API updates: 8th Oct, 2015 #77
Description
October 8, 2015
- Added initial channel support for bots (no Telegram clients support this at the moment, please wait for updates):
- The Chat field in the Message is now of the new type Chat.
- You can now pass a channel username (in the format @channelusername) in the place of chat_id in all methods (and instead of from_chat_id in forwardMessage). For this to work, the bot must be an administrator in the channel (and that‘s exactly what Telegram clients don’t support yet — adding bots as administrators coming soon).