Python-telegram-bot

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*Released 2021-04-30*

**Major Changes:**

- Full support of Bot API 5.2 (:pr:`2489`).

.. note::
The ``start_parameter`` argument of ``Bot.send_invoice`` and the corresponding shortcuts is now optional, so the order of
parameters had to be changed. Make sure to update your method calls accordingly.

- Update ``ChatActions``, Deprecating ``ChatAction.RECORD_AUDIO`` and ``ChatAction.UPLOAD_AUDIO`` (:pr:`2460`)

**New Features:**

- Convenience Utilities & Example for Handling ``ChatMemberUpdated`` (:pr:`2490`)
- ``Filters.forwarded_from`` (:pr:`2446`)

**Minor changes, CI improvements, Doc fixes and Type hinting:**

- Improve Timeouts in ``ConversationHandler`` (:pr:`2417`)
- Stabilize CI (:pr:`2480`)
- Doc Fixes (:pr:`2437`)
- Improve Type Hints of Data Filters (:pr:`2456`)
- Add Two ``UserWarnings`` (:pr:`2464`)
- Improve Code Quality (:pr:`2450`)
- Update Fallback Test-Bots (:pr:`2451`)
- Improve Examples (:pr:`2441`, :pr:`2448`)

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*Released 2021-03-14*

**Hot fix release:**

- Fixed a bug in ``setup.py`` (:pr:`2431`)

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*Released 2021-03-14*

**Major Changes:**

- Full support of Bot API 5.1 (:pr:`2424`)

**Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes and type hinting:**

- Improve ``Updater.set_webhook`` (:pr:`2419`)
- Doc Fixes (:pr:`2404`)
- Type Hinting Fixes (:pr:`2425`)
- Update ``pre-commit`` Settings (:pr:`2415`)
- Fix Logging for Vendored ``urllib3`` (:pr:`2427`)
- Stabilize Tests (:pr:`2409`)

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*Released 2021-02-19*

**Major Changes:**

- Make ``cryptography`` Dependency Optional & Refactor Some Tests (:pr:`2386`, :pr:`2370`)
- Deprecate ``MessageQueue`` (:pr:`2393`)

**Bug Fixes:**

- Refactor ``Defaults`` Integration (:pr:`2363`)
- Add Missing ``telegram.SecureValue`` to init and Docs (:pr:`2398`)

**Minor changes:**

- Doc Fixes (:pr:`2359`)

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*Released 2021-02-02*

**Major Changes:**

- Introduce ``python-telegram-bot-raw`` (:pr:`2324`)
- Explicit Signatures for Shortcuts (:pr:`2240`)

**New Features:**

- Add Missing Shortcuts to ``Message`` (:pr:`2330`)
- Rich Comparison for ``Bot`` (:pr:`2320`)
- Add ``run_async`` Parameter to ``ConversationHandler`` (:pr:`2292`)
- Add New Shortcuts to ``Chat`` (:pr:`2291`)
- Add New Constant ``MAX_ANSWER_CALLBACK_QUERY_TEXT_LENGTH`` (:pr:`2282`)
- Allow Passing Custom Filename For All Media (:pr:`2249`)
- Handle Bytes as File Input (:pr:`2233`)

**Bug Fixes:**

- Fix Escaping in Nested Entities in ``Message`` Properties (:pr:`2312`)
- Adjust Calling of ``Dispatcher.update_persistence`` (:pr:`2285`)
- Add ``quote`` kwarg to ``Message.reply_copy`` (:pr:`2232`)
- ``ConversationHandler``: Docs & ``edited_channel_post`` behavior (:pr:`2339`)

**Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes and type hinting:**

- Doc Fixes (:pr:`2253`, :pr:`2225`)
- Reduce Usage of ``typing.Any`` (:pr:`2321`)
- Extend Deeplinking Example (:pr:`2335`)
- Add pyupgrade to pre-commit Hooks (:pr:`2301`)
- Add PR Template (:pr:`2299`)
- Drop Nightly Tests & Update Badges (:pr:`2323`)
- Update Copyright (:pr:`2289`, :pr:`2287`)
- Change Order of Class DocStrings (:pr:`2256`)
- Add macOS to Test Matrix (:pr:`2266`)
- Start Using Versioning Directives in Docs (:pr:`2252`)
- Improve Annotations & Docs of Handlers (:pr:`2243`)

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*Released 2020-11-29*

**Major Changes:**

- Full support of Bot API 5.0 (:pr:`2181`, :pr:`2186`, :pr:`2190`, :pr:`2189`, :pr:`2183`, :pr:`2184`, :pr:`2188`, :pr:`2185`, :pr:`2192`, :pr:`2196`, :pr:`2193`, :pr:`2223`, :pr:`2199`, :pr:`2187`, :pr:`2147`, :pr:`2205`)

**New Features:**

- Add ``Defaults.run_async`` (:pr:`2210`)
- Improve and Expand ``CallbackQuery`` Shortcuts (:pr:`2172`)
- Add XOR Filters and make ``Filters.name`` a Property (:pr:`2179`)
- Add ``Filters.document.file_extension`` (:pr:`2169`)
- Add ``Filters.caption_regex`` (:pr:`2163`)
- Add ``Filters.chat_type`` (:pr:`2128`)
- Handle Non-Binary File Input (:pr:`2202`)

**Bug Fixes:**

- Improve Handling of Custom Objects in ``BasePersistence.insert``/``replace_bot`` (:pr:`2151`)
- Fix bugs in ``replace/insert_bot`` (:pr:`2218`)

**Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes and type hinting:**

- Improve Type hinting (:pr:`2204`, :pr:`2118`, :pr:`2167`, :pr:`2136`)
- Doc Fixes & Extensions (:pr:`2201`, :pr:`2161`)
- Use F-Strings Where Possible (:pr:`2222`)
- Rename kwargs to _kwargs where possible (:pr:`2182`)
- Comply with PEP561 (:pr:`2168`)
- Improve Code Quality (:pr:`2131`)
- Switch Code Formatting to Black (:pr:`2122`, :pr:`2159`, :pr:`2158`)
- Update Wheel Settings (:pr:`2142`)
- Update ``timerbot.py`` to ``v13.0`` (:pr:`2149`)
- Overhaul Constants (:pr:`2137`)
- Add Python 3.9 to Test Matrix (:pr:`2132`)
- Switch Codecov to ``GitHub`` Action (:pr:`2127`)
- Specify Required pytz Version (:pr:`2121`)