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Version 13.1

Released 2020-11-29

Major Changes:

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:

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:

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:

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

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

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