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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.

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 9.6

🦀 Managed Bots
• Manager bots are used to bootstrap and control other bots on behalf of their owners – easily orchestrating any number of AI agents, Business Accounts and custom tools.
• Out of the box, manager bots can prompt users to create a bot in one tap and easily fetch their token to start piloting them.

📊 Poll Revolution
• Polls now support multiple correct answers, re-issuing votes, hidden results and richly formatted descriptions.
• Poll options now have persistent ids and can be shuffled or dynamically added by users.
• Bots can now additionally reply to a specific poll option.

✈ General
• Mini Apps can now natively request users, chats and managed bots in one tap via prepared keybord buttons.
• Expanded support for date and time entities in checklists, quotes and gift texts.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#april-3-2026

Bot API 9.5

🗓 Date and Time Formatting
• Introduced date and time formatting, allowing bots to show a formatted date and time to the user.
• Out-of-the-box support for relative times, localized weekdays and more.

👑 Custom Member Tags
• Introduced support for custom group member tags.
• Bots can now detect member tags, assign them, or allow admins to manage them.

📝 Message Streaming
• With today's update, every bot on Telegram can freely use the message streaming feature.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#march-1-2026