2018-03-02
Released 10.0.0
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_providerandsend_email_to_providerarguments 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)