- New reaction selector above the right click menu.
- Premium: Set any custom emoji reactions in private chats.
- Premium: Set any custom emoji as your profile status.
- Insert or copy custom emoji from pack preview.
- Allow sending animated emoji to Saved Messages
even without Telegram Premium.
- Premium: Suggest animated emoji by regular emoji
(can be disabled in Settings).
- Premium: Show all suggested premium stickers
in a special section of the stickers panel.
- Premium: Allow hiding premium stickers special section
of the stickers panel.
- Fix a memory leak in RTMP livestreams.
- Fix some bot webview bugs on macOS.
- Fix forwarding of voice messages.
- Animated emoji for messages.
- Premium: Privacy settings for voice messages.
- Premium: Gifting Telegram Premium to any user from their profile page.
- Settings > Advanced > Experimental adds an option
to open chats in separate windows.
- Fix possible crash in video chat reconnection.
- Fix possible crash after account switch.
- Allow sending the default reaction by a double click.
- Select a custom sound for message notifications.
- Add chats to folders from a chat context menu.
- Fix group and channel photo upload.
- Test hardware video decoding.
- Show viewers count in RTMP streams.
- Send GIFs search results without "via @bot".
- Display the file thumbnail in downloads bar.
- Always try to save original photo bytes to disk.
- Fix crash when deleting a user from your contacts list.
- Check the status of media and file downloads by clicking
on the new panel in the bottom of the chats list.
- View recently downloaded files
from the new Settings > Advanced > Downloads section.
- Manage Live Streams in your groups and channels
using external software like OBS Studio or XSplit Broadcaster.
- Select text when typing and choose 'Formatting > Spoiler' in the
context menu to hide some or all of the contents of a message.
- Click on the spoiler in chat to reveal its hidden text.
- Spoiler formatting hides text in chat,
as well as in the chat list and notifications.
- Switch between contacts list sorting modes.
- Sort contacts list by last seen time by default.
- Fix disappearing Send As Channel button after message editing.
- Fix file upload cancelling.
- Fix crash in video capture on macOS.
- Fix labels in the About box.
- Use Qt 6.2.2 for macOS and Linux builds.
- Allow installing x64 Windows version on Windows ARM.
- Active sessions list redesign.
- Fix disappearing emoji selector button.
- Fix a crash in archived stickers loading.
- Fix a crash in calls to old Telegram versions.
- Fix requests to groups / channels processing.
- Fix internal link previews with View Content button layout.
- Fix crash in messages search with imported messages results.
- Don't use fractional system UI scaling on Linux.
- Fix invite link icons on macOS.
- Several crash fixes.
- Create special invite links that require admins
to approve users before they become members.
- Admins can view the applicants' profiles and bios
by tapping the Join Requests bar at the top of the chat.
- Add internal labels to your chat's Invite Links
to keep them organized.
- Run natively on Apple Silicon (macOS only).
- Show small media previews in chats list.
- Show media album previews and caption text in chats list.
- Add "Quick Reply" and "Mark as Read" to native Windows notifications.
- Choose one of 8 new preset themes for any individual private chat.
- Click on '...' menu > 'Change Colors' to pick a theme.
- Both chat participants will see the same theme
in that chat – on all their devices.
- Each new theme features colorful gradient message bubbles,
beautifully animated backgrounds and unique background patterns.
- All chat themes have day and night versions
and will follow your overall dark mode settings.
- Implement main window rounded corners on Windows 11.
- Fix audio capture from AirPods on macOS.
- Control video in fullscreen mode using arrows and numbers.
- Open locations in browser if default Bing Maps is not installed.
- Reconnect without timeout when network availability changes.
- Crash fixes.
- Tile chat background patterns horizontally.
- Fix a rare crash in spellchecker on Windows.
- Fix animated chat backgrounds in Saved Messages.
- Fix "Sorry, group is inaccessible" message in scheduled voice chats.
- Change the default chat background.
- Add GIFs overview section in chats.
- Add a simple new messages animation.
- Use modern Telegram application icon.
- Use Direct3D 11 by default on Windows.
- Fix Direct3D acceleration on basic Windows 7 setup.
- Added a simple image editor.
Crop photos or highlight parts of screenshots before sending.
- Use Direct3D 9 backend in ANGLE by default (Windows).
- Fix "Show in Finder" not focusing the Finder window (macOS).
- Use GTK from a child process (Linux).
- Added ability to mix together bold, italic and other formatting.
- Fix voice chats and video calls OpenGL with some drivers on Windows.
- Several bug fixes.
- Added "Enable noise suppression" option to group calls Settings.
- Fix media viewer with Retina + Non-Retina dual monitor setup on macOS.
- Several bug and crash fixes.
- Optimized video playback in media viewer and Picture-in-Picture mode.
- Added integration with System Media Transport Controls on Windows 10.
- Added "Now Playing" integration for music playback on macOS.
- Added "Archive Sticker" into the "..." menu of the Sticker Set Box.
- Fixed memory not being freed on Linux.
- Several crash fixes.
- Optimized video playback in media viewer and Picture-in-Picture
on Windows and Linux.
- Added integration with System Media Transport Controls
on Windows 10.
- Added "Archive Sticker" into the "..." menu of the Sticker Set Box.
- Fixed memory not being freed on Linux.
- Several crash fixes.
- Add "Voice chats" filter in "Recent actions" for channels.
- Write local drafts to disk on a background thread.
- Support autoupdate for Telegram in write-protected folders on Linux.
- Fix crash in native notifications on Linux.
- Fix crash in file dialog on Linux.
- Fix audio device selection in voice chats.
- Fix blinking self profile photo
in case the profile photo privacy is used.
- Fix voice chat admin menu on macOS.
John Preston
Ilya Fedin
23rd