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A new provider has been added to the Bot Payment Platform: CLICK.

To connect it to your bot, pay a visit to @BotFather > Edit Bot > Payments and select CLICK Uzbekistan there. Read more about the platform here: https://core.telegram.org/bots/payments

The Bot Payment Platform currently supports payments from more than 200 countries via 5 payment providers.
The Bot API v.3.3 has arrived!

- Mention users via inline mentions, without using usernames.
- Get pinned messages from group chats.
- And a little more.

See the full changelog here:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#august-23-2017
African bot developers, rejoice! Rave by Flutterwave is now available as a payment option in the Bot API.

To connect it to your bot, pay a visit to @BotFather > Edit Bot > Payments and select Rave by Flutterwave there.

Read more about the platform here: https://core.telegram.org/bots/payments
Some more good news for bot developers from Russia. Sberbank is now available as a payment option in the Bot API.

To connect it to your bot, pay a visit to @BotFather > Edit Bot > Payments and select Sberbank.

Read more about the platform here: https://core.telegram.org/bots/payments
The Bot API v.3.4 is here!

- Added support for the new Live Locations feature (see the Telegram blog).
- Bots can now get special entities like usernames, URLs, etc. from media captions.
- Bots can now get and manage the official sticker set of groups.

See the full changelog here:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#october-11-2017
The Bot API v.3.5 is alive and well.

- Added support for the new albums feature.
- Added support for pinned messages in channels.

Full changelog:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#november-17-2017
Many thanks to everyone who submitted bots for our Bot Contest! We have collected a lot of requests.

New applications are no longer accepted – this stage of the contest is over. We will continue awarding creators of great bots this year. Have fun using and building bots in 2018!
Don't miss TDLib, our new library that makes creating custom Telegram clients a breeze.

Telegram Database Library takes care of all network implementation details, encryption and local data storage, so that developers can dedicate more time to design, responsive interfaces and beautiful animations.

More about TDLib on our blog:
https://telegram.org/blog/tdlib

Documentation:
https://core.telegram.org/tdlib/docs/
Code on GitHub:
https://github.com/tdlib/td
Bot API v.4.0 is here!

- Support for Telegram Passport
- Edit attached media in messages
- Add thumbnails to media and documents
- And more

Full changelog:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#july-26-2018
Bot API v.4.1 is here to support Telegram Passport v.1.1

- Support for translated versions of documents
- Support for new errors returned to users

Full changelog:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#august-27-2018

Telegram Passport changelog:
https://core.telegram.org/passport#recent-changes
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Bot API 4.4 has arrived.

- Added support for animated stickers.
- Added support for default permissions in any groups.
- Added support for descriptions and invite links in basic groups.
- All webhook requests from the Bot API are now coming from the subnets 149.154.160.0/20 and 91.108.4.0/22. Update your configuration if you control inbound access with a firewall.
- The next Bot API update (v.4.5) will allow nested MessageEntity objects, make sure your code can correctly handle such entities.

Full changelog:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#july-29-2019
Bot API 4.5 is here right before 2020:

- New MarkdownV2 that supports new entity types (underline and strikethrough) and nested entities.
- New
and Nested Entities in incoming messages and captions.
- Added support for custom titles in groups.
- Added new slow_mode_delay field in Chat object.

Full changelog:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#December-31-2019
Bot API 4.6 is here to support Polls 2.0.

• Create bots like our demo @QuizBot.
• Send new types of polls: non-anonymous, with multiple answers, and quiz-style.
• Send polls to private chats with users.
• Get updates about changes of user answers in non-anonymous polls that were sent by your bot.
• And more.

Full change log:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#January-23-2020
Please note that the Bot API only accepts incoming TLS 1.2 connections (or higher). Kindly update your bot if it was using the outdated TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 protocol.
Bot API 4.7 is here!

• Supported sending and viewing the new 🎲 throws.
• Added methods to get and set the list of commands for your bot, bypassing @BotFather.
• Added methods for working with animated stickers in user-owned sticker sets.

Full change log:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#march-30-2020
Bot API 4.8 is live.

Supported explanations in polls for Quizzes 2.0.
Supported timed polls that close automatically at a predetermined moment. Use the new open_period and close_date fields.
Supported new 🎯 animation for the Dice minigame.

Full change log:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#april-24-2020