luk I'm not aware of any change with how the roles have worked with the API, but I did test internally and found that 't:Administrator' and 't:Administrator:core' both worked. We were able to confirm this works in the API directly as well as the API browser in studio:
https://YourDomainHere.com/t5/bizapps/bizappspage/tab/community%3Astudio%3Aapi-browser?searchString=SELECT+id%2C+login+FROM+users+WHERE+roles.id%3D%27t%3AAdministrator%27
I'd need more details on your exact issue and how to replicate it, but from a general use perspective the roles continue to work with the API and the documented options like 't:Administrator'. If you have cloned roles you may be seeing something different due to how those roles were named, but I'd need more context to dig into. For now, I'd recommend submitting a Support case if you're finding that you cannot return data through the API around roles.