Version 20.1

Released 2023-02-09

This is the technical changelog for version 20.1. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• Full Support for Bot API 6.5 (#3530)

New Features

• Add Application(Builder).post_stop (#3466)
• Add Chat.effective_name Convenience Property (#3485)
• Allow to Adjust HTTP Version and Use HTTP/2 by Default (#3506)

Documentation Improvements

• Enhance chatmemberbot Example (#3500)
• Automatically Generate Cross-Reference Links (#3501, #3529, #3523)
• Add Some Graphic Elements to Docs (#3535)
• Various Smaller Improvements (#3464, #3483, #3484, #3497, #3512, #3515, #3498)

Minor Changes, Documentation Improvements and CI

• Update Copyright to 2023 (#3459)
• Stabilize Tests on Closing and Hiding the General Forum Topic (#3460)
• Fix Dependency Warning Typo (#3474)
• Cache Dependencies on GitHub Actions (#3469)
• Store Documentation Builts as GitHub Actions Artifacts (#3468)
• Add ruff to pre-commit Hooks (#3488)
• Improve Warning for days Parameter of JobQueue.run_daily (#3503)
• Improve Error Message for NetworkError (#3505)
• Lock Inactive Threads Only Once Each Day (#3510)
• Bump pytest from 7.2.0 to 7.2.1 (#3513)
• Check for 3D Arrays in check_keyboard_type (#3514)
• Explicit Type Annotations (#3508)
• Increase Verbosity of Type Completeness CI Job (#3531)
• Fix CI on Python 3.11 + Windows (#3547)

Dependencies

• Bump actions/stale from 6 to 7 (#3461)
• Bump dessant/lock-threads from 3.0.0 to 4.0.0 (#3462)
• pre-commit autoupdate (#3470)
• Update httpx requirement from ~=0.23.1 to ~=0.23.3 (#3489)
• Update cachetools requirement from ~=5.2.0 to ~=5.2.1 (#3502)
• Improve Config for ruff and Bump to v0.0.222 (#3507)
• Update cachetools requirement from ~=5.2.1 to ~=5.3.0 (#3520)
• Bump isort to 5.12.0 (#3525)
• Update apscheduler requirement from ~=3.9.1 to ~=3.10.0 (#3532)
• pre-commit autoupdate (#3537)
• Update cryptography requirement to >=39.0.1 to address Vulnerability (#3539)

Version 20.0

Released 2023-01-01

This is the technical changelog for version 20.0. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• Full Support For Bot API 6.4 (#3449)

Minor Changes, Documentation Improvements and CI

• Documentation Improvements (#3428, #3423, #3429, #3441, #3404, #3443)
• Allow Sequence Input for Bot Methods (#3412)
• Update Link-Check CI and Replace a Dead Link (#3456)
• Freeze Classes Without Arguments (#3453)
• Add New Constants (#3444)
• Override Bot.__deepcopy__ to Raise TypeError (#3446)
• Add Log Decorator to Bot.get_webhook_info (#3442)
• Add Documentation On Verifying Releases (#3436)
• Drop Undocumented Job.__lt__ (#3432)

Dependencies

• Downgrade sphinx to 5.3.0 to Fix Search (#3457)
• Bump sphinx from 5.3.0 to 6.0.0 (#3450)

Version 20.0b0

Released 2022-12-15

This is the technical changelog for version 20.0b0. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• Make TelegramObject Immutable (#3249)

Minor Changes, Documentation Improvements and CI

• Reduce Code Duplication in Testing Defaults (#3419)
• Add Notes and Warnings About Optional Dependencies (#3393)
• Simplify Internals of Bot Methods (#3396)
• Reduce Code Duplication in Several Bot Methods (#3385)
• Documentation Improvements (#3386, #3395, #3398, #3403)

Dependencies

• Bump pytest-xdist from 3.0.2 to 3.1.0 (#3415)
• Bump pytest-asyncio from 0.20.2 to 0.20.3 (#3417)
• pre-commit autoupdate (#3409)

Version 13.15

Released 2022-12-06

This is the technical changelog for version 13.15. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes:

• Full Support for API 6.3 (#3392)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix Bugs in Bot.answer_web_app_query (#3364)

Version 20.0a6

Released 2022-11-24

This is the technical changelog for version 20.0a6. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Bug Fixes

• Only Persist Arbitrary callback_data if ExtBot.callback_data_cache is Present (#3384)
• Improve Backwards Compatibility of TelegramObjects Pickle Behavior (#3382)
• Fix Naming and Keyword Arguments of File.download_* Methods (#3380)
• Fix Return Value Annotation of Chat.create_forum_topic (#3381)

Version 20.0a5

Released 2022-11-22

This is the technical changelog for version 20.0a5. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• API 6.3 (#3346, #3343, #3342, #3360)
• Explicit local_mode Setting (#3154)
• Make Almost All 3rd Party Dependencies Optional (#3267)
• Split File.download Into File.download_to_drive And File.download_to_memory (#3223)

New Features

• Add Properties for API Settings of Bot (#3247)
• Add chat_id and username Parameters to ChatJoinRequestHandler (#3261)
• Introduce TelegramObject.api_kwargs (#3233)
• Add Two Constants Related to Local Bot API Servers (#3296)
• Add recursive Parameter to TelegramObject.to_dict() (#3276)
• Overhaul String Representation of TelegramObject (#3234)
• Add Methods Chat.mention_{html, markdown, markdown_v2} (#3308)
• Add constants.MessageLimit.DEEP_LINK_LENGTH (#3315)
• Add Shortcut Parameters caption, parse_mode and caption_entities to Bot.send_media_group (#3295)
• Add Several New Enums To Constants (#3351)

Bug Fixes

• Fix CallbackQueryHandler Not Handling Non-String Data Correctly With Regex Patterns (#3252)
• Fix Defaults Handling in Bot.answer_web_app_query (#3362)

Documentation Improvements

• Update PR Template (#3361)
• Document Dunder Methods of TelegramObject (#3319)
• Add Several References to Wiki pages (#3306)
• Overhaul Search bar (#3218)
• Unify Documentation of Arguments and Attributes of Telegram Classes (#3217, #3292, #3303, #3312, #3314)
• Several Smaller Improvements (#3214, #3271, #3289, #3326, #3370, #3376, #3366)

Minor Changes, Documentation Improvements and CI

• Improve Warning About Unknown ConversationHandler States (#3242)
• Switch from Stale Bot to GitHub Actions (#3243)
• Bump Python 3.11 to RC2 in Test Matrix (#3246)
• Make Job.job a Property and Make Jobs Hashable (#3250)
• Skip JobQueue Tests on Windows Again (#3280)
• Read-Only CallbackDataCache (#3266)
• Type Hinting Fix for Message.effective_attachment (#3294)
• Run Unit Tests in Parallel (#3283)
• Update Test Matrix to Use Stable Python 3.11 (#3313)
• Don't Edit Objects In-Place When Inserting ext.Defaults (#3311)
• Add a Test for MessageAttachmentType (#3335)
• Add Three New Test Bots (#3347)
• Improve Unit Tests Regarding ChatMemberUpdated.difference (#3352)
• Flaky Unit Tests: Use pytest Marker (#3354)
• Fix DeepSource Issues (#3357)
• Handle Lists and Tuples and Datetimes Directly in TelegramObject.to_dict (#3353)
• Update Meta Config (#3365)
• Merge ChatDescriptionLimit Enum Into ChatLimit (#3377)

Dependencies

• Bump pytest from 7.1.2 to 7.1.3 (#3228)
• pre-commit Updates (#3221)
• Bump sphinx from 5.1.1 to 5.2.3 (#3269)
• Bump furo from 2022.6.21 to 2022.9.29 (#3268)
• Bump actions/stale from 5 to 6 (#3277)
• pre-commit autoupdate (#3282)
• Bump sphinx from 5.2.3 to 5.3.0 (#3300)
• Bump pytest-asyncio from 0.19.0 to 0.20.1 (#3299)
• Bump pytest from 7.1.3 to 7.2.0 (#3318)
• Bump pytest-xdist from 2.5.0 to 3.0.2 (#3317)
• pre-commit autoupdate (#3325)
• Bump pytest-asyncio from 0.20.1 to 0.20.2 (#3359)
• Update httpx requirement from ~=0.23.0 to ~=0.23.1 (#3373)

Version 13.14

Released 2022-09-04

This is the technical changelog for version 13.14. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes:

• Full Support for API 6.2 (#3203)

Minor Changes:

• Documentation Improvements (#3144, #3140, #3164)
• Pin tornado to Version 6.1 (#3145)

Version 20.0a4

Released 2022-08-27

This is the technical changelog for version 20.0a4. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Hot Fixes

• Fix a Bug in setup.py Regarding Optional Dependencies (#3209)

Version 20.0a3

Released 2022-08-27

This is the technical changelog for version 20.0a3. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• Full Support for API 6.2 (#3195)

New Features

• New Rate Limiting Mechanism (#3148)
• Make chat/user_data Available in Error Handler for Errors in Jobs (#3152)
• Add Application.post_shutdown (#3126)

Bug Fixes

• Fix helpers.mention_markdown for Markdown V1 and Improve Related Unit Tests (#3155)
• Add api_kwargs Parameter to Bot.log_out and Improve Related Unit Tests (#3147)
• Make Bot.delete_my_commands a Coroutine Function (#3136)
• Fix ConversationHandler.check_update not respecting per_user (#3128)

Minor Changes, Documentation Improvements and CI

• Add Python 3.11 to Test Suite & Adapt Enum Behaviour (#3168)
• Drop Manual Token Validation (#3167)
• Simplify Unit Tests for Bot.send_chat_action (#3151)
• Drop pre-commit Dependencies from requirements-dev.txt` (#3120)
• Change Default Values for concurrent_updates and connection_pool_size (#3127)
• Documentation Improvements (#3139, #3153, #3135)
• Type Hinting Fixes (#3202)

Dependencies

• Bump sphinx from 5.0.2 to 5.1.1 (#3177)
• Update pre-commit Dependencies (#3085)
• Bump pytest-asyncio from 0.18.3 to 0.19.0 (#3158)
• Update tornado requirement from ~=6.1 to ~=6.2 (#3149)
• Bump black from 22.3.0 to 22.6.0 (#3132)
• Bump actions/setup-python from 3 to 4 (#3131)

Version 13.13

Released 2022-06-28

This is the technical changelog for version 13.13. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes:

• Full Support for API 6.1 (#3117)