Groups.io: Changelog

BUGFIX: We were erroneously sending out #cal-notice notifications for some calendar events that had been deleted.

CHANGE: Expired pending members will once again be added to the Past Members page.
BUGFIX: French translation fixes.
BUGFIX: Fix additional instances of RSVP notification emails being sent without a proper name in the From header. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39051

NEW: Beta version of the new Robohelp-based help center, at https://groups.io/newhelpcenter
BUGFIX: For RSVP waitlist email notifications, include the sender name. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39015
CHANGE: Strip out "Sent from Nine" email sigs. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39013
CHANGE: Move the 'Leave Group' button to the right side of the page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39020

NEW: The /activity page now shows relevant pending message activities (approved, deleted, rejected, expired)

BUGFIX: We were rotating some videos that didn't actually need to be rotated.

NEW: Download Members now includes any extra member data fields in the .csv export

INTERNAL: Updated several internal dashboards and revamped Influxdb retention policies.

BUGFIX: For enterprise groups, our DMARC re-writing was too aggressive, and we were re-writing the from lines from some moderator notifications, causing issues with approving pending messages via email.
APP: Released new versions of the iOS and Android apps, with updated libraries but no other changes.

BUGFIX: Fixed an internal issue where we were holding an image cache lock too long which in some cases was causing site slowness.

BUGFIX: Some videos sent as attachments would play upside down on the website.

BUGFIX: The code that detected which requests were from bots was missing some bots, causing extra load on the systems from should-be-banned bots.
CHANGE: Banned some new bots and IP addresses that were abusing the service.
CHANGE: When blocking a bot, we now return the Forbidden HTTP status; previously we were returning Not Found.
APP CHANGE: When entering a chat, there were instances where, even if the app has permission to send notifications, we weren't storing the notification token correctly, and therefore not sending notifications.

SYSADMIN: Doubled the capacity of the web servers to work to address site sluggishness issues.

BUGFIX: In the app, in some instances in dark mode, you could not gain focus of the editor.
BUGFIX: In the app, in chat, if you uploaded a photo, you were required to type something before the send button would appear.

BUGFIX: When going to a https://groups.io/g/GROUPNAME/join link while logged in, redirect to the group home page.
BUGFIX: Users that are banned by the system can no longer email +owner addresses. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/109217106#msg38834

CHANGE: On narrow screens, reduce the left and right margins.
CHANGE: Increase the speed of drawer and modal transitions from 0.3s to 0.2s.
BUGFIX: Fix several instances of broken breadcrumbs.

CHANGE: Changed the message dropdown menus to behave better on mobile.
BUGFIX: Fixed the All Actions selector in the activity log pages to behave better on mobile.
CHANGE: Added Back buttons to several pages on mobile for better navigation.
BUGFIX: We were missing about 20 strings for localization due to a bug in the localization pipeline. I also fixed some mismatched case issues and standardized a couple of strings.

CHANGE: Changed the group /topics dropdown menus to behave better on mobile.

BUGFIX: We were not allowing messages sent to +owner that had Private: in the subject line. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/38822
NEW: Revamped the long press reaction menu in Chat and added the ability to DM people.

NEW: Added Left To Right and Right To Left text direction options in the editor advanced toolbar.

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