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July 22, 2023

• CHANGE: Changed visited color link to a more visible purple. This was later rolled back. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/100268918#35448

July 21, 2023

• CHANGE: Only display the `Add Tags` button on the edit pending message page if the message is starting a new Topic. Also, changed it from the drop down to a dialog box to match the Post page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/100259477#35437
• CHANGE: Changed the Activity drop down for changing group settings from `Edited group` to `Changed group settings`. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/35431
• CHANGE: Don't underline non-group member senders when viewing messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/35384
• BUGFIX: Hide the `Past` button on the Bulk Remove page for free groups. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/35383

July 20, 2023

• BUGFIX: Fixed a problem where the Authentication-Results header line would incorrectly state that gmail.com's DKIM signature was out of date.
• CHANGE: Now all emails are sent with List-Unsubscribe headers with one-click links. Previously, depending on group settings, some emails were sent with List-Unsubscribe headers that contained mailto links that required a confirmation.
• CHANGE: Ignore all email from `unsubscribe@vaderetro-safeunsubscribe.com` which is an unsubscribe service that was generating false unsubscription requests.

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