UPGRADE.md

Upgrade Guide

MAJOR version bumps will have upgrade notes posted here.

[2021-09-22] 6.x.x to 7.x.x

Overview

Version 7.x.x is the first version that officially drops support for Python versions 2.7, 3.4, and 3.5.

Removal of files and dependencies that were added to support Python 2.7, 3.4, and 3.5:

• Six
  • Removed use of u a fake unicode literal
  • Removed use of b a fake bytes literal
  • Removed PY3 a boolean indicating if the code is running on Python 3
  • text_type type for representing (Unicode) textual data --> str
  • iteritems returns an iterator over dictionary’s items --> items
  • string_types possible types for text data like basestring() in Python 2 and str in Python 3.--> str
• twilio/compat.py
  • from twilio.compat import urlencode --> from urllib.parse import urlencode
  • izip --> zip
• twilio/jwt/compat.py
  • Removed compat.compare_digest
• twilio/jwt/init.py
  • Removed import for simplejson and json

Updated dependencies

• Updated PyJWT to >=2.0.0

CHANGED - Remove the ability to override the algorithm in Jwt.to_jwt().

Removed the ability to override the algorithm while using a jwt access token:

// 6.x.x
from twilio.jwt.access_token import AccessToken
token.to_jwt(algorithm='HS512')

// 7.x.x
from twilio.jwt.access_token import AccessToken
token.to_jwt()

[2017-09-28] 6.6.x to 6.7.x

CHANGED - Body parameter on Chat Message creation is no longer required.

Rationale

This was changed to add support for sending media in Chat messages, users can now either provide a body or a media_sid.

6.6.x

from twilio.rest import Client

client = Client('AC123', 'auth')
client.chat.v2.services('IS123').channels('CH123').messages.create("this is the body")

6.7.x

from twilio.rest import Client

client = Client('AC123', 'auth')
client.chat.v2.services('IS123').channels('CH123').messages.create(body="this is the body")