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ConversationHandler timout argument.
- As always, upgrade using pip install python-telegram-bot -U
Fixes:
- Fix conversationhandler timeout (PR #1032)
- Add missing docs utils (PR #912)pip install python-telegram-bot -U
Non backward compatabile changes and changed defaults
- JobQueue: Remove deprecated prevent_autostart & put() (PR #1012)
- Bot, Updater: Remove deprecated network_delay (PR #1012)
- Remove deprecated Message.new_chat_member (PR #1012)
- Retry bootstrap phase indefinitely (by default) on network errors (PR #1018)
New Features
- Support v3.6 API (PR #1006)
- User.full_name convinience property (PR #949)
- Add send_phone_number_to_provider and send_email_to_provider arguments to send_invoice (PR #986)
- Bot: Add shortcut methods reply_{markdown,html} (PR #827)
- Bot: Add shortcut method reply_media_group (PR #994)
- Added utils.helpers.effective_message_type (PR #826)
- Bot.get_file now allows passing a file in addition to file_id (PR #963)
- Add .get_file() to Audio, Document, PhotoSize, Sticker, Video, VideoNote and Voice (PR #963)
- Add .send_*() methods to User and Chat (PR #963)
- Get jobs by name (PR #1011)
- Add Message caption html/markdown methods (PR #1013)
- File.download_as_bytearray - new method to get a d/led file as bytearray (PR #1019)
- File.download(): Now returns a meaningful return value (PR #1019)
- Added conversation timeout in ConversationHandler (PR #895)
Changes
- Store bot in PreCheckoutQuery (PR #953)
- Updater: Issue INFO log upon received signal (PR #951)
- JobQueue: Thread safety fixes (PR #977)
- WebhookHandler: Fix exception thrown during error handling (PR #985)
- Explicitly check update.effective_chat in ConversationHandler.check_update (PR #959)
- Updater: Better handling of timeouts during get_updates (PR #1007)
- Remove unnecessary to_dict() (PR #834)
- CommandHandler - ignore strings in entities and "/" followed by whitespace (PR #1020)
- Documentation & style fixes (PR #942, PR #956, PR #962, PR #980, PR #983)
- Many contributors for this version, some of them for the first time, thank you all! (appologies if some1 had been forgotten):
Daniel Reed <nmlorg@gmail.com>
Eldinnie <Eldinnie@users.noreply.github.com>
Evgen <evgfilim1@yandex.ru>
graynk <gray.nk@gmail.com>
Jacob Bom <bomjacob@gmail.com>
Jannik <32801117+code1mountain@users.noreply.github.com>
Joscha Götzer <joscha.goetzer@gmail.com>
Mischa Krüger <makmanx64@gmail.com>
Noam Meltzer <tsnoam@gmail.com>
Oleg <fmorte@ya.ru>
Paul Larsen <pn1315@ic.ac.uk>
Willem <github@canihavesome.coffee>End Of Life status.
New Features
- Support Bot API 3.5 (PR #920)
NOTE: Because a major rework of some internals for the library is needed to support the upload of new files with send_media_group this is currently not yet available. For now you can use file_id's or url's for media to send in a media group.
Changes
- Fix race condition in dispatcher start/stop (#887)
- Log error trace if there is no error handler registered (#694)
- Update examples with consistent string formatting (#870)
- Various changes and improvements to the docs.
We wish to thank everyone who had contributed to this release. Happy upgrades everyone!CommandHandler
- As always, upgrade using
pip install python-telegram-bot -U
Changes:
Fix Commandhandler crashing on single character messages (PR #873)
We wish to thank everyone who had contributed to this release. Happy upgrades everyone!pip install python-telegram-bot -U
Changes:
New features
- Support Bot API 3.4 (PR #865).
Changes
- MessgaeHandler & RegexHandler now consider channel_updates.
- Fix command not recognized if it is directly followed by a newline (PR #869).
- Removed Bot._message_wrapper (PR #822).
- Unitests are now also running on Appveyor (Windows VM).
- Various unitest improvments.
- Documentation fixes.
We wish to thank everyone who had contributed to this release. Happy upgrades everyone!DispatcherHandlerStop (see docs).
- Regression fix for text_html & text_markdown (PR #777).
- Added effective_attachment to message (PR #766).
Non backward compatible changes:
- Removed Botan support from the library (PR #776).
- Fully support Bot Api 3.3 (PR #806).
- Remove de_json() (PR #789).
Changes:
- Sane defaults for tcp socket options on linux (PR #754).
- Add RESTRICTED as constant to ChatMember (PR #761).
- Add rich comparison to CallbackQuery (PR #764).
- Fix get_game_high_scores (PR #771).
- Warn on small con_pool_size during custom initalization of Updater (PR #793).
- Catch exceptions in error handler for errors that happen during polling (PR #810).
- For testing we switched to pytest (PR #788).
- Lot's of small improvements to our tests and documentation.pip install -U python-telegram-botpip install python-telegram-bot -UChanges: - Fully support Bot API 3.2. - New filters for handling messages from specific chat/user id (PR #677). - Add the possibility to add objects as arguments to send_* methods (PR #742). - Fixed download of URLs with UTF-8 chars in path (PR #688). - Fixed URL parsing for
Message text properties (PR #689).
- Fixed args dispatching in MessageQueue's decorator (PR #705).
- Fixed regression preventing IPv6 only hosts from connnecting to Telegram servers (Issue #720).
- ConvesationHandler - check if a user exist before using it (PR #699).
- Removed deprecated telegram.Emoji.
- Removed deprecated Botan import from utils (Botan is still available through contrib).
- Removed deprecated ReplyKeyboardHide.
- Removed deprecated edit_message argument of bot.set_game_score.
- Internal restructure of files.
- Improved documentation.
- Improved unitests.pip install python-telegram-bot -Upip install python-telegram-bot==6.0.1urllib3 by renaming vendored urllib3 to ptb_urllib3
Upgrade using pip install python-telegram-bot -Upip install python-telegram-bot==6.1b2pip install python-telegram-bot==6.1b1pip install python-telegram-bot==6.1b0User.language_code
- Fix Message.text_html and Message.text_markdown for messages with emojideleteMessage API method
- New, simpler API for JobQueue - PR #484
- Download files into file-like objects - PR #459
- Use vendor urllib3 to address issues with timeouts
- The default timeout for messages is now 5 seconds. For sending media, the default timeout is now 20 seconds.
- String attributes that are not set are now None by default, instead of empty strings
- Add text_markdown and text_html properties to Message - PR #507
- Add support for Socks5 proxy - PR #518
- Add support for filters in CommandHandler - PR #536
- Add the ability to invert (not) filters - PR #552
- Add Filters.group and Filters.private
- Compatibility with GAE via urllib3.contrib package - PR #583
- Add equality rich comparision operators to telegram objects - PR #604
- Several bugfixes and other improvements
- Remove some deprecated code
We'll be working on the new Bot API 3.0 features and bring them to you ASAP. Thanks a lot to all the wonderful people who contributed to this release!
As always, upgrade using
pip install -U python-telegram-bot
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