Post #130

Happy New Year, everyone! For the first day of 2023, we have a special surprise for you: We've just released v20.0 🤩 We want to thank everyone who contributed to this release, and we also want to thank the community for their patience and feedback during the pre-release phase! v20.0 is the long await-ed stable release of the v20.x series that was first announced in January 2021 and got its first alpha release in May 2022. It redesigns python-telegram-bot to be built with the modern asyncio framework and brings a plethora of improvements. Before upgrading to v20.0 from an older version, please be sure to read the release notes of v20.0a0, which still give a good overview of the major changes in v20.0, as well as the transition guide. The transition guide also includes a script that can help easing a transition from v13.x to v20.0. We are excited to finally make this step and are looking forward to an asyncio future of python-telegram-bot together with you. As mentioned in the past release notes and announcements, this release marks the end of support for v13.x. While the documentation for the older versions will still be available, the v13.x series will no longer be updated, and we will also no longer provide support for these versions. Apart from a new version number, this release also includes two notable changes. Firstly, it brings full support for Bot API 6.4. Moreover, bot methods now accept any kind of collections.abc.Sequence objects as input instead of only lists and tuples. For the full list of changes and improvements, please see below. Major Changes • Full Support For Bot API 6.4 (#3449) Minor Changes, Documentation Improvements and CI • Documentation Improvements (#3428, #3423, #3429, #3441 by Eisberge, #3404, #3443 by zeshuaro) • Allow Sequence Input for Bot Methods (#3412) • Update Link-Check CI and Replace a Dead Link (#3456) • Freeze Classes Without Arguments (#3453) • Add New Constants (#3444) • Override Bot.__deepcopy__ to Raise TypeError (#3446) • Add Log Decorator to Bot.get_webhook_info (#3442) • Add Documentation On Verifying Releases (#3436) • Drop Undocumented Job.__lt__ (#3432) Dependencies • Downgrade sphinx to 5.3.0 to Fix Search (#3457) • Bump sphinx from 5.3.0 to 6.0.0 (#3450)