v20.3

Version 20.3

Released 2023-05-07

This is the technical changelog for version 20.3. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• Full support for API 6.7 (#3673)
• Add a Stability Policy (#3622)

New Features

• Add Application.mark_data_for_update_persistence (#3607)
• Make Message.link Point to Thread View Where Possible (#3640)
• Localize Received datetime Objects According to Defaults.tzinfo (#3632)

Minor Changes, Documentation Improvements and CI

• Empower ruff (#3594)
• Drop Usage of sys.maxunicode (#3630)
• Add String Representation for RequestParameter (#3634)
• Stabilize CI by Rerunning Failed Tests (#3631)
• Give Loggers Better Names (#3623)
• Add Logging for Invalid JSON Data in BasePersistence.parse_json_payload (#3668)
• Improve Warning Categories & Stacklevels (#3674)
• Stabilize test_delete_sticker_set (#3685)
• Shield Update Fetcher Task in Application.start (#3657)
• Recover 100% Type Completeness (#3676)
• Documentation Improvements (#3628, #3636, #3694)

Dependencies

• Bump actions/stale from 7 to 8 (#3644)
• Bump furo from 2023.3.23 to 2023.3.27 (#3643)
• pre-commit autoupdate (#3646, #3688)
• Remove Deprecated codecov Package from CI (#3664)
• Bump sphinx-copybutton from 0.5.1 to 0.5.2 (#3662)
• Update httpx requirement from ~=0.23.3 to ~=0.24.0 (#3660)
• Bump pytest from 7.2.2 to 7.3.1 (#3661)