🔂 Telegram 8.7.1 for Android 4.1+

• Bug fixes and other minor improvements
• 8.7 — Notification Sounds, Bot Revolution and More

2022-04-21 @Telegram #Android

Telegram for Android got a 8.7.1 version update

— The list of users who read the message has been expanded from 50 to 100, as in other clients.
— Audio in mpeg3 format can now be set as notification sound.
— Web Bots can now use local storage.
— Simplified "Mute for..." popup.
— Small fixes and improvements.

Download: Google Play, APK from official website or verified channel.

#Android

🔂 Telegram 8.7.1 for iOS 9.0+ & watchOS 5.0+

• Bug fixes and other minor improvements
• 8.7 — Notification Sounds, Bot Revolution and More

2022-04-22 @Telegram #iOS

🔂 Telegram 8.7.2 for Android 4.1+

• Bug fixes and other minor improvements
• 8.7 — Notification Sounds, Bot Revolution and More

2022-04-23 @Telegram #Android

Telegram Premium Account

According to the information Telegram Info has, the upcoming updates for the Telegram app will introduce paid Premium Accounts with exclusive features.

Previously, Pavel Durov told the team is considering stickers with extended functionality in the future. Perhaps, such stickers will be the first content in Telegram distributed on paid basis.

Which features will be available and how the Premium Accounts program will work is unknown at this moment.

#monetization

🔂 Telegram Desktop 3.7.2
for #Windows #Linux #macOS

• Added bot button to bar of pinned messages
• Fix mute period selector values
• Fix a crash in repeated context menu item selection
• Fix context menu item selection of systems without a compositor

2022-04-25 @Telegram #tdesktop

Telegram news feed

The official Telegram for iOS repository has seen a commit to confirm the appearance of a news feed in Telegram.

It appears that in upcoming updates, users will be able to view posts from channels in a unified feed.

Integration of the TON wallet into the Telegram client

Thanks to WebApp bots, the @wallet service has implemented the integration of the wallet into the attachments of Telegram clients.

Now you can transfer Toncoin cryptocurrency to users directly from the messenger. Without long wallet addresses, commissions and waiting for transaction confirmation.

We already wrote earlier that probably the entire Web bot platform was created specifically for the integration of TON Coin with Telegram.

Integrate wallet: t.me/wallet?attach=wallet

🔂 Telegram Desktop 3.7.3
for #Windows #Linux #macOS

• Fix a crash in the pinned bar bot button refresh.

2022-04-26 @Telegram #tdesktop

🔂 Telegram 8.7.4 for Android 4.1+

• Bug fixes and other minor improvements
• 8.7 — Notification Sounds, Bot Revolution and More

2022-04-29 @Telegram #Android

🆕 New animation when you share from external apps to Telegram

@Telegram #beta #iOS v8.7.2

🆕 New option to restrict non-member on the Channel Comments

Notes:
• The Discussion Group’s owner can configure it in the Group Info > Edit > Group Type.
• It hasn’t been enabled yet on the Server-Side

@Telegram #beta #iOS v8.7.2

First features of Telegram Premium

Some features of Telegram Premium subscription are known. Among them there are more reactions, as well as stickers with full-screen animation.

Paid features can only be seen on the test server via Beta version of the iOS client. It’s currently impossible to access to the subscription.

⭐️ The first appearance of Telegram Premium subscription

• First features: Unlock additional reactions and premium stickers
• Demo on the Test Server with Telegram Beta iOS.

@Telegram #beta #iOS v8.7.2

🔂 Telegram Desktop Beta 3.7.4

• More icons for chat folders.
• Improve some more sections design.
• Update the OpenAL library to 1.22.0.

• Support all Settings links
tg://settings
tg://settings/language
tg://settings/devices
tg://settings/folders
tg://settings/privacy
tg://settings/change_number
tg://settings/themes

#tdesktop #beta

🔂 Telegram 8.7.1 for macOS 10.11+

• Bug fixes and other minor improvements
• Notification Sounds, Bot Revolution and More

2022-05-05 @Telegram #macOS

Increased character limit for multimedia files description

Telegram has increased the limit for the description of multimedia files from 1024 to 4096 characters on server side.

You can find out more Telegram limits here: limits.tginfo.me

#limits

UPD. The limit was rolled back to the previous value

More about Telegram Premium

There is more information about the preparation of Premium accounts in messenger. The benefits that users with a paid subscription will receive have become known.

Key Features of Telegram Premium:
• Special badge near the name.
• Full screen stickers.
• Additional reactions.

Double the limit for the following items:
• Number of chats in the folder (100 → 200).
• Limit on channels and supergroups (500 → 1000).
• Number of folders (10 → 20).
• Number of pinned dialogs in the main feed (5 → 10) and inside the folder (100 → 200).
• Number of public usernames for channels and supergroups (10 → 20).
• Number of favorite stickers (5 → 10).

Most likely, the lists will be replenished further, as Telegram is actively testing innovations and experimenting with limits.

#premium

New payment providers added:

• Smart Glocal
• Bank 131

More about bot payments:
https://core.telegram.org/bots/payments

Telegram added new payment providers for Payments 2.0

Smart Glocal and Bank 131 are now integrated into Payments 2.0 platform, that was created to provide fast payments for bot developers.

Payments 2.0 was introduced in April of this year. One of the bots that supports the new payment method is the verified @donate bot, which was created to accept donations to channel authors.

New Features of Web-Bots

Web-bots will be able to send payment invoices as link. They can be opened on browser, forwarded to friends, or posted to a channel. Probably, not only web-bots, but simple ones will have opportunity to create such links.

Previously, invoices were issued only using a special bot (for example, the "Donate" button under the message).

‌Web-bots will be able to open an invoice and track its status (paid, canceled, completed with an error) and provide information about it.

A clickable link like https://t.me/invoice/tginfo will allow you to make payments in a few clicks.

Links like tg://invoice?slug=tginfo will be available directly inside Telegram

Such links will start working in the next updates of the messenger, but for now they redirect the user to an unknown @invoice channel.