Version 21.10

Released 2025-01-03

This is the technical changelog for version 21.10. More elaborate release notes can be found in the news channel @pythontelegrambotchannel.

Major Changes

• Full Support for Bot API 8.2 (#4633)
• Bump apscheduler & Deprecate pytz Support (#4582)

New Features

• Add Parameter pattern to JobQueue.jobs() (#4613 closes #4544)
• Allow Input of Type Sticker for Several Methods (#4616 closes #4580)

Bug Fixes

• Ensure Forward Compatibility of Gift and Gifts (#4634 closes #4637)

Documentation Improvements & Internal Changes

• Use Custom Labels for dependabot PRs (#4621)
• Remove Redundant pylint Suppressions (#4628)
• Update Copyright to 2025 (#4631)
• Refactor Module Structure and Tests for Star Payments Classes (#4615 closes #4593)
• Unify datetime Imports (#4605 by @cuevasrja closes #4577)
• Add Static Security Analysis of GitHub Actions Workflows (#4606)

Dependency Updates

• Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 4.2.0 to 5.1.0 (#4625)
• Bump codecov/codecov-action from 5.1.1 to 5.1.2 (#4622)
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4.4.3 to 4.5.0 (#4623)
• Bump github/codeql-action from 3.27.9 to 3.28.0 (#4624)