any new strings

https://github.com/TGAndroid-Decompiled/translations_strings/commit/8f739a16ce110a4e4dd071c0731f67caf2812c70

TEST FLIGHT BETA RELEASED

all previous-reported news are available in the ios app. we won’t send other screenshots from ios app to avoid a second spam.
there’s no reference to Telegram Premium Business https://t.me/TGBlogLeaks/427

10.8 stable has been released

BOOST A GROUP TO SEND MESSAGES

PlayStore | AppStore

Bot API 7.1

Custom Emoji
• Bots can now get the custom emoji sticker set chosen by a group and use any custom emoji from it.

Boosts
• Added support for boost_added service messages, about new boosts added to the chat.
• Added the field sender_boost_count to the class Message, counting boosts added by the sender that are active on the message send date.

Stories
• Bots can now check if admins have the rights to post, edit and delete stories in supergroups.
• Added the field reply_to_story to the class Message.

• And more, see the full changelog for details:

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api-changelog#february-16-2024

minimal

In the latest beta of Telegram for MacOS, these icons related to business features appeared a few days ago

src: https://t.me/tgcrawl/12371

New Telegram Business Icons (macOS)

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he has been mentioned as an easter egg in telegram android's theme preview.
https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/5dd649197b48e5b2ad9ae91dcc8dc87548aa877c/TMessagesProj/src/main/res/values/strings.xml#L2082

thanks to @davidegalilei
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It seems that downloading media from DC2 is currently impossible... On other DCs everything is slowly coming back

Everything seems to be ok now. Can you confirm it?

All emoji flags have lost their animations 🥹

on latest tgandroid stable 10.8.1 (4404)

src: https://github.com/TGAndroid-Decompiled/TGAndroid-Beta/commit/3262ce8225fdf4cf2bc6093ea155cc7dd3561e9b

src: https://github.com/TGAndroid-Decompiled/TGAndroid-Beta/commit/3262ce8225fdf4cf2bc6093ea155cc7dd3561e9b#diff-e461879e4a41688877a9c987f3ac88db1c4109b379ac989ce2dcb38df58958dd

all icon related with this feature https://t.me/TGBlogLeaks/446

Get Premium for Helping Telegram Send SMS Codes

Telegram has launched a program which allows users to get Premium for sending SMS messages with OTP codes to other users. A user from Indonesia shared screenshots of the feature with @tginfo.

Terms of Service have appeared for the new program, which is called “Peer-to-Peer Login Program”.

On the page Telegram informs that only users from some countries can participate. Telegram will be using user’s phone to send no more than 150 SMS codes monthly, at the user’s expense. When the user reaches the minimum quota, they will be rewarded with a transferable gift code that grants access to a monthly Telegram Premium subscription. The messenger won't compensate carrier rates and fees for sending the messages.

Telegram warns that theoretically program participants can see phone numbers of the users who receive the OTP codes. The same way, receivers will know the codes are sent from other Telegram users.

@tginfo confirmed existence of the feature in Telegram for Android 10.8.1 (4404) code. The Terms of Service point out that the program is only available to Android users.

We speculate that the program will be used in countries which have high SMS fees, like Indonesia.

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Code : 💌💌💌