[1.7.0] - 2023-02-01

This release didn't include any significant features since the 1.6.0 release, but it involves a lot of bugfixes, quality of life improvements and maintenance work.

It was time to get another released published.

[1.6.0] - 2020-08-09

Added

• Pagination when listing polls.

Changed

• Users are only allowed to own 200 polls (by default).
• Poll Messages won't be removed when deleting all/all closed polls.
• Use local venv for development with poetry
• Dependency updates

Internal:

• Huge internal restructuring and refactoring
• Updated from raven to sentry-sdk

Fixed

• Broken polls after adding new options to Priority Poll.
• Fixed broken poll creation, when users added too many options at once.
• Fixed exceptions when the bot was used in groups he wasn't allowed to send messages.
• Fixed broken /list and /list_closed for users with too many polls
• Fixed exceptions due to duplicate inline result updates.
• Fixed exceptions due to channel posts in message handlers
• Ignored exceptions when /start commands came in without a message.
• Fixed broken polls due to special characters in usernames and poll names/titles

Features:

• Support for super long polls. Those polls now get summarized as soon as they reach a certain length and a new button appears. This button redirects to the bot and gives you a detailed summary of the poll results in multiple messages. (Telegram only allows 4096 characters per message)
• Clicking on the letter buttons on a doodle poll (a), etc.) now shows the option's name
• Revamp of the doodle result interface
• Better help interface
• Lots of text adjustments
• Share polls after they have been closed
• New language: Polish (Thanks to tszalbot)

New styling menu:

• All styling and sorting related setting were put into a dedicated styling menu
• All impacts on the poll layout can be seen live in the message above
• Added new summarization setting. (Options with many votes are summarized like this and 10 oher people)

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug, where votes weren't registered, because the option name was too long.
• Fixed a bug, where a user could vote twice on a single vote poll.
• Fixed a bug, where a user could get a deleted poll in inline queries due to caching
• Fixed a bug, where notifications weren't sent for all users due to one single user activating notifications and then removing the bot from the group.
• Fixed a bug, where notifications weren't working, if the due date was more then 1 week in the future.
• Hide remaining votes for unlimited poll

Additions:

• New language: German
• New language: Turkish (Thanks to @cnpltdncsln)
• Users in polls are linked with telegram mentions

Fixes:

• Prevent usage of markdown characters in user input
• Fixed many typos/wrong translation keys
• Fixed datepicker behaviour (Was really fucky before)
• Some minor bugs

Additions:

• New poll type - the shopping list

• New poll type - doodle (yes, no, maybe)

• Set a due date for a poll, at which the poll will be automatically closed

• Activate notifications in chats, which remind everyone that the poll will close soon

• Addition and removal of options

• Introduce setting which allows all users to add options

• Clone and Resetting of polls

• Datepicker for options

• External users can use the datepicker, when adding new options

• Complete redesign of the poll interface

• Better poll management interface structure

• Allow european date formatting (This will be remembered for future polls)

Maintenance:

• A good amount of bugfixes

Features

• Create new polls from native Telegram Polls. Thanks to @Josxa
• Add complete deletion of all user data
• Support /stop

Improvements

• Better hints for
• Streamline poll styling interface
• Added feature request tab in /help

Fixes

• Option with empty names can be fixed
• Handle /start messages without a message
• Handle polls that have too many options during creation
• Fix a bug where inline message references could be duplicated

Internal

• Fixe race-condition database bugs by running certain callback handlers synchronous
• Add a contribution guide
• New sentry sdk
• Code formatting with black
• Cleanup session handling

Features:

• Options can be sorted manually
• New options. You have need to add those your config manually if you already have a deployed bot:
  1. telegram.max_inline_shares The max amount of shared messages via inline query per poll
  2. telegram.allow_private_vote This decides, whether you allowed
  3. telegram.max_user_votes_per_day Set a limit how many votes are allowed per user per day.

Improvements:

• Add anti-spam measures
• Add possibility to ban users
• Temporarily ban users on certain thresholds
• Catalan language

Internal:

• Configurable amount for max shared messages via inline query per poll
• Slow async background updating of poll in other chats, while instantly updating the message the user voted on.
• Removal of duplicate poll messages in private chats

Features:

• Priority vote poll. Thanks to Raffomania and hatzel!

• Streamline all datepickers (breaking changes)

• Display week day in vote buttons

• Add explanations for most important options

• Add warning about possible information leak via online status on anonymous polls

• Add option to hide option count on polls.

• Add option to allow/forbid sharing of polls

• Language updates

• Improvement of internal error handling

Fixes:

• Fixed poll notifications and due dates
• Numerous minor bug fixes
• Fix some security issues which allowed adding and sharing polls without explicit permission

Features

• Completely revamp the user settings and /start interface

• Add /settings command as shortcut to settings submenu

• Add a prompt when deleting all polls of a user

• Option to delete a specific poll without removing all messages

• Link in poll settings, which allows anybody to share this poll to arbitrary groups

• New doodle button layout. Old one can still be selected in poll styling settings

• Lokalise integration

• New language Italian

• New language Spanish

• New language Portuguese (Brazil)

• New language Czech

• Text adjustments

• Forbid polls which are longer than 4000 characters at point of creation (Telegram limit)

• Send warning for polls which are longer than 3000 characters at point of creation

Fixes:

• Hide remaining votes in anonymous polls
• Fixed a bug where messages couldn't be sent due to messages being too long
• Fixed a bug where inline queries didn't work due to many very long polls.
• Percentage order option removed for doodle