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June 14, 2021

• CHANGE: Make the quoted printable decoder more liberal by accepting lower case hex letters.

June 11, 2021

• NEW: Stripe connect should now work for Enterprise groups looking to set up donations.
• BUGFIX: Fixed infinite scroll in the app in the `View RSVPs` page. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/only_first_20_responders_are/83444946?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83444946
• CHANGE: In full digests, we were limiting the number of attachments per message to 2. Now we limit the number of included images to 2, but include all other attachments (as links back to the website, as before).

June 10, 2021

• DOCS: Updates to the Members Manual and the Owners Manual from Nina.
• BUGFIX: The `Preview` button when adding/editing a Markdown formatted Member Notice did not work.
• BUGFIX: The `Back` button on the Add/Event event page did not work correctly for people with date preferences other than the default US format. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/calendar_event_back_button/83171776?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83171776
• CHANGE: Limit the chat text entry window to 3 lines. This fixes the bug where the text area could be hidden under the mobile/app footer. Also, it's just a good idea. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/unable_to_add_comments_to_a/83284451?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83284451

June 9, 2021

• SYSADMIN: Migrated primary pgbouncer instance to a dedicated CPU instance for better performance.
• BUGFIX: When viewing a pending member in the /member page, we were checking the `Remove Members` privilege instead of the `Approve Pending Members` privilege to determine if the moderator could reject the pending member.

June 8, 2021

• APP BUGFIX: When editing an event in the app, sometimes the date picker fields were not initialized correctly. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/calender_bug/83156804?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83156804
• APP BUGFIX: Using the back button/swipe to return to the Groups page would cause infinite scrolling to not work. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/android_back_arrow/83104319?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83104319
• INTERNAL: More work on improving tests and the test harness.

June 7, 2021

• BUGFIX: Re-sent invites had potentially incorrect expiration dates. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/invitation_expiration/83314254?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83314254
• CHANGE: Margin formatting tweaks in the chat window.
• BUGFIX: An error prevented viewing a +owner message via an activity log message from a person who is no longer a member of the group.

June 3, 2021

• BUGFIX: Fixed export of some files. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/some_files_missing_from/83290116?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83290116
• CHANGE: Reorder processing in the export group service to hopefully fix a database timeout issue.
• CHANGE: When doing a JSON import of a table, keep the existing Updated fields on the rows. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/retain_original_update_field/83196524?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83196524
• BUGFIX: If doing a message search with a poster ID representing a user who is no longer a member of the group, don't return every single message. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/all_messages_by_this_member/83190455?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83190455
• CHANGE: When sending a message to a member, if you select a member notice, the activity log entry will now point to that member notice instead of showing the entire message as sent. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/29559
• BUGFIX: Some system notifications were not treated in a consistent way in that some were not ignoring the `Normalize HTML Emails` setting, as they had previous to a change on May 27th. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/html_formatting_being/83284444?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83284444
• BUGFIX: The chat window was not sizing properly, so that the text entry box was not visible on the screen. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/chat_text_entry_field_hidden/83272614?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83272614
• NEW: There's a new Locked Topic Member Notice. If there is an active locked topic member notice, it will be sent to the group when a topic is locked using the `Lock Topic` dropdown in the Topics page. Also, in the `Topic Properties` page, when you click the `Lock Topic` checkbox, a new selector appears allowing you to send a specific locked topic member notice to the group when you lock the topic.

May 26, 2021

• CHANGE: The long format for dates for people and groups that have a preference of `MM/DD/YYYY` is now `Monday, January 2, 2006`. For all others, it continues to be `Monday, 2 January 2006`.
• INTERNAL: Cleaned up some technical debt around #cal-reminder and #cal-notice message generation. As a side effect, #cal-reminder messages now include ICS attachments, like #cal-invite notices.
• CHANGE: For message notifications, use the sender's name or email address as the title when possible, instead of just "New message". https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/show_display_name_in_push/83100987?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83100987

May 25, 2021

• CHANGE: Moderators and owners can now reply to a locked topic. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/announce_on_topic_lock/83052931?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83052931
• APP: Added support for Android back buttons, and on iOS swiping right now goes back one page.
• BUGFIX: Fixed apostrophe conversions in notification subjects and bodies. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/apostrophes_in_event_names/82895875?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82895875
• BUGFIX: Better parsing of Qmail bounce messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/unknown_bounce_issue/83030991?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83030991
• CHANGE: Work on being able to go back to search results from the breadcrumb line, for viewing members and messages.

May 24, 2021

• BUGFIX: Pagination didn't work on the `Sent Invitations` page on mobile or the app. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/sent_invitations/83030934?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83030934
• BUGFIX: Due to a previous change to support unread message tracking in the app, sometimes digests would not be generated when they should have been. No digest messages were lost, some were just delayed. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/non_daily_digests/83031009?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,83031009

May 21, 2021

• BUGFIX: Sending a message to members via the Members page ignored any checked members other than those on the current page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/82367001#29287
• CHANGE: Added some text to the Default Subscription Settings page to hopefully explain better that those settings apply to new members, not existing members.
• CHANGE: Clicking the `Identity` tab in your account now takes you directly to your editable overall profile. There is now a dropdown selector to select a different profile to edit. I've also added some text to hopefully explain the (quite complicated) profile system a little better. More can be done, however.
• BUGFIX: Fixed Discard button in `/posttosub` and also made it red and moved it to the right corner, to match the `/post` page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/79386435#29285
• NEW: Claiming pending messages and pending members is now logged in the Activity log. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/log_the_claiming_of_a_pending/82607696?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,20,82607696
• CHANGE: Display the `Claimed by` badge for pending members in the mobile/app view. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/show_claimed_by_badge_for/82984806?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82984806
• API CHANGE: When calling the `/getgroup` API endpoint with a `group_id` of a group you are not subscribed to, return a new response of `not_subscribed` instead of `group_not_found`.

May 20, 2021

• CHANGE: When composing a message on the website, inline images will always be resized to be <=640. Previously, if the Max Emailed Photo Size was unlimited, inlined images were not resized. Attached images and inlined images in emailed photos will continue to have the previous behavior of being resized to <640 if the Max Emailed Photo Size was set and was larger than 640.
• NEW: Working photo upload from the app into the Photos section. Still work to be done.

May 18, 2021

• BUGFIX: Fixed apostrophe conversion in subject lines of emailed notifications. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/apostrophes_in_event_names/82895875?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82895875

May 15, 2021

• CHANGE: Group filters in the /members page by how we process them. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/or_the_available_actions/82764340?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82764340
• CHANGE: Change URL structure on /messages page going to an individual message so that it doesn't change/browsers can correctly remember which ones have been seen. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/bug_messages_no_longer_shown/82849069?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82849069

May 14, 2021

• BUGFIX: The search filter on the Topics page was not working. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/topics_filter_by_dates_not/82807047?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82807047
• CHANGE: Clicking on files in the Files section now opens them in a new tab, to be consistent with how we treat links in messages.
• BUGFIX: Re-indexed the Files search index to fix sort-by-type issues. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/oddity_in_files_some/82785175?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82785175
• CHANGE: Updated the icons in the Files section. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/file_listing_order_changed/82811927?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82811927
• CHANGE: Changed the ordering of sort-by-name in the Files section to not prioritize folders. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/file_listing_order_changed/82811927?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82811927

May 13, 2021

• NEW: More work on catching more spam sent to groups from non-members.

May 12, 2021

• APP BUGFIX: Fixed external links in messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/website_links_do_not_work/82663650?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82663650
• NEW: We now log in the activity log messages from moderators to members. The new activity log entry is `Message to member`. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/member_message_urgently/82727955?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82727955
• CHANGE: Make the Files search results page consistent with the normal Files page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/inconsistent_fields_columns/82755124?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82755124
• BUGFIX: Using the 'Select all' check box to the left of the 'Display Name' column header on the member list also checks all of the member list filters. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/select_all_checkbox_on/82770788?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,82770788

May 7, 2021

• BUGFIX: When deleting a subscription (by leaving a group, being removed, etc), we deleted all pending digest messages for the user, even if the messages were in other groups the user was still a member of.

May 6, 2021

• CHANGE: More work on making the breadcrumbs behave consistently.

May 5, 2021

• BUGFIX: Pagination in database tables was not working for people with infinite scroll preference.
• CHANGE: More work on making the breadcrumbs behave consistently.
• CHANGE: The filter on the Members page is now scrollable and height limited, to work better on mobile.