<li>Emoji Profile Pictures. Quickly create group and profile pictures from animated emoji and stickers with the new “Use an Emoji” option.</li>
<li>Emoji Categories. Filter stickers and emoji by categories like “love”, “cheers” or “sleeping” in the sticker and emoji tabs.</li>
<li>Chat Translation. As a Premium user, translate entire chats in real time as you scroll them or receive new messages.</li>
<li>Media Permissions in Groups. Control whether members of your groups can send 9 distinct media types – like Photos, Voice or Video Messages.</li>
<li>Select Chats for Bots. Bot developers can now let users quickly select groups, channels or contacts that meet predefined criteria (more in @BotNews).</li>
<li>Open in New Window. Open chats or additional accounts in separate windows.</li>
<li>Media with spoiler effects. You can wrap photos and videos you send in a fuzzy cover by selecting media in the attachment menu and tapping (…) > Hide With Spoiler.</li>
<li>Setting pictures for your contacts. You can choose your own picture for a contact – only you will see it on their profile.</li>
<li>Suggested profile pictures. When editing your contacts, you can suggest a photo for their profile. It will take them just two clicks to add the picture you suggested.</li>
<li>Public profile pictures. If you only allow certain users to see your profile photos, you can set a public picture for everyone else.</li>
<li>Ultimate profile picture privacy. You can set 'Who can see my profile photos' to 'Nobody' and add some users or groups as exceptions.</li>
<li>Member list privacy. Owners of large groups can hide the list of members.</li>
<li>You can set a Global Auto-Delete Timer for all new chats and groups you create.</li>
<li>New messages will be deleted after 1 day, week, month - or a custom duration you choose.</li>
<li>The new menu in Settings > Privacy & Security > Auto-Delete Messages also lets you set up Auto-Delete for any of your existing chats faster.</li>
<li>Admins of groups with 100+ members can organize discussions into separate topics.</li>
<li>Topics now have a two-column layout that keeps recent chats easily accessible as you browse topics.</li>
<li>Previews of topic messages in the chat list work like a button - click to jump to the last updated topic.</li>
<li>Up to 5 topics can be pinned to the top of the list.</li>
<li>Each topic now supports multiple pinned messages.</li>
<li>The View as Messages mode now shows which topic each message belongs to.</li>
<li>Badge counters for topics you never opened will have a lighter, less distracting color.</li>
<li>A new General topic is now included by default, containing service messages and the earlier message history from the group.</li>
<li>Admins can rename the General topic.</li>
<li>Large groups can enable Aggressive Filtering in Manage Group > Administrators to remove more spam with automated algorithms.</li>
<li>Admins help improve filtering by reporting any false positives in Recent Actions.</li>
<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>
<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 10.13+ Setup</a><br><ahref="https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/linux?beta=1">Linux 64 bit with glibc >= 2.28</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://td.telegram.org/tmac/tsetup.4.9.9.dmg">v4.9.9 Setup for macOS 10.12</a><br><ahref="https://td.telegram.org/tlinux/tsetup.4.9.9.tar.xz">v4.9.9 for Linux with glibc < 2.28</a><br><ahref="https://td.telegram.org/tosx/tsetup-osx.2.4.4.dmg">v2.4.4 Setup for OS X 10.10 and 10.11</a><br><ahref="https://td.telegram.org/tlinux32/tsetup32.2.4.4.tar.xz">v2.4.4 for Linux 32 bit</a><br><ahref="https://td.telegram.org/tsetup/tsetup.1.8.15.exe">v1.8.15 Setup for Windows XP / Vista</a><br><ahref="https://td.telegram.org/tsetup/tportable.1.8.15.zip">v1.8.15 Portable for Windows XP / Vista</a><br><ahref="https://td.telegram.org/tmac32/tsetup32.1.8.15.dmg">v1.8.15 Setup for OS X 10.6 and 10.7</a><br><ahref="https://td.telegram.org/tmac/tsetup.1.8.15.dmg">v1.8.15 Setup for OS X 10.8 and 10.9</a></p>
