Hello everybody :)

I apologise for my absence. First of all, happy new year, hope you will have a lot of interesting projects this year :) I've been busy with some side (relatively to this library) stuff. Durov&Co wished us happy new year with new version in bots api: 9.3. As I understand, this update contains:

• Forums for users
• A lot of some updates for gifts
• Small improvements for other parts

I will (and already started) make support for this update, but do not see any reasons to hurry up with it: for private forums you may use exists methods in library, small improvements are not urgent and gifts API, as I understand, is not popular. Correct me if I am wrong.

As always, I will try hard to make support of latest version asap and you may try to use intermediate releases of successful builds in PR. Besides, this update will break some API and require major changes, so, feel free to suggest your features/fixes

According to the theory of six degrees of separation, each of us divided with somebody who is using telegram gifts by not more than six exclusive social connections.

So, I wished to know, is there anybody in your near social area who is using, has received or sent telegram gifts (if so, add 🗿 to this post)? Is there anybody (or maybe even you) you know who actively using telegram gifts (if so, add 🌭 to this post)?

It is still less than 50% of tasks
It is already tested and ready to use progress

PR here, test versions here

Small reminder: I have own instance of nexus here and here. You may add it to your project with next gradle groovy code:

repositories {
    maven { url "https://nexus.inmo.dev/repository/maven-releases/" }
}

OR

repositories {
    maven { url "https://proxy.nexus.inmo.dev/repository/maven-releases/" }
}

Test versions have notation ${future_version}-branch_${branch_name}-build${build_number}. For example, for now latest successful build artifact version is 31.0.0-branch_31.0.0-build3103

Got it - will be done in next major update :)

Hello everybody :) it looks like I covered 9.3 and 9.4 and now I have to test new gifts functionality, but I do not know how to do this. So, it would be nice if anybody could help me with it. If you have some bot based on (or made with) gifts functionality and you wish to improve it or help with library development - feel free to write me directly ( @InsanusMokrassar ) or here in commentaries

Hello everybody :) There are two news: good and bad.

Good: 31.0.0 has been completed and ready for full release :)

Bad: Sonatype answer 408 for my tries to publish release. I think it is related to connected scarf several days ago

Anyway, you may use 31.0.0 from my nexus in reply and 31.0.1 will also be released there and (I hope) in global nexus

Be careful, this release contains breaking changes

31.2.0 have been released with telegram bots api 9.3, 9.4 and 9.5 added support and several fixes. Actually, 9.3 and 9.4 have been released in 31.0.0, 9.5 in 31.1.0 :) But just now I fixed my releasing pipelines and become able to publish release 🌚

I have published 32.0.0. This version CONTAINS BREAKING CHANGES:

• All dependencies have been updated up to latest versions at the moment of update. For example, it is kotlin 2.3.10 and ktor 3.4.1
• All methods that returned Boolean previously now will return Unit (following this poll results)
• Some of requests got logical breaking change: instead of errors now they will just warn the user about problems in init blocks. For example, SetChatTitle will not throw error if title.length is outside of chatTitleLength range

I wish you successful and easy migration :)

News from update implementation: library PR is ready, first half is tested :) If you want and can - you are welcome with help me with testing of the new API , but in any case I will try hard to release it asap :)

So, 33.0.0 have been released. Traditionally, it contains breaking changes. In two words about update: added opportunity to suggest user creating a bot and updated polls. Several notes:

• Bots still can't create other bots, only suggest creation
• Bots still do not see attachments in polls options (i think, it is temporal missing)

It will be interesting to see, how libraries for bots based on annotations (or some alternative mechanisms) processing will support multibots. If you know, how was it solved - write in commentaries, I would be glad to know it

Just left it here: ☺️