diff --git a/gitlab-ci.yml b/gitlab-ci.yml
index a218880d917b57c0f5e50e97f6801909206465af..ea1f9d67a716010271096a0479ad5f6cdeac69e1 100644
--- a/gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -17,12 +17,13 @@ stages:
     name: $CURL_IMAGE
     entrypoint: ["/usr/bin/env", "sh", "-c"]
   script: |
-    test -n "${CI_COMMIT_TAG}" && NOTIFICATION_REVISION=${CI_COMMIT_TAG} || NOTIFICATION_REVISION=${CI_COMMIT_SHA}
+    NOTIFICATION_REVISION="${CI_COMMIT_SHA}"
+    test -z "${CI_COMMIT_TAG}" || NOTIFICATION_REVISION="$(echo ${CI_COMMIT_TAG} | sed -e 's/\./\\\\./g')"
     curl \
       -X POST \
       -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-      -d "{\"chat_id\": \"${TELEGRAM_RECEPIENT}\", \"parse_mode\": \"html\", \"text\": \"${NOTIFICATION_ICON} <a href="${CI_PROJECT_URL}"><b>${CI_PROJECT_TITLE}</b></a> <br>CI/CD pipeline run <a href="${CI_PIPELINE_URL}"><b>${NOTIFICATION_TYPE}</b></a> <br> - <b>revision</b>: \"}" \
-       https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_TOKEN}/sendMessage
+      -d "{\"chat_id\": \"${TELEGRAM_RECEPIENT}\", \"parse_mode\": \"MarkdownV2\", \"disable_web_page_preview\": \"true\", \"text\": \"${NOTIFICATION_ICON} [*${CI_PROJECT_TITLE}*](${CI_PROJECT_URL})\nCI/CD pipeline run [*${NOTIFICATION_TYPE}*](${CI_PIPELINE_URL})\n\\\\- *revision*: ${NOTIFICATION_REVISION}\"}" \
+      "https://api.telegram.org/bot${TELEGRAM_TOKEN}/sendMessage"
   cache: []
   dependencies: []
   interruptible: false