Telegram X: an update finally arrives after a year

Using an app billed as "experimental" comes with its fair share of risks, including the chance that the developers may just give up on the project altogether. It seemed like Telegram X, the company's alternate client for testing out new features, was headed towards a quiet death following its last update in May, but the app has finally shown a new spark of life. After nearly a year of silence, a new beta version for Telegram X is finally available for download, including several bug fixes and some key features to help modernize the app.

Following a year without updates, the change log for this beta is unsurprisingly massive. With this new patch, Telegram X is finally getting support for last year's collection of emoji, as well as theme sync with your phone's dark mode settings. Other notable changes include statistics within group chats, a new menu for tagging a user in chat, and support for sending files up to 2GB in size. Telegram has also squashed some lingering bugs, like. flak files causing crashes and issues when displaying admin lists in chat.

To get this update on your phone, you'll need to make sure you've signed up for Telegram X's beta program. Alternately, you can grab this new beta version from APK Mirror, where you'll also find the complete list of patch notes in all its glory.

Changelog update Telegram X 0.23.6.1398 beta

As indicated on the Apkmirror website, with the latest beta version of the application the following new features are introduced:

What’s new:

– Multipin.
– Support for all new emojis.
– Statistics for group chats.
– Album by file support.
– Support for the system night theme.
– Support for sending 2,000MB files.
– Support for anonymous administrators.
– Compress video before sending (select quality).
– Counter of republished posts in the channel feed (available to all).

– Updated menu to mention the user in the chat (type @ in the message entry field and press and hold the user).
– Ability to enable anonymity for administrators and for yourself directly from the participant list.
– Updated the scrolling chat system (down arrow).
– Updated icon for deferred messages in the dialog box list.
– Ability to change the unit of measurement of the weight of the files (Settings> Unit size)
– updated the report if an unknown contact writes
– Many other improvements.

Resolved:
– Crash when playing .flac files.
– Problem with an infinite list of administrators in the chat.
– other fixes.