Python-telegram-bot

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*Released 2020-03-29*

**New Features:**

- `Bot.link` gives the `t.me` link of the bot (:pr:`1770`)

**Major Changes:**

- Bot API 4.5 and 4.6 support. (:pr:`1508`, :pr:`1723`)

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

- Remove legacy CI files (:pr:`1783`, :pr:`1791`)
- Update pre-commit config file (:pr:`1787`)
- Remove builtin names (:pr:`1792`)
- CI improvements (:pr:`1808`, :pr:`1848`)
- Support Python 3.8 (:pr:`1614`, :pr:`1824`)
- Use stale bot for auto closing stale issues (:pr:`1820`, :pr:`1829`, :pr:`1840`)
- Doc fixes (:pr:`1778`, :pr:`1818`)
- Fix typo in `edit_message_media` (:pr:`1779`)
- In examples, answer CallbackQueries and use `edit_message_text` shortcut (:pr:`1721`)
- Revert accidental change in vendored urllib3 (:pr:`1775`)

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*Released 2020-02-10*

**Bug Fixes**

- Pass correct parse_mode to InlineResults if bot.defaults is None (:pr:`1763`)
- Make sure PP can read files that dont have bot_data (:pr:`1760`)

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*Released 2020-02-08*

This is a quick release for :pr:`1744` which was accidently left out of v12.4.0 though mentioned in the
release notes.

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*Released 2020-02-08*

**New features:**

- Set default values for arguments appearing repeatedly. We also have a `wiki page for the new defaults`_. (:pr:`1490`)
- Store data in ``CallbackContext.bot_data`` to access it in every callback. Also persists. (:pr:`1325`)
- ``Filters.poll`` allows only messages containing a poll (:pr:`1673`)

**Major changes:**

- ``Filters.text`` now accepts messages that start with a slash, because ``CommandHandler`` checks for ``MessageEntity.BOT_COMMAND`` since v12. This might lead to your MessageHandlers receiving more updates than before (:pr:`1680`).
- ``Filters.command`` new checks for ``MessageEntity.BOT_COMMAND`` instead of just a leading slash. Also by ``Filters.command(False)`` you can now filters for messages containing a command `anywhere` in the text (:pr:`1744`).

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

- Add ``disptacher`` argument to ``Updater`` to allow passing a customized ``Dispatcher`` (:pr:`1484`)
- Add missing names for ``Filters`` (:pr:`1632`)
- Documentation fixes (:pr:`1624`, :pr:`1647`, :pr:`1669`, :pr:`1703`, :pr:`1718`, :pr:`1734`, :pr:`1740`, :pr:`1642`, :pr:`1739`, :pr:`1746`)
- CI improvements (:pr:`1716`, :pr:`1731`, :pr:`1738`, :pr:`1748`, :pr:`1749`, :pr:`1750`, :pr:`1752`)
- Fix spelling issue for ``encode_conversations_to_json`` (:pr:`1661`)
- Remove double assignement of ``Dispatcher.job_queue`` (:pr:`1698`)
- Expose dispatcher as property for ``CallbackContext`` (:pr:`1684`)
- Fix ``None`` check in ``JobQueue._put()`` (:pr:`1707`)
- Log datetimes correctly in ``JobQueue`` (:pr:`1714`)
- Fix false ``Message.link`` creation for private groups (:pr:`1741`)
- Add option ``--with-upstream-urllib3`` to `setup.py` to allow using non-vendored version (:pr:`1725`)
- Fix persistence for nested ``ConversationHandlers`` (:pr:`1679`)
- Improve handling of non-decodable server responses (:pr:`1623`)
- Fix download for files without ``file_path`` (:pr:`1591`)
- test_webhook_invalid_posts is now considered flaky and retried on failure (:pr:`1758`)

.. _`wiki page for the new defaults`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/wiki/Adding-defaults-to-your-bot

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*Released 2020-01-11*

**New features:**

- `Filters.caption` allows only messages with caption (:pr:`1631`).
- Filter for exact messages/captions with new capability of `Filters.text` and `Filters.caption`. Especially useful in combination with ReplyKeyboardMarkup. (:pr:`1631`).

**Major changes:**

- Fix inconsistent handling of naive datetimes (:pr:`1506`).

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

- Documentation fixes (:pr:`1558`, :pr:`1569`, :pr:`1579`, :pr:`1572`, :pr:`1566`, :pr:`1577`, :pr:`1656`).
- Add mutex protection on `ConversationHandler` (:pr:`1533`).
- Add `MAX_PHOTOSIZE_UPLOAD` constant (:pr:`1560`).
- Add args and kwargs to `Message.forward()` (:pr:`1574`).
- Transfer to GitHub Actions CI (:pr:`1555`, :pr:`1556`, :pr:`1605`, :pr:`1606`, :pr:`1607`, :pr:`1612`, :pr:`1615`, :pr:`1645`).
- Fix deprecation warning with Py3.8 by vendored urllib3 (:pr:`1618`).
- Simplify assignements for optional arguments (:pr:`1600`)
- Allow private groups for `Message.link` (:pr:`1619`).
- Fix wrong signature call for `ConversationHandler.TIMEOUT` handlers (:pr:`1653`).

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*Released 2019-10-14*

**New features:**

- Nested ConversationHandlers (:pr:`1512`).

**Minor changes, CI improvments or bug fixes:**

- Fix CI failures due to non-backward compat attrs depndency (:pr:`1540`).
- travis.yaml: TEST_OFFICIAL removed from allowed_failures.
- Fix typos in examples (:pr:`1537`).
- Fix Bot.to_dict to use proper first_name (:pr:`1525`).
- Refactor ``test_commandhandler.py`` (:pr:`1408`).
- Add Python 3.8 (RC version) to Travis testing matrix (:pr:`1543`).
- test_bot.py: Add to_dict test (:pr:`1544`).
- Flake config moved into setup.cfg (:pr:`1546`).