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As of the next update, it will no longer be possible to store the value of file_size fields in a signed 32-bit integer type. This change is necessary to support 4GB files which some users will be able to upload. We expect this update to arrive in June 2022.

New payment providers added:

• Unlimint 🌎
• ipay88 🇰🇭

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

New payment providers added:

• Smart Glocal 🌎
• Bank 131

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

Bot API 6.0• Added support for Web Apps.
• KeyboardButton and InlineKeyboardButton can now be used to launch Web Apps.
• Added control over the bot's menu button via setChatMenuButton and getChatMenuButton.
• Added control over the bot's default admin rights via setMyDefaultAdministratorRights and getMyDefaultAdministratorRights.
• Added support for t.me links to add bots as admins.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#april-16-2022

Warning: After the next update, login_url will only allow HTTPS links.

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".

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".

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.

New payment provider added: LeoGaming 🇺🇦

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

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

New payment providers added:

• PSB
• Portmone
• Paymega
• Cascad

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