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2020-05-05 07:24:01 0.22.7.1347 beta

- Reworked thumbnail generation for outgoing photos, videos, GIFs and stickers, temporarily removed for documents and round video messages
- Unified media type detection logic while sharing from other apps & sending via attach — file
- Videos sent through attach — file — gallery & attach — gallery — hold send button — send as file now always sent as video media (just without any compression)
- Themes: outline color for tooltips
- Changed position of the explanation tooltip in quizzes

Bugfixes

- Stuck media sending in secret chats
- Stuck photo/video sending with a timer, if it was already sent
- Clicking on top side of the message opens profile, even if there is no header
- Images may send as music attachment in some cases, when sending via Attach — File — Gallery
- Photo's thumbnail content does not match the image content, e.g. use "fill color" while drawing & send with timer.

0.22.7.1348 beta

- Updated TDLib: fixed crash

0.22.7.1349 beta

- Fixed media sending on Android 10.
- Probably resolved "Save to Gallery" issue Open / Comment

2020-05-03 18:12:33 0.22.7.1341 beta

- PSA chat & messages support
- Clickable "via @bot" in forwarded messages
- Migrated to new APIs in several places where deprecated ones were used & updated targetSdkVersion

Bugfixes

- Stuck voice message when receiving new one while playing
- Several cases when video could fail to play without a reason, but play properly if re-opened
- Several video types could not play at all
- Fingerprint authentication appears second time immediately after successfully authenticating
- Missing letters if contact message does not have a first name, but has a last name
- Missing closing bracket when displaying phone numbers like this: +1 (800
- When opening channel profile via name/avatar click, header animation is not the same as when tapping the header
- Broken animation of circular checkboxes

If some video or music type does not play and you'd like to report it, don't forget to include all device details, android version and the media file you are trying to play (or a link to a public group / channel, if applicable).

Hints

- Animated icon for darts, dice, etc
- Icon for quiz explanations
- Replaced alert in Recent Actions
- When entering proxy sponsor channel for the first time
- Proper positioning during send button animation

Core

- Reworked file streaming & playback. This huge change under the hood fixes several bugs related to voice messages, audio & video playback, improves performance of fast forwarding, but needs testing
- More changes related to text entity touch processing
- Changed the layout and drawing method for names and "via @bot"
- Changed the way touch events are processed in messages

Updated TDLib

- PSA chat & messages support

TDLib bugfixes

- After setting phone number privacy to "Nobody", "Share phone number with X" didn't appear when adding the contact
- Ability to ban/restrict/promote members, if you are creator of the chat, but left it
- [checkme] Probably fixed jumping Discuss button in channels, when you are banned in the disccussion chat. This change could have affected smth else.
- Closed secret chats no longer disappear when you arhcive/unarchive them. If you previosuly lost secret chat histories due to this, they will re-appear.
- Added crash when server bug related to Instant View happens (for debugging purposes)
- Removed limit of chats preloading into memory from cache when launching

0.22.7.1342 beta

- Changed PSA messages layout in non-bubble mode & in groups when forwarded by user
- Workaround for links with malformed scheme
- Square checkboxes for multi-choice poll results

TDLib bugfixes

- [checkme] Proxy channel doesn't hide after disabling mtproto proxy

0.22.7.1344 beta

Bugfixes

- Incorrect message in the replies
- Doubled click sound effect in polls messages
- Tapping author's avatar in polls message doesn't do anything
- Crash when displaying psa sticker Open / Comment

2020-04-29 01:53:56 0.22.7.1336 beta

- Themes: now it's possible to use transparent colors in *pressHighlight colors without experiencing overlapping between lines
- No warning when closing attach menu & the only edits are cropping
- Warning when closing selection in attach menu & there are unsaved changes
- Control zoom using volume buttons when recording video message
- "channel" sign in groups for auto-forwarded messages from linked channel
- Cropping does no longer count as essential change when closing (does not show warning about losing changes)
- Optimized the way press highlights & static text backgrounds are drawn (e.g. in Instant Views for links with IV available)

Bugfixes

- & multi-line links press highlights overlap each other, so there is a dark line between them
- when recording a video message, presing volume button captures photo
- Holding "Send Sticker" in sticker preview in secret chat brings send options menu (which does not work in secret chats)
- Removed "Send without sound" for secret chats when forwarding (which does not work)
- Missing animated sticker thumbnail, when explicit thumbnail is not set for the pack
- Delete options when deleting an automatically forwarded message to the group
- Incorrect handling of forwarded messages in channels when displaying in the linked group
- Incorrect message merging logic case when 2 messages automatically forwarded from two different linked channels
- Missing warning when trying to forward poll to a chat where there's no corresponding permission
- Message updates (delete, edit, etc) are not updated on the messages search results screen (e.g. "messages from X")
- Some actions in messages do not work properly on th messages search results screen (e.g. "View Results" in polls clicks, but does nothing)
- Choosing an empty quiz result will show send button & "wrong correct option ID specified" error when trying to click it
- Send options do not hide after send button hides on create poll screen
- Start creating quiz, add 3 options, select 3rd as correct, remove the 2nd, choose 1st as correct -> two correct options (visually)
- Silently trimmed input when creating a poll with big explanation
- Hold to record video hint incorrectly showing when recording video message
- Incorrect position of record voice / video message controls on Android 4.4 and lower

Hints

- Choosing correct option when creating quiz
- When there is an error opening Instant View
- Drag avatar to reorder pinned chats
- Hold to forward as copy & other options

0.22.7.1337 beta

- Square checkboxes for multi-choice polls
- Automatic explanation disaplying when chosing wrong answer
- Click & long-press processing in tooltips
- Huge refactoring for entity click / long processing (usernames, links, commands, etc)
- Send without sound / schedule sticker from sticker preview while viewing from sticker pack in a chat

Bugfixes

- Blinking animation of explanation button in polls
- White thumbnails when sliding from one album to another in full-screen media viewer
- Detached video timeline when sliding from album to video in full-screen media viewer
- Tooltips remaing showing when corresponding message gets deleted
- Links, mentions, etc are not highlighted in edited messages/captions until changes are saved
- Touch / background highlights do not update if text position changed

Hints

- When trying to select a chat where some content cannot be forwarded (e.g. when trying to forward public poll to channel)

0.22.7.1338 beta

- Hotfix for attach menu gallery

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2020-04-25 18:31:41 Please note that I usually edit the last post when there are several beta builds within a day, instead of notifying you for each one. So it's good to check this channel after receiving in-app "update available" pop-up if you don't know what's new.

0.22.7.1330 beta

- Total message count from specific member when using "Messages from X" feature
- Total member's message count when deleting messages as a supergroup admin (instead of "Delete all from X")
- Membership duration when deleting messages from specific user as a supergroup admin

Tooltips

- When text message send fails for any reason, tooltip will be shown with the error (e.g. enter just space, hold send button and press send without markdown)
- When trying to send sticker in a chat without corresponding permission
- When trying to send GIF in a chat without corresponding permission
- When trying to send sticker from sticker preview in a chat without corresponding permission

Bugfixes

- Can't start bot by "START" button, only by sending /start via text field
- Open search on main screen, lock app with passcode, close, open, header gets stuck in search state, but chats list are showing instead of search results (now search state will be preserved in this case)
- Number of blocked users does not update properly when blocking/unblocking from the blocked users list
- unblock user from blocked users screen, leave, enter again – user is still present as blocked
- deleted users are missing on Blocked Users screen (but counted as so on the previous one)
- users could be duplicated on Blocked Users screen
- Rare case when attachment buttons could be shown with the non-empty input field
- Can't send/edit text input like text
- Another attempt to fix image flickering issue in chats on some bugged Android 10 OEMs
- Fixed case when stickers could stop sending after system time change
- Fixed case when typings and other actions could stop sending after system time change

0.22.7.1331 beta

Bugfixes

- Dice / Dart with preceding or following space gets sent as emoji
- broken sticker sending

0.22.7.1332 beta

- Rolled back attempts to fix flickering issue on bugged Android builds

0.22.7.1334 beta

- Workaround for weird Android 10 issue that resolves:
* Image flickering in the media viewer
* Image flickering when using brush tool
* Chat header flickering when viewing media
- Temporarily disabled caching for sending media, so each time you upload anything it will get uploaded instead of sending a copy
- Internal changes to UI core Open / Comment

2020-04-24 13:31:10 Hello. I am back.

Currently working on making production update, which should come out soon, so posting this beta change log with huge a delay.

0.22.7.1325 beta (highlights)

- Quiz explanations
- :dart: and :dice: support
- Edit channel posts without date limitations
- Channel statistics
- View privacy settings effective for specific group/user via Profile – Three-dot-Menu – Privacy Exceptions
- Ability to add groups in privacy exceptions
- Global search when creating channels, groups, or managing privacy exceptions
- Option to use system camera instead of the in-app one
- More features in the in-app camera, controllable in Setting – Interface – In-App Camera
- Cloud emoji suggestions when you type :
- Much more sets in Trending Stickers
- Option to use CameraX in the in-app camera. Note while it provides improvements on some devices, it is still is under development by Google (alpha stage) and may be unstable on others. Use this to help improving it
- Bot deep links now require user interaction
- Improved restart bots logic
- Other features and improvements, which will be listed in the telegra.ph post

0.22.7.1326 beta

- Added Settings – Notifications – Mute Non-Contacts: show notifications from non-contacts silently
- Separate restriction warning / other strings for darts
- Separate icon in Send as Emoji in send menu
- Keep discarded media setting for system camera type
- Legacy Camera is now default until CameraX will become stable
- Google Maps crash workaround

Bugfixes

- Android 10: Incorrect order of screenshots in attach menu
- Crash related to tooltip
- Crash related to trending sticker sets
- other crashes from google play
- system camera does not open in secret chats
- Attempt to fix flickering images on some Android 10 OEMs
- Edited images might not be deleted when discarded

0.22.7.1328 beta

- Fullscreen media viewer is back
- Added icons in the menu when unblocking users from Setting – Privacy – Blocked Users

Bugfixes

- Broken gradient in the drawer after answering call & similar issue in other places
- Stuck profile photo download progress when opening from profile
- App does not request camera permissions when using system camera
- Incorrect sending video durations

0.22.7.1329 beta

Tooltips

- Hide when you close a parent screen by back press or using any other method
- Follows Text Size when opened from message
- Fixed case when corner could be separated from the bubble

Bugfixes

- Crash when discarding photos taken by in-app camera
- Rare crash when unlocking passcode with fingerprint Open / Comment

2020-03-08 01:46:28 I hope one day we're gonna be able to schedule messages to be sent in the past. Just imagine how we could send new app versions, lottery results and other useful stuff to ourselves.

Until then, let's just ignore those couple days into March.

Here's February Update, available for everyone:

https://telegra.ph/Telegram-X-02-29 Open / Comment

2020-03-03 11:12:32 Who lost a dot in the app version in the announcement, that's me.

Update is available in beta for everyone, should be in stable within 1–2 days. Open / Comment

2020-02-24 11:40:11 0.22.5.1284-1290 beta

- Gray color for custom title field when it is read-only
- Admin's custom title updates in Recent Actions
- Loop Animated Stickers setting
- Animated emoji & toggle to turn them off
- Vibrations for some animated emoji
- Bank card number highlighting & click handling in new messages (will not work for messages received before an update)
- Animated emoji tone support (thumbs up, probably etc)
- Moved pin/unpin from Chat Preview to bulk menu
- Select multiple chats for bulk actions
- Bulk chat actions: clear from cache, block/unblock, delete, clear history, mark as read/unread, report
- Detailed warning for bulk delete

Bugfixes

- Crashes
- Missing caption changes after editing photo caption & re-entering the chat while offline
- Incorrect rendering of nested entities in this case: aba
- Incorrect touch handling in centered texts in IV
- Suggestion underline might be saved in the chat draft
- When you report a message, only chat gets reported
- Channels without admin rights in the share menu
- Unable to specify admin rights with only custom title, when neither of permission differ from the global chat permissions
- When saving too long custom title, it just gets trimmed, without any warnings (though the counter is present)

Working hard to bring couple more features in February Update (within next 5 days). Beta change logs might be posted with some delay.

0.22.5.1291 beta

- Changed algorithm how links for "Getting link preview" are collected
- When editing a message, cached link preview will be displayed instantly
- Swapped archive with mark as read in Chat Preview

Bugfixes

- Weird crash related to hiding passcode
- Inconsistency when sending / editing some text messages: link preview is not displayed before sending, but is displayed afterwards

0.22.5.1292-1294 beta

- Updated TDLib: fixed bug related to link detection in messages with entities
- When "Loop animated stickers" is enabled, it will pause at the last frame, instead of the first one.
- Channel title when receiving notification from group chat for auto-forwarded message when there's no connection with Telegram server (previously just "Channel")

Bugfixes

- Cannot replay animated stickers without sticker pack Open / Comment

2020-02-10 03:15:58 0.22.5.1283 beta

Specify custom titles for group admins. Changed the look of their roles in the members list. Bugfixes.

Changes

- Specific restriction / ban time in warnings
- Configure Custom Title for chat admins or owner
- Admin titles in members list
- Custom Titles in chat admins list
- Edit Custom Title for owner (self) from members list

Bugfixes

- Incorrect parsing of multiple text links markdown
- Incorrect conversion of text links to markdown when Edit Markdown is enabled
- Text links are parsing inside `code`, when they should not
- Incorrect position of scroll to bottom button when viewing in-chat hastag results
- Incorrect position of header title when viewing global hashtag results Open / Comment