CHANGES.rst

Changelog

Version 13.7

Released 2021-07-01

This is the technical changelog for version 13.7. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes:

• Full support for Bot API 5.3 (#2572)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix Bug in BasePersistence.insert/replace_bot for Objects with __dict__ in their slots (#2561)
• Remove Incorrect Warning About Defaults and ExtBot (#2553)

Minor changes, CI improvements, Doc fixes and Type hinting:

• Type Hinting Fixes (#2552)
• Doc Fixes (#2551)
• Improve Deprecation Warning for __slots__ (#2574)
• Stabilize CI (#2575)
• Fix Coverage Configuration (#2571)
• Better Exception-Handling for BasePersistence.replace/insert_bot (#2564)
• Remove Deprecated pass_args from Deeplinking Example (#2550)

Version 13.6

Released 2021-06-06

New Features:

• Arbitrary callback_data (#1844)
• Add ContextTypes & BasePersistence.refresh_user/chat/bot_data (#2262)
• Add Filters.attachment (#2528)
• Add pattern Argument to ChosenInlineResultHandler (#2517)

Major Changes:

• Add slots (#2345)

Minor changes, CI improvements, Doc fixes and Type hinting:

• Doc Fixes (#2495, #2510)
• Add max_connections Parameter to Updater.start_webhook (#2547)
• Fix for Promise.done_callback (#2544)
• Improve Code Quality (#2536, #2454)
• Increase Test Coverage of CallbackQueryHandler (#2520)
• Stabilize CI (#2522, #2537, #2541)
• Fix send_phone_number_to_provider argument for Bot.send_invoice (#2527)
• Handle Classes as Input for BasePersistence.replace/insert_bot (#2523)
• Bump Tornado Version and Remove Workaround from #2067 (#2494)

Version 13.5

Released 2021-04-30

Major Changes:

• Full support of Bot API 5.2 (#2489).

  Note

  The start_parameter argument of Bot.send_invoice and the corresponding shortcuts is now optional, so the order of parameters had to be changed. Make sure to update your method calls accordingly.

• Update ChatActions, Deprecating ChatAction.RECORD_AUDIO and ChatAction.UPLOAD_AUDIO (#2460)

New Features:

• Convenience Utilities & Example for Handling ChatMemberUpdated (#2490)
• Filters.forwarded_from (#2446)

Minor changes, CI improvements, Doc fixes and Type hinting:

• Improve Timeouts in ConversationHandler (#2417)
• Stabilize CI (#2480)
• Doc Fixes (#2437)
• Improve Type Hints of Data Filters (#2456)
• Add Two UserWarnings (#2464)
• Improve Code Quality (#2450)
• Update Fallback Test-Bots (#2451)
• Improve Examples (#2441, #2448)

Version 13.4.1

Released 2021-03-14

Hot fix release:

• Fixed a bug in setup.py (#2431)

Version 13.4

Released 2021-03-14

Major Changes:

• Full support of Bot API 5.1 (#2424)

Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes and type hinting:

• Improve Updater.set_webhook (#2419)
• Doc Fixes (#2404)
• Type Hinting Fixes (#2425)
• Update pre-commit Settings (#2415)
• Fix Logging for Vendored urllib3 (#2427)
• Stabilize Tests (#2409)

Version 13.3

Released 2021-02-19

Major Changes:

• Make cryptography Dependency Optional & Refactor Some Tests (#2386, #2370)
• Deprecate MessageQueue (#2393)

Bug Fixes:

• Refactor Defaults Integration (#2363)
• Add Missing telegram.SecureValue to init and Docs (#2398)

Minor changes:

• Doc Fixes (#2359)

Version 13.2

Released 2021-02-02

Major Changes:

• Introduce python-telegram-bot-raw (#2324)
• Explicit Signatures for Shortcuts (#2240)

New Features:

• Add Missing Shortcuts to Message (#2330)
• Rich Comparison for Bot (#2320)
• Add run_async Parameter to ConversationHandler (#2292)
• Add New Shortcuts to Chat (#2291)
• Add New Constant MAX_ANSWER_CALLBACK_QUERY_TEXT_LENGTH (#2282)
• Allow Passing Custom Filename For All Media (#2249)
• Handle Bytes as File Input (#2233)

Bug Fixes:

• Fix Escaping in Nested Entities in Message Properties (#2312)
• Adjust Calling of Dispatcher.update_persistence (#2285)
• Add quote kwarg to Message.reply_copy (#2232)
• ConversationHandler: Docs & edited_channel_post behavior (#2339)

Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes and type hinting:

• Doc Fixes (#2253, #2225)
• Reduce Usage of typing.Any (#2321)
• Extend Deeplinking Example (#2335)
• Add pyupgrade to pre-commit Hooks (#2301)
• Add PR Template (#2299)
• Drop Nightly Tests & Update Badges (#2323)
• Update Copyright (#2289, #2287)
• Change Order of Class DocStrings (#2256)
• Add macOS to Test Matrix (#2266)
• Start Using Versioning Directives in Docs (#2252)
• Improve Annotations & Docs of Handlers (#2243)

Version 13.1

Released 2020-11-29

Major Changes:

• Full support of Bot API 5.0 (#2181, #2186, #2190, #2189, #2183, #2184, #2188, #2185, #2192, #2196, #2193, #2223, #2199, #2187, #2147, #2205)

New Features:

• Add Defaults.run_async (#2210)
• Improve and Expand CallbackQuery Shortcuts (#2172)
• Add XOR Filters and make Filters.name a Property (#2179)
• Add Filters.document.file_extension (#2169)
• Add Filters.caption_regex (#2163)
• Add Filters.chat_type (#2128)
• Handle Non-Binary File Input (#2202)

Bug Fixes:

• Improve Handling of Custom Objects in BasePersistence.insert/replace_bot (#2151)
• Fix bugs in replace/insert_bot (#2218)

Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes and type hinting:

• Improve Type hinting (#2204, #2118, #2167, #2136)
• Doc Fixes & Extensions (#2201, #2161)
• Use F-Strings Where Possible (#2222)
• Rename kwargs to _kwargs where possible (#2182)
• Comply with PEP561 (#2168)
• Improve Code Quality (#2131)
• Switch Code Formatting to Black (#2122, #2159, #2158)
• Update Wheel Settings (#2142)
• Update timerbot.py to v13.0 (#2149)
• Overhaul Constants (#2137)
• Add Python 3.9 to Test Matrix (#2132)
• Switch Codecov to GitHub Action (#2127)
• Specify Required pytz Version (#2121)

Version 13.0

Released 2020-10-07

For a detailed guide on how to migrate from v12 to v13, see this wiki page.

Major Changes:

• Deprecate old-style callbacks, i.e. set use_context=True by default (#2050)
• Refactor Handling of Message VS Update Filters (#2032)
• Deprecate Message.default_quote (#1965)
• Refactor persistence of Bot instances (#1994)
• Refactor JobQueue (#1981)
• Refactor handling of kwargs in Bot methods (#1924)
• Refactor Dispatcher.run_async, deprecating the @run_async decorator (#2051)

New Features:

• Type Hinting (#1920)
• Automatic Pagination for answer_inline_query (#2072)
• Defaults.tzinfo (#2042)
• Extend rich comparison of objects (#1724)
• Add Filters.via_bot (#2009)
• Add missing shortcuts (#2043)
• Allow DispatcherHandlerStop in ConversationHandler (#2059)
• Make Errors picklable (#2106)

Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes or bug fixes:

• Fix Webhook not working on Windows with Python 3.8+ (#2067)
• Fix setting thumbs with send_media_group (#2093)
• Make MessageHandler filter for Filters.update first (#2085)
• Fix PicklePersistence.flush() with only bot_data (#2017)
• Add test for clean argument of Updater.start_polling/webhook (#2002)
• Doc fixes, refinements and additions (#2005, #2008, #2089, #2094, #2090)
• CI fixes (#2018, #2061)
• Refine pollbot.py example (#2047)
• Refine Filters in examples (#2027)
• Rename echobot examples (#2025)
• Use Lock-Bot to lock old threads (#2048, #2052, #2049, #2053)

Version 12.8

Released 2020-06-22

Major Changes:

• Remove Python 2 support (#1715)
• Bot API 4.9 support (#1980)
• IDs/Usernames of Filters.user and Filters.chat can now be updated (#1757)

Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes or bug fixes:

• Update contribution guide and stale bot (#1937)
• Remove NullHandlers (#1913)
• Improve and expand examples (#1943, #1995, #1983, #1997)
• Doc fixes (#1940, #1962)
• Add User.send_poll() shortcut (#1968)
• Ignore private attributes en TelegramObject.to_dict() (#1989)
• Stabilize CI (#2000)

Version 12.7

Released 2020-05-02

Major Changes:

• Bot API 4.8 support. Note: The Dice object now has a second positional argument emoji. This is relevant, if you instantiate Dice objects manually. (#1917)
• Added tzinfo argument to helpers.from_timestamp. It now returns an timezone aware object. This is relevant for Message.{date,forward_date,edit_date}, Poll.close_date and ChatMember.until_date (#1621)

New Features:

• New method run_monthly for the JobQueue (#1705)
• Job.next_t now gives the datetime of the jobs next execution (#1685)

Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes or bug fixes:

• Stabalize CI (#1919, #1931)
• Use ABCs @abstractmethod instead of raising NotImplementedError for Handler, BasePersistence and BaseFilter (#1905)
• Doc fixes (#1914, #1902, #1910)

Version 12.6.1

Released 2020-04-11

Bug fixes:

• Fix serialization of reply_markup in media messages (#1889)

Version 12.6

Released 2020-04-10

Major Changes:

• Bot API 4.7 support. Note: In Bot.create_new_sticker_set and Bot.add_sticker_to_set, the order of the parameters had be changed, as the png_sticker parameter is now optional. (#1858)

Minor changes, CI improvements or bug fixes:

• Add tests for swtich_inline_query(_current_chat) with empty string (#1635)
• Doc fixes (#1854, #1874, #1884)
• Update issue templates (#1880)
• Favor concrete types over "Iterable" (#1882)
• Pass last valid CallbackContext to TIMEOUT handlers of ConversationHandler (#1826)
• Tweak handling of persistence and update persistence after job calls (#1827)
• Use checkout@v2 for GitHub actions (#1887)

Version 12.5.1

Released 2020-03-30

Minor changes, doc fixes or bug fixes:

• Add missing docs for PollHandler and PollAnswerHandler (#1853)
• Fix wording in Filters docs (#1855)
• Reorder tests to make them more stable (#1835)
• Make ConversationHandler attributes immutable (#1756)
• Make PrefixHandler attributes command and prefix editable (#1636)
• Fix UTC as default tzinfo for Job (#1696)

Version 12.5

Released 2020-03-29

New Features:

• Bot.link gives the t.me link of the bot (#1770)

Major Changes:

• Bot API 4.5 and 4.6 support. (#1508, #1723)

Minor changes, CI improvements or bug fixes:

• Remove legacy CI files (#1783, #1791)
• Update pre-commit config file (#1787)
• Remove builtin names (#1792)
• CI improvements (#1808, #1848)
• Support Python 3.8 (#1614, #1824)
• Use stale bot for auto closing stale issues (#1820, #1829, #1840)
• Doc fixes (#1778, #1818)
• Fix typo in edit_message_media (#1779)
• In examples, answer CallbackQueries and use edit_message_text shortcut (#1721)
• Revert accidental change in vendored urllib3 (#1775)

Version 12.4.2

Released 2020-02-10

Bug Fixes

• Pass correct parse_mode to InlineResults if bot.defaults is None (#1763)
• Make sure PP can read files that dont have bot_data (#1760)

Version 12.4.1

Released 2020-02-08

This is a quick release for #1744 which was accidently left out of v12.4.0 though mentioned in the release notes.

Version 12.4.0

Released 2020-02-08

New features:

• Set default values for arguments appearing repeatedly. We also have a wiki page for the new defaults. (#1490)
• Store data in CallbackContext.bot_data to access it in every callback. Also persists. (#1325)
• Filters.poll allows only messages containing a poll (#1673)

Major changes:

• Filters.text now accepts messages that start with a slash, because CommandHandler checks for MessageEntity.BOT_COMMAND since v12. This might lead to your MessageHandlers receiving more updates than before (#1680).
• Filters.command new checks for MessageEntity.BOT_COMMAND instead of just a leading slash. Also by Filters.command(False) you can now filters for messages containing a command anywhere in the text (#1744).

Minor changes, CI improvements or bug fixes:

• Add disptacher argument to Updater to allow passing a customized Dispatcher (#1484)
• Add missing names for Filters (#1632)
• Documentation fixes (#1624, #1647, #1669, #1703, #1718, #1734, #1740, #1642, #1739, #1746)
• CI improvements (#1716, #1731, #1738, #1748, #1749, #1750, #1752)
• Fix spelling issue for encode_conversations_to_json (#1661)
• Remove double assignement of Dispatcher.job_queue (#1698)
• Expose dispatcher as property for CallbackContext (#1684)
• Fix None check in JobQueue._put() (#1707)
• Log datetimes correctly in JobQueue (#1714)
• Fix false Message.link creation for private groups (#1741)
• Add option --with-upstream-urllib3 to setup.py to allow using non-vendored version (#1725)
• Fix persistence for nested ConversationHandlers (#1679)
• Improve handling of non-decodable server responses (#1623)
• Fix download for files without file_path (#1591)
• test_webhook_invalid_posts is now considered flaky and retried on failure (#1758)

Version 12.3.0

Released 2020-01-11

New features:

• Filters.caption allows only messages with caption (#1631).
• Filter for exact messages/captions with new capability of Filters.text and Filters.caption. Especially useful in combination with ReplyKeyboardMarkup. (#1631).

Major changes:

• Fix inconsistent handling of naive datetimes (#1506).

Minor changes, CI improvements or bug fixes:

• Documentation fixes (#1558, #1569, #1579, #1572, #1566, #1577, #1656).
• Add mutex protection on ConversationHandler (#1533).
• Add MAX_PHOTOSIZE_UPLOAD constant (#1560).
• Add args and kwargs to Message.forward() (#1574).
• Transfer to GitHub Actions CI (#1555, #1556, #1605, #1606, #1607, #1612, #1615, #1645).
• Fix deprecation warning with Py3.8 by vendored urllib3 (#1618).
• Simplify assignements for optional arguments (#1600)
• Allow private groups for Message.link (#1619).
• Fix wrong signature call for ConversationHandler.TIMEOUT handlers (#1653).

Version 12.2.0

Released 2019-10-14

New features:

• Nested ConversationHandlers (#1512).

Minor changes, CI improvments or bug fixes:

• Fix CI failures due to non-backward compat attrs depndency (#1540).
• travis.yaml: TEST_OFFICIAL removed from allowed_failures.
• Fix typos in examples (#1537).
• Fix Bot.to_dict to use proper first_name (#1525).
• Refactor test_commandhandler.py (#1408).
• Add Python 3.8 (RC version) to Travis testing matrix (#1543).
• test_bot.py: Add to_dict test (#1544).
• Flake config moved into setup.cfg (#1546).

Version 12.1.1

Released 2019-09-18

Hot fix release

Fixed regression in the vendored urllib3 (#1517).

Version 12.1.0

Released 2019-09-13

Major changes:

• Bot API 4.4 support (#1464, #1510)
• Add get_file method to Animation & ChatPhoto. Add, get_small_file & get_big_file methods to ChatPhoto (#1489)
• Tools for deep linking (#1049)

Minor changes and/or bug fixes:

• Documentation fixes (#1500, #1499)
• Improved examples (#1502)

Version 12.0.0

Released 2019-08-29

Well... This felt like decades. But here we are with a new release.

Expect minor releases soon (mainly complete Bot API 4.4 support)

Major and/or breaking changes:

• Context based callbacks
• Persistence
• PrefixHandler added (Handler overhaul)
• Deprecation of RegexHandler and edited_messages, channel_post, etc. arguments (Filter overhaul)
• Various ConversationHandler changes and fixes
• Bot API 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 support
• Python 3.4 is no longer supported
• Error Handler now handles all types of exceptions (#1485)
• Return UTC from from_timestamp() (#1485)

See the wiki page at https://git.io/fxJuV for a detailed guide on how to migrate from version 11 to version 12.

Context based callbacks (#1100)

• Use of pass_ in handlers is deprecated.
• Instead use use_context=True on Updater or Dispatcher and change callback from (bot, update, others...) to (update, context).
• This also applies to error handlers Dispatcher.add_error_handler and JobQueue jobs (change (bot, job) to (context) here).
• For users with custom handlers subclassing Handler, this is mostly backwards compatible, but to use the new context based callbacks you need to implement the new collect_additional_context method.
• Passing bot to JobQueue.__init__ is deprecated. Use JobQueue.set_dispatcher with a dispatcher instead.
• Dispatcher makes sure to use a single CallbackContext for a entire update. This means that if an update is handled by multiple handlers (by using the group argument), you can add custom arguments to the CallbackContext in a lower group handler and use it in higher group handler. NOTE: Never use with @run_async, see docs for more info. (#1283)
• If you have custom handlers they will need to be updated to support the changes in this release.
• Update all examples to use context based callbacks.

Persistence (#1017)

• Added PicklePersistence and DictPersistence for adding persistence to your bots.
• BasePersistence can be subclassed for all your persistence needs.
• Add a new example that shows a persistent ConversationHandler bot

Handler overhaul (#1114)

• CommandHandler now only triggers on actual commands as defined by telegram servers (everything that the clients mark as a tabable link).
• PrefixHandler can be used if you need to trigger on prefixes (like all messages starting with a "/" (old CommandHandler behaviour) or even custom prefixes like "#" or "!").

Filter overhaul (#1221)

• RegexHandler is deprecated and should be replaced with a MessageHandler with a regex filter.
• Use update filters to filter update types instead of arguments (message_updates, channel_post_updates and edited_updates) on the handlers.
• Completely remove allow_edited argument - it has been deprecated for a while.
• data_filters now exist which allows filters that return data into the callback function. This is how the regex filter is implemented.
• All this means that it no longer possible to use a list of filters in a handler. Use bitwise operators instead!

ConversationHandler

• Remove run_async_timeout and timed_out_behavior arguments (#1344)
• Replace with WAITING constant and behavior from states (#1344)
• Only emit one warning for multiple CallbackQueryHandlers in a ConversationHandler (#1319)
• Use warnings.warn for ConversationHandler warnings (#1343)
• Fix unresolvable promises (#1270)

Bug fixes & improvements

• Handlers should be faster due to deduped logic.
• Avoid compiling compiled regex in regex filter. (#1314)
• Add missing left_chat_member to Message.MESSAGE_TYPES (#1336)
• Make custom timeouts actually work properly (#1330)
• Add convenience classmethods (from_button, from_row and from_column) to InlineKeyboardMarkup
• Small typo fix in setup.py (#1306)
• Add Conflict error (HTTP error code 409) (#1154)
• Change MAX_CAPTION_LENGTH to 1024 (#1262)
• Remove some unnecessary clauses (#1247, #1239)
• Allow filenames without dots in them when sending files (#1228)
• Fix uploading files with unicode filenames (#1214)
• Replace http.server with Tornado (#1191)
• Allow SOCKSConnection to parse username and password from URL (#1211)
• Fix for arguments in passport/data.py (#1213)
• Improve message entity parsing by adding text_mention (#1206)
• Documentation fixes (#1348, #1397, #1436)
• Merged filters short-circuit (#1350)
• Fix webhook listen with tornado (#1383)
• Call task_done() on update queue after update processing finished (#1428)
• Fix send_location() - latitude may be 0 (#1437)
• Make MessageEntity objects comparable (#1465)
• Add prefix to thread names (#1358)

Buf fixes since v12.0.0b1

• Fix setting bot on ShippingQuery (#1355)
• Fix _trigger_timeout() missing 1 required positional argument: 'job' (#1367)
• Add missing message.text check in PrefixHandler check_update (#1375)
• Make updates persist even on DispatcherHandlerStop (#1463)
• Dispatcher force updating persistence object's chat data attribute(#1462)

Internal improvements

• Finally fix our CI builds mostly (too many commits and PRs to list)
• Use multiple bots for CI to improve testing times significantly.
• Allow pypy to fail in CI.
• Remove the last CamelCase CheckUpdate methods from the handlers we missed earlier.
• test_official is now executed in a different job

Version 11.1.0

Released 2018-09-01

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

Version 11.0.0

Released 2018-08-29

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)

Version 10.1.0

Released 2018-05-02

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)

Version 10.0.2

Released 2018-04-17

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.

Version 10.0.1

Released 2018-03-05

Fixes:

• Fix conversationhandler timeout (PR #1032)
• Add missing docs utils (PR #912)

Version 10.0.0

Released 2018-03-02

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)

Version 9.0.0

Released 2017-12-08

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.

Version 8.1.1

Released 2017-10-15

• Fix Commandhandler crashing on single character messages (PR #873).

Version 8.1.0

Released 2017-10-14

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.

Version 8.0.0

Released 2017-09-01

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.

Version 7.0.1

Released 2017-07-28

• Fix TypeError exception in RegexHandler (PR #751).
• Small documentation fix (PR #749).

Version 7.0.0

Released 2017-07-25

• 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.

Pre-version 7.0

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 - python-telegram-bot#484
• Download files into file-like objects - python-telegram-bot#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 - python-telegram-bot#507
• Add support for Socks5 proxy - python-telegram-bot#518
• Add support for filters in CommandHandler - python-telegram-bot#536
• Add the ability to invert (not) filters - python-telegram-bot#552
• Add Filters.group and Filters.private
• Compatibility with GAE via urllib3.contrib package - python-telegram-bot#583
• Add equality rich comparision operators to telegram objects - python-telegram-bot#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 - python-telegram-bot#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