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September 6, 2023

  • CHANGE: Chat messages can now include multiple photos, and you can mix text and photos in a single message now.
  • CHANGE: Improved image viewer for chat and you can now download images.
  • BUGFIX: Exporting a table to CSV did not properly export any Number columns.

September 4, 2023

  • CHANGE: In the app, added a back arrow when navigating the Files section.

September 1, 2023

  • BUGFIX: In the Default Sub Page, for Extra Member Data, we were not saving changes to the exclude fields for Address columns.
  • CHANGE: Updated the language translation files.

August 30, 2023

  • CHANGE: Several appearance tweaks to the chat page.

August 29, 2023

  • BUGFIX: Chat profile images now reference a Groups.io hosted URL instead of a time-based S3 URL. That was a problem when you had to scroll to new messages after the URLs had timed-out.
  • BUGFIX: The @ mention dialog was being covered by the keyboard on mobile devices.
  • NEW: Chat messages now show link previews.

August 28, 2023

  • BUGFIX: Numerous chat page fixes.

August 27, 2023

  • BUGFIX: Fix scrolling issue on mobile.
  • BUGFIX: Fix instances where scrolling up on mobile or the app would result in duplicates .[app@beta.groups.io | Group names duplicated in Groups list](https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/group_names_duplicated_in/100993685?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,100993685,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1659965532038456443&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1659965532038456443)

August 25, 2023


August 24, 2023

  • CHANGE: Improved mobile navigation tabs.
  • BUGFIX: Fixed the scrollbar on mobile in cases where it extended into the bottom navbar.
  • INTERNAL: Changed the CSS structure for chat to prepare for other internal mobile structural changes.
  • SUPPORT: Added additional macros to make support easier.

August 23, 2023

  • INTERNAL: Made improvements to the spammer detection system.

August 22, 2023


August 18, 2023

  • APP: Check for old versions of the app and display a page asking them to upgrade.
  • BUGFIX: Don't send bounce notifications to moderators for banned users.
  • INTERNAL: Upgraded our Font Awesome package and cleaned up how we store it in the repository.

August 17, 2023

  • INTERNAL: Upgraded the Go compiler
  • SYSADMIN: Migrated one of the database replica machines to the new data center.
  • BUGFIX: In some instances we were allowing inbound (spam) emails with forged From header lines from groups.io domains.

August 4, 2023


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August 1, 2023


July 30, 2023

  • BUGFIX: Editing a database that had multi select field names with ampersand characters would cause those to be expanded to &

July 26, 2023

  • CHANGE: Removed yesterday's change of preventing pasting images into the editor for groups that don't allow attachments, because it was interfering with pasting tabs. Instead, handled the error better with a new error message.
  • INTERNAL: Improved our firewall blocking on the DNS servers.
  • CHANGE: When editing a pending message that has attachments, the attachment previews are no longer clickable, as that was interfering with the operation of the delete checkboxes on Firefox. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/100375491#35534
  • CHANGE: Updated the `Topic Properties` page with the new `Add Hashtag` UI scheme. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/100259477#35464
  • CHANGE: Hard-code mail.com addresses as needing DMARC mitigation, even though they are `p=none`. It appears that Yahoo et al are looking at the `sp=quarantine` value of mail.com's DMARC record. Which I think is wrong, but I also want email to flow, and right now Yahoo is blocking all email from us from mail.com senders.

July 25, 2023