Version 20.0a3

Released 2022-08-27

This is the technical changelog for version 20.0a3. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• Full Support for API 6.2 (#3195)

New Features

• New Rate Limiting Mechanism (#3148)
• Make chat/user_data Available in Error Handler for Errors in Jobs (#3152)
• Add Application.post_shutdown (#3126)

Bug Fixes

• Fix helpers.mention_markdown for Markdown V1 and Improve Related Unit Tests (#3155)
• Add api_kwargs Parameter to Bot.log_out and Improve Related Unit Tests (#3147)
• Make Bot.delete_my_commands a Coroutine Function (#3136)
• Fix ConversationHandler.check_update not respecting per_user (#3128)

Minor Changes, Documentation Improvements and CI

• Add Python 3.11 to Test Suite & Adapt Enum Behaviour (#3168)
• Drop Manual Token Validation (#3167)
• Simplify Unit Tests for Bot.send_chat_action (#3151)
• Drop pre-commit Dependencies from requirements-dev.txt` (#3120)
• Change Default Values for concurrent_updates and connection_pool_size (#3127)
• Documentation Improvements (#3139, #3153, #3135)
• Type Hinting Fixes (#3202)

Dependencies

• Bump sphinx from 5.0.2 to 5.1.1 (#3177)
• Update pre-commit Dependencies (#3085)
• Bump pytest-asyncio from 0.18.3 to 0.19.0 (#3158)
• Update tornado requirement from ~=6.1 to ~=6.2 (#3149)
• Bump black from 22.3.0 to 22.6.0 (#3132)
• Bump actions/setup-python from 3 to 4 (#3131)