Introducing the new Gaming Platform. As of today, your bot can offer HTML5 games – anything from simple puzzles and arcades to multiplayer 3D-shooters and real-time strategy games.

Read the blog announcement:
https://telegram.org/blog/games

Check out our introduction to Games:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/games

Also in this update:

- You can now specify an HTTP URL for a file in all methods where InputFile or file_id can be used. Telegram will get the file from the specified URL and send it to the user.
- Added a new method for checking current webhook status.
- Added a detailed guide to webhooks:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/webhooks
- And more.

See the full changelog:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#recent-changes