Python-telegram-bot

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*Released 2021-06-06*

**New Features:**

- Arbitrary `callback_data` (1844)
- Add `ContextTypes` & `BasePersistence.refresh_user/chat/bot_data` (2262)
- Add `Filters.attachment` (2528)
- Add `pattern` Argument to `ChosenInlineResultHandler` (2517)

**Major Changes:**

- Add `__slots__` (2345)

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

- Doc Fixes (2495, 2510)
- Add `max_connections` Parameter to `Updater.start_webhook` (2547)
- Fix for `Promise.done_callback` (2544)
- Improve Code Quality (2536, 2454)
- Increase Test Coverage of `CallbackQueryHandler` (2520)
- Stabilize CI (2522, 2537, 2541)
- Fix `send_phone_number_to_provider` argument for `Bot.send_invoice` (2527)
- Handle Classes as Input for `BasePersistence.replace/insert_bot` (2523)
- Bump Tornado Version and Remove Workaround from 2067 (2494)

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*Released 2021-04-30*

**Major Changes:**

- Full support of Bot API 5.2 (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` (2460)

**New Features:**

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

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

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

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*Released 2021-03-14*

**Hot fix release:**

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

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*Released 2021-03-14*

**Major Changes:**

- Full support of Bot API 5.1 (2424)

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

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

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*Released 2021-02-19*

**Major Changes:**

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

**Bug Fixes:**

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

**Minor changes:**

- Doc Fixes (2359)

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*Released 2021-02-02*

**Major Changes:**

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

**New Features:**

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

**Bug Fixes:**

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

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

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