Post #61

We've just released v10.0.0! TL;DR Stability fixes Bot API v3.6 Removed deprecated APIs - As always, upgrade using pip install python-telegram-bot -U Non backward compatabile changes and changed defaults - JobQueue: Remove deprecated prevent_autostart & put() (PR #1012) - Bot, Updater: Remove deprecated network_delay (PR #1012) - Remove deprecated Message.new_chat_member (PR #1012) - Retry bootstrap phase indefinitely (by default) on network errors (PR #1018) New Features - Support v3.6 API (PR #1006) - User.full_name convinience property (PR #949) - Add send_phone_number_to_provider and send_email_to_provider arguments to send_invoice (PR #986) - Bot: Add shortcut methods reply_{markdown,html} (PR #827) - Bot: Add shortcut method reply_media_group (PR #994) - Added utils.helpers.effective_message_type (PR #826) - Bot.get_file now allows passing a file in addition to file_id (PR #963) - Add .get_file() to Audio, Document, PhotoSize, Sticker, Video, VideoNote and Voice (PR #963) - Add .send_*() methods to User and Chat (PR #963) - Get jobs by name (PR #1011) - Add Message caption html/markdown methods (PR #1013) - File.download_as_bytearray - new method to get a d/led file as bytearray (PR #1019) - File.download(): Now returns a meaningful return value (PR #1019) - Added conversation timeout in ConversationHandler (PR #895) Changes - Store bot in PreCheckoutQuery (PR #953) - Updater: Issue INFO log upon received signal (PR #951) - JobQueue: Thread safety fixes (PR #977) - WebhookHandler: Fix exception thrown during error handling (PR #985) - Explicitly check update.effective_chat in ConversationHandler.check_update (PR #959) - Updater: Better handling of timeouts during get_updates (PR #1007) - Remove unnecessary to_dict() (PR #834) - CommandHandler - ignore strings in entities and "/" followed by whitespace (PR #1020) - Documentation & style fixes (PR #942, PR #956, PR #962, PR #980, PR #983) - Many contributors for this version, some of them for the first time, thank you all! (appologies if some1 had been forgotten): Daniel Reed <[email protected]> Eldinnie <[email protected]> Evgen <[email protected]> graynk <[email protected]> Jacob Bom <[email protected]> Jannik <[email protected]> Joscha Götzer <[email protected]> Mischa Krüger <[email protected]> Noam Meltzer <[email protected]> Oleg <[email protected]> Paul Larsen <[email protected]> Willem <[email protected]>