Python-telegram-bot

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*Released 2020-11-29*

**Major Changes:**

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

**New Features:**

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

**Bug Fixes:**

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

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

- Improve Type hinting (2204, 2118, 2167, 2136)
- Doc Fixes & Extensions (2201, 2161)
- Use F-Strings Where Possible (2222)
- Rename `kwargs` to `_kwargs` where possible (2182)
- Comply with PEP561 (2168)
- Improve Code Quality (2131)
- Switch Code Formatting to Black (2122, 2159, 2158)
- Update Wheel Settings (2142)
- Update `timerbot.py` to `v13.0` (2149)
- Overhaul Constants (2137)
- Add Python 3.9 to Test Matrix (2132)
- Switch Codecov to GitHub Action (2127)
- Specify Required pytz Version (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 (2050)
- Refactor Handling of Message VS Update Filters (2032)
- Deprecate `Message.default_quote` (1965)
- Refactor persistence of Bot instances (1994)
- Refactor `JobQueue` (1981)
- Refactor handling of kwargs in Bot methods (1924)
- Refactor `Dispatcher.run_async`, deprecating the `run_async` decorator (2051)

**New Features:**

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

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

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

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*Released 2020-06-22*

**Major Changes:**

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

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

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

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*Released 2020-05-02*

**Major Changes:**

- Bot API 4.8 support. **Note:** The ``Dice`` object now has a second positional argument ``emoji``. This is relevant, if you instantiate ``Dice`` objects manually. (1917)

**New Features:**

- New method ``run_mothly`` for the ``JobQueue`` (1705)
- ``Job.next_t`` now gives the datetime of the jobs next execution (1685)

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

- Added ``tzinfo`` argument to ``helpers.from_timestamp`` (1621)
- Stabalize CI (1919, 1931)
- Use ABCs ``abstractmethod`` instead of raising ``NotImplementedError`` for ``Handler``, ``BasePersistence`` and ``BaseFilter`` (1905)
- Doc fixes (1914, 1902, 1910)

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*Released 2020-04-11*

**Bug fixes:**

- Fix serialization of `reply_markup` in media messages (1889)

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*Released 2020-04-10*

**Major Changes:**

- Bot API 4.7 support. **Note:** In ``Bot.create_new_sticker_set`` and ``Bot.add_sticker_to_set``, the order of the parameters had be changed, as the ``png_sticker`` parameter is now optional. (1858)

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

- Add tests for ``swtich_inline_query(_current_chat)`` with empty string (1635)
- Doc fixes (1854, 1874, 1884)
- Update issue templates (1880)
- Favor concrete types over "Iterable" (1882)
- Pass last valid ``CallbackContext`` to ``TIMEOUT`` handlers of ``ConversationHandler`` (1826)
- Tweak handling of persistence and update persistence after job calls (1827)
- Use checkoutv2 for GitHub actions (1887)