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Android 16 Beta 2
- Build ID: BP22.250124.009
- February 2025 Security Patch
- Play Services: 25.04.30
- Elegant font APIs deprecated and disabled
- Hybrid auto-exposure
- Precise color temperature and tint adjustments
- UltraHDR image enhancements
- Content handling for live wallpapers

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Communities Are Now Being Tested in Telegram

In Telegram beta for Android, version 12.9, users can now organize communities that bring theme-related chats closer together.

The details:

• Chats Only: At the moment, only chats can be added to communities.

• How to Join: Telegram treats you as a member of a community if you join any chat linked to that community.

• What This Offers: If a chat is linked to a community, this is highlighted on the chat's profile page. From there, members can navigate to other chats in the community. Members can view the list of all “visible” chats in the community and join them.

• Chats Stay Independent: Telegram won’t add you to other chats in the community automatically. Different owners can offer to add their chats to a community.

• Can Merge Visually: Community chats can display separately or merge into a single item. This behavior is controlled by community admins using the “Show as One Chat” toggle. When it’s active, the community looks similar to forums, but each topic is instead an independent chat you can join.

• Hidden Chats: A chat can be added to a community with “hidden” visibility. A hidden chat can be seen only by those invited to it separately. This is similar to general and hidden channels in Discord servers. Members of the hidden chat can navigate into the community, while other community members can’t see the hidden chat.

• If We Should Expect Channels: The app code mentions adding channels, but the feature is unavailable, so it’s not clear whether it will be added in the future.

Creating communities is available only on the test server at the moment. You can add your group chat to a community in chat settings—just tap the “Add Group to a Community” option.

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Interactive web messages right in the chat

The TGBetaLeak channel discovered a large experimental subsystem called HTMLBubbles in version 12.10.283300 of Telegram for macOS.

According to the description, the messaging app is testing interactive messages built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript right in the chat, without the need to launch a separate Web Mini App window.

@tginfo editors have confirmed the module’s presence in the code of that version based on a preliminary review, but the described behavior and how it works have not yet been independently verified.

The idea is to turn ordinary messages into widgets: product cards with selectable options, interactive boarding passes, or live charts.

According to the source, rendering is handled by the compact litehtml engine, while scripts run in a heavily restricted sandbox with CPU limits, network requests blocked, and external media prohibited. You can read all the technical details about these restrictions in the source post.

Editors’ concerns

Despite the extensive list of restrictions, @tginfo editors have serious security concerns about this kind of feature. Integrating web engines that support JavaScript execution — even in a heavily restricted form — directly into the chat interface poses a huge risk.

Experience shows that no matter how thoroughly developers isolate an environment, vulnerabilities are regularly found in rendering systems. The risk of malicious code running simply by viewing a chat raises serious questions about whether these widgets are worth it.

For now, HTMLBubbles is an early experimental concept being tested within the Telegram team. The feature could change substantially during development or be canceled entirely.

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Telegram Is Testing a News Feed and Personalized Recommendations Again

A separate “News” tab for viewing channel posts in a unified feed has appeared in Telegram for macOS Beta 13.0 (283318). The @telelakel channel reported the discovery.

How the news feed works

The current implementation of the post feed has several key features:

• Two sections: The “News” tab is divided into two sections — “Added” and “For You”.

• Custom feed: In the “Added” section, users can manually curate their feed by adding and removing selected channels through dedicated interface actions.

• Personalized recommendations: The “For You” section curates posts based on the user’s interests. Categories of interest (each with its own name and emoji) can be selected manually and changed over time. However, it remains unknown what algorithm powers this feed and whether it will include posts from channels the user isn’t subscribed to.

• Navigation and speed: The feed interface includes a search bar, pull-to-refresh, a new posts indicator, and a button to mark posts as read. Directly from the feed, users can open individual posts and channels, jump to chats, and copy links. For faster browsing, media files, profile pictures, and stories are preloaded in the background.

Background and context

The messenger’s team has been approaching the creation of a unified feed for eight years:

• The ability to combine channels into a unified news feed first appeared in the Beta version of Telegram for macOS back in January 2018, but was soon disabled on the server side.

• In April 2022, a commit confirming the development of a news feed was spotted in the official Telegram for iOS repository, though the feature never made it to release.

• Meanwhile, between 2019 and 2021, Telegram held a series of large-scale contests focused on news ranking and data clustering, as well as identifying channel languages and topics.

• Until now, the primary way to read subscriptions sequentially in the messenger has been the gesture for jumping to the next unread channel, while algorithmic recommendations have been limited to the “Similar Channels” list and the “Channels” tab in global search.

@tginfo editors note that introducing an algorithmic feed in the spirit of X (formerly Twitter) could significantly reshape how content is consumed in the messenger. For creators, it is a potential source of free organic traffic without buying ads, and for Telegram itself — a way to boost audience engagement and increase impressions for official ads.

Currently, the news feed is disabled on the server side and remains in development — its mechanics and appearance may change by the time of release.

We share more news about features from test builds in our Beta Info channel.

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Interactive HTML Messages Are Now Working in the Android App

A working prototype of the experimental HTMLBubbles technology is confirmed in the Beta version of Telegram for Android 13.2.

It makes it possible to create interactive messages built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that are displayed right in the chat without opening a separate Mini App. To test the feature, @tginfo editors created their own HTML widget. Using it, they confirmed the execution of JavaScript and basic functions of regular websites.

Similar components were also found in the Beta version of Telegram for iOS 13.2, which now includes built-in tools for testing widgets as well.

Security concerns

So far, no dedicated toggle to disable HTMLBubbles has been found in the settings of the tested Beta versions.

Previously, @tginfo editors expressed concerns about executing JavaScript right in the chat.

As a reminder, a vulnerability (CVE-2026-107181) was recently discovered in Telegram Desktop that allowed files to be stolen through specially crafted links.

Although that flaw is unrelated to HTMLBubbles, introducing a new mechanism for executing code inside messages could lead to much more severe vulnerabilities that require no user interaction to trigger (zero-click).

When will the feature be available to everyone?
For now, HTMLBubbles remains an experimental technology. The ability to send such messages is restricted, and a public API for developers has not yet been introduced.

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