Channel Appearance, Posts in Stories and More..

🌐 Blog : https://telegram.org/blog/posts-in-stories-and-more

📆 DEC,2023

#Telegram #Stable #Update #DEC2023

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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 🎆

Colorful Calls, Thanos Snap Effect, and an Epic Update for Bots.

🌐 Blog : https://telegram.org/blog/calls-and-bots/

📆 DEC,2023

#Telegram #Stable #Update #DEC2023

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Saved Messages 2.0, One-Time Voice Messages and 8 More Features.

🌐 Blog : telegram.org/blog/new-saved-messages-and-9-more

📆 JAN,2024

#Telegram #Stable #Update #JAN2024

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Stories for Groups and 8 More Features.

🌐 Blog : https://telegram.org/blog/february2024

📆 FEB,2024

#Telegram #Stable #Update #FEB2024

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Telegram Web A Digest

Many new features and useful optimizations have been added in recent months. Here is a brief overview of what's been happening in Web A since August.

September – November

✏️ General
• Reply Revolution – the app learned to quote specific parts of any message, making your responses 100% precise.
• Also, Quote Formatting have arrived.

📣 Channels
• Channels added boosts and giveaways.
• Users also got an option to reassign their boosts between channels.

🌄 Stories
• Numerous improvements have been made to the animations flow, ensuring the stories bar expands more smoothly. Additionally, a package of optimizations has been added to enhance the performance of stories on mobile devices.
• Stories have been introduced for channels, and the story viewer has been updated with new gestures to expand and reply.

⚙️ Settings
• The app has added an option, 'Who can find me by phone number,' along with a setting under 'Privacy and Security' to manage the visibility of your bio.

✨ Extra
• Some further improvements have been made to the Mini Apps area.
• New security notifications have been added to the chat list to alert you when your account is logged into from a new device.
• New design for code blocks formatting.

December – February

✏️ General
• Saved Messages 2.0 – including tags, My Notes, Replies and forwards from hidden authors.
• One-Time Voice Messages including both listening and recording. Added support for viewing One-Time Video Messages.
• Read-Time in Private Chats
• You can now replace media when editing messages.
• The app learned to preserve the selected mode for topics in groups.
• Whenever you create a small group, Web A suggests a name for it based on users' name you have added.

📣 Channels
• Added custom channel reactions.
• Implemented channel stories stats.
• Channel emoji statuses.
• Similar Channels.

👥 Groups
• 9 new features for groups.

🤖 Bots
• Edit your bots info right from their profile.

🌄 Stories
• Added support for forwarded stories and channel posts in stories.

✨ Extra
• Giveaway Improvements: displaying winners list and additional prizes.

March

📣 Channels
• Admins will soon be able to launch giveaways in their channels.

✨ Extra
• Added support for Emoji v15.1.
• Some design enhancements for shared contacts, links preview and more.

Sharing Revenue with Channel Owners


🌐 Blog : http://telegram.org/blog/monetization-for-channels

📆 MAR,2024

#Telegram #Stable #Update #MAR2024

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Introducing Telegram Business


🌐 Blog : http://telegram.org/blog/telegram-business

📆 MAR,2024

#Telegram #Stable #Update #MAR2024

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