Version 21.6

Released 2024-09-19

This is the technical changelog for version 21.6. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

New Features

• Full Support for Bot API 7.10 (#4461 closes #4459, #4460, #4463 by aelkheir, #4464)
• Add Parameter httpx_kwargs to HTTPXRequest (#4451 closes #4424)

Minor Changes

• Improve Type Completeness (#4466)

Internal Changes

• Update Python 3.13 Test Suite to RC2 (#4471)
• Enforce the offline_bot Fixture in Test*WithoutRequest (#4465)
• Make Tests for telegram.ext Independent of Networking (#4454)
• Rename Testing Base Classes (#4453)

Dependency Updates

• Bump pytest from 8.3.2 to 8.3.3 (#4475)