0.22.3.1241 beta

Phone number privacy. Add contacts without knowing phone number. Chats archive.

Changes

1. Updated TDLib
2. Reworked action bar in chats: now controlled by server/TDLib
3. New action bar's actions: add contact, report unrelated location, block, share my phone number
4. Add contacts without knowing number
5. Phone number privacy setting
6. Who can find me by my phone number setting
7. Share my phone number toggle when adding the contact
8. Added avatar/phone number when adding or renaming a contact
9. Archive/unarchive chats
10. Pin/unpin chats inside the archive
11. View archived chats via special filter
12. Filter chats by type inside an archive

Bugfixes

1. Incorrect order of items after adding the contact compared to after closing/opening profile again.

Beta Disclaimer

All or some of the items in the list above are not final. They may or may not change, remove, or kept as is in the next updates.

Until the next stable version, it is expected that beta won't be as stable as it usually is. If you are not OK with that, please keep using stable version for now.

0.22.3.1242 beta

Changes

- Custom admin titles in messages
- Supported Message.restrictionReason

Bugfixes

- Rudimentary archive option for saved messages & service notifications
- "Share my phone number" toggle ignores the value
- Probably resolved the issue that prevented displaying admin signs in some cases
- "Settings" in Recent Actions do not open

0.22.3.1243 beta

- Seamless web login via inline buttons
- Action bar: added dismiss button
- Action bar: secret chats now share the bar with the cloud chat

Bugfixes

- Seamless web login also fixes not working "comment" buttons

0.22.3.1244 beta

- Channel Discussions: access & set group chat for posts' discussion & automatic forwards
- Alternative comments chat access: Three-dot menu > Linked Group / Channel

Bugfixes

- Postponed messages being displayed as normal when sent from another client

0.22.3.1245 beta

- Supported new Recent Actions: linked group/channel updates, slow mode delay & group location changes (with viewing)
- Supported new Chat.restrictionReason, User.restrictionReason TDLib's format

Bugfixes

- The most popular & random crash on stable version was caused by a bug in Android Studio's build system, which is fixed by its update. This and all last beta versions don't have it.

0.22.3.1246 beta

- Full-screen chat viewing when discuss/follow button is present
- Hold discuss button to preview discussion group
- Discuss/follow button attach/detach animation
- Animation when follow button gets replaced with discuss

Bugfixes

- Incorrect chat placeholder letters when viewing group's location

For those who want a demo.

0.22.3.1248 beta

- Access Archived Chats in the chats list
- Hold Archived Chats to preview them or mark all as read
- Search messages in all archived chats
- Search messages by chat type when using Chat Filter

Bugfixes

- Incorrect horizontal position of the follow/discuss button after pressing the link

0.22.3.1249 beta

- Hide archived chats above the list
- Archive closes automatically when it becomes empty
- Archive timestamp now uses the time of the newest message
- Updated TDLib
- Increased live location update frequency
- Reduced 32-bit app sizes
- Archive menu instead of preview when Chat Preview disabled

Bugfixes

- Archive doesn't disappear when it becomes empty
- Sometimes archive preview becomes empty
- Incorrect total archived chats count
- Incorrect chat mute state if it setting it failed on server
- Unlinking channel from the group does not work if no admin rights in the group

0.22.3.1250 beta

- Edit messages without interrupting the chat: now you'll be able to edit and send new messages without waiting for message to be saved. You'll see changes immediately & the clock icon until it's done.
- Special placeholder in case all of the chats have been archived
- Updated TDLib

Bugfixes

- Android 10: Incorrect timestamps in the attach > file > gallery
- Archived folder is counted in the chats counter
- Changing Settings > Interface > Chat Previews does not affect Archived Chats until app restart
- Can't pull down/hide archive when there are only few chats are available
- "Messages from archive" title is not shown when searching on the main screen with archive filter
- Empty view doesn't show up when archiving the very last chat
- Android 4.x: crashes on the app launch

0.22.4.1253 beta

- Better logic of reading incoming messages
- When you open a group or channel that you are not member of, and many messages have been posted since your last visit, scroll position will be saved
- Updated TDLib
- Updated dependencies

Bugfixes

- In rare cases some messages could become read even though they didn't appear on screen at all
- Crash when trying to search GIFs
- updateChat is missing for chat crash in secret chats

0.22.4.1254 beta

- Unread Messages separator when new message arrives and it's not visible on the screen (e.g. scrolling older history)
- Animation when live location shows/collapses in the chats list & there is an archive
- Separate warning strings when deleting chat / clearing history for Saved Messages

Bugfixes

- Cannot pull down the archive while sharing live location
- Incorrect scroll bounds when there are too few chats on the screen & archive is hidden
- Live location overlaps the archive when collapsing
- Tapping "Chats" tab may scroll to an incorrect locaion when sharing live location and having an archive

0.22.4.1259 beta

Improvements and bugfixes. Preparing for a production update.

Changes

- Improved Unread Messages separator appearance logic
- Specific error code & message will be displayed in the failed message's menu
- Updated compileSdkVersion to 19
- Updated buildToolsVersion to 29.0.2
- Updated TDLib
- Unread counter color checks for unmuted chats inside an archive
- "Mark as Unread" is displayed in the chats list, if some chat is marked as unread inside an archive
- Optimized the way archive preview gets updated based for each type of event
- Counter in archive shows number of unread chats
- Separate strings for messages search results header inside filtered archive
- Sorted unsorted colors in theme editor

Bugfixes

- Some of the chats on the bottom of the list may be only partially visible, when archive is hidden
- Software keyboard does not hide when opening emoji/stickers keyboard after performing some actions
- Link Preview does not display if link is just a domain name with slash on the end: example.com/
- Long admin signs may overlap the user name in bubble mode
- Long admin signs may go outside of bubble bounds
- Long admin sign + name may cause bubble going outside of screen
- Scroll to bottom button overlaps the search controls bar in channels
- [?] Chat content is slightly (about 1px) visible below the follow/discuss bottom bar on some OEMs
- Games work only after re-entering the chat after sending them to a chat (#5: Message not found)
- Search controls bar is not visible when follow/discuss bottom bar is present
- After using "hide above the list", if the list was not in the beginning, animation will end not in the beginning of the list
- New chat button is not accessible after hiding an archive, if there are too few items in the list
- After using chats filter, new chat button no longer reacts to chats list scroll (does not show/hide)
- New chat button is not accessible after using chat filter, if it was hidden and there are too few items in the chats list
- "Mark as Unread" badge is not displaying
- Adding account immediately after logging out may result in #7: setAuthPhoneNumber unexpected
- Bold / uncolored color names for avatar*_big
- Crash when trying to submit or retract poll vote

While crafting the next beta, I think I might have accidentally created the best animation ever existed on Android. Gotta keep it as it is.

Yep, beta with Public Polls and some other new poll-related stuff was published tonight.

If you know where to find them, enjoy new transitions and animations.

Will do proper change log once poll creation screen will be updated, so secret knowledge will no longer be needed.

Gonna add a toggle to use this nearly perfect animation as well, with couple improvements.

Telegram X was updated to version 0.22.4.1270

Brief overview of new features:
https://telegra.ph/Telegram-X-01-23-2

Updated Telegram X to 0.22.4.1272.

Fixed several crashes and bugs, including the appearing non-cancelable old live location issue, which actualy was not sharing anywhere.

But, more importantly, added new recovery options & improved the look of the critical error screen.

You will most likely never encounter it, so here's how it looks.

0.22.5.1280 beta

- Apply multiple text styles at the same time to messages and captions (bold, italic, etc)
- New text styles: underline and strikethrough
- Nested markdown input support: **__bold italic__**
- Added Settings – Notifications – Badge Counter – Include Archived Chats
- Added Settings – Interface – Edit Markdown to be able to edit all styles using the old-school way
- Links with Instant View highlighting while viewing them
- Supported <mark> tag in Instant View
- Added new colors: iv_textLinkPressHighlight, iv_textLinkIvHighlight, iv_textMarked, iv_textMarkedLink, iv_textMarkedLinkPressHighlight, iv_textMarkedBackground,

Bugfixes

- Android 10: Incorrectly rotated images in the attachment menu
- "Read all chats" does not read marked as unread chats
- Nested styling in Instant Views does not work properly anymore

0.22.5.1281 beta

- Fixed crash when trying to send square brackets at the end of the message

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

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