Version 21.5

Released 2024-09-01

This is the technical changelog for version 21.5. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• Full Support for Bot API 7.9 (#4429)
• Full Support for Bot API 7.8 (#4408)

New Features

• Add MessageEntity.shift_entities and MessageEntity.concatenate (#4376 closes #4372)
• Add Parameter game_pattern to CallbackQueryHandler (#4353 by @jainamoswal closes #4269)
• Add Parameter read_file_handle to InputFile (#4388 closes #4339)

Documentation Improvements

• Bugfix for "Available In" Admonitions (#4413)
• Documentation Improvements (#4400 closes #4446, #4448 by @Palaptin)
• Document Return Types of RequestData Members (#4396)
• Add Introductory Paragraphs to Telegram Types Subsections (#4389 by @mohdyusuf2312 closes #4380)
• Start Adapting to RTD Addons (#4386)

Minor and Internal Changes

• Remove Surplus Logging from Updater Network Loop (#4432 by @MartinHjelmare)
• Add Internal Constants for Encodings (#4378 by @elpekenin)
• Improve PyPI Automation (#4375 closes #4373)
• Update Test Suite to New Test Channel Setup (#4435)
• Improve Fixture Usage in test_message.py (#4431 by @Palaptin)
• Update Python 3.13 Test Suite to RC1 (#4415)
• Bump ruff and Add New Rules (#4416)

Dependency Updates

• Update cachetools requirement from <5.5.0,>=5.3.3 to >=5.3.3,<5.6.0 (#4437)
• Bump sphinx from 7.4.7 to 8.0.2 and furo from 2024.7.18 to 2024.8.6 (#4412)
• Bump test-summary/action from 2.3 to 2.4 (#4410)
• Bump pytest from 8.2.2 to 8.3.2 (#4403)
• Bump dependabot/fetch-metadata from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 (#4411)
• Update cachetools requirement from ~=5.3.3 to >=5.3.3,<5.5.0 (#4390)
• Bump sphinx from 7.3.7 to 7.4.7 (#4395)
• Bump furo from 2024.5.6 to 2024.7.18 (#4392)