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July 19, 2023

• BUGFIX: Dialogs on mobile were too close to the top of the screen, which was conflicting with Apple's dynamic island.

July 17, 2023

• INTERNAL: Better tracking of iCloud blocking
• CHANGE: Disable 1Password/LastPass autofill of the email address field when viewing a group member. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/100129413#35398
• NEW: In the `/members` page, display the active filters. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/can_t_tell_when_looking_at_a/100149591?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,100149591,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1689213767165926056&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1689213767165926056

July 14, 2023

• CHANGE: In the edit hashtag page, change the help text for the `Alias` dropdown to `Redirect this hashtag to another hashtag.` https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/35336
• CHANGE: Changed the `Create Table` button on the Databases page to `New Database`.
• BUGFIX: We weren't updating the internal ContentType for files when they were updated. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/99973747
• NEW: New polls now obey the group moderation settings. As of now, you cannot edit a pending poll, and edits to existing/approved polls, are not moderated. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/99830151
• BUGFIX: Hashtags created from incoming message subjects were lower cased. We now preserve their case.
• BUGFIX: In some instances with hashtags that had multiple cases, a reply on the web would show an extra hashtag in the subject. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/100048209

July 13, 2023

• NEW: When viewing or editing a pending message that is a reply, show a link to the message being replied to.

July 12, 2023

• BUGFIX: We were double escaping subaction reasons. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/html_encoding_shown_in_reason/100058999?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,100058999,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1688681114559676367&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1688681114559676367
• BUGFIX: We were not logging email delivery changes processed from the `/leave` page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/member_changed_to_special/100017368?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,100017368,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1688681114559676367&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1688681114559676367
• BUGFIX: Disable the `Discard` button unless checkboxes are checked. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/discard_button_status_in/99992741?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,20,99992741,previd%3D1688681091966649758,nextid%3D1687638256561111937&previd=1688681091966649758&nextid=1687638256561111937
• CHANGE: Added `Member Profile` link in the dropdown when viewing a message. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/access_to_members_profiles/99949468?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,20,99949468,previd%3D1688681114559676367,nextid%3D1687796370020144850&previd=1688681114559676367&nextid=1687796370020144850
• CHANGE: Renamed the `Spam Control` panel to `Group Type and Moderation` in Settings. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/rename_spam_control_title/100109512?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,100109512,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1688765055366818024&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1688765055366818024

July 11, 2023

• NEW: Added a new activity log entry, `Spam message sent to +owner`. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/35286
• BUGFIX: When attempted to rename a hashtag to another existing hashtag, a blank page would be shown instead of an error message. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/hashtag_bug/100058984?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,100058984,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1688681114559676367&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1688681114559676367

July 10, 2023

• CHANGE: Added several more email header fields to be included when DKIM signing emails.
• INTERNAL: Switched DKIM signing libraries because a bug was causing incorrect DKIM signatures to be generated in some instances when we want to sign all message headers.
• NEW: Enabled one click unsubscribe as defined in RFC 8058.

July 1, 2023

• INTERNAL: Switched our main database pgbouncer to a different machine because of CPU steal problems.

June 29, 2023

• CHANGE: On narrow screens (mobile/app), the Account button is now a modal dialog instead of a dropdown. for improved readability/spacing.
• CHANGE: Updated the archives pages with the new sender display. Also, moved the `All Messages By This Member` option to the new sender dropdown.

June 28, 2023

• NEW: Subgroups can now have a different default language than the parent group. Also, setting the parent group's default language now (re)sets all subgroups' default language to the new parent group's default language.
• NEW: When configuring database Address columns, you can now specify that the street, city, state, zip and/or country fields be excluded.
• CHANGE: Updated the message reply page with the new sender display.
• BUGFIX: The `/attachments` page should only be viewable by group moderators. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/attachments_page_is_not/99795123?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99795123,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1687002751856705896&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1687002751856705896

June 27, 2023

• CHANGE: Updated the `New Poll` page with the new sender display.
• CHANGE: Updated the `/posttosub` page with the new sender display.
• CHANGE: Added user icon to the navbar account dropdown.
• CHANGE: Combined the recently added `Mentions` notification preference into the existing `Messages` notification. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/new_mention_notification/99690317?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99690317,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1686791647464597134&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1686791647464597134
• INTERNAL: Optimized notification sending.

June 26, 2023

• CHANGE: Updated the `New Topic` page with the new sender display.
• BUGFIX: Do a better job of cleaning subject lines to the +owner address. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/group_owner_email_processing/99749507?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99749507,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1686621253699658941&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1686621253699658941

June 23, 2023

• BUGFIX: `/posttosub` was not working in some instances. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/message_s_to_members/99706909?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99706909,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1686331359457164883&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1686331359457164883

June 21, 2023

• CHANGE: Updated the edit pending message page to more match the pending message page.
• CHANGE: Pending message reject notices now get emailed with the From set to the +owner address (previously they were sent from noreply).
• NEW: Added `EXTERNAL` and `[SPAM]` to the list of subject prefixes that we remove. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/subject_prefix_words/99676982?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99676982,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1686199250510299836&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1686199250510299836
• NEW: Subscriptions have a new notification, `Mentions`, to control how you get notified when someone mentions your user name in a group message.

June 20, 2023

• NEW: There is a new group setting, 'Allow Videos in Photos', and when that is checked there is a new selector to determine the max size of videos allowed in the Photos section.
• CHANGE: When viewing the likes for a message, if a liker is no longer a member of the group, display `[Person is no longer a member]`.
• BUGFIX: Fixes to get SSO using NoviAMS working.

June 18, 2023

• CHANGE: Right align pending message and pending sub badge counts in the group sidebar. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/right_align_pending_message/99615498?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,99615498,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1685755301250526970&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1685755301250526970

June 16, 2023

• NEW: Added `reason` field to the Bulk Remove Member page.
• NEW: Added `reason` field on the `/members` Verify Action dialog when banning people.
• NEW: When unbanning someone you can enter a reason.
• BUGFIX: Unbanning someone from the `/member` page did not generate an activity log entry.
• DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/revision-history), [Members Manual Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/revision-history

June 15, 2023

• CHANGE: In lock topic notifications, we now include a `References` header pointing back to the original topic. This allows the system to lock topics that are more than two weeks old successfully (we only do subject matching to determine replies for two weeks).

June 13, 2023

• BUGFIX: Video dialog windows could sometimes extend past the viewport, meaning you couldn't see the entire video.
• CHANGE: Improved the wording of chat post notifications.

June 9, 2023

• NEW: You can now upload videos to chats.