0.12 – 2023-04-29

• Add support for testing WebApps (see #148);

• Add nix flake (see #149);

• Improve documentation for callbackQueryDataRead (see #153);

• Support telegram-bot-api == 0.7 (breaking changes included).

• Migration guide:

  1. Provide InlineQueryResultGeneric (see defInlineQueryResultGeneric).
  2. Provide InlineQueryResultGenericThumbnail (see defInlineQueryResultGenericThumbnail).
  3. Specify your own InlineQueryResult (see helpers for each data constructor).

0.11.1

• Add RunTG instances for newly added methods in 6.5.1.

0.11

• Add default implementations to all requests (see #138);
• Add RunTG that simplifies making requests (see #139);

0.10

• Compilation time reduced by splitting types and methods (see #136);

• All Telegram.Bot.API.* modules moved to telegram-bot-api package (see #137);

• Telegram.Bot.Simple.Webhook module added;

• Migration guide:

  1. In the most cases you need to add telegram-bot-api package in project dependency list;
  2. If you are using webhooks then you also need to import Telegram.Bot.Simple.Webhook from telegram-bot-simple;

0.9

• Make package complaint with Telegram Bot API 6.5 (breaking changes included) (see #135):

  • KeyboardButton extended with request_user and request_chat fields;
  • KeyboardButtonRequestUser and KeyboardButtonRequestChat types added;
  • Message extended with user_shared and chat_shared fields;
  • ChatMember and ChatPermissions: can_send_media_messages replaced with following fields:
    • can_send_audios;
    • can_send_documents;
    • can_send_photos;
    • can_send_videos;
    • can_send_video_notes;
    • can_send_voice_notes;
  • use_independent_chat_permissions field added to setChatPermissions and restrictChatMember methods;
  • ChatJoinRequest extended with user_chat_id field.
  • Update type fixed and aligned with the spec.

0.8

• Make package complaint with Telegram Bot API 6.4 (breaking changes included) (see #134):

  • ReplyKeyboardMarkup extended with is_persistent;
  • Message extended with has_media_spoiler;
  • Chat extended with has_hidden_members and has_aggressive_anti_spam_enabled;
  • editForumTopic method: fields name and icon_custom_emoji_id become optional;
  • has_spoiler field added to:
    • data constructors: InputMediaPhoto, InputMediaVideo and InputMediaAnimation;
    • method: sendPhoto, sendVideo and sendAnimation;
  • Following message events added ForumTopicEdited, GeneralForumTopicHidden and GeneralForumTopicUnhidden;
  • General topic forum management, i.e. added following functions: editGeneralForumTopic, closeGeneralForumTopic, reopenGeneralForumTopic, hideGeneralForumTopic and unhideGeneralForumTopic;

0.7

• Make package complaint with Telegram Bot API 6.3 (breaking changes included) (see #133):

  • Chat extended with is_forum, active_usernames and emoji_status_custom_emoji_id;
  • Message extended with forum_topic_created, forum_topic_closed and forum_topic_reopened;
  • Following message events added ForumTopicCreated, ForumTopicClosed and ForumTopicReopened;
  • can_manage_topics field added to ChatAdministratorRights, ChatPermissions and ChatMember data types;
  • PromoteChatMemberRequest extended with can_manage_topics too;
  • message_thread_id field added to following methods requests: sendMessage, sendPhoto, sendVideo, sendAnimation, sendAudio, sendDocument, sendSticker, sendVideoNote, sendVoice, sendLocation, sendVenue, sendContact, sendPoll, sendDice, sendInvoice, sendGame, sendMediaGroup, copyMessage and forwardMessage;
  • Forum management, i.e. added following functions: createForumTopic, editForumTopic, closeForumTopic, reopenForumTopic, deleteForumTopic, unpinAllForumTopicMessages and getForumTopicIconStickers;

0.6.2

• Fix decoding for VideoChatStarted (see #132);

0.6.1

• Fix response parsing in UpdatingMessages (see #131);
• Move from short polling to long polling (see #129);

0.6

• Fix newlines unexpected removing in UpdateParser module (see #124);

• Add WebHooks support (see #127);

• Fix parse_mode encoding in sendPhoto, sendDocument, sendVideo and sendAnimation methods (see #123 and 5ee5289);

• Make package complaint with Telegram Bot API 6.2 (breaking changes included) (see fab1aee):

  • Added createInvoiceLink method;
  • Added getCustomEmojiStickers method;
  • User extended with is_premium and added_to_attachment_menu;
  • Chat extended with has_restricted_voice_and_video_messages, join_to_send_messages, join_by_request;
  • MessageEntityType extended with custom_emoji; file_size field for Animation, Audio, Document, Video, VideoNote Voice, File changed from Int to Integer;
  • SticketSet modified: contains_masks is optional now and becoming a subject of further deprecation in a future, type added;
  • Added StickerSetType: could be regular, mask and custom_emoji.

0.5.2

• Helpers from UpdateParser module fixed, commandWithBotName added (see #121);

0.5.1

• Fix inconsistency around ParseMode (see #114);
• Fix copyMessage method (see #116);
• Add CI via GitHub Actions (see #119);
• Fix GHC 9.0 compilation regression (see #120);

0.5

• Add MarkdownV2 to ParseMode haddock suggestion (see #110);

• Make package complaint with Telegram Bot API 6.0 (breaking changes included) (see #112):

  • WebAppInfo data type added. KeyboardButton, InlineKeyboardButton extended with web_app record.
  • SentWebAppMessage data type added. answerWebAppQuery method added.
  • MenuButton data type added. setChatMenuButton, getChatMenuButton methods added.
  • ChatAdministratorRights data type added. setMyDefaultAdministratorRights, getMyDefaultAdministratorRights methods added.
  • :warning: ChatMember records changed: can_manage_voice_chats renamed to can_manage_video_chat.
  • :warning: PromoteChatMemberRequest records changed: can_manage_voice_chats renamed to can_manage_video_chats.
  • :warning: Message records changed: voice_chat_scheduled, voice_chat_started, voice_chat_ended, and voice_chat_participants_invited renamed to video_chat_scheduled, video_chat_started, video_chat_ended, and video_chat_participants_invited correspondingly.

0.4.5

• Fix UpdateId overflow exception (see #108);
• Hide examples under flag examples (see #109);

0.4.4

• Fix build on Windows (see #107);

0.4.3

• Add support spoiler message type and protect_content field for various methods (see #103);

0.4.2

• Fix GHC 9.0 compilation (see #102 );

0.4.1

• Game improvements (see #99 );
• Aeson >= 2.0 support (see #100 );

0.4

• Add Payments methods (see #93);
• Add Passport methods (see #90);
• Resolve discrepancies with Bot API 5.5 (see #87, #88)
• Make startPolling polymorphic (see #86);
• Add Updating messages methods (see #85) ;
• Add missing methods (see #83, #84);
• Add GameBot (see #82, #95);
• Allow return different types in BotM (see #79, #98);
• Fix UserId integer overflow (see #78);
• Upgrade EchoBot example with sticker replies (see #77);
• Refactor file uploads (see #76);
• Add Stickers methods (see #72, #73, #74 and #75);
• Refactor FileInfo (see #71);
• Add Game methods (see #70);
• Fix MessageId integer overflow (see #69);
• Add missing types (see #66, #81);

0.3.8

• Fix notification disable mechanism in sendDocument function (see #54);
• Implement getFile and sendPhoto API methods (see #49);

0.3.7

• Add inline mode support (see #45);

0.3.6

• Remove extra spaces, restore Tested-with (see #48);
• Add support of ghc 9 (see #47);

0.3.5

• Restore backward compatibility with older GHCs (see #40);

0.3.4

• Fix cron job, restrict dependency on cron (see #38, #39);

0.3.3

• Derive Hashable for MessageId (see #36);

0.3.2

• Implement forwardMessage API method (see #35);
• Add MarkdownV2 parse mode (see #33);

0.3.1

• Implement sendDocument function support. (see #31);
• Add Travis CI (see #32);
• Add MonadFail instance for UpdateParser (see #27);

0.3.0

• Add underline and strikethrough MessageEntityTypes (see #25);
• Fix for Stack 15 (see #24);
• Fix installation after breaking change in servant-0.16 (see #21);
• Add phonenumber type (see #23);
• Add cashtag message entity type (close #19) (see #20);
• Feat/kick chat member (see #17);
• Feat/delete message method (see #16);
• Fix startBotAsync, add processActionsIndefinitely (see #12);
• Add some badges to README (Hackage/Stackage/Travis) (see 11f13f3);
• Remove temporary files/scripts from repo (see 6bc9f48);
• Add info about LambdaConf 2018 workshop and contributing (see 1ba4d95);
• Add Data.Monoid import to fix builds on GHC 8.2 (see c798001);

0.2.0

• Major changes:

  • Add bot jobs support (see 9e0424e);
  • Add Telegram.Bot.Simple.Debug (see 7db84c5, 49679d4, 5ba949b);
  • Introduce BotEnv with model state and action queue (see 98c869a);
  • Add support for message editing (see b7c83a4);
  • Introduce replyOrEdit helper (see ecc21cd);
  • Add useLatestUpdateInJobs helper to enable reply in jobs (see 385f9e6, 8a12ceb, 448bcd2);

• Minor changes:

  • Add getEnvToken helper (see ce7d1f7);
  • Add IsString instance for Telegram.Token (see f105bb9);
  • Print Servant errors when getUpdates fails (see bc7c5bb);
  • Split Telegram.Bot.Simple into several submodules (see 8ed2783);
  • Add withEffect helper in Telegram.Bot.Simple.Eff (see aebba52);
  • More Haddock documentation;

• Fixes:

  • Resolve #7 (see #8);
  • Fix undefined in startBotAsync and add more documentation (see 7879066);
  • Fix inline buttons issue (see #10);