Groups.io: Changelog
August 10, 2021
- APP: Submitted a new version of the app for Apple app store review.
- INTERNAL: Work on improving our app deploy system.
- BUGFIX: Several draft saving bug fixes.
August 9, 2021
- NEW: When composing a post or reply, if there is an error saving the draft, we now display an error message and will retry.
August 6, 2021
- CHANGE: Starting to block incoming email from some sets of known dynamic IP addresses.
- BUGFIX: Some messages were being truncated after the update to the quoted printable library.
August 5, 2021
- API BUGFIX: Subgroups with a privacy setting of unlisted, public archives would be returned from the API with a blank "privacy" field. https://beta.groups.io/g/api/topic/unknown_privacy_setting/84692422?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,84692422
- CHANGE: Updated the library we use to decode and encode quoted printable parts of messages, which should fix some edge case bugs.
August 2, 2021
- CHANGE: We now require that the email address used in the
MAIL FROMpart of an SMTP transaction have a valid MX record. - NEW: Check all boxes in the Export Group Data page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/add_a_select_all_checkbox/77920478?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,77920478
July 30, 2021
- NEW: Testing greylisting some email from non-members to +owner addresses, as a spam mitigation action.
- INTERNAL: Changed how we handle database images, reducing the load on our servers for tables with lots of images.
- BUGFIX: In some circumstances, a /posttosub draft was not clickable. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/draft_of_message_to_member/84515212?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,84515212
- BUGFIX: Links in the member subgroups page were incorrect. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/member_s_subgroup_links_not/84525380?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,84525380
July 29, 2021
- INTERNAL: Tuning rate limiting on the website to protect it from robots and bad actors.
July 28, 2021
- INTERNAL: Changed how we handle wiki images, reducing the load on our servers for wiki pages with lots of images.
July 27, 2021
- CHANGE: Messages from .ru domains to +owner addresses where the sender is not a member of the group are now dropped.
- BUGFIX: Mobile member search was not working. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/member_list_search_function/84462371?p=,,,20,0,0,0::recentpostdate%2Fsticky,,,20,2,0,84462371
July 23, 2021
- BUGFIX: The link to the pending message in the pending message email notification did not bring up the message itself, it brought up the list of all pending messages.
- CHANGE: We are now a bit more strict in the types of email that we accept from non-members to
+owneraccounts; those that fail are rejected with a spam rejection notice.