Bot API 10.0

Today's update reshapes how bots communicate on Telegram – unlocking cooperative multi-bot agentic flows, seamless integration in any chat, granular access controls and more.

🦀 Guest Mode and Agentic Flows
• Introduced guest mode, allowing bots to easily participate in any chat without joining it.
• Users can summon up to 3 guest bots per message – unlocking complex agentic flows in any chat. Guest bots receive only relevant messages and can inspect caller context or send replies.
• Bots can now message each other by username if they enable bot-to-bot communication.
• Account automation via Business Bots no longer requires a Premium subscription.
• Business Bots can now interact with other bots on behalf of the user.

🛡 Chat Management
• Admin bots can now remove individual message reactions, clear all recent reactions from a user or restrict them from issuing more.
• The list of chat admins can now optionally return bot administrators.

🚶 Live Photos
• Introduced support for live photos – images enhanced with short built-in motion and sound.
• Bots can now detect, download and send live photos to any chat, including as paid media.

📊 Polls
• Bots can now detect and attach media in both polls and individual poll options.
• Polls can now be limited to existing chat members or voters from specific countries.

✈ General
• Users can now set a granular access whitelist for their bot via @BotFather, while Manager Bots can set one via the API.
• Bots can now fetch recent messages from the channel pinned to a user's profile.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#may-8-2026

Bot API 10.1

📝 Markup Revolution

This update introduces native text styling tools to enable richly formatted messages in any chat. Bots can now deliver highly structured content like business reports or media slideshows, while AI agents can seamlessly stream complex replies in real time.

Supported formats include:

• Multi-level headings, paragraphs and dividers.
• Lists and task lists – with support for custom numerals and ordering.
• Deeply nested inline formatting, including all common styles plus spoiler, code, subscript, superscript and more.
• Tables with alignment, captions, borders, striped styling and customizable cells.
• Media blocks for photos, videos and audio files, with captions and credits.
• Block and pull quotes, collapsible details blocks, anchors and in-document links.
• Full LaTeX support – including both inline and multi-line expressions.
• Maps with custom coordinates.
• Polished media collages, smooth slideshows.
• And more! Check out the list here or play around with our interactive demo.

🛡 Guard Bots
• Bots can now process join request queries as guard bots and approve, decline or queue them – or simply open a Mini App to show the user a captcha before deciding.

📊 Polls
• Poll option media now supports external links to any website.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#june-11-2026

Bot API 10.2

👻 Ephemeral Messages
• Bots can now send ephemeral group messages that are visible only to a specific user – ideal for welcome messages, whispers, summaries and more.
• Out of the box, ephemeral messages support most media types.
• Bot commands can now be marked as ephemeral, letting users discretely reach out to bots in groups.
• Bots can easily reply to ephemeral messages or delete them before they expire.

📝 Rich Messages
• Bots can now build outgoing rich messages directly from structured entity blocks, as an alternative to Markdown or HTML.
• Rich messages using Markdown or HTML can now explicitly attach embedded media like photos, videos, animations and more.

💬 Communities
• Introduced initial support for Communities — several groups, channels, and bots linked together around a shared topic or audience.
• Bots can already check which Community a chat belongs to and detect relevant service messages.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#july-14-2026

⚠ Warning: Starting July 20, 2026, Mini App methods will be restricted to the respective Mini App domain. Developers can opt out through the @BotFather Mini App. Read more here.