Version 20.0a5

Released 2022-11-22

This is the technical changelog for version 20.0a5. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• API 6.3 (#3346, #3343, #3342, #3360)
• Explicit local_mode Setting (#3154)
• Make Almost All 3rd Party Dependencies Optional (#3267)
• Split File.download Into File.download_to_drive And File.download_to_memory (#3223)

New Features

• Add Properties for API Settings of Bot (#3247)
• Add chat_id and username Parameters to ChatJoinRequestHandler (#3261)
• Introduce TelegramObject.api_kwargs (#3233)
• Add Two Constants Related to Local Bot API Servers (#3296)
• Add recursive Parameter to TelegramObject.to_dict() (#3276)
• Overhaul String Representation of TelegramObject (#3234)
• Add Methods Chat.mention_{html, markdown, markdown_v2} (#3308)
• Add constants.MessageLimit.DEEP_LINK_LENGTH (#3315)
• Add Shortcut Parameters caption, parse_mode and caption_entities to Bot.send_media_group (#3295)
• Add Several New Enums To Constants (#3351)

Bug Fixes

• Fix CallbackQueryHandler Not Handling Non-String Data Correctly With Regex Patterns (#3252)
• Fix Defaults Handling in Bot.answer_web_app_query (#3362)

Documentation Improvements

• Update PR Template (#3361)
• Document Dunder Methods of TelegramObject (#3319)
• Add Several References to Wiki pages (#3306)
• Overhaul Search bar (#3218)
• Unify Documentation of Arguments and Attributes of Telegram Classes (#3217, #3292, #3303, #3312, #3314)
• Several Smaller Improvements (#3214, #3271, #3289, #3326, #3370, #3376, #3366)

Minor Changes, Documentation Improvements and CI

• Improve Warning About Unknown ConversationHandler States (#3242)
• Switch from Stale Bot to GitHub Actions (#3243)
• Bump Python 3.11 to RC2 in Test Matrix (#3246)
• Make Job.job a Property and Make Jobs Hashable (#3250)
• Skip JobQueue Tests on Windows Again (#3280)
• Read-Only CallbackDataCache (#3266)
• Type Hinting Fix for Message.effective_attachment (#3294)
• Run Unit Tests in Parallel (#3283)
• Update Test Matrix to Use Stable Python 3.11 (#3313)
• Don't Edit Objects In-Place When Inserting ext.Defaults (#3311)
• Add a Test for MessageAttachmentType (#3335)
• Add Three New Test Bots (#3347)
• Improve Unit Tests Regarding ChatMemberUpdated.difference (#3352)
• Flaky Unit Tests: Use pytest Marker (#3354)
• Fix DeepSource Issues (#3357)
• Handle Lists and Tuples and Datetimes Directly in TelegramObject.to_dict (#3353)
• Update Meta Config (#3365)
• Merge ChatDescriptionLimit Enum Into ChatLimit (#3377)

Dependencies

• Bump pytest from 7.1.2 to 7.1.3 (#3228)
• pre-commit Updates (#3221)
• Bump sphinx from 5.1.1 to 5.2.3 (#3269)
• Bump furo from 2022.6.21 to 2022.9.29 (#3268)
• Bump actions/stale from 5 to 6 (#3277)
• pre-commit autoupdate (#3282)
• Bump sphinx from 5.2.3 to 5.3.0 (#3300)
• Bump pytest-asyncio from 0.19.0 to 0.20.1 (#3299)
• Bump pytest from 7.1.3 to 7.2.0 (#3318)
• Bump pytest-xdist from 2.5.0 to 3.0.2 (#3317)
• pre-commit autoupdate (#3325)
• Bump pytest-asyncio from 0.20.1 to 0.20.2 (#3359)
• Update httpx requirement from ~=0.23.0 to ~=0.23.1 (#3373)