Updates to the Groups.io service.
April 3, 2026
- BUGFIX: In the group billing page, make it more clear which invoices were paid fully by sponsorship reserves.
April 2, 2026
- BUGFIX: If someone accepted an invitation to a subgroup, and that caused them to be added to the parent group as well, an activity log entry was not added for the parent group.
- API: Added new `/getmessage` endpoint.
March 31, 2026
- BUGFIX: In the top level `/topics` page, thumbnails from groups that had subgroups were broken.
- BUGFIX: When viewing a single page Help Center manual, sometimes clicking on a link would scroll slightly past the subject. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40416
- BUGFIX: In the wiki, links in the table of contents could scroll slightly past the header. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40415
March 30, 2026
- BUGFIX: If a message hashtag had multiple # characters, we did not properly parse it.
March 27, 2026
- BUGFIX: Fixing more instances of double slashes in Files section activity log entries and notifications. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40418
- BUGFIX: If a past member rejoins/reapplies to a group, copy any existing moderator notes to the new subscription. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40386
- BUGFIX: Escape periods in activity log searches, so they aren't interpreted as field separators. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40359
- BUGFIX: Fix group hashtags duration display. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40381
March 20, 2026
- BUGFIX: When moving a file from the top level in the Files section, the Activity log entry would have a double slash `//`. This bug fix only applies to new activity log entries. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40388
March 19, 2026
- BUGFIX: Fix a double encoding issue when trying to view some Files that contained spaces.
March 17, 2026
- CHANGE: The `/topics` page now displays thumbnail images similar to the group topics page.
- CHANGE: The default page when first going to groups.io is now the /topics page, not the /feed page.
- CHANGE: The mobile version of the `/topics` page now shows your groups as a horizontal scroll at the top, similar to the `/feed` page
- CHANGE: Various formatting tweaks to the `/topcs` and `/feed` pages.
March 13, 2026
- BUGFIX: Cancelled instances of repeating events will now show as grey in the calendar.
- BUGFIX: When viewing a cancelled instance, the Edit button is now removed, and it more prominently says 'This event has been cancelled'.
- BUGFIX: Cancelled instances were not being represented as cancelled in the ICS feeds. That's been fixed as well.
March 12, 2026
- NEW: Added a calendar date picker to make it easy to jump to a specific day.
- NEW: Added event search to the group and user calendar pages to search for events.
March 6, 2026
- CHANGE: When banning a domain, display a success banner. Moved the Ban Domain input field to the top of the page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40377
- BUGFIX: When banning a member, keep any existing member notes. Also, in the Members page with the ban filter, show the notes icon for any banned members with notes. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40373
- API BUGFIX: Updating extra_member_data_columns in the `/updategroup` endpoint didn't work.
- API NEW: Added new endpoint `updateextramembercolumndef` which modifies the properties of a single column (name, choices, description, etc.) without sending the full columns array.
- API NEW: Added new endpoint `updateextramembercolumn` which updates a single member's extra member data value for one column.
- CHANGE: Merged Dutch language changes.
March 3, 2026
- NEW: Add GrowthZone SSO support.
February 18, 2026
- BUGFIX: In the Activity Log, display the subject line of messages sent to +owner addresses from banned domains. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40358
February 17, 2026
- CHANGE: Calendar ICS files now only include events more recent than one year ago. Previously, all events in the calendar were included.
February 13, 2026
- CHANGE: Updated the Change Email help video to reflect the new change email process.
- NEW: Added preliminary versions of help videos for the Calendar, Photos, Files, Database, and Wiki sections.
February 10, 2026
- BUGFIX: For repeating calendar entries with a fixed number of instances, if the starting date/time was changed, there was a possibility that not all of the individual instances of that event would be shown on the website.
- NEW: Preliminary support for using Memberclicks for SSO authentication.
February 5, 2026
- CHANGE: Changed the change email address flow, so that you can still log in using your old email address until the new email address has been confirmed. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/40314
February 4, 2026
- BUGFIX: We now prevent the case where, if you have two windows open editing the same draft, one window could overwrite the other's changes.
February 3, 2026
- CHANGE: The Analytics page now allows arbitrary date range selection, instead of just the last 30 days.
- BUGFIX: The Top Hashtags display in the Analytics page would miss some hashtags. This fix is forward-looking. New messages will have their hashtags tracked correctly.
February 2, 2026
- CHANGE: The Analytics page is now accessible to all moderators, not just moderators that have the billing permission.