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2022-02-01 21:54:46 Bot API 5.7

• Added support for Video Stickers.

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#january-31-2022

Note: Clients released before January 31, 2022 will display messages containing video stickers as "unsupported message". Open / Comment

2021-12-31 11:54:19 Bot API 5.6

• Improved support for protected content: bots can now send it to any chat via the protect_content parameter.
• Implemented spoiler entities both as a new MessageEntity and a supported MarkdownV2 and HTML formatting option.

• See the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#december-30-2021

Warning: Clients released before December 30, 2021 will display messages containing spoilers as "unsupported message". Open / Comment

2021-12-07 16:12:10 Bot API 5.5

• Bots can now contact users who sent a join request to a chat where the bot is an admin – even if the user never interacted with the bot before.
• Added support for protected content in groups and channels.
• Added support for users posting as a channel in public groups and channel comments.
• Added support for mentioning users by their ID in inline keyboards.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#december-7-2021


Warning: As previously announced, user identifiers can now have up to 52 significant bits and require a 64-bit integer or double-precision float type to be stored safely. Open / Comment

2021-11-18 10:01:34 New payment provider added: LeoGaming

More about bot payments:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/payments Open / Comment

2021-11-05 15:30:22 Bot API 5.4

• Added support for new invite links with Join Requests. Bots can now manage users who requested to join a group or channel.
• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#november-5-2021 Open / Comment

2021-10-26 13:41:26 New payment providers added:

• PSB
• Portmone
• Paymega
• Cascad

More about bot payments:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/payments Open / Comment

2021-10-09 20:59:34 If you are using a self-hosted instance of the Bot API, please update to version 5.3.3 that supports user identifiers larger than 2^31-1 as soon as possible.

Otherwise, please make sure that your code can correctly handle such user identifiers. Open / Comment

2021-09-08 11:00:07 New payment provider added: Global Pay, Uzbekistan

More about bot payments:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/payments Open / Comment

2021-06-25 21:01:29 Bot API 5.3

Personalized Commands
• Bots can now show commands that change to fit specific situations – like a user’s language, chat type, or admin status.
• A new Menu button now appears in chats with bots, making commands easier to see and send.

Custom Placeholders
• Bots can display a custom placeholder in the input field. See our latest blog for more on the bot menu and placeholders.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#june-25-2021 Open / Comment

2021-04-26 17:10:36 Bot API 5.2

• Added support for Payments 2.0, including inline mode for invoices.
• Added the field chat_type to the class InlineQuery.
• And more, see the full changelog for details.

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#april-26-2021 Open / Comment