Groups.io: Changelog

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March 17, 2025

  • 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.

March 7, 2025

  • BUGFIX: In feed.ics URLs, for repeating events that have been cancelled, do not include the RRULE: line, as the inclusion of that line for events with STATUS:CANCELLED was causing Google Calendars to not remove the events, as they should.
  • TESTING: The new Ask query system for using LLMs to search group archives is now live for testing by approved groups.

March 6, 2025

  • CHANGE: Made the /newhelpcenter be the actual /helpcenter.

March 5, 2025

  • BUGFIX: Do not send notifications for messages in muted topics or with muted hashtags.

February 28, 2025

  • BUGFIX: Reposting a message or deleting a message on a narrow screen was not working.
  • UPDATE: Updated the new help center with updates from Nina, including new versions of the remaining PDFs.

February 26, 2025

  • BUGFIX: We were incorrectly parsing some SMTP "MAIL FROM" lines, leading to some spam messages getting through that should have been caught instead.
  • INTERNAL: Improved our database mocking so that we can have a more comprehensive set of database unit tests.

February 24, 2025

  • NEW: On the group Subgroups page, when someone with the manage subgroups permission views it, there's a new toggle button labeled "Show All (Including Hidden)" that when clicked will include any groups not normally listed in the subgroups page.
  • BUGFIX: When banning an email address, we did not first verify that the email address was a well-formed email address.

February 14, 2025