Bot API 9.0

Announcing the largest Bot API update of 2025 (so far 😈)

🏪 Telegram Business 2.0
• Bots can now fully customize the branding of Business Accounts – managing their name, username, bio and profile pictures.
• Introduced support for managing Paid Gifts 🎁, including conversions, transfers and upgrades.
• Bots can now check ⭐️ Telegram Star balances and transfer Stars from managed businesses.
• Bots can now easily mark Business messages as read or delete them.
• Added extensive support for managing stories on Business accounts – featuring photos, videos and interactive elements like links, locations, reactions, weather info and even Gifts.
• All stories posted by bots can also be edited or deleted.
• Introduced granular Business permissions, giving users even finer control over connected bots.

🗃️ Mini App Storage
• Mini Apps can now store data locally on the user's device.
• Sensitive tokens can be safely persisted in a specialized secure storage.

🎁 Telegram Gifts
• Introduced support for unique Gifts – with detailed model, symbol and backdrop info.
• Bots can also check which Gift types are accepted by users and chats.

⭐️ Paid Messages
• Bots can now track how many Stars users paid to send a message.
• This includes out-of-the-box support for paid messages in both groups and business accounts.

⭐️ Telegram Premium
• Bots can now gift a Telegram Premium subscription paid in Stars.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#april-11-2025