Updates to the Groups.io service.
October 18, 2022
- INTERNAL: Switch all database replica requests to the new database cluster.
October 17, 2022
- BUGFIX: On the `/members` page, the `[Map]` links in Address extra member data columns would go to the individual member page, instead of Google Maps. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/map_link_on_extra_member_data/94051567?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94051567,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1661695813220354232&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1661695813220354232
- NEW: Added additional information to file exports. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/add_attribute_property_data/94371416?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94371416,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1661695813220354232&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1661695813220354232
October 13, 2022
- CHANGE: Revamped the [Pricing](https://groups.io/static/pricing) page to explain the different plans better.
- BUGFIX: If the account of the person who has claimed a pending message has been deleted, clear the claim record from the database.
- BUGFIX: If an enterprise group has a DMARC record with p=reject on the parent domain, there were cases where we would defang the message's From: address twice.
- DOCS: Updates from Nina. [Owners Manual Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/revision-history), [Members Manual Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/revision-history).
October 12, 2022
- CHANGE: Right justify `Number`, `Date`, and `Time` extra data fields. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/33557
- BUGFIX: If we can't read a photo (because it's invalid), return an error message instead of a blank page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/uploading_a_bad_misnamed/94273345?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94273345,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1661402227197205055&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1661402227197205055
- CHANGE: Reformatted and re-wrote the Pricing page to make the pricing structure more clear.
- NEW: Include the `Allow Sponsorships` checkbox on the `/creategroup` page for new trial premium groups.
October 7, 2022
- BUGFIX: After changing your password, you are required to log in again. The message displayed on the login screen was confusing. It now says `Your password has been set. Please log in with it now.`
- NEW: In the `New Topic` page, set focus to the Subject field. In the `/posttosub` pages, set focus to the Subject field. When replying to a message, set focus to the editor, and keep focus in the editor when toggling `Private`. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/auto_set_the_focus_to_the/94168403?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94168403,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1661266396049529337&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1661266396049529337
October 5, 2022
- BUGFIX: An owner of a parent group could not approve or reject pending messages from a subgroup where they were not a member.
October 1, 2022
- CHANGE: Added `an edit of` to the pending message approval activity log entry for approvals of edited messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/attribute_edited_messages_to/94022654?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94022654,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1660398232308613480&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1660398232308613480
September 30, 2022
- BUGFIX: Improved the activity log entries around editing an existing message. If the editor was moderated, an edited message activity log entry was never generated. Also, there are now new subactions `and sent it to the group` and `and sent it to the group but it requires moderation because the editor is moderated`. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/attribute_edited_messages_to/94022654?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,94022654,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1660398232308613480&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1660398232308613480
- CHANGE: Added clarifying single quotes to the account change notification email. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/add_quotes_to_notification/93939553?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,93939553,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1660358877432986461&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1660358877432986461
- CHANGE: Exporting the member list as a csv download, if the user has a date preference of `DD.MM.YYYY`, change the periods to slashes for the joined column. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/use_instead_of_in_member/93950795?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,93950795,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1660358877432986461&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1660358877432986461
- BUGFIX: Changing RSVP confirmation dialog button alignment issue. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/button_alignment_issue_when/93981351?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,93981351,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1660358877432986461&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1660358877432986461
- CHANGE: Strip `:` from the end of hashtags. Previously a colon at the end of a hashtag would cause the hashtag to be ignored.
September 29, 2022
- INTERNAL: Switch all database replica requests to the new database cluster.
September 27, 2022
- CHANGE: Hardcode re-write bigpond.com email addresses as if DMARC was set, to fix deliverability issues.
September 23, 2022
- API: Preliminary support for setting extra member data information via the `/updatemember` endpoint.
September 22, 2022
- BUGFIX: Fix Trello integration, which broke when Atlassian added a new Origin requirement to the API.
- BUGFIX: Direct adding someone who had been banned from a parent group to a subgroup should fail, but wasn't.
- BUGFIX: In some scenarios, banning a member would not create an activity log entry.
- BUGFIX: The `/subgroupmembers` page was displaying members that were banned or were pending.
September 20, 2022
- API CHANGE: Improved the documentation for all of the database objects.
- API CHANGE: Fixed some issues with exporting of `extra_member_data_columns` in group objects and `extra_member_data` in member objects.
September 16, 2022
- INTERNAL: Switch the other half of database replica/read-only requests to use the new database cluster.
- BUGFIX: Direct adding someone to a subgroup would not copy the correct subscriber color. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/member_colour_not_always_set/93654952?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,20,2,0,93654952,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1661540701758911605&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1661540701758911605
September 15, 2022
- INTERNAL: Changed the database queries for the muted and followed topics pages to reduce the load on the database.
September 14, 2022
- INTERNAL: Switch half of database replica/read-only requests to use the new database cluster.
- CHANGE: Clicking the `View/Reply Online` link in digests no longer brings up the reply box by default. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/view_reply_online_link/93307240?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,93307240,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1659710944680589077&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1659710944680589077
September 13, 2022
- BUGFIX: Fix broken HTML after export group submit.
- BUGFIX: Sometimes with broken mailers, we will get bounce reason strings that contain invalid UTF-8. Sanitize the strings so we don't get errors in the database.
September 12, 2022
- BUGFIX: Export group was timing out on some larger datasets. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/export_group_data_no_longer/93617511?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,93617511,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1659155192866649793&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1659155192866649793
August 12, 2022
- SYSADMIN: Increased the file descriptor limits for the pgbouncer process responsible for the main database in hopes that it fixes the problem that led to this morning's downtime.
- BUGFIX: We were not indexing user names in the member search index, so you could not search members by user name. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/searching_for_user_names_in/92989679?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,92989679,previd%3D9223372036854775807,nextid%3D1657563284957654146&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1657563284957654146
- BUGFIX: You can now delete profile images, extra member data images and database images. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/33196
- BUGFIX: Image uploading to database rows was not working. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/92983285
August 11, 2022
- NEW: Paging through the Members page now remembers the checkbox settings from the `Visible` drop up. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/33082
- NEW: Paging through a Database now remembers the checkbox settings from the `Visible` drop up.