Python-telegram-bot

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*Released 2017-10-14*

New features
- Support Bot API 3.4 (PR :pr:`865`).

Changes
- MessageHandler & RegexHandler now consider channel_updates.
- Fix command not recognized if it is directly followed by a newline (PR :pr:`869`).
- Removed Bot._message_wrapper (PR :pr:`822`).
- Unitests are now also running on AppVeyor (Windows VM).
- Various unitest improvements.
- Documentation fixes.

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*Released 2017-09-01*

New features

- Fully support Bot Api 3.3 (PR :pr:`806`).
- DispatcherHandlerStop (`see docs`_).
- Regression fix for text_html & text_markdown (PR :pr:`777`).
- Added effective_attachment to message (PR :pr:`766`).

Non backward compatible changes

- Removed Botan support from the library (PR :pr:`776`).
- Fully support Bot Api 3.3 (PR :pr:`806`).
- Remove de_json() (PR :pr:`789`).

Changes

- Sane defaults for tcp socket options on linux (PR :pr:`754`).
- Add RESTRICTED as constant to ChatMember (PR :pr:`761`).
- Add rich comparison to CallbackQuery (PR :pr:`764`).
- Fix get_game_high_scores (PR :pr:`771`).
- Warn on small con_pool_size during custom initalization of Updater (PR :pr:`793`).
- Catch exceptions in error handlerfor errors that happen during polling (PR :pr:`810`).
- For testing we switched to pytest (PR :pr:`788`).
- Lots of small improvements to our tests and documentation.

.. _`see docs`: https://docs.python-telegram-bot.org/en/v13.11/telegram.ext.dispatcher.html?highlight=Dispatcher.add_handler#telegram.ext.Dispatcher.add_handler

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*Released 2017-07-28*

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

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**2017-06-18**

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*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.

- Fully support Bot API 3.0
- Add more fine-grained filters for status updates
- Bug fixes and other improvements

**2017-05-29**