Python-telegram-bot

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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`)

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*Released 2020-10-07*

**For a detailed guide on how to migrate from v12 to v13, see this** `wiki page <https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/wiki/Transition-guide-to-Version-13.0>`_.

**Major Changes:**

- Deprecate old-style callbacks, i.e. set ``use_context=True`` by default (:pr:`2050`)
- Refactor Handling of Message VS Update Filters (:pr:`2032`)
- Deprecate ``Message.default_quote`` (:pr:`1965`)
- Refactor persistence of Bot instances (:pr:`1994`)
- Refactor ``JobQueue`` (:pr:`1981`)
- Refactor handling of kwargs in Bot methods (:pr:`1924`)
- Refactor ``Dispatcher.run_async``, deprecating the ``run_async`` decorator (:pr:`2051`)

**New Features:**

- Type Hinting (:pr:`1920`)
- Automatic Pagination for ``answer_inline_query`` (:pr:`2072`)
- ``Defaults.tzinfo`` (:pr:`2042`)
- Extend rich comparison of objects (:pr:`1724`)
- Add ``Filters.via_bot`` (:pr:`2009`)
- Add missing shortcuts (:pr:`2043`)
- Allow ``DispatcherHandlerStop`` in ``ConversationHandler`` (:pr:`2059`)
- Make Errors picklable (:pr:`2106`)

**Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes or bug fixes:**

- Fix Webhook not working on Windows with Python 3.8+ (:pr:`2067`)
- Fix setting thumbs with ``send_media_group`` (:pr:`2093`)
- Make ``MessageHandler`` filter for ``Filters.update`` first (:pr:`2085`)
- Fix ``PicklePersistence.flush()`` with only ``bot_data`` (:pr:`2017`)
- Add test for clean argument of ``Updater.start_polling/webhook`` (:pr:`2002`)
- Doc fixes, refinements and additions (:pr:`2005`, :pr:`2008`, :pr:`2089`, :pr:`2094`, :pr:`2090`)
- CI fixes (:pr:`2018`, :pr:`2061`)
- Refine ``pollbot.py`` example (:pr:`2047`)
- Refine Filters in examples (:pr:`2027`)
- Rename ``echobot`` examples (:pr:`2025`)
- Use Lock-Bot to lock old threads (:pr:`2048`, :pr:`2052`, :pr:`2049`, :pr:`2053`)

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*Released 2020-06-22*

**Major Changes:**

- Remove Python 2 support (:pr:`1715`)
- Bot API 4.9 support (:pr:`1980`)
- IDs/Usernames of ``Filters.user`` and ``Filters.chat`` can now be updated (:pr:`1757`)

**Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes or bug fixes:**

- Update contribution guide and stale bot (:pr:`1937`)
- Remove ``NullHandlers`` (:pr:`1913`)
- Improve and expand examples (:pr:`1943`, :pr:`1995`, :pr:`1983`, :pr:`1997`)
- Doc fixes (:pr:`1940`, :pr:`1962`)
- Add ``User.send_poll()`` shortcut (:pr:`1968`)
- Ignore private attributes en ``TelegramObject.to_dict()`` (:pr:`1989`)
- Stabilize CI (:pr:`2000`)