- Disable the taskbar icon flash or the dock icon bounce
in Settings > Notifications.
- View messages containing long monospace texts in wide bubbles.
- Bug fixes and other minor improvements.
- Added support for new emoji.
- Channels to which you can't post will no longer be suggested when forwarding.
- Improved font selection and bold font support for CJK and Farsi.
- Fix polls and quizes results viewing.
- Fix memory leak in web page previews with autoplayed videos.
- Fix running on OS X 10.10.
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements.
- Access a catalog of over 20,000 stickers made by professional
artists from the updated Sticker Panel by clicking the '+' icon.
- Use sticker search to find the stickers you're looking for - or
scroll from the latest packs all the way to the classics.
- Add explanations that appear after users respond to a quiz question.
- See how much time you have left to answer a question from @QuizBot
with the new countdown animation.
- Send a single 🎯 emoji to see if you hit the bullseye.
- Organize chats into Chat Folders if you have too many chats.
- Create custom folders with flexible settings,
or use default recommendations.
- Pin an unlimited number of chats in each folder.
- Switch between folders in the new side bar
to easily access all of your chats.
- Send :dice: to any chat to try your luck and get
a random number from the animated dice.
- Send :virus:, 🤒, 😷,
🤕, :sneeze:, :sick:, 🧼 or 🚑
to try out the new animated emoji.
- Switch to Picture-in-Picture mode to watch your video
in a small window while doing something else.
- Change playback speed in the '...' menu when watching videos.
- Rotate photos and videos in the media viewer
using the rotate button in the bottom right corner.
- Switch to the Picture-in-Picture mode
to watch your video in a small window.
- Change video playback speed in the playback controls '...' menu.
- Rotate photos and videos in the media viewer
using the rotate button in the bottom right corner.
- Create three new kinds of polls.
- See who voted for what in polls with visible votes.
- Vote for several options in polls that allow multiple answers.
- Guess the correct answer in quiz-style polls.
- Explore various ways of combining the different poll options.
- Add polls from the '...' menu in any group or channel.
- Use bots like @QuizBot to create quizzes
with several questions and media attachments.
- Schedule messages to be sent when your recipient comes online
(only works if you know their online status).
- Videos in chats start playing automatically.
- Resume playback from where you left off
when watching long videos and listening to long audio tracks.
- Control automatic playback for
videos, GIFs and round video messages
in Settings > Advanced > Automatic media download.
- Enjoy system spell checker support on all modern systems.
- Videos in chats start playing automatically.
- Resume playback from where you left off
when watching long videos.
- Control videos, GIFs and round video messages automatic playback
in Settings > Advanced > Automatic media download.
- Spell checker on Linux using Enchant.
John Preston