Telegram Beta

More Interactive Emoji and Reactions

The emoji 😴👨‍💻🤓👀 now show full-screen effects when you tap on them in 1-on-1 chats. If your chat partner has the app open, they will see the effect at the same time.

😴👨‍💻🤓👀 and 👻🎃😭 are also available as reactions for all users.

Minor Design Improvements

• New animation when you swipe left to reply.
• New menu with call options when tapping on phone numbers in user profiles.
• New pulsing placeholders when loading messages in groups and channels.

@Telegram v9.1

Resizing Text on Android

Changing your text size in Chat Settings on Android now increases the size of all chat text – including link previews, reply headers and more.

@Telegram #Android v9.1

Redesigned Night Mode on iOS

Dark themes have an updated look, making colors more balanced with better blurring effects as you scroll.

@Telegram #iOS v9.1

⭐️ New Emoji Packs

• Premium users get 12 new emoji packs from Telegram artists.

@Telegram #premium

⭐️ Voice-to-text for Video Messages

• Premium users can now convert both voice messages and video messages into text.

@Telegram #premium v9.1

Collectible Usernames

Everyone can secure additional usernames with blockchain on a new platform and assign them to their profile, group or channel.

Unlike basic usernames, collectible usernames can be less than 5 characters long – making it possible to get unique names like @news or @game. Once acquired, a user has full control over their collectible username, able to trade it or retain it for later use.

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🔥 Topics in Groups

• Groups with more than 200 members can now have their discussions organized into topics.

• Topics function as individual chats within the group — supporting their own shared media and notification settings. Members are free to chat in any topic from Anime to Zoology, using all their favorite features like polls, pinned messages and bots.

• Group owner can enable topics in their Group Settings (Group Info > Edit > enable Topics) and can control who is allowed to create and manage topics in Permissions.

• This feature is intended specifically for large groups, adding new ways to customize their chats and promote discussion. Later this year, we expect to introduce a different set of tools, tailored to small groups. If you want to give topics a test drive, try them out in @TheForum

@Telegram v9.1

Bot API 6.3

Topics

• Bots now support Topics in Groups.
• Added the fields is_forum and is_topic_message to Chat and Message respectively.
• Bots can send messages to a topic via the new message_thread_id parameter.
• Added service messages about new, closed and reopened topics, each with an optional field in Message.
• Bots can now create, close, edit and delete topics.
• Added chat member permissions for topic management, see can_manage_topics as a field in all relevant classes and as a parameter in promoteChatMember.

Multiple Usernames and Emoji Status
• Multiple Usernames are listed by the active_usernames field in the Chat class.
• Custom user statuses are now shown in the emoji_status_custom_emoji_id field returned from getChat.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#november-5-2022

🔥 UPDATES

• Telegram 9.1 for Android, iOS, macOS
• Telegram Desktop 4.3 for Windows, Linux, macOS

🆕 Topics in Groups, Collectible Usernames, Voice-to-Text for Video Messages and More
https://telegram.org/blog/topics-in-groups-collectible-usernames

• Topics in Groups
• Collectible Usernames
• Voice-to-text for Video Messages
• New Emoji Packs
• Redesigned Night Mode on iOS
• Resizing Text on Android
• Minor Design Improvements
• More Interactive Emoji and Reactions

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👥 @TelegramAndroidTalk
👥 @TelegramiOSTalk
👥 @TelegramDesktopTalk
👥 @TelegramMacOSTalk
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👥 @tgiostests
👥 @tgandroidtests
👥 @macswift
👥 @tgbetachat

2022-11-05 @Telegram #Android #iOS #macOS #tdesktop

While this channel has been a little quiet for the last three months, the app continued to evolve.

🎉 Today, WebK introduces a redesigned Emoji and Sticker Panel – try the collapsible section for default emoji categories and the scrollable bar for your custom emoji sets.

The new Panel features a beautiful blur effect on most desktop browsers and allows you to send or edit messages containing custom emoji. (All users can try out this feature in their Saved Messages). Copy and paste are also available.

In the Stickers tab, you can now add or remove stickers from favorites, send without sound or individually delete them from the Recents section.

🔎 Preview Stickers and Emoji
You can now get a closer look at stickers and emoji, both in the panel and in chats. Click and hold, then hover your cursor over the one you'd like to see in better detail.

Stickers are now rendered more efficiently, using fewer resources and saving battery. Custom Emoji have also had more improvements since their launch in late August.

⚡️ Downloading Files
The download flow has been reworked from scratch. When you download something, the app uses your connection in the most efficient way possible. Premium users will notice how dramatically fast the app downloads files for them – a little demo is available here.

Large files of up to 4 GB are now supported for both upload and download. There is also support for native downloading in certain browsers – your browser will place active downloads on the instrument bar.

💸 Payments 2.0
Significant optimizations were added to smoothly process payments in any browser, and adding familiar functionality from other Telegram apps. Bot payments, @donate invoices and more are supported – including the ability to subscribe to Telegram Premium with @PremiumBot.

Dozens of bug fixes were also made to the app – but those can be a bit boring to read. If you ever come across a bug in the app, make sure to let us know on the Bugs and Suggestions Platform.

Telegram Web Z was updated to version 1.55

👏 Harder
• Sending custom emoji is now supported.
• You can now view recent (cached) messages while offline.
• Enjoy the beautifully redesigned payments screen with an option to add tips for certain invoices.
• Media in chats can also be deleted via the Media Viewer.

🤩 Better
• Custom emoji sent without text are shown at a larger size.

🚀 Faster
• Optimized rendering for animated stickers and emoji.

💪 Stronger
• Improved sync after editing drafts on another device.
• Fixed duplicate notification sounds when waking up from sleep.
• Various fixes for the Media Viewer.
• Various fixes for username input.
• Various layout improvements.

@webztalks

As promised, we've launched the ability to buy Telegram usernames on a dedicated platform – Fragment. Auctions for the most valuable usernames are already live, so make sure to check it out. In a few days, we will also introduce the ability for users to sell their existing usernames on Fragment.

For the first time in the history of social media, a fair, transparent market for usernames is established. Finally people will have ownership over their social media addresses, secured in the immutable ledger of a decentralized blockchain network.

This is just the beginning, and yet an important milestone – the power has started to shift into users' hands.

💎 Smart Contract Cracking Competition

Prize fund: Up to $100,000
Deadline: 18:00 on October 25th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: October 26th

The Task is to identify potential vulnerabilities and issues in the smart contract that would form the basis of the Telegram Auction Platform.

Evaluation Criteria and Prize Fund Distribution:
Bounties are dependent on the severity of the discovered issues and could potentially range from $200 for minor code adjustments to $50,000 for major flaws – like behavior that could bypass the smart contract's logic and conditions in order to reassign ownership of assets.

Details:
For a complete description and technical details, see this document.

Submissions:
1. Submit an archive containing your source code, a how-to manual, and a build script (if necessary) to @ContestBot (choose Smart Contract Cracking Competition).

Or:

2. Submit a pull request on GitHub. Describe the issue as a comment to the pull request. Submit a link to the pull request via @ContestBot .