Updates to the Groups.io service.
December 19, 2025
- NEW: Groups now have a `Two-Factor Authentication Policy` setting to enforce the use of two-factor authentication by moderators and/or members.
December 16, 2025
- BUGFIX: In a repeating event in the calendar, if a single event had been deleted and then the repeating event was updated, the original single event was sometimes recreated.
December 12, 2025
- CHANGE: Updated the formatting and display of the group storage elements. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40038
- BUGFIX: In some instances, cancelling a single instance of a repeating event in the calendar generated a CANCEL ICS file that Outlook would use to remove all instances of the event.
- CHANGE: Updated the translations.
December 10, 2025
- NEW: Premium groups can now add additional storage in 50GB chunks, for $5/month or $55/year.
December 5, 2025
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
- CHANGE: Added a Show Password button to the New Password field on the user settings page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40029
- CHANGE: Changed `location` to `Original Location` in the group member page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40009
December 1, 2025
- CHANGE: Drafts are now automatically deleted after 90 days of inactivity, instead of the previous 14 days.
November 25, 2025
- BUGFIX: In the Files section, if a file was moved from the search results page, the path would be missing in email notifications and activity log entries.
- BUGFIX: When an account is banned from the system, all pending messages associated with that account should also be removed.
- CHANGE: In the Sessions page, include the date/time the session started. Also, for Firefox users, we cannot tell if they are on Windows 10 or 11, so display "Windows 10/11" instead.
- CHANGE: In the User Settings sidebar, include a link to the Sessions page.
November 17, 2025
- CHANGE: With posts received via email, we now convert all HEIC images to JPEG. There is still not good support for viewing HEIC images in browsers other than Safari.
- BUGFIX: In the Files section, the Update File dialog allowed multiple files to be uploaded.
November 11, 2025
- CHANGE: When posting from the website, we now convert all HEIC images to JPEG. There is still not good support for viewing HEIC images in browsers other than Safari.
November 4, 2025
- BUGFIX: In /posttosub, uploading attachments was broken.
- BUGFIX: In some cases, when viewing a photo album, the Upload Photos button was displayed correctly, but you were not able to actually upload photos. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39859
- CHANGE: When replying to a message on the website, include more references to previous messages in the References header. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39929
October 25, 2025
- CHANGE: As a security measure, do not allow group or user data exports for 24 hours after you change and confirm your email address.
October 24, 2025
- NEW: On the Chats page, for moderators and owners, there's a new Manage Chats button that brings up a page that lets you add and remove people from chats.
October 23, 2025
- NEW: Chat now supports audio on the web. The app requires an update to support recording audio, which will be released later.
- NEW: In chat, if you are an owner, moderator or the creator of the chat, you can remove someone from the chat.
- CHANGE: On narrow screens, the navigation breadcrumb is back on the chat page.
- CHANGE: In chat when you type @ to bring up the username selector, as you type it now narrows the selection.
- BUGFIX: Emojis in chat notification messages weren't displayed correctly.
- NEW: In the Members page, the Action drop up now has an option to Change Member Notifications
October 22, 2025
- CHANGE: Chat DMs are no longer rate limited.
October 21, 2025
- BUGFIX: When viewing invitations, we were showing when an invite was last updated but we were sorting on when the invite was created.
October 20, 2025
- NEW: Passkeys now appear as suggestions in the email field of the login page; there's no more need for a separate Sign in with Passkey button.
- CHANGE: We now provide a flow to create a new passkey when using a passkey from another device.
- CHANGE: We now support recovery codes with passkey enabled accounts.
- BUGFIX: In the new Sessions, fix identification of Microsoft Edge browsers as well as Windows 11 (only for new sessions).
- CHANGE: Prevent signups from 3 additional temporary email services.
October 17, 2025
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
- NEW: Logged in session tracking system, mostly internal at this point, but can be viewed at https://groups.io/settings/sessions
October 10, 2025
- CHANGE: Changed all instances of 'wish' to 'want' in the UI.
- BUGFIX: When a group was set to Plain Text Only and to moderate attachments, the attachment icon did not display in the editor.
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
October 8, 2025
- INTERNAL: Rolled out new internal anti-spam tracking systems.
October 6, 2025
- CHANGE: The WYSIWYG editor now uses the Dropzone widget for uploads, as is consistent with the Files section.
- NEW: Inline images in messages in the archives can now be clicked on to bring up a lightbox to view/download the images.