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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

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.

New payment provider added: Global Pay, Uzbekistan More about bot payments: https://core.telegram.org/bots/payments

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

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

Bot API 5.1 • Added updates about member status changes in chats: my_chat_member and chat_member • Support for improved invite links • Basic info about voice chats • And more, read the full changelog here: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#march…