_CAPTION_LENGTH to 1024 (`#1262`_) - Remove some unnecessary clauses (`#1247`_, `#1239`_) - Allow filenames without dots in them when sending files (`#1228`_) - Fix uploading files with unicode filenames (`#1214`_) - Replace http.server with Tornado (`#1191`_) - Allow SOCKSConnection to parse username and password from URL (`#1211`_) - Fix for arguments in passport/data.py (`#1213`_) - Improve message entity parsing by adding text_mention (`#1206`_) - Documentation fixes (`#1348`_, `#1397`_, `#1436`_) - Merged filters short-circuit (`#1350`_) - Fix webhook listen with tornado (`#1383`_) - Call task_done() on update queue after update processing finished (`#1428`_) - Fix send_location() - latitude may be 0 (`#1437`_) - Make MessageEntity objects comparable (`#1465`_) - Add prefix to thread names (`#1358`_) Buf fixes since v12.0.0b1 ------------------------- - Fix setting bot on ShippingQuery (`#1355`_) - Fix _trigger_timeout() missing 1 required positional argument: 'job' (`#1367`_) - Add missing message.text check in PrefixHandler check_update (`#1375`_) - Make updates persist even on DispatcherHandlerStop (`#1463`_) - Dispatcher force updating persistence object's chat data attribute(`#1462`_) .. _`#1100`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1100 .. _`#1283`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1283 .. _`#1017`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1017 .. _`#1325`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1325 .. _`#1301`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1301 .. _`#1312`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1312 .. _`#1324`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1324 .. _`#1114`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1114 .. _`#1221`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1221 .. _`#1314`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1314 .. _`#1336`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1336 .. _`#1330`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1330 .. _`#1306`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1306 .. _`#1154`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1154 .. _`#1262`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1262 .. _`#1247`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1247 .. _`#1239`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1239 .. _`#1228`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1228 .. _`#1214`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1214 .. _`#1191`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1191 .. _`#1211`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1211 .. _`#1213`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1213 .. _`#1206`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1206 .. _`#1344`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1344 .. _`#1319`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1319 .. _`#1343`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1343 .. _`#1270`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1270 .. _`#1348`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1348 .. _`#1350`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1350 .. _`#1383`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1383 .. _`#1397`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1397 .. _`#1428`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1428 .. _`#1436`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1436 .. _`#1437`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1437 .. _`#1465`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1465 .. _`#1358`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1358 .. _`#1355`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1355 .. _`#1367`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1367 .. _`#1375`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1375 .. _`#1463`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1463 .. _`#1462`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1462 .. _`#1483`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1483 .. _`#1485`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1485 Internal improvements --------------------- - Finally fix our CI builds mostly (too many commits and PRs to list) - Use multiple bots for CI to improve testing times significantly. - Allow pypy to fail in CI. - Remove the last CamelCase CheckUpdate methods from the handlers we missed earlier. - test_official is now executed in a different job Version 11.1.0 ============== *Released 2018-09-01* Fixes and updates for Telegram Passport: (`#1198`_) - Fix passport decryption failing at random times - Added support for middle names. - Added support for translations for documents - Add errors for translations for documents - Added support for requesting names in the language of the user's country of residence - Replaced the payload parameter with the new parameter nonce - Add hash to EncryptedPassportElement .. _`#1198`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1198 Version 11.0.0 ============== *Released 2018-08-29* Fully support Bot API version 4.0! (also some bugfixes :)) Telegram Passport (`#1174`_): - Add full support for telegram passport. - New types: PassportData, PassportFile, EncryptedPassportElement, EncryptedCredentials, PassportElementError, PassportElementErrorDataField, PassportElementErrorFrontSide, PassportElementErrorReverseSide, PassportElementErrorSelfie, PassportElementErrorFile and PassportElementErrorFiles. - New bot method: set_passport_data_errors - New filter: Filters.passport_data - Field passport_data field on Message - PassportData can be easily decrypted. - PassportFiles are automatically decrypted if originating from decrypted PassportData. - See new passportbot.py example for details on how to use, or go to `our telegram passport wiki page`_ for more info - NOTE: Passport decryption requires new dependency `cryptography`. Inputfile rework (`#1184`_): - Change how Inputfile is handled internally - This allows support for specifying the thumbnails of photos and videos using the thumb= argument in the different send\_ methods. - Also allows Bot.send_media_group to actually finally send more than one media. - Add thumb to Audio, Video and Videonote - Add Bot.edit_message_media together with InputMediaAnimation, InputMediaAudio, and inputMediaDocument. Other Bot API 4.0 changes: - Add forusquare_type to Venue, InlineQueryResultVenue, InputVenueMessageContent, and Bot.send_venue. (`#1170`_) - Add vCard support by adding vcard field to Contact, InlineQueryResultContact, InputContactMessageContent, and Bot.send_contact. (`#1166`_) - Support new message entities: CASHTAG and PHONE_NUMBER. (`#1179`_) - Cashtag seems to be things like `$USD` and `$GBP`, but it seems telegram doesn't currently send them to bots. - Phone number also seems to have limited support for now - Add Bot.send_animation, add width, height, and duration to Animation, and add Filters.animation. (`#1172`_) Non Bot API 4.0 changes: - Minor integer comparison fix (`#1147`_) - Fix Filters.regex failing on non-text message (`#1158`_) - Fix ProcessLookupError if process finishes before we kill it (`#1126`_) - Add t.me links for User, Chat and Message if available and update User.mention_* (`#1092`_) - Fix mention_markdown/html on py2 (`#1112`_) .. _`#1092`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1092 .. _`#1112`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1112 .. _`#1126`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1126 .. _`#1147`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1147 .. _`#1158`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1158 .. _`#1166`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1166 .. _`#1170`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1170 .. _`#1174`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1174 .. _`#1172`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1172 .. _`#1179`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1179 .. _`#1184`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1184 .. _`our telegram passport wiki page`: https://git.io/fAvYd Version 10.1.0 ============== *Released 2018-05-02* Fixes changing previous behaviour: - Add urllib3 fix for socks5h support (`#1085`_) - Fix send_sticker() timeout=20 (`#1088`_) Fixes: - Add a caption_entity filter for filtering caption entities (`#1068`_) - Inputfile encode filenames (`#1086`_) - InputFile: Fix proper naming of file when reading from subprocess.PIPE (`#1079`_) - Remove pytest-catchlog from requirements (`#1099`_) - Documentation fixes (`#1061`_, `#1078`_, `#1081`_, `#1096`_) .. _`#1061`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1061 .. _`#1068`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1068 .. _`#1078`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1078 .. _`#1079`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1079 .. _`#1081`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1081 .. _`#1085`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1085 .. _`#1086`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1086 .. _`#1088`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1088 .. _`#1096`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1096 .. _`#1099`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1099 Version 10.0.2 ============== *Released 2018-04-17* Important fix: - Handle utf8 decoding errors (`#1076`_) New features: - Added Filter.regex (`#1028`_) - Filters for Category and file types (`#1046`_) - Added video note filter (`#1067`_) Fixes: - Fix in telegram.Message (`#1042`_) - Make chat_id a positional argument inside shortcut methods of Chat and User classes (`#1050`_) - Make Bot.full_name return a unicode object. (`#1063`_) - CommandHandler faster check (`#1074`_) - Correct documentation of Dispatcher.add_handler (`#1071`_) - Various small fixes to documentation. .. _`#1028`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1028 .. _`#1042`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1042 .. _`#1046`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1046 .. _`#1050`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1050 .. _`#1067`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1067 .. _`#1063`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1063 .. _`#1074`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1074 .. _`#1076`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1076 .. _`#1071`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1071 Version 10.0.1 ============== *Released 2018-03-05* Fixes: - Fix conversationhandler timeout (PR `#1032`_) - Add missing docs utils (PR `#912`_) .. _`#1032`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/826 .. _`#912`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/826 Version 10.0.0 ============== *Released 2018-03-02* Non backward compatabile changes and changed defaults - JobQueue: Remove deprecated prevent_autostart & put() (PR `#1012`_) - Bot, Updater: Remove deprecated network_delay (PR `#1012`_) - Remove deprecated Message.new_chat_member (PR `#1012`_) - Retry bootstrap phase indefinitely (by default) on network errors (PR `#1018`_) New Features - Support v3.6 API (PR `#1006`_) - User.full_name convinience property (PR `#949`_) - Add `send_phone_number_to_provider` and `send_email_to_provider` arguments to send_invoice (PR `#986`_) - Bot: Add shortcut methods reply_{markdown,html} (PR `#827`_) - Bot: Add shortcut method reply_media_group (PR `#994`_) - Added utils.helpers.effective_message_type (PR `#826`_) - Bot.get_file now allows passing a file in addition to file_id (PR `#963`_) - Add .get_file() to Audio, Document, PhotoSize, Sticker, Video, VideoNote and Voice (PR `#963`_) - Add .send_*() methods to User and Chat (PR `#963`_) - Get jobs by name (PR `#1011`_) - Add Message caption html/markdown methods (PR `#1013`_) - File.download_as_bytearray - new method to get a d/led file as bytearray (PR `#1019`_) - File.download(): Now returns a meaningful return value (PR `#1019`_) - Added conversation timeout in ConversationHandler (PR `#895`_) Changes - Store bot in PreCheckoutQuery (PR `#953`_) - Updater: Issue INFO log upon received signal (PR `#951`_) - JobQueue: Thread safety fixes (PR `#977`_) - WebhookHandler: Fix exception thrown during error handling (PR `#985`_) - Explicitly check update.effective_chat in ConversationHandler.check_update (PR `#959`_) - Updater: Better handling of timeouts during get_updates (PR `#1007`_) - Remove unnecessary to_dict() (PR `#834`_) - CommandHandler - ignore strings in entities and "/" followed by whitespace (PR `#1020`_) - Documentation & style fixes (PR `#942`_, PR `#956`_, PR `#962`_, PR `#980`_, PR `#983`_) .. _`#826`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/826 .. _`#827`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/827 .. _`#834`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/834 .. _`#895`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/895 .. _`#942`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/942 .. _`#949`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/949 .. _`#951`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/951 .. _`#956`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/956 .. _`#953`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/953 .. _`#962`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/962 .. _`#959`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/959 .. _`#963`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/963 .. _`#977`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/977 .. _`#980`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/980 .. _`#983`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/983 .. _`#985`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/985 .. _`#986`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/986 .. _`#994`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/994 .. _`#1006`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1006 .. _`#1007`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1007 .. _`#1011`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1011 .. _`#1012`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1012 .. _`#1013`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1013 .. _`#1018`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1018 .. _`#1019`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1019 .. _`#1020`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/1020 Version 9.0.0 ============= *Released 2017-12-08* Breaking changes (possibly) - Drop support for python 3.3 (PR `#930`_) New Features - Support Bot API 3.5 (PR `#920`_) Changes - Fix race condition in dispatcher start/stop (`#887`_) - Log error trace if there is no error handler registered (`#694`_) - Update examples with consistent string formatting (`#870`_) - Various changes and improvements to the docs. .. _`#920`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/920 .. _`#930`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/930 .. _`#887`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/887 .. _`#694`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/694 .. _`#870`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/870 Version 8.1.1 ============= *Released 2017-10-15* - Fix Commandhandler crashing on single character messages (PR `#873`_). .. _`#873`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/871 Version 8.1.0 ============= *Released 2017-10-14* New features - Support Bot API 3.4 (PR `#865`_). Changes - MessageHandler & RegexHandler now consider channel_updates. - Fix command not recognized if it is directly followed by a newline (PR `#869`_). - Removed Bot._message_wrapper (PR `#822`_). - Unitests are now also running on AppVeyor (Windows VM). - Various unitest improvements. - Documentation fixes. .. _`#822`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/822 .. _`#865`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/865 .. _`#869`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/869 Version 8.0.0 ============= *Released 2017-09-01* New features - Fully support Bot Api 3.3 (PR `#806`_). - DispatcherHandlerStop (`see docs`_). - Regression fix for text_html & text_markdown (PR `#777`_). - Added effective_attachment to message (PR `#766`_). Non backward compatible changes - Removed Botan support from the library (PR `#776`_). - Fully support Bot Api 3.3 (PR `#806`_). - Remove de_json() (PR `#789`_). Changes - Sane defaults for tcp socket options on linux (PR `#754`_). - Add RESTRICTED as constant to ChatMember (PR `#761`_). - Add rich comparison to CallbackQuery (PR `#764`_). - Fix get_game_high_scores (PR `#771`_). - Warn on small con_pool_size during custom initalization of Updater (PR `#793`_). - Catch exceptions in error handlerfor errors that happen during polling (PR `#810`_). - For testing we switched to pytest (PR `#788`_). - Lots of small improvements to our tests and documentation. .. _`see docs`: http://python-telegram-bot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/telegram.ext.dispatcher.html#telegram.ext.Dispatcher.add_handler .. _`#777`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/777 .. _`#806`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/806 .. _`#766`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/766 .. _`#776`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/776 .. _`#789`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/789 .. _`#754`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/754 .. _`#761`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/761 .. _`#764`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/764 .. _`#771`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/771 .. _`#788`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/788 .. _`#793`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/793 .. _`#810`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/810 Version 7.0.1 =============== *Released 2017-07-28* - Fix TypeError exception in RegexHandler (PR #751). - Small documentation fix (PR #749). Version 7.0.0 ============= *Released 2017-07-25* - Fully support Bot API 3.2. - New filters for handling messages from specific chat/user id (PR #677). - Add the possibility to add objects as arguments to send_* methods (PR #742). - Fixed download of URLs with UTF-8 chars in path (PR #688). - Fixed URL parsing for ``Message`` text properties (PR #689). - Fixed args dispatching in ``MessageQueue``'s decorator (PR #705). - Fixed regression preventing IPv6 only hosts from connnecting to Telegram servers (Issue #720). - ConvesationHandler - check if a user exist before using it (PR #699). - Removed deprecated ``telegram.Emoji``. - Removed deprecated ``Botan`` import from ``utils`` (``Botan`` is still available through ``contrib``). - Removed deprecated ``ReplyKeyboardHide``. - Removed deprecated ``edit_message`` argument of ``bot.set_game_score``. - Internal restructure of files. - Improved documentation. - Improved unitests. Pre-version 7.0 =============== **2017-06-18** *Released 6.1.0* - Fully support Bot API 3.0 - Add more fine-grained filters for status updates - Bug fixes and other improvements **2017-05-29** *Released 6.0.3* - Faulty PyPI release **2017-05-29** *Released 6.0.2* - Avoid confusion with user's ``urllib3`` by renaming vendored ``urllib3`` to ``ptb_urllib3`` **2017-05-19** *Released 6.0.1* - Add support for ``User.language_code`` - Fix ``Message.text_html`` and ``Message.text_markdown`` for messages with emoji **2017-05-19** *Released 6.0.0* - Add support for Bot API 2.3.1 - Add support for ``deleteMessage`` API method - New, simpler API for ``JobQueue`` - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/484 - Download files into file-like objects - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/459 - Use vendor ``urllib3`` to address issues with timeouts - The default timeout for messages is now 5 seconds. For sending media, the default timeout is now 20 seconds. - String attributes that are not set are now ``None`` by default, instead of empty strings - Add ``text_markdown`` and ``text_html`` properties to ``Message`` - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/507 - Add support for Socks5 proxy - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/518 - Add support for filters in ``CommandHandler`` - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/536 - Add the ability to invert (not) filters - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/552 - Add ``Filters.group`` and ``Filters.private`` - Compatibility with GAE via ``urllib3.contrib`` package - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/583 - Add equality rich comparision operators to telegram objects - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/604 - Several bugfixes and other improvements - Remove some deprecated code **2017-04-17** *Released 5.3.1* - Hotfix release due to bug introduced by urllib3 version 1.21 **2016-12-11** *Released 5.3* - Implement API changes of November 21st (Bot API 2.3) - ``JobQueue`` now supports ``datetime.timedelta`` in addition to seconds - ``JobQueue`` now supports running jobs only on certain days - New ``Filters.reply`` filter - Bugfix for ``Message.edit_reply_markup`` - Other bugfixes **2016-10-25** *Released 5.2* - Implement API changes of October 3rd (games update) - Add ``Message.edit_*`` methods - Filters for the ``MessageHandler`` can now be combined using bitwise operators (``& and |``) - Add a way to save user- and chat-related data temporarily - Other bugfixes and improvements **2016-09-24** *Released 5.1* - Drop Python 2.6 support - Deprecate ``telegram.Emoji`` - Use ``ujson`` if available - Add instance methods to ``Message``, ``Chat``, ``User``, ``InlineQuery`` and ``CallbackQuery`` - RegEx filtering for ``CallbackQueryHandler`` and ``InlineQueryHandler`` - New ``MessageHandler`` filters: ``forwarded`` and ``entity`` - Add ``Message.get_entity`` to correctly handle UTF-16 codepoints and ``MessageEntity`` offsets - Fix bug in ``ConversationHandler`` when first handler ends the conversation - Allow multiple ``Dispatcher`` instances - Add ``ChatMigrated`` Exception - Properly split and handle arguments in ``CommandHandler`` **2016-07-15** *Released 5.0* - Rework ``JobQueue`` - Introduce ``ConversationHandler`` - Introduce ``telegram.constants`` - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/342 **2016-07-12** *Released 4.3.4* - Fix proxy support with ``urllib3`` when proxy requires auth **2016-07-08** *Released 4.3.3* - Fix proxy support with ``urllib3`` **2016-07-04** *Released 4.3.2* - Fix: Use ``timeout`` parameter in all API methods **2016-06-29** *Released 4.3.1* - Update wrong requirement: ``urllib3>=1.10`` **2016-06-28** *Released 4.3* - Use ``urllib3.PoolManager`` for connection re-use - Rewrite ``run_async`` decorator to re-use threads - New requirements: ``urllib3`` and ``certifi`` **2016-06-10** *Released 4.2.1* - Fix ``CallbackQuery.to_dict()`` bug (thanks to @jlmadurga) - Fix ``editMessageText`` exception when receiving a ``CallbackQuery`` **2016-05-28** *Released 4.2* - Implement Bot API 2.1 - Move ``botan`` module to ``telegram.contrib`` - New exception type: ``BadRequest`` **2016-05-22** *Released 4.1.2* - Fix ``MessageEntity`` decoding with Bot API 2.1 changes **2016-05-16** *Released 4.1.1* - Fix deprecation warning in ``Dispatcher`` **2016-05-15** *Released 4.1* - Implement API changes from May 6, 2016 - Fix bug when ``start_polling`` with ``clean=True`` - Methods now have snake_case equivalent, for example ``telegram.Bot.send_message`` is the same as ``telegram.Bot.sendMessage`` **2016-05-01** *Released 4.0.3* - Add missing attribute ``location`` to ``InlineQuery`` **2016-04-29** *Released 4.0.2* - Bugfixes - ``KeyboardReplyMarkup`` now accepts ``str`` again **2016-04-27** *Released 4.0.1* - Implement Bot API 2.0 - Almost complete recode of ``Dispatcher`` - Please read the `Transition Guide to 4.0 `_ - **Changes from 4.0rc1** - The syntax of filters for ``MessageHandler`` (upper/lower cases) - Handler groups are now identified by ``int`` only, and ordered - **Note:** v4.0 has been skipped due to a PyPI accident **2016-04-22** *Released 4.0rc1* - Implement Bot API 2.0 - Almost complete recode of ``Dispatcher`` - Please read the `Transistion Guide to 4.0 `_ **2016-03-22** *Released 3.4* - Move ``Updater``, ``Dispatcher`` and ``JobQueue`` to new ``telegram.ext`` submodule (thanks to @rahiel) - Add ``disable_notification`` parameter (thanks to @aidarbiktimirov) - Fix bug where commands sent by Telegram Web would not be recognized (thanks to @shelomentsevd) - Add option to skip old updates on bot startup - Send files from ``BufferedReader`` **2016-02-28** *Released 3.3* - Inline bots - Send any file by URL - Specialized exceptions: ``Unauthorized``, ``InvalidToken``, ``NetworkError`` and ``TimedOut`` - Integration for botan.io (thanks to @ollmer) - HTML Parsemode (thanks to @jlmadurga) - Bugfixes and under-the-hood improvements **Very special thanks to Noam Meltzer (@tsnoam) for all of his work!** **2016-01-09** *Released 3.3b1* - Implement inline bots (beta) **2016-01-05** *Released 3.2.0* - Introducing ``JobQueue`` (original author: @franciscod) - Streamlining all exceptions to ``TelegramError`` (Special thanks to @tsnoam) - Proper locking of ``Updater`` and ``Dispatcher`` ``start`` and ``stop`` methods - Small bugfixes **2015-12-29** *Released 3.1.2* - Fix custom path for file downloads - Don't stop the dispatcher thread on uncaught errors in handlers **2015-12-21** *Released 3.1.1* - Fix a bug where asynchronous handlers could not have additional arguments - Add ``groups`` and ``groupdict`` as additional arguments for regex-based handlers **2015-12-16** *Released 3.1.0* - The ``chat``-field in ``Message`` is now of type ``Chat``. (API update Oct 8 2015) - ``Message`` now contains the optional fields ``supergroup_chat_created``, ``migrate_to_chat_id``, ``migrate_from_chat_id`` and ``channel_chat_created``. (API update Nov 2015) **2015-12-08** *Released 3.0.0* - Introducing the ``Updater`` and ``Dispatcher`` classes **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