Python-telegram-bot

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*Released 2018-03-05*

Fixes:

- Fix conversationhandler timeout (PR :pr:`1032`)
- Add missing docs utils (PR :pr:`912`)

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*Released 2018-03-02*

Non backward compatabile changes and changed defaults

- JobQueue: Remove deprecated prevent_autostart & put() (PR :pr:`1012`)
- Bot, Updater: Remove deprecated network_delay (PR :pr:`1012`)
- Remove deprecated Message.new_chat_member (PR :pr:`1012`)
- Retry bootstrap phase indefinitely (by default) on network errors (PR :pr:`1018`)

New Features

- Support v3.6 API (PR :pr:`1006`)
- User.full_name convinience property (PR :pr:`949`)
- Add `send_phone_number_to_provider` and `send_email_to_provider` arguments to send_invoice (PR :pr:`986`)
- Bot: Add shortcut methods reply_{markdown,html} (PR :pr:`827`)
- Bot: Add shortcut method reply_media_group (PR :pr:`994`)
- Added utils.helpers.effective_message_type (PR :pr:`826`)
- Bot.get_file now allows passing a file in addition to file_id (PR :pr:`963`)
- Add .get_file() to Audio, Document, PhotoSize, Sticker, Video, VideoNote and Voice (PR :pr:`963`)
- Add .send_*() methods to User and Chat (PR :pr:`963`)
- Get jobs by name (PR :pr:`1011`)
- Add Message caption html/markdown methods (PR :pr:`1013`)
- File.download_as_bytearray - new method to get a d/led file as bytearray (PR :pr:`1019`)
- File.download(): Now returns a meaningful return value (PR :pr:`1019`)
- Added conversation timeout in ConversationHandler (PR :pr:`895`)

Changes

- Store bot in PreCheckoutQuery (PR :pr:`953`)
- Updater: Issue INFO log upon received signal (PR :pr:`951`)
- JobQueue: Thread safety fixes (PR :pr:`977`)
- WebhookHandler: Fix exception thrown during error handling (PR :pr:`985`)
- Explicitly check update.effective_chat in ConversationHandler.check_update (PR :pr:`959`)
- Updater: Better handling of timeouts during get_updates (PR :pr:`1007`)
- Remove unnecessary to_dict() (PR :pr:`834`)
- CommandHandler - ignore strings in entities and "/" followed by whitespace (PR :pr:`1020`)
- Documentation & style fixes (PR :pr:`942`, PR :pr:`956`, PR :pr:`962`, PR :pr:`980`, PR :pr:`983`)

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*Released 2017-12-08*

Breaking changes (possibly)

- Drop support for python 3.3 (PR :pr:`930`)

New Features

- Support Bot API 3.5 (PR :pr:`920`)

Changes

- Fix race condition in dispatcher start/stop (:pr:`887`)
- Log error trace if there is no error handler registered (:pr:`694`)
- Update examples with consistent string formatting (:pr:`870`)
- Various changes and improvements to the docs.

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*Released 2017-10-15*

- Fix Commandhandler crashing on single character messages (PR :pr:`873`).

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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