**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