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Bot API 7.0 Announcing our biggest Bot API update yet! Reactions • Introducing full reaction support for bots. • Bots can now react to messages with setMessageReaction. • Message reactions now generate updates for bots. • Added the available_reactions field to the class Chat. Replies 2.0 • Bots can now reply to messages in other chats or topics. • Added the ExternalReplyInfo class, to track replies across chats. • The new class ReplyParameters replaces individual reply options in all relevant methods and lets bots quote parts of any message. • The new field quote of the class Message lets bots detect incoming quoted text. Link Preview Customization • Bots can now set a custom URL to generate link previews in outgoing messages. • Added support for custom size and position of link previews. • Added the class LinkPreviewOptions to support these new options. Batch Actions • Bots can now delete multiple messages in a single request via deleteMessages. • Bots can now forward or copy multiple messages in a single request via the respective forwardMessages and copyMessages methods. Boosts & Giveaways • Added support for Giveaway messages, allowing bots to detect their creation and completion. • Added updates about chat boost changes via the new classes ChatBoostUpdated and ChatBoostRemoved. • Bots can now see if a boost came from a premium sub, a gift code, or a giveaway, as well as check all active user boosts via getUserChatBoosts. General •Blockquotes are now supported in MarkdownV2 and HTML parse modes. • Web Apps won't close when calling openTelegramLink. • Web Apps can now toggle the visibility and on-click behavior of the Settings Button. • Bots can now request multiple users, see KeyboardButtonRequestUsers. • The class Chat has new fields holding profile and background colors, custom emoji, and more. • And a great deal more. See the full changelog for details: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#december-29-2023 Happy Holidays from the Telegram Team 🎆