- Add support for Bot API 2.3.1
- Add support for ``deleteMessage`` API method
- New, simpler API for ``JobQueue`` - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/484
- Download files into file-like objects - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/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`` - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/507
- Add support for Socks5 proxy - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/518
- Add support for filters in ``CommandHandler`` - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/536
- Add the ability to invert (not) filters - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/552
- Add ``Filters.group`` and ``Filters.private``
- Compatibility with GAE via ``urllib3.contrib`` package - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/583
- Add equality rich comparision operators to telegram objects - https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/604
- Several bugfixes and other improvements
- Remove some deprecated code