New Telegram Beta update v5.5.0 (15380)

- New emojis/gif/stickers panel design
- New privacy settings. Now you can choose who can see your avatar and who can open your profile from the forwarded message
- New search menu in settings. Now you can search for the specific setting there

​​V5.5.0 beta for Telegram brings deeper privacy options and search functionality for emojis/stickers and settings
https://www.testingcatalog.com/report/amp/469

The initial beta's for Telegram's next update have been dropped yesterday and are surely packed with plenty of interesting stuff.

- Search for settings
- New icon for messages in the notifications shade
- Emoji predictions
- Bigger emojis
- Search for emojis and sticker packs
- Delete chat histories for other participants
- Profile photo visibility
- Profile links for forwarded messages

New off blog post

Today's update to Telegram apps introduces a new kind of private communication. You can now "unsend" any message you sent or received in any private chat, anytime. You can also control when your messages link back to your account if forwarded. For good measure, we've also added an option to hide your profile picture from non-contacts.

Android users can now use emoji search to quickly find the yellow beasts they were looking for — and will get emoji suggestions for the first word they type in a message.

Both platforms also support improved sticker search — you can now find individual stickers based on the keywords for the relevant emoji.

All the important parts of our iOS app can now be accessed with VoiceOver and the Android app fully supports TalkBack.

More features from this update:
https://telegram.org/blog/unsend-privacy-emoji

Now there is a new poll from Durov's channel about the recent feature where you are allowed to completely delete your messages from private chats. What do you think?

Telegram X 0.21.6.1100 beta.

Redisigned internal application architecture from scratch. Reliable notifications and lower battery usage. Rolling out for 100% users (yolo).

Changes

- Dramatically improved notifications reliability.
- Reduced battery and network usage in the background
- Reduced multi-account resource usage. Even if you use 10+ accounts, everything should work as smooth as if you'd have only one account.
- Improved application launch speed
- Must-not-be-named-feature. Don't tell anyone about it, or it will disappear.
- Notifications now will work even if system restricts network access in the background
- Improved Passcode: Instant Auto-Lock, Allow read-only notifications, hold lock button to enter Passcode settings
- If application crashes on launch, next time you launch the app, it will show the recovery screen with a guide how to get the issue fixed.
- ... There are more changes, and a lot of fixes, but I gotta go, will update this post later (maybe).

A bunch of minor updates for Telegram X

0.21.6.1102 beta

- Crash fixes for users with custom themes
- Fixed streaming for voice messages (it 'snow available for 1mb+ voice messages, like in previous versions)
- Fixed crash while managing TDLib lifecycle
- Fixed must-not-be-named-feature while playing music
- Fixed Keep Media setting
- Fixed incorrect automatic storage clearing file size limit
- Other crash fixes

0.21.6.1103 beta

- Another TDLib lifecycle management fix

0.21.6.1104 beta

Updated TDLib:

- Notifiations won't reappear after dismissing them
- Groups in Common list updates now more often (once number changes and once in an hour)
- Push notifications handling improvements
- Separated inline resutls cache for channels / other chats
- Empty chats no longer affect badge counter
- Fixed crash
- Added debug info for some unresolved crashes

0.21.6.1105 beta

- Improved notifications reliability
- Improved image cache
- Fixed rare crash while finishing audio playback
- Fixed rare crash while navigating & playing some video messages

​​Telegram X 0.21.6.110x beta updates are out with lots of fixes, chat filters and instant Auto-Lock in tow
https://www.testingcatalog.com/report/amp/479

The latest set of Telegram X beta updates, from build 0.21.6.1100 to .1105, have been made official for all Google Play beta testers and are bringing around dozens of fixes as well as a couple of great new features.

- Performance enhancements
- Chat filters!
- Instant Auto-Lock
- Read-only notifications

Telegram X 0.21.7.1114 beta

Links for messages in private channels / supergroups. Bugfixes.

Features

- Copy Link for private channel & supergroup messages
- Supported new link format: t.me/c/{channel_id}/{msg_id} + tg://privatepost?channel={channel_id}&msg_id={msg_id}

Fixes

- Inline results may stop showing (this includes mention suggestions, hastags, etc)
- LED customization per-chat does not work
- Visible inline results overlay shared media in Saved Messages
- Round Video playing in saved messages overlays shared media
- TDLib under-reference while managing Live Location
- Crash when there's some hardware error while trying to record voice message
- Improperly displayed "Enabled" notification status in profiles, when notifications are disabled globally
- Incorrect time position for stickers with very small width in the bubble mode
- Record layout (voice/round video) may get misaligned
- Fixed media viewer item filtering

Other

- Improved video sending: it will no longer fail and will not exceed original video file size, when possible
- Improved error message when video fails to compress (e.g. unsupported video format + changed orientation / etc)
- Added localization for errors: CHAT_SEND_POLL_FORBIDDEN, LANG_CODE_NOT_SUPPORTED
- Improved resuming app from the background
- Some internal refactoring
- Changed clear cache icon on log out screen

​​Telegram's March 2019 Design Contest has ended - new activity charts may come soon
https://www.testingcatalog.com/report/amp/483

Last month Telegram announced a new design contest for developers from around the world. Their purpose has been to spice up the interest of some clever minds and give them a platform to showcase their fresh design and coding ideas, with the added benefit of giving them prizes and hiring them later down the line. The latter is perhaps, mostly applicable for winners who are good enough to pass all stages of the contest and prove themselves to be worthy, though job opportunities by other companies may come up too.

Telegram X 0.21.7.1117 beta

Improved notifications styles for certain message types. Notifications shouldn't get stuck when chatting on another device. More fixes.

Changes

- Optimizing Database screen after updating the app (you may see it when you update from the current stable version)
- Improved notifications: all kinds of service messages, highscore messages,
- Supported remaining few unsupported push contents
- Core changes to image caching/displaying

Fixed Issues

- Crash while trying to open secret chat profiles
- Gray placeholders instead of profile pics in the app menu accounts list
- Gray placeholders instead of profile pics in the chats list until you scroll the list
- Out-of-screen bubble time position for 1px stickers on the sender side (they deserved it though)
- "Remove for X" is displayed for Bots & Saved Messages
- empty title on storage usage screen for deleted accounts
- account name instead of "Saved Messages" is displayed on storage usage screen
- Problems with images after clearing storage on Storage Usage screen
- Some crashes arrived from Google Play

Updated TDLib

- Supported last server changes to push notifications
- Notifications should no longer get stuck, when app is in the background, but you chat from the other device
- Fixed crashes and bugs

Only few tricky things remaining to go stable. Still not RC, because could have broken smth with core changes to image displaying.