More recent entries can be seen on the Telegram channel [@MadelineProto](https://t.me/MadelineProto)! --- MadelineProto was updated (8.0.0-beta115)! Features: - You can now get direct download links for or **directly download** stories, check out the [open-source](https://github.com/danog/MadelineProto/blob/v8/examples/tgstories_dl_bot.php) [@tgstories_dl_bot](https://t.me/tgstories_dl_bot) to download any Telegram story! - Added support for `parse_mode` parsing for story methods. - `getReply` now simply returns null if the message doesn't reply to any other message. - `getReply` now has an optional parameter that can be used to filter the returned message type. - Added `isSelfUser()`, `isSelfBot()` messages to check whether the current user is a user or a bot. - Improved IDE typehinting. - CLI bots: you can now optionally specify a default download link URL (used by `getDownloadLink`) in the settings. - Added `DialogMessagePinned` service message with a `getPinnedMessage()` method. Fixes: - Fixed simple filters with service messages. - Fixed IDE typehinting for `getEventHandler`. - Fixed startAndLoopMulti. - Tweaked the default drop timeout on media DCs to avoid timeout errors on slow networks. - Now the admin list only contains user report peers. - Make `markdownEscape` method accessible. - Fixed `getDownloadLink` for non-event-handler web IPC instances. --- MadelineProto was updated (8.0.0-beta101)! After introducing [plugins »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/PLUGINS.html), [bound methods »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/UPDATES.html#bound-methods), [filters »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/FILTERS.html), [a built-in cron system »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/UPDATES.html#cron), [IPC support for the event handler »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/UPDATES.html#persisting-data-and-ipc) and [automatic static analysis for event handler code »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/UPDATES.html#automatic-static-analysis) in beta100, beta101 brings some bugfixes and the `getDownloadLink` function! Features: - Added a `getDownloadLink` function, that can be used to fetch a download link for any file up to 4GB! - Added an `openFileAppendOnly` function, that can be used to asynchronously open a file in append-only mode! Fixes: - Improved the `markdownEscape` function! - Translated even more MadelineProto UI elements! - Improve the static analyzer. - Made some fixes to simple filters. - Relax markdown parser. --- Introducing MadelineProto's biggest update yet, 8.0.0-beta100! This version introduces [plugins »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/PLUGINS.html), [bound methods »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/UPDATES.html#bound-methods), [filters »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/FILTERS.html), [a built-in cron system »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/UPDATES.html#cron), [IPC support for the event handler »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/UPDATES.html#persisting-data-and-ipc) and [automatic static analysis for event handler code »](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/UPDATES.html#automatic-static-analysis). See the [following post](https://t.me/MadelineProto/630) for examples! Other features: - Thanks to the many translation contributors @ https://weblate.madelineproto.xyz/, MadelineProto is now localized in Hebrew, Persian, Kurdish, Uzbek, Russian, French and Italian! - Added simplified `sendMessage`, `sendDocument`, `sendPhoto` methods that return abstract [Message](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/PHP/danog/MadelineProto/EventHandler/Message.html) objects with simplified properties and bound methods! - You can now use `Tools::callFork` to fork a new green thread! - You can now automatically pin messages broadcasted using `broadcastMessages`, `broadcastForwardMessages` by using the new `pin: true` parameter! - You can now use `sendMessageToAdmins` to send messages to the bot's admin (the peers returned by `getReportPeers`). - Added `wrapUpdate`, `wrapMessage`, `wrapMedia` methods to wrap low-level MTProto updates into an abstracted Message object with bound methods! - The `waveform` attribute of `Voice` objects is now automatically encoded and decoded to an array of 100 integer values! - Added a custom `PeerNotInDbException` class for "This peer is not present in the internal peer database" errors - Added a `label` property to the Button class, directly indicating the button label (instead of manually fetching it as an array key). - Added `isForum` method to check whether a given supergroup is a forum - Added an `entitiesToHtml` method to convert a message and a set of Telegram entities to an HTML string! - You can now use `reportMemoryProfile()` to generate and send a `pprof` memory profile to all report peers to debug the causes of high memory usage. - Added support for `pay`, `login_url`, `web_app` and `tg://user?id=` buttons in bot API syntax! - Added a `getAdminIds` function that returns the IDs of the admin of the bot (equal to the peers returned by getReportPeers in the event handler). - Added a new `ParseMode` enum! - Added support for HTML lists in parseMode! - Fixed parsing of markdown code blocks! Breaking changes: - Switched to a custom markdown parser with [bot API MarkdownV2](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#markdownv2-style) syntax, which differs from the previous Markdown syntax supported by parsedown. - Markdown text can't contain HTML anymore. Fixes: - Fixed file uploads with ext-uv! - Fixed file re-uploads! - Improve background broadcasting with the broadcast API using a pre-defined list of `whitelist` IDs! - Fixed a bug that caused updates to get paused if an exception is thrown during onStart. - Broadcast IDs are now unique across multiple broadcasts, even if previous broadcasts already completed their ID will never be re-used. - Now uploadMedia, sendMedia and upload can upload files from string buffers created using `ReadableBuffer`. - Reduced memory usage during flood waits by tweaking config defaults. - Reduced memory usage by clearing the min database automatically as needed. - Automatically try caching all dialogs if a peer not found error is about to be thrown. - Fixed some issues with pure phar installs. - Fixed splitting of HTML and markdown messages - Fixed formatting of multiline markdown codeblocks - And many other performance improvements and bugfixes!