📰 If you have a negative rating number, Telegram will say that you are an "unreliable" user. ⚠️However, other users cannot see how much you have lowered this number. And to avoid it, it is enough to spend as many stars as indicated in your rating, or more.

🎁 Perhaps, if someone wants to give you a gift, they can bump into this warning to give them time to think about it.

Bot API 9.2

📭 Direct Messages in Channels
• Introduced Channel Direct Messages Chats, allowing bots to send and detect Direct Messages in channels they manage.
• Bots can now identify direct messages chats and their parent channel.
• Bots now additionally receive topic metadata for direct messages.

⭐️ Suggested Posts
• Introduced full support for Suggested Posts in channels, unlocking granular automations via bots with sufficient rights.
• Bots can now detect, send, approve and decline suggested posts, with detailed price and date options.
• All relevant service messages are supported – including approvals, errors, declines, successful payments and refunds.

☑️ Checklists
• Bots can now reply directly to individual checklist tasks.

🎁 Gifts
• Gifts can now expose their publisher chat for attribution.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#august-15-2025

📰 The built-in gift marketplace is temporarily disabled, users report. The exact cause is unknown, but it is most likely due to maintenance. In other words, you cannot search for gifts for purchase through Settings › Telegram Gifts. 👌 In all other cases, the interaction with the purchase/sale is fine.

UPD: At the time of sending, the marketplace was immediately turned on again.

📰 Now this is what the gift 🎰 upgrades process looks like.

By the way, in addition to the post above: You can pay with ⭐️ for upgrades to rare gifts for other users. 💡 He will receive a notification about it.

➕ One year ago, the French police detained me for 4 days because some people I’d never heard of used Telegram to coordinate crimes. Arresting a CEO of a major platform over the actions of its users was not only unprecedented — it was legally and logically absurd.

A year later, the ‘criminal investigation’ against me is still struggling to find anything that I or Telegram did wrong. Our moderation practices align with industry standards, and Telegram has always responded to every legally binding request from France.

Ironically, I was arrested due to the French police’s own mistake: before August 2024, they ignored French and EU laws and hadn’t sent any of their queries to Telegram via the required legal process. They could have learned the correct procedure simply by googling it or asking.

One year after this strange arrest, I still have to return to France every 14 days, with no appeal date in sight. Sadly, the only outcome of my arrest so far has been massive damage to France’s image as a free country. 🛠

✊ We’ll keep fighting — and we will win 😎

- @Durov