Post #87

We've just released v12.8 Thanks for anyone who've contributed to this release. ⚠️ As announced in 11/2019, we discontinued support for Python 2 since the start of 2020, as it reached end of life. In correspondence with that, this release now actually removes support for Python 2, making python-telegram-bot a Python 3 only library. Be advised that if you're still using Python 2 and you want to keep using this library, it's time for you to move on. As usual, upgrade using pip install -U python-telegram-bot. Major Changes: - Remove Python 2 support (#1715) - Bot API 4.9 support (#1980) - IDs/Usernames of Filters.user and Filters.chat can now be updated (#1757) Minor changes, CI improvements, doc fixes or bug fixes: - Update contribution guide and stale bot (#1937) - Remove NullHandlers (#1913) - Improve and expand examples (#1943, #1995, #1983, #1997) - Doc fixes (#1940, #1962) - Add User.send_poll() shortcut (#1968) - Ignore private attributes en TelegramObject.to_dict() (#1989) - Stabilize CI (#2000)