Telegram Desktop

In the latest 1.1.11 alpha version of Telegram Desktop you can write bold text (just surround it with **) and italic text (just surround it with __). If you're already using alpha version just update to 1.1.11 in Settings. If you don't you can try it from here: https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog#alpha-version

Today calls are added to the alpha version of Telegram Desktop! The alpha version gets all the features first, but is less tested than the stable version. You can try this 1.0.36 alpha version from https://desktop.telegram.org/changelog#alpha-version

We added almost all missing settings to Telegram Desktop in today 1.0.26 stable release! Now you can go to Settings and: — Change your phone number. — Edit who can see your last seen time and who can add you to groups. — Edit your list of blocked users. — Edit account self-destruction settings. + you get a nice message search feature: click on the date in any chat and jump quickly to messages from a specific day. You can update your version in Settings or download it from https://desktop.telegram.org

And welcome everyone to the new Telegram Desktop 1.0 🎉🎉 Read about the new design and theme support in the blog: https://telegram.org/blog/desktop-1-0 You can update it in Settings or download the new version from site: https://desktop.telegram.org After you install the new version you can check out some custom themes from the community in the @themes channel!

Also it contains a whole bunch of notifications improvements for Windows and Linux users: — You can reply to the incoming messages right from the notification toast. — You can change the toast location on your screen and the maximum count of toasts shown at the same time. Here is the way a toast with a reply and the new settings box look like:

The new version 0.10.16 brings you a nice audio player redesign. The new player can be minimized to a single play / pause button in the window title:

Finally in the new 0.10 version of Telegram Desktop there is an internal video player. So you don't need to open external applications now if you receive a video from your friend. And the round bubbles came to the stable version :)

Some very round bubbles are waiting for you in the new 0.9.57 alpha version of Telegram Desktop ;)