<li>A new expandable reaction menu was added in private chats and groups.</li>
<li>All users get access to dozens of new reactions, including reactions previously reserved for Premium users.</li>
<li>The reactions you use most frequently will always be displayed at the top.</li>
<li>Premium users can react to messages with thousands of custom emoji and add up to 3 reactions to each message.</li>
<li>Group admins can control whether custom reactions are allowed in their groups.</li>
<li>Premium users can add an animated emoji status next to their name to display their current activity.</li>
<li>To set a status, tap your Premium badge in the main menu or Settings.</li>
<li>Popular suggestions for working, sleeping, traveling and more will be shown at the top.</li>
<li>To set a status for a specific duration like 1 hour or 2 days, right click the emoji.</li>
<li>A new format was supported for username links, in addition to “t.me/username.” You can now open Telegram accounts, groups or channels using links like “username.t.me” or “https://username.t.me.”</li>
<li>Improved support for long media captions.</li>
<li>Premium: Send media and files each up to 4 GB in size.</li>
<li>Premium: Download media and files at the fastest possible speed, with no limits.</li>
<li>Premium: Double most of the limits in the app.</li>
<li>Premium: Get a new button next to any voice message to generate a transcript of its audio.</li>
<li>Premium: React with even more emoji, including <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09FA4A1.png"width="20"height="20"alt="🤡"/> and <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F988D.png"width="20"height="20"alt="😍"/>.</li>
<li>Premium: Send unique stickers with additional effects, updated monthly.</li>
<li>Premium: Set a default chat folder or enable tools to auto-archive and hide new chats.</li>
<li>Premium: Subscribers have a badge next to their name, showing they help support Telegram.</li>
<li>Premium: Show off your profile video that will be animated for everyone in chats and the chat list.</li>
<li>Premium: Sponsored Messages that are sometimes shown in public channels will no longer appear.</li>
<li>Enable join requests for your public groups – no invite links required.</li>
<li>Users who open the group will see an Apply to Join Group button.</li>
<li>Once approved by an admin, users will be able to participate in the chat.</li>
<li>Bots that are integrated into the attachment menu can be programmed to work in groups and channels.</li>
<li>Hover over any message to show the reaction button.</li>
<li>Click the button for a quick <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F918D.png"width="20"height="20"alt="👍"/> reaction – or hover over it for the full range of emoji.</li>
<li>Group and Channel admins can enable reactions in their chat via '…' menu > Manage > Reactions.</li>
<li>Select text when typing and choose 'Formatting > Spoiler' in the context menu to hide some or all of the contents of a message.</li>
<li>Click on the spoiler animation in chat to reveal its hidden text.</li>
<li>Spoiler formatting hides text in chat, as well as in the chat list and notifications.</li>
<li>Content creators can restrict the ability to save media and forward messages from their groups and channels.</li>
<li>Clear messages in one-on-one chats from a specific day or date range.</li>
<li>Comment as one of your channels in public groups and channel comments.</li>
<li>When you request to join a community and its admin or bot-admin contacts you with a message, you will see which chat they are from at the top of the chat.</li>
<li>Bot-admins can now ask users to complete tasks before they are allowed to join - like accepting community rules, passing a test, or making a donation to the content creators.</li>
<li>Some animated emoji now have extra effects.</li>
<li>Send <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F8E86.png"width="20"height="20"alt="🎆"/>, <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F8E89.png"width="20"height="20"alt="🎉"/>. <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F8E88.png"width="20"height="20"alt="🎈"/>. <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F918D.png"width="20"height="20"alt="👍"/>. <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/F09F92A9.png"width="20"height="20"alt="💩"/> or <imgclass="emoji"src="//telegram.org/img/emoji/40/E29DA4.png"width="20"height="20"alt="❤️"/> to any private chat, then click on the animated emoji to launch the effect.</li>
<li>If your chat partner also has the chat open, you will both see the effects.</li>
<li>See the “Watching” status when your chat partner is enjoying emoji effects with you.</li>
<li>More interactive emoji coming soon.</li>
<li>Right click one of your outgoing messages in small groups to see who recently viewed it.</li>
<li>To protect privacy, read receipts are only stored for 7 days after the message was sent.</li>
<li>Record video and audio from live broadcasts in your group or channel.</li>
<li>Admins can start recording from the '…' menu.</li>
<li>Choose between recording in portrait or landscape orientation.</li>
<li>Finished recordings are sent to the admin's Saved Messages and can be easily shared.</li>
<p>If you would like to get all updates faster and be the first to test new features, you are welcome to use Telegram Desktop's beta version updates.</p>
<p>The stable version is updated less frequently, but is tested better than the beta version.</p>
<p>Here are the beta version links for different platforms:</p>
<p><ahref="https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/win64?beta=1">Windows x64 Setup</a><br><ahref="https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/win64_portable?beta=1">Windows x64 Portable</a><br><ahref="https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/win?beta=1">Windows Setup</a><br><ahref="https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/win_portable?beta=1">Windows Portable</a><br><ahref="https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/mac?beta=1">Mac OS X 10.12+ Setup</a><br><ahref="https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/linux?beta=1">Linux 64 bit</a></p>
<p>Just install it on top of your current Telegram Desktop and there you go.</p>
<h2><aclass="anchor"name="old-system-versions"href="#old-system-versions"><iclass="anchor-icon"></i></a>Old system versions</h2>
<p>The up-to-date versions of Telegram Desktop support Windows 7 and later, macOS 10.12 and later and 64 bit Linux. But there are old versions available:</p>
<p><ahref="https://updates.tdesktop.com/tosx/tsetup-osx.2.4.4.dmg">v2.4.4 Setup for OS X 10.10 and 10.11</a><br><ahref="https://updates.tdesktop.com/tlinux32/tsetup32.2.4.4.tar.xz">v2.4.4 for Linux 32 bit</a><br><ahref="https://updates.tdesktop.com/tsetup/tsetup.1.8.15.exe">v1.8.15 Setup for Windows XP / Vista</a><br><ahref="https://updates.tdesktop.com/tsetup/tportable.1.8.15.zip">v1.8.15 Portable for Windows XP / Vista</a><br><ahref="https://updates.tdesktop.com/tmac32/tsetup32.1.8.15.dmg">v1.8.15 Setup for OS X 10.6 and 10.7</a><br><ahref="https://updates.tdesktop.com/tmac/tsetup.1.8.15.dmg">v1.8.15 Setup for OS X 10.8 and 10.9</a></p>
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