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October 18, 2021

• BUGFIX: Members with `Override: not moderated` posting status should be allowed to post attachments regardless of the group setting. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/override_not_moderated_vs/86420952?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86420952,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1632339382726542350&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1632339382726542350

October 15, 2021

• 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 14, 2021

• BUGFIX: In replies to messages that had been merged into a different topic, we were using the subject of the original, pre-merge, message instead of the subjec of the merged-into topic. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/merge_subject_retention/86289356?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86289356,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1632218096428836583&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1632218096428836583
• CHANGE: We now send messages to all moderators instead of just the payor for the following billing issues: when an invoice is one week overdue, and when we downgrade a group because of an overdue invoice (at two weeks).

October 13, 2021

• NEW: There is now an overall Pending Messages page, where you can review all the pending messages for all the groups you're a moderator of. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/one_page_to_see_all_pending/86170815?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86170815,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631886172937827806&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631886172937827806
• CHANGE: Include Monthly Reminder notices in the Member Notices selector when sending a message to a member. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/allow_manual_sending_of/86280993?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86280993,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631886172937827806&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631886172937827806
• NEW: Activity log entries are now generated when pending subscriptions and messages are deleted because they expired. The log entries are of the form "test@example.com's pending subscription expired and was deleted, via system" and "test@example.com's pending message "test" expired and was deleted, via system". Also, in the Past Members page, expired pending members are now listed as 'Expired' instead of 'Removed'. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/14_day_expired_pending_member/86204661?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86204661,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631886172937827806&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631886172937827806
• INTERNAL: We now check for and fix inconsistencies in our internal counts for numbers of topics in a group. These inconsistencies could have led to not being able to view all topics in the archive for a group.

October 8, 2021

• DOCS: Updates from Nina.
• BUGFIX: More work to eliminate bogus draft saving error messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/improved_draft_saving/84780734?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,84780734,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631311525875970862&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631311525875970862
• CHANGE: Removed the `Remove` option from the Banned Members page, as it didn't make sense/was mostly a duplicate of the `Unban` option. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/non_members_becoming_past/85982043?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85982043,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631311525875970862&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631311525875970862
• CHANGE: Unbanning someone no longer generates a past member record. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/non_members_becoming_past/85982043?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85982043,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631311525875970862&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631311525875970862

October 7, 2021

• CHANGE: Changed `Recent Bounces` to `Bounces` in the Account sidebar. In the `Email Delivery History` page as well as the account `Bounces` page, changed `Recent Bounces` to `Bounces`.
• BUGFIX: When making a change or adding a new group member notice, and an existing member notice of the same type does not have a name set, the update would silently fail. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/trying_to_add_member_notice/86006205?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86006205,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1630789183639896555&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1630789183639896555

October 6, 2021

• BUGFIX: Attachments with non-ascii characters in their names would fail to download. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/attachment_fails_with_special/85974955?p=,,,100,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,100,2,0,85974955,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1626985975747984618&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1626985975747984618
• BUGFIX: `Post Status: Override: not moderated` should override any moderated hashtags. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/override_not_moderated/86046290?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86046290,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1630730755797002212&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1630730755797002212

October 5, 2021

• BUGFIX: Better handling on small screens of non-breaking topic summaries. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/86053152?p=%2C%2C%2C100%2C0%2C0%2C0%3A%3Arecentpostdate%2C%2C%2C100%2C2%2C0%2C0%2Cprevid%3D1633455316085272923%2Cnextid%3D1632860246670451138&previd=1633455316085272923&nextid=1632860246670451138&allview=1
• BUGFIX: For photos with spaces in the name, properly encode the Download URL so that the spaces are intact. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/allow_downloading_photos/86024492?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86024492,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1630594433055408420&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1630594433055408420
• BUGFIX: The `Subgroup Category` dropdown in the group settings page was not working. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/subgroup_category_setting/86077278?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86077278,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1630594433055408420&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1630594433055408420

September 28, 2021

• CHANGE: The email notification of a pending message will no longer include the original message attached to the message in cases where: the message was generated from a non-subscriber, the message contains a virus, the message was sent from a pending member. The notification email will continue to include the text of the pending message.

September 24, 2021

• BUGFIX: Replies to moderated topics that start new topics were getting moderated by mistake. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/replies_to_moderated_topics/85729704?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85729704,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1628788748160969130&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1628788748160969130
• DOCS: Updates from Nina.

September 23, 2021

• NEW: Added `REFRESH-INTERVAL` and `X-PUBLISHED-TTL` lines to calendar .ics files.
• BUGFIX: For a `first message in new topic moderated` group, if a message comes in that is a reply to an existing topic but the subject has been changed, creating a new topic, we were not properly moderating the message. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/replies_to_moderated_topics/85729704?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85729704,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1628653146188274120&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1628653146188274120
• BUGFIX: If a moderator switches a member from `HTML Digest` delivery to another delivery format, a plain text digest was generated of any pending digest messages instead of an HTML digest.

September 22, 2021

• NEW: Added tooltips to the locked, moderated, sticky, and topic follower only icons in the archives. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/icon_display_consistency/85758460?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85758460,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1628439529526370379&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1628439529526370379
• NEW: Labeled filter buttons with the word `Filter`. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/add_filter_to_the/85676461?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85676461,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1628439529526370379&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1628439529526370379
• NEW: Added activity log entries for adding/removing banned domains. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/30250
• NEW: Activity log entries for messages that are moderated because the member is set to NuM now say `the user is new member moderated`. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/add_detail_new_member/85798186?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85798186,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1628439529526370379&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1628439529526370379

September 21, 2021

• NEW: In pending message moderator notification emails, now include the reason why the message is moderated.
• BUGFIX: Refactor the smptd process and fix a bug where the wrong group name was included in an error message when a message was sent to multiple groups.
• BUGFIX: Moderators with the Billing permission but not the Paid Subscriptions/Donations permission did not have the `Billing` tab in the sidebar.

September 20, 2021

• CHANGE: - Changed formatting of Help Center page to fix issues on mobile and with the app. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/tapping_member_manual_on_help/85741008?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85741008,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1620917361238880610&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1620917361238880610
• INTERNAL: - Cap the number of bounce records per person in the database to 20.

September 17, 2021

• BUGFIX: Improved parsing of some secureserver.net bounce emails.
• NEW: We now track bounces of moderator notifications in the Email Delivery History page, specifically: storage limit, pending message, pending subscriber, new subscriber, unsubscription, resubscription, spam unsubscription, new subgroup created.
• NEW: We now track bounces of +owner messages in the Email Delivery History page.
• NEW: We now track bounces of replies to messages from the web site separately from posts to subscribers in the Email Delivery History page.
• INTERNAL: Cleanup of email delivery history processing system.

September 14, 2021

• BUGFIX: Fix a race that resulted in concurrent map writes in the sendmessage daemon.
• NEW: Include the album name in photo search results. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/search_function_in_photos/85216893?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85216893,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1627696819176999794&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1627696819176999794
• NEW: Display subscription badges on the `/membersubgroups/` page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/include_subscription_settings/85280732?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85280732,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1627696819176999794&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1627696819176999794
• CHANGE: Only add a `claimed pending message` activity log entry when editing a pending message or undoing an edit to a pending message. Previously, a log entry was generated for any pending message action. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/duplicate_log_entries_for/85543478?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85543478,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1627696819176999794&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1627696819176999794
• CHANGE: When viewing the Polls page, polls that have been closed are now displayed with a X instead of a lock icon. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/locked_topic_icon_not_always/85552157?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85552157,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1627696819176999794&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1627696819176999794
• BUGFIX: In calendar .ics files, we were not properly setting the SEQUENCE number, which meant that sometimes changes to a group's calendar would not show up in calendars that were subscribed via the .ics file.

September 13, 2021

• BUGFIX: Fixes for encoding bugs that affected pagination throughout the site. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/search_collapse/85414777?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,50,2,0,85414777

September 10, 2021

• DOCS: Updates from Nina.
• API: Fixed `sub_group_access` documention to the `/update_group` endpoint documention.
• API: Changed the `subgroup_access` field to `sub_group_access` on the group object to be consistent with other uses of the term.
• API: Changed the `subgroupcategoryid` field to `sub_group_categoryid` on the group object to be consistent with other uses of the term.

September 7, 2021

• API: Fix `sort_field` for `/searcharchives` endpoint. https://beta.groups.io/g/api/topic/what_values_are_valid_for/85438353?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,85438353

September 3, 2021

• INTERNAL: More work on automating Android app releases.
• APP: Submitted new versions of the app to both the Apple and Android stores and am awaiting responses.