MadelineProto/CHANGELOG.md

More recent entries can be seen on the Telegram channel @MadelineProto!

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MadelineProto was updated (8.0.0-beta115)!

Features:

• You can now get direct download links for or directly download stories, check out the open-source @tgstories_dl_bot to download any Telegram story!
• Added support for parse_mode parsing for story methods.
• getReply now simply returns null if the message doesn't reply to any other message.
• getReply now has an optional parameter that can be used to filter the returned message type.
• Added isSelfUser(), isSelfBot() messages to check whether the current user is a user or a bot.
• Improved IDE typehinting.
• CLI bots: you can now optionally specify a default download link URL (used by getDownloadLink) in the settings.
• Added DialogMessagePinned service message with a getPinnedMessage() method.

Fixes:

• Fixed simple filters with service messages.
• Fixed IDE typehinting for getEventHandler.
• Fixed startAndLoopMulti.
• Tweaked the default drop timeout on media DCs to avoid timeout errors on slow networks.
• Now the admin list only contains user report peers.
• Make markdownEscape method accessible.
• Fixed getDownloadLink for non-event-handler web IPC instances.

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MadelineProto was updated (8.0.0-beta101)!

After introducing plugins », bound methods », filters », a built-in cron system », IPC support for the event handler » and automatic static analysis for event handler code » in beta100, beta101 brings some bugfixes and the getDownloadLink function!

Features:

• Added a getDownloadLink function, that can be used to fetch a download link for any file up to 4GB!
• Added an openFileAppendOnly function, that can be used to asynchronously open a file in append-only mode!

Fixes:

• Improved the markdownEscape function!
• Translated even more MadelineProto UI elements!
• Improve the static analyzer.
• Made some fixes to simple filters.
• Relax markdown parser.

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Introducing MadelineProto's biggest update yet, 8.0.0-beta100!

This version introduces plugins », bound methods », filters », a built-in cron system », IPC support for the event handler » and automatic static analysis for event handler code ».

See the following post for examples!

Other features:

• Thanks to the many translation contributors @ https://weblate.madelineproto.xyz/, MadelineProto is now localized in Hebrew, Persian, Kurdish, Uzbek, Russian, French and Italian!
• Added simplified sendMessage, sendDocument, sendPhoto methods that return abstract Message objects with simplified properties and bound methods!
• You can now use Tools::callFork to fork a new green thread!
• You can now automatically pin messages broadcasted using broadcastMessages, broadcastForwardMessages by using the new pin: true parameter!
• You can now use sendMessageToAdmins to send messages to the bot's admin (the peers returned by getReportPeers).
• Added wrapUpdate, wrapMessage, wrapMedia methods to wrap low-level MTProto updates into an abstracted Message object with bound methods!
• The waveform attribute of Voice objects is now automatically encoded and decoded to an array of 100 integer values!
• Added a custom PeerNotInDbException class for "This peer is not present in the internal peer database" errors
• Added a label property to the Button class, directly indicating the button label (instead of manually fetching it as an array key).
• Added isForum method to check whether a given supergroup is a forum
• Added an entitiesToHtml method to convert a message and a set of Telegram entities to an HTML string!
• You can now use reportMemoryProfile() to generate and send a pprof memory profile to all report peers to debug the causes of high memory usage.
• Added support for pay, login_url, web_app and tg://user?id= buttons in bot API syntax!
• Added a getAdminIds function that returns the IDs of the admin of the bot (equal to the peers returned by getReportPeers in the event handler).
• Added a new ParseMode enum!
• Added support for HTML lists in parseMode!
• Fixed parsing of markdown code blocks!

Breaking changes:

• Switched to a custom markdown parser with bot API MarkdownV2 syntax, which differs from the previous Markdown syntax supported by parsedown.
• Markdown text can't contain HTML anymore.

Fixes:

• Fixed file uploads with ext-uv!
• Fixed file re-uploads!
• Improve background broadcasting with the broadcast API using a pre-defined list of whitelist IDs!
• Fixed a bug that caused updates to get paused if an exception is thrown during onStart.
• Broadcast IDs are now unique across multiple broadcasts, even if previous broadcasts already completed their ID will never be re-used.
• Now uploadMedia, sendMedia and upload can upload files from string buffers created using ReadableBuffer.
• Reduced memory usage during flood waits by tweaking config defaults.
• Reduced memory usage by clearing the min database automatically as needed.
• Automatically try caching all dialogs if a peer not found error is about to be thrown.
• Fixed some issues with pure phar installs.
• Fixed splitting of HTML and markdown messages
• Fixed formatting of multiline markdown codeblocks
• And many other performance improvements and bugfixes!