Version 21.2

Released 2024-05-20

This is the technical changelog for version 21.2. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• Full Support for Bot API 7.3 (#4246, #4260, #4243, #4248, #4242 closes #4236, #4247 by aelkheir)
• Remove Functionality Deprecated by Bot API 7.2 (#4245)

New Features

• Add Version to PTBDeprecationWarning (#4262 closes #4261)
• Handle Exceptions in building CallbackContext (#4222)

Bug Fixes

• Call Application.post_stop Only if Application.stop was called (#4211 closes #4210)
• Handle SystemExit raised in Handlers (#4157 closes #4155 and #4156)
• Make Birthdate.to_date Return a datetime.date Object (#4251)

Documentation Improvements

• Documentation Improvements (#4217)

Internal Changes

• Add New Rules to ruff Config (#4250)
• Adapt Test Suite to Changes in Error Messages (#4238)

Dependency Updates

• Bump furo from 2024.4.27 to 2024.5.6 (#4252)
• pre-commit autoupdate (#4239)
• Bump pytest from 8.1.1 to 8.2.0 (#4231)
• Bump dependabot/fetch-metadata from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 (#4228)
• Bump pytest-asyncio from 0.21.1 to 0.21.2 (#4232)
• Bump pytest-xdist from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 (#4233)
• Bump furo from 2024.1.29 to 2024.4.27 (#4230)
• Bump srvaroa/labeler from 1.10.0 to 1.10.1 (#4227)
• Bump pytest from 7.4.4 to 8.1.1 (#4218)
• Bump sphinx from 7.2.6 to 7.3.7 (#4215)
• Bump pytest-xdist from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0 (#4215)