• Access your favorite apps and chats from the Homescreen using our shiny new widget (requires iOS 17) (#2406, #2449)
• Add and remove apps and chats to that widget (#2426, #2449)
• In favour to the new widget, the old "Add to Homescreen" option, that stopped working on most recent OS, got removed (#2456)
• More modern look for the settings pages (#2474)
• Add option to toggle notifications for mentions (as replies or reactions) in groups (#2434)
• Access system notification settings directly from the new notification settings (#2434)
• Long-tap links for copying to clipboard (#2445)
• Hide address in titles: protect against over-the-shoulder-attacks, improve screenshot privacy, clear UX (#2447)
• Prevent automatic limited access alert (#2480)
• Much smoother, motion reduced message list when using attach or other options (#2481)
• mark holiday notice messages as bot-generated
• prefer to encrypt even if peers have their preference to "no preference"
• start ephemeral messages timers when the chat is archived or noticed"
• Fix: Never change Sticker to Image if file has non-image extension
• Fix crashes when scanning some shadowsocks proxy QR codes
• Fix: Don't consider punctuation and control chars as part of file extension
• Fix: don't mark contacts as bot when receiving location-only and sync messages
• Fix: No notification and 30 sec stale app when NSE crashed in background from running out of memory (#2477)
• Fix: Disappearing message input field after cancelled gallery selection (#2392)
• Fix: Don't show message-input when forwarding (#2435)
• Fix: Don't change navigation-bar-appearance when visiting wallpape settings (#2496)
• minimum system version is iOS 13 now (#2459)
• Update translations and local help
• Update core to 1.153.0