Updates to the Groups.io service.
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.
October 3, 2025
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
- NEW: Added support for Passkeys, which can be configured by going to https://groups.io/settings/security
October 1, 2025
- CHANGE: Now when attempting to subscribe to a subgroup and you are not already subscribed to the main group, it handles it correctly. If the main group is restricted, you will be subscribed to the subgroup after your main group subscription has been approved. When viewing pending members in the parent group that also have pending subscriptions in one or more subgroups, those will be listed as well. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39749
- BUGFIX: We keep the HTML img tag width and height attributes if they are smaller than the original image. Previously we were setting them to the dimensions of the image.
September 26, 2025
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
- BUGFIX: In some instances, we were not parsing From lines correctly when names had > characters in them.
September 25, 2025
- CHANGE: We now resize inline images only if they have a dimension larger than 2048 pixels.
- CHANGE: We no longer restrict individual messages in a digest to showing 2 images.
September 23, 2025
- CHANGE: Updated the examples in the API docs to use the new API key authentication method, and also included sample Go and Javascript code.
- BUGFIX: Made the export group and export user code smarter about properly dealing with filenames, which I am hoping will fix an issue with unzipping these files on Windows.
September 22, 2025
- BUGFIX: Some API endpoints weren't working properly with the new API key authentication method.
September 19, 2025
- BUGFIX: Pagination was broken in the Banned Domains list. I also cleaned up the formatting on the page.
- BUGFIX: When pasting an image into the editor, we were not properly setting the width and height attributes of the image tag, which in some circumstances would cause the image to look blurry.
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory
September 18, 2025
- INTERNAL: We're now dumping all incoming email connections with IP addresses that reverse to `*.bc.googleusercontent.com`, which should not be sending email.
September 15, 2025
- CHANGE: When approving pending messages on the web, disable the Approve button once it's been clicked, to avoid double clicks.
September 12, 2025
- NEW: New database column type Github Identity, which does an Oauth authentication step to fetch a Github profile.
- CHANGE: Updated/cleaned up several database and group profile pages, so that they hopefully look and work nicer now.
- BUGFIX: In some cases, the notification email to moderators about group sponsorships had an incorrect amount listed.