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*Released 2024-05-20*
This is the technical changelog for version 21.2. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel `pythontelegrambotchannel <https://t.me/pythontelegrambotchannel>`_.
Major Changes
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- Full Support for Bot API 7.3 (:pr:`4246`, :pr:`4260`, :pr:`4243`, :pr:`4248`, :pr:`4242` closes :issue:`4236`, :pr:`4247` by `aelkheir <https://github.com/aelkheir>`_)
- Remove Functionality Deprecated by Bot API 7.2 (:pr:`4245`)
New Features
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- Add Version to ``PTBDeprecationWarning`` (:pr:`4262` closes :issue:`4261`)
- Handle Exceptions in building ``CallbackContext`` (:pr:`4222`)
Bug Fixes
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- Call ``Application.post_stop`` Only if ``Application.stop`` was called (:pr:`4211` closes :issue:`4210`)
- Handle ``SystemExit`` raised in Handlers (:pr:`4157` closes :issue:`4155` and :issue:`4156`)
- Make ``Birthdate.to_date`` Return a ``datetime.date`` Object (:pr:`4251`)
Documentation Improvements
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- Documentation Improvements (:pr:`4217`)
Internal Changes
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- Add New Rules to ``ruff`` Config (:pr:`4250`)
- Adapt Test Suite to Changes in Error Messages (:pr:`4238`)
Dependency Updates
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- Bump ``furo`` from 2024.4.27 to 2024.5.6 (:pr:`4252`)
- ``pre-commit`` autoupdate (:pr:`4239`)
- Bump ``pytest`` from 8.1.1 to 8.2.0 (:pr:`4231`)
- Bump ``dependabot/fetch-metadata`` from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 (:pr:`4228`)
- Bump ``pytest-asyncio`` from 0.21.1 to 0.21.2 (:pr:`4232`)
- Bump ``pytest-xdist`` from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 (:pr:`4233`)
- Bump ``furo`` from 2024.1.29 to 2024.4.27 (:pr:`4230`)
- Bump ``srvaroa/labeler`` from 1.10.0 to 1.10.1 (:pr:`4227`)
- Bump ``pytest`` from 7.4.4 to 8.1.1 (:pr:`4218`)
- Bump ``sphinx`` from 7.2.6 to 7.3.7 (:pr:`4215`)
- Bump ``pytest-xdist`` from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0 (:pr:`4215`)