Full changelog:
- Faster sharing: Select or take pictures and videos directly from the app and share easily. You can even send audio messages to your contacts.
- Easy search: Search through contacts and conversation threads to find exactly what you are looking for.
- Purposeful design: New, fluid, material design that is intuitive and delightful.
- More control: Ability to block SMS senders. No interruptions when you don’t want them!
- More features: audio messages, emoji support, colored text threads, message archiving and more.
As noted above, the new features include the ability to block people, rapid photo sharing, full emoji support and more. That"s if you are running Android 4.1 or higher, which is required, but don"t worry, even the oldest supported devices will still sport the Material Design language, which does look pretty good in our opinion.
Source: Google Play via The Next Web