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