Highlights of the blogpost:
- Telegram 7.0 is not yet available for iOS, as Apple failed to review the update in time for Telegram’s 7th birthday (Telegram could have just waited a bit more tbh)
- for clients supporting the latest API layer available (layer 118), calls and video calls will use the new WebRTC-based VoIP library instead of libtgvoip (which is still embedded in the apps because of backward compatibility)
- video calls are e2e encrypted, of course
Small curiosity: the 3rd round of the voip contest ended on April 8th. This day probably marked the beginning of the works on the new VoIP library by whoever they hired - even though some people were already working on it. Regardless, it took ridiculously little time to bring it to production on all the official apps. I guess they skipped QA entirely lol
Small curiosity #2: screen sharing is also planned and will be released within 2020
Bonus: for its 7th birthday, Telegram tweeted this nice video with an overview of all its cool features (relevant though I give them a pass as it’s not trying to be some relatable twitter corp crap)
I recall there was talk of open sourcing the server, does anybody know if that’s still planned?
It was mentioned in their TON’s roadmap that they would release the backend sourcecode at some point in the future, but now that TON failed we don’t know much about that. I guess they’re still planning to release, but, who knows when