Bot API 9.2

📭 Direct Messages in Channels
• Introduced Channel Direct Messages Chats, allowing bots to send and detect Direct Messages in channels they manage.
• Bots can now identify direct messages chats and their parent channel.
• Bots now additionally receive topic metadata for direct messages.

⭐️ Suggested Posts
• Introduced full support for Suggested Posts in channels, unlocking granular automations via bots with sufficient rights.
• Bots can now detect, send, approve and decline suggested posts, with detailed price and date options.
• All relevant service messages are supported – including approvals, errors, declines, successful payments and refunds.

☑️ Checklists
• Bots can now reply directly to individual checklist tasks.

🎁 Gifts
• Gifts can now expose their publisher chat for attribution.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://torg.tg-me.sbs/bots/api-changelog#august-15-2025

Bot API 9.3

💪 AI Revolution
This release comes with new tools and native interfaces to easily integrate modern LLMs and AI features.

• Introduced topics in 1-on-1 chats, letting users organize bot chats into easily accessible threads.
• Topics in private chats support all send and forward methods, including chat actions.
• Out of the box, bots can edit or delete private chat topics, manage pinned messages and more.
• Allowed bots to stream live responses as they're generated.

🎁 Gifts
• Improved gifts — with support for blockchain, multiple currencies, backgrounds and more.
• Bots can now list all gifts owned by users and chats with detailed filtering options.
• Added detailed information about the colors tied to a gift or applied to a chat.

👤 Profiles and Private Chats
• Business bots can now repost stories across accounts they manage.
• Copied and forwarded messages can now show effects in private chats.
• Bots can now see the rating of users who contact them.

✈ General
• Allowed bots to hide their main @username if they set an upgraded one via Fragment.
• Bots can now restrict channel admins from removing members.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://torg.tg-me.sbs/bots/api-changelog#december-31-2025

Happy Holidays from the Telegram Team 🎆

Bot API 9.4

🎨 Custom Emoji and Buttons
• Bots can now use custom emoji in outgoing messages if their owner has Telegram Premium.
• Keyboard and inline buttons now support background colors and custom emoji.

💬 Private Chat Topics
• Bots can now create new topics in 1-on-1 chats.
• Via the BotFather Mini App, bot owners can also prevent users from creating or deleting topics.

🤖 Profile Info
• Bots can now set and remove their own profile pic.
• User profile audios are now visible to bots.

🎁 Gifts
• Unique gifts now include model rarity information.
• Out-of-the-box support for detecting gifts burned after crafting.

✈️ General
• Bots now handle service messages when a chat owner leaves or ownership changes.
• Video objects now include a list of available qualities.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://torg.tg-me.sbs/bots/api-changelog#february-9-2026

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://torg.tg-me.sbs/bots/api-changelog#march-1-2026

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 keyboard buttons.
• Expanded support for date and time entities in checklists, quotes and gift texts.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://torg.tg-me.sbs/bots/api-changelog#april-3-2026

🦀 AI Agents and Bot-to-Bot Communication

Historically, bot-to-bot interaction was restricted on Telegram to prevent infinite message loops.

Starting today, in specific contexts, Bot-to-Bot communication is allowed – unlocking complex agentic flows and AI-powered use cases.

Out of the box, this feature will work in groups and via business mode. To start using it, simply enable the Bot-to-Bot Communication Mode for your bot via @BotFather.

You can reference the full documentation 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://torg.tg-me.sbs/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.

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

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

• And more, see the full changelog for details:
https://torg.tg-me.sbs/bots/api-changelog#june-11-2026