- properly send as animated stickers GIF files selected from keyboard
- improve emoji picker in landscape mode and when changing from landscape to portrait
- avoid crash when receiving push notifications if the user restricted the app from working in background
- improve UI when attaching a file or image to easily recognize it is attached but not sent yet
- avoid slow loading of in-chat apps in some devices when quickly re-opening an app after closing it
- allow to select multiple images at once in the media picker via "Gallery" button
- mark holiday notice messages as bot-generated
- don't mark contacts as bot when receiving location-only and sync messages
- prefer to encrypt even if peers have their preference to "no preference"
- start ephemeral messages timers when the chat is archived or noticed
- several bug fixes and updated translations
- update to core 1.153.0