Post #146

We've just released v21.3. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release. As usual, upgrade using pip install -U python-telegram-bot. This release brings full support for the new Bot API 7.4. Moreover, it removes backward compatibility for functionality deprecated in Bot API 7.3. This is in line with our stability policy. As announced previously, this is also the last update for the python-telegram-bot-raw library. It will not receive any further updates. Please switch to using python-telegram-bot. For the full list of changes and improvements, please see the below changelog. Major Changes • Full Support for Bot API 7.4 (#4286, #4280, #4285, #4276 closes #4275, #4283, #4278, #4279) • Deprecate python-telegram-bot-raw (#4270) • Remove Functionality Deprecated in Bot API 7.3 (#4266 closes #4244) New Features • Add Parameter chat_id to ChatMemberHandler (#4290 by uniquetrij closes #4287) Documentation Improvements • Documentation Improvements (#4264 closes #4240) Internal Changes • Add setuptools to requirements-dev.txt (#4282) • Update Settings for pre-commit.ci (#4265) Dependency Updates • Bump pytest from 8.2.0 to 8.2.1 (#4272)