🇬🇧 In the next Telegram update (9.4.0), bots will have a new type of button (KeyboardButtonRequestPeer), its use is not yet known.

🇷🇺 В следующем обновлении Telegram (9.4.0) боты получат новый тип кнопки (KeyboardButtonRequestPeer), его использование пока неизвестно.

February 3, 2023
Bot API 6.5

Chat and User Selection
• Bots can now show a friendly interface that can be used to select any channel, group or user.
• Added the KeyboardButtonRequestUser and KeyboardButtonRequestChat keyboard buttons for private chats.
• Added support for "user_shared" and "chat_shared" service messages, which hold the identifiers of users and chats shared via the buttons.

Improved Permissions
• Added support for granular media permissions by replacing can_send_media_messages in ChatMemberRestricted and ChatPermissions with several separate fields for the respective media type.
• Added the parameter use_independent_chat_permissions to the methods restrictChatMember and setChatPermissions.


• Added the field user_chat_id to the class ChatJoinRequest.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#february-3-2023

https://telegram.org/blog/profile-pics-emoji-translations 🔜

Client source code updated:
DrKLO/Telegram release: release-9.4.0_3098 (stable)
telegramdesktop/tdesktop release: v4.6.0 (stable)

🔜 Test bot for KeyboardButtonRequestUser & KeyboardButtonRequestChat:
@KeyboardButtonRequestBot

🤔
src: @tgcrawl

New payment providers added:

• bill_line
• Freedom Pay
• PayBox.money

More about bot payments:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/payments

New TL Schema Soon

Leaked source code of a partecipant of the contest named Andyshon accidentally 👀

mhhh
https://telegram.org/blog/power-saving

Bot API 6.6

Localized Descriptions
• Bots now support localized descriptions that are shown based on the user's language.
• Added the methods setMyDescription and setMyShortDescription to set the bot's localized description and short description.
• Added the methods getMyDescription and getMyShortDescription to obtain the bot's description or short description for a given language.

Stickers and Emoji
• Bots can now create custom emoji sticker sets with createNewStickerSet.
• Added support for adaptive custom emoji colors via the needs_repainting parameter in the createNewStickerSet method.
• Added the ability to specify search keywords for stickers added to sticker sets.
• Improved editing options for sticker sets, including changing the title, deleting a pack, editing emoji lists and more.

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#march-9-2023

Note: Mentions of thumb across all methods and classes have been updated to thumbnail.