======= Changes ======= **2018-09-01** *Released 11.1.0* 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 **2018-08-29** *Released 11.0.0* 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 **2018-05-02** *Released 10.1.0* 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 **2018-04-17** *Released 10.0.2* 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 **2018-03-05** *Released 10.0.1* 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 **2018-03-02** *Released 10.0.0* 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 **2017-12-08** *Released 9.0.0* 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 **2017-10-15** *Released 8.1.1* - Fix Commandhandler crashing on single character messages (PR `#873`_). .. _`#873`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/871 **2017-10-14** *Released 8.1.0* 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 **2017-09-01** *Released 8.0.0* 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 **2017-07-28** *Released 7.0.1* - Fix TypeError exception in RegexHandler (PR #751). - Small documentation fix (PR #749). **2017-07-25** *Released 7.0.0* - 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. **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