Introducing Bot API 5.0

• Run your own Bot API server.
• Transfer Bot ownership to another account.
• New options for Webhooks.
• New method copyMessage to send a copy of any message.
• Support for Live Locations, including the latest changes.
• Support for Multiple Pinned Messages
• Support for File Albums
• Support for Anonymous Admins.
• Support for ⚽️ and 🎰 animated emoji.
• And much more, read the full changelog here:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#November-4-2020

Run your own Bot API server

You can run Bot API locally and send the requests to your own server instead of api.telegram.org. If you switch to a local Bot API server, your bot will be able to:

- Download files without a size limit.
- Upload files up to 2000 MB.
- Upload files using their local path and the file URI scheme.
- Use an HTTP URL for the webhook.
- Use any local IP address for the webhook.
- Use any port for the webhook.
- Set max_webhook_connections up to 100000.
- Receive the absolute local path as a value of the file_path field without the need to download the file after a getFile request.

The source code of the Telegram Bot API server is licensed under the Boost Software License.

#BotAPI

Transferring ownership of bots
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Along with the update Bot API to version 5.0, it became possible to transfer ownership of a bot from one account to another.

For transmission:
- Two-factor authentication must be enabled at least 7 days prior to transfer. The password should not change during this time.
- The session from which the transfer takes place must exist for at least 24 hours.
- The user to whom the transfer is carried out must write to the bot and unblock it (if the bot was blacklisted by the user).

The transfer is carried out through the bot @botfather.

#BotAPI

🔊 Animated emoji with sound

Apparently, the users of the messenger really liked the emoji with sound. Therefore, the Telegram team added sound to other emoji as well.

Full list: 🎃, ⚰️, 🧟, 🧟‍♂️, 🧟‍♀️, 🍑, ❤️

The sound is played by clicking on the animated emoji.

You can see all emojis in our chat.

Telegram Desktop updated to stable version 2.4.7

What's new:
- Fixed display of playback of audio files in the album.
- Correction of application crashes in some situations.
- Minor fixes and improvements.

Download: from official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop #stable

Telegram problems

Within 10 minutes, users of the messenger could face problems when trying to forward a message.

The problem has been resolved for now.

#crashes

Evergreen Telegram Limits

We keep updating limits.tginfo.me with the most recent Telegram platform updates. The limit for channel statistics was set to 50+ subscribers, also we pointed out there's no limit for pinned messages number.

Thanks to our amazing volunteers, Telegram Limits is now available in 12 languages! Since the project is being translated by the community, there're some delays in delivering translated updates to some abandoned languages.

Join our mission and help translating Telegram Limits.

Telegram Desktop has been updated to version 2.4.8 Beta

What's new:
- Updating the Qt library to version 5.15.1.
- Update of the FFmpeg library to version 4.2.
- Updated the OpenAL library to version 1.20.1.
- Minor fixes and improvements.

Download: from official website or GitHub.

#update #desktop

Proposal to improve behaviour of mobile number change and account deletion for two-factor auth protected accounts

Telegram channel administrators address this message to Pavel Durov

Two-factor authorization serves to protect your account and is requested when you log into your account, as well as transfer channels and bots to another account.

But not all important actions are protected. Two-factor authorization is not required to change a mobile number or delete an account. This creates a huge risk in the physical arrest of a SIM card or phone, substitution of the number at the operator level, detention of the administrator, as well as the seizure of equipment.

Channel administrators ask Pavel Durov to enable additional protection.

List of signers: @nicegramapp @tgtitan @MTProxyBoy @thesammymove @tginfoen @mastelegram @vitquestionpapersforall

Sign via @tginfochaten

You can repost to your channel if you support this request.

Comments from the chat on your site

Comments widget for websites now supports the integration of native comments from any public channel.

You can try and read more in our article: tginfo.me/discussion-widgets-en

Problems with access to the messenger

For the most part, users connected to the second data center are affected, problems with access to the messenger can be observed in Belarus, Ukraine, and a number of Russian cities.

UPD: The main channels had a problem. There was an accident in the CIS segment of GlobalIX

#crashes

How carelessness can lead to channel loss

An administrator of a Telegram channel called «Reddit» reported their channel was stolen by scammers.

The hacking took place with the help of a stealer trojan that simply stole the data of the Telegram client. More details can be found on «Durov's Code» (Russian).

Telegram Info editorial staff strongly recommends to use a local password in Telegram Desktop, to do not download applications and unknown files from people on the Internet.

A local password will not just restrict physical access to your messaging, but will also prevent copying files to steal the current session. Alas, when a full-fledged trojan enters your PC, password will not save you.

If there is an urgent need to download unknown programs, you should use a sandbox.

Also, do not disable Windows Defender, which comes with Windows 10. Doing this doesn't just introduce risks to your security. Contrary to the common myth, for modern PCs disabling this antivirus does not give a performance gain.

Combot swallowed Zuku

The popular chat moderation bot @combot bought @ZukuBot.

Administrators who have used Zuku in their chats have received a newsletter that says the end of user support. Those who pay for Zuku are encouraged to get a 1 year premium subscription to Combot. The question of further work of Zuku will be decided later. Combot currently has 120,000 active groups, while Zuku has only 5,000.

This is the first major purchase of one bot by another, made possible by the emerging transfer of ownership feature in BotFather.

Fedor Skuratov, owner of Combot, said that this acquisition is not the last and further purchases are planned.

The source code of the TDLib library has been updated to the current version 1.7

TDLib is used to write third party Telegram clients. Telegram X for Android, Unigram and the new Webogram work on its basis.

The new version of the library supports:
- Threads, and comments.
- Multipins.
- Video calls.
- Playlists (files in albums).
- Number of views of Instant View articles.
- Sending files in 2 GB.
- Statistics in channels and supergroups.
- Animated photos.
- Reposts of entries in the article.
- Anonymous admins in the group.
- Notification of the approach to live location.
- Messages that could not be sent can now be found using the searchMessagesFilterFailedToSend filter
- Preview of private channels by their invite link.
- Much more.

#tdlib #sources

Bowling arrives in Telegram

Another game of chance was added to Telegram. This time you can try your luck in bowling!

Send 🎳 emoji in any chat and try to score a strike.

Owners of two large bots faced problems

Various factors led to one problem: webhooks on the bot servers could not process the accumulated requests from Telegram.

According to preliminary information, the @FleepBot BotAPI server instance crashed, and for some time it gave 502 to bot requests (the problem is still there). The @ChatKeeperBot webhook could not connect for other reasons.

The ChatKeeperBot support representative added in a dialogue with the editors that this was the case before: “we received only part of all bot messages updates, also there were problems with sending requests”.

Copying monospaced text

Telegram for iOS now has the ability to copy a monospaced font by tapping on it.

#iOS

Telegram group calls

In the source code of the native Telegram client for macOS, strings responsible for group calls were seen.

Most likely, any admin (or admin with special permission) can start a group call, and chat participants can connect to it.

#macOS

⚡ Group calls appeared in Telegram!

The Beta version of Telegram for Android introduces group audio calls.

The group call can be started by an administrator with special permission for this.

There are two options for group calls:
- Everyone can talk.
- Only admins can speak.

#Beta #Android