v12.7

Version 12.7

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)

v12.6.1

Version 12.6.1

Released 2020-04-11

Bug fixes:

• Fix serialization of reply_markup in media messages (#1889)

v12.6

Version 12.6

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 checkout@v2 for GitHub actions (#1887)

v12.5.1

Version 12.5.1

Released 2020-03-30

Minor changes, doc fixes or bug fixes:

• Add missing docs for PollHandler and PollAnswerHandler (#1853)
• Fix wording in Filters docs (#1855)
• Reorder tests to make them more stable (#1835)
• Make ConversationHandler attributes immutable (#1756)
• Make PrefixHandler attributes command and prefix editable (#1636)
• Fix UTC as default tzinfo for Job (#1696)

v12.5

New Features:

• Bot.link gives the t.me link of the bot (#1770)

Major Changes:

• Bot API 4.5 and 4.6 support. (#1508, #1723)

Minor changes, CI improvements or bug fixes:

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

v12.4.2

Bug Fixes

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

v12.4.1

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

v12.4.0

Released 2020-02-08

New features:

• Set default values for arguments appearing repeatedly. We also have a wiki page for the new defaults. (#1490)
• Store data in CallbackContext.bot_data to access it in every callback. Also persists. (#1325)
• Filters.poll allows only messages containing a poll (#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 (#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 (#1744).

Minor changes, CI improvements or bug fixes:

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

v12.3.0

New features:

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

Major changes:

• Fix inconsistent handling of naive datetimes (#1506).

Minor changes, CI improvments or bug fixes:

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

v12.2.0

New features:

• Nested ConversationHandlers (#1512).

Minor changes, CI improvments or bug fixes:

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