Updates to the Groups.io service.
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. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39234
- 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. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/109726477
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. https://beta.groups.io/g/i18n/message/72
- BUGFIX: The simplified Chinese localization was not working.
March 16, 2025
- CHANGE: We are now blocking Alibaba's AS45102 cloud IP space because crawlers in that IP space were hammering the website.
March 14, 2025
- CHANGE: Integrated updates to the Dutch translation.
- CHANGE: Various tweaks to the logged out home page.
March 12, 2025
- CHANGE: Added redirects from the various old Help Center links to the new Help Center, including links from the old PDF locations to the new ones.
March 10, 2025
- BUGFIX: Fixed link to Help Center from Sponsorship setting in the Group Settings page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39190
- HELP: Updates to the Help Center from Nina.
- CHANGE: When rejecting a pending message, if the BCC Me or BCC All Moderators checkboxes are checked, the emails sent to the moderators will now mention the email address of the person who sent the rejected message.