v3.0

Added:

• Add language support for Turkish 🇹🇷
• Add language support for Chinese Mandarin Traditional 🇹🇼
• Add language support for Chinese Mandarin Simplified 🇨🇳
• Add spam limit feature
• Add /donate command
• Add periodic suggestion to donate after using bot
• Add support for getting animated stickers as .TGS files
• Add a persistent log file and /log command (admin only) to access it
• Add requirements.txt file
• Add functions for loading and saving json files

Changed:

• Update bot to work with python-telegram-bot API 12.7 and Telegram Bot API 4.8
• Move all persistent user data from config['users'] to users.json
• Create temp directory to store temporarily downloaded files when manipulating photos
• Change bot to send uploading document message when uploading stickers
• Rename variables to be more semantically correct

Fixed:

• Fix mistakes in translations in multiple languages
• Add better exception handling in multiple instances
• Fixed bug that would not convert stickers sent to the bot to png
• Make broadcast thread skip users who have blocked the bot
• Fix automatic language detection to work with language codes of any length

Removed:

• Remove unnecessary sleeps when creating stickers to improve speed
• Remove unnecessary checks for escaped new line characters when loading lang.json

v2.3

Added:

• Add language support for Polish 🇵🇱
• Add language support for Dutch 🇳🇱
• Add creating pack icons with /icon
• Add personal uses and times shared to /stats

Changed:

• Combine all stats to single /stats command
• Change most functions to run in parallel to speed up response times
• Reformat entire file to be more logically organized
• Move links to config file

Fixed:

• Remove unused strings

v2.2

Added:

• Add language support for Arabic 🇸🇦

Changed:

• Changed most functions to run async so the bot can process multiple requests at the same time

v2.1

Added:

• Add language support for Indonesian 🇮🇩

Fixed:

• Add missing strings for Persian

v2.0

Added:

• Add automatic language detection when a user first starts the bot
• Add tracking for how many times language was automatically set to something other than English for a new user
• Add ability to opt in/out of receiving messages sent with /broadcast
• Add a forward button to the stickers sent back by bot which allows users to forward the files via inline
• Add the ability to send images to be converted via URL
• Add /allstats command to display additional stats about users and usage
• Add language support for Português 🇧🇷
• Add list of dependencies in README.md

Changed:

• Increase number of buttons per row in language keyboard from 2 to 3
• Add country flag after names of languages
• Improve organization of source code
• Restructure config file so it can store more individual user settings than just language

Fixed:

• Added all missing strings for all languages so messages should never be missing and default to English
• Fix missing punctuation and markdown in translations
• Improve quality of Spanish translation

Removed:

• Remove Chinese simplified translation as Telegram is blocked and unpopular in China where simplified is most used

v1.3.2

Added:

• Add missing Slovenian, German, and Italian strings

Changed:

• Change bot.send_message to message.reply_text and message.reply_markdown for better readability
• Change translation credits to use full names as links instead of usernames
• Change slovenian translation credit string to credit user who translated missing strings
• Change german translation credit string to credit user who translated missing strings

Removed:

• Remove error handling when converting .webp files that have no transparent background to png. The error that caused this was fixed in the image processing library's quarterly update yesterday
• Remove unnecessary specification of positional arguments
• Remove deleted account from spanish translation credit string

v1.3.1

Changed:

• Rename dump_variables() to save_config() because there are no other data files besides config.json
• Rename some variables in load_config() and save_config() to make more sense with what they're used for

Fixed:

• Fix a bug that caused the converted file to sometimes have a side length of 511 instead of 512 due to a floating point rounding error

Removed:

• Remove the do_fucking_nothing() function which was only there for testing purposes and should have never made it to release
• Remove an unnecessary variable in load_config()

v1.3

Added:

• Add userid tokens in translation credit messages
• Add README.md, LICENSE.md, and CHANGELOG.md

Changed:

• Make translator credit messages always have current username or name if no username
• Close config file immediately after working with it to prevent file from being wiped if server restarts or bot is stopped

Fixed:

• Many spelling/formatting mistakes in lang file (ie. grammar, extra spaces, random punctuation)