Updates to the Groups.io service.
May 2, 2025
- CHANGE: Change the Files section move icon.
- BUGFIX: In some instances, for groups with subgroups, the welcome message when joining a subgroup would contain a broken link.
- BUGFIX: On the /billing page, the Chat Photo storage amounts were incorrect.
- CHANGE: On the /billing page, changed how we display storage amounts.
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. /helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
- NEW: The /gethashtags API endpoint now supports 'topic_count' as a sort field.
- CHANGE: Sync'ed up translation files with latest changes on the site.
April 25, 2025
- NEW: Display the subject line for 'Rejected Message - Banned domain' activity log entries.
- CHANGE: Links to attachments in digests now no longer require being logged in to click on for the first 5 days, same as when we pull attachments out of individual emails.
- CHANGE: Merged in French language translation fixes. Thank you seranpion for your help!
- DOCS: Updated docs from Nina.
April 24, 2025
- NEW: Free groups that have not previously done the free premium trial can now do so by going to the Upgrade page under Admin -> Preferences.
April 23, 2025
- SYSADMIN: We are now blocking AS 45899, VNPT Corp, because their crawlers were abusing the system.
- SYSADMIN: We are now blocking AS 132203, another TENCENT block, because their crawlers were abusing the system.
April 22, 2025
- NEW: We now support Apple Pay and Google Pay for group sponsorship payments.
April 19, 2025
- NEW: Added an RSS feed to the Changelog page.
- BUGFIX: In some cases, after editing a message that contains an inline image, a broken image would show up in the archives.
April 18, 2025
- CHANGE: Improved the subject line and text of the bounce notification emails.
April 17, 2025
- CHANGE: Added a footer section to the logged out home page with links to different parts of the site, along with a new Changelog page.
- BUGFIX: Fixed automatic dark mode detection on the logged out home page.
April 16, 2025
- CHANGE: When a moderator changes the name of a group, we now also change the **Subject Tag** to match.
April 14, 2025
- SYSADMIN: We're now blocking connections from Tencent's Datacenter AS 45090.
April 4, 2025
- INTERNAL: Fixed several issues with clean shut down of the email servers.
April 2, 2025
- INTERNAL: Changed the list of TLS cipher suites we will accept because of compatibility issues/changes at several domains.
- INTERNAL: Upgraded to the latest version of the Go compiler.
April 1, 2025
- CHANGE: We now turn attachments into links if they total more than 15MB in size. Also, I've improved the look of the links, and links do no require authentication for the first 5 days after they have been sent.
- CHANGE: If the Date header on an email is in the future or more than days in the past, we re-write it to reflect the current time. Some email service providers block email with these dates, which they consider invalid.
March 28, 2025
- BUGFIX: In the help center, links in the Glossary sidebar were not working.
- BUGFIX: In the help center search, there were sometimes duplicates of results.
- BUGFIX: In the help center search, links to some FAQ entries did not work.
- BUGFIX: In the help center search, some searches included unrelated results.
- CHANGE: Improved the formatting of the help center search results page.
March 27, 2025
- CHANGE: Catch Yahoo policy bounces, indicating the email contains a URL they don't like, and treat them as soft bounces, not hard bounces.
March 25, 2025
- CHANGE: Catch message too large bounces and treat them as soft bounces, not hard bounces.
March 21, 2025
- UPDATE: Merged updated Dutch translations from artindk.
- BUGFIX: Don't count unread messages from closed chats when calculating badge numbers.
March 19, 2025
- INTERNAL: Improved and automated our Let's Encrypt certificate renewal system.
March 18, 2025
- BUGFIX: Visiting the Groups.io website while logged out, we now pick up your language preference from the browser.
- BUGFIX: When logged in, if you do not have a language preference set, we use the language preference from the browser.
- CHANGE: We are now blocking Huawei's AS136907 cloud IP space because crawlers in that IP space were hammering the website.
March 17, 2025
- BUGFIX: Fixed the language selector in the logged out home page.
- BUGFIX: The simplified Chinese localization was not working.