Post #56

We just released v8.0.0! TL;DR - We wish to thank everyone who had contributed to this major release. If for some reason your name is not in AUTHORS.rst please don't be shy and send us a PR to add your name. - As always, upgrade using pip install python-telegram-bot -U New features: - Fully support Bot Api 3.3 (PR #806). - DispatcherHandlerStop (see docs). - Regression fix for text_html & text_markdown (PR #777). - Added effective_attachment to message (PR #766). Non backward compatible changes: - Removed Botan support from the library (PR #776). - Fully support Bot Api 3.3 (PR #806). - Remove de_json() (PR #789). Changes: - Sane defaults for tcp socket options on linux (PR #754). - Add RESTRICTED as constant to ChatMember (PR #761). - Add rich comparison to CallbackQuery (PR #764). - Fix get_game_high_scores (PR #771). - Warn on small con_pool_size during custom initalization of Updater (PR #793). - Catch exceptions in error handler for errors that happen during polling (PR #810). - For testing we switched to pytest (PR #788). - Lot's of small improvements to our tests and documentation.