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- Special placeholder in case all of the chats have been archived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

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.

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

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

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

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

- <mark> & 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

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