Version 20.1

Released 2023-02-09

This is the technical changelog for version 20.1. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• Full Support for Bot API 6.5 (#3530)

New Features

• Add Application(Builder).post_stop (#3466)
• Add Chat.effective_name Convenience Property (#3485)
• Allow to Adjust HTTP Version and Use HTTP/2 by Default (#3506)

Documentation Improvements

• Enhance chatmemberbot Example (#3500)
• Automatically Generate Cross-Reference Links (#3501, #3529, #3523)
• Add Some Graphic Elements to Docs (#3535)
• Various Smaller Improvements (#3464, #3483, #3484, #3497, #3512, #3515, #3498)

Minor Changes, Documentation Improvements and CI

• Update Copyright to 2023 (#3459)
• Stabilize Tests on Closing and Hiding the General Forum Topic (#3460)
• Fix Dependency Warning Typo (#3474)
• Cache Dependencies on GitHub Actions (#3469)
• Store Documentation Builts as GitHub Actions Artifacts (#3468)
• Add ruff to pre-commit Hooks (#3488)
• Improve Warning for days Parameter of JobQueue.run_daily (#3503)
• Improve Error Message for NetworkError (#3505)
• Lock Inactive Threads Only Once Each Day (#3510)
• Bump pytest from 7.2.0 to 7.2.1 (#3513)
• Check for 3D Arrays in check_keyboard_type (#3514)
• Explicit Type Annotations (#3508)
• Increase Verbosity of Type Completeness CI Job (#3531)
• Fix CI on Python 3.11 + Windows (#3547)

Dependencies

• Bump actions/stale from 6 to 7 (#3461)
• Bump dessant/lock-threads from 3.0.0 to 4.0.0 (#3462)
• pre-commit autoupdate (#3470)
• Update httpx requirement from ~=0.23.1 to ~=0.23.3 (#3489)
• Update cachetools requirement from ~=5.2.0 to ~=5.2.1 (#3502)
• Improve Config for ruff and Bump to v0.0.222 (#3507)
• Update cachetools requirement from ~=5.2.1 to ~=5.3.0 (#3520)
• Bump isort to 5.12.0 (#3525)
• Update apscheduler requirement from ~=3.9.1 to ~=3.10.0 (#3532)
• pre-commit autoupdate (#3537)
• Update cryptography requirement to >=39.0.1 to address Vulnerability (#3539)