Version 20.6

Released 2023-10-03

This is the technical changelog for version 20.6. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• Drop Backward Compatibility Layer Introduced in #3853 (API 6.8) (#3873)
• Full Support for Bot API 6.9 (#3898)

New Features

• Add Rich Equality Comparison to WriteAccessAllowed (#3911 closes #3909)
• Add __repr__ Methods Added in #3826 closes #3770 to Sphinx Documentation (#3901 closes #3889)
• Add String Representation for Selected Classes (#3826 closes #3770)

Minor Changes

• Add Support Python 3.12 (#3915)
• Documentation Improvements (#3910)

Internal Changes

• Verify Type Hints for Bot Method & Telegram Class Parameters (#3868)
• Move Bot API Tests to Separate Workflow File (#3912)
• Fix Failing file_size Tests (#3906)
• Set Threshold for DeepSource's PY-R1000 to High (#3888)
• One-Time Code Formatting Improvement via --preview Flag of black (#3882)
• Move Dunder Methods to the Top of Class Bodies (#3883)
• Remove Superfluous Defaults.__ne__ (#3884)

Dependency Updates

• pre-commit autoupdate (#3876)
• Update pre-commit Dependencies (#3916)
• Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (#3914)
• Update httpx requirement from ~=0.24.1 to ~=0.25.0 (#3891)
• Bump furo from 2023.8.19 to 2023.9.10 (#3890)
• Bump sphinx from 7.2.5 to 7.2.6 (#3892)
• Update tornado requirement from ~=6.2 to ~=6.3.3 (#3675)
• Bump pytest from 7.4.0 to 7.4.2 (#3881)