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 abstractclass 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