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June 12, 2025

• BUGFIX: Add missing Reply To settings to the group home page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39344
• BUGFIX: Fix URL parameter encoding issue with sendloginlink redirect. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39343
• BUGFIX: Fix old /account link in account bounce notification messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39340
• NEW: Premium and Enterprise groups now have access to a new Analytics page, which tracks various metrics for your groups.

June 11, 2025

• CHANGE: Due to a policy change by Microsoft, we now have to re-write the From lines of all emails to Microsoft properties (hotmail/outlook/etc).
• NEW: Reporting automated API uptime percentage to https://status.groups.io

June 10, 2025

• CHANGE: Increase the max file size limit for Files uploads to 2GB.

June 9, 2025

• CHANGE: Changed minimum supported versions of Chrome to 80, Firefox to 60, and Safari to 15. Also blocking Internet Explorer.

June 4, 2025

• NEW: Added Hourly Email Latency graph to https://status.groups.io

May 30, 2025

• CHANGE: Remove the Promote tab from the Group sidebar for Invite Only groups. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39328

May 29, 2025

• CHANGE: Don't permit exclamation points in email addresses. They're technically allowed, but in practice they indicate spammers only.
• CHANGE: For SMTP TLS negotiations, only use TLS version 1.2 as 1.3 is not yet widely supported. This was causing email to some servers to bounce. I have pro-actively looked for affected domains and unbounced affected accounts.
• NEW: Added hourly web uptime and latency statistics to the Groups.io status page (https://status.groups.io) and changed the formatting to include uptime stats.

May 23, 2025

• BUGFIX: Fixed several minor spacing issues in activity log entries.
• NEW: Added a new Invite Only mode for groups, which when toggled, prevents people from applying or joining the group. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39305
• INTERNAL: We are now storing data needed for our upcoming group analytics dashboard.
• DOCS: Updates from Nina. https://groups.io/helpcenter/single/revisionhistory

May 20, 2025

• BUGFIX: On the /static/pricing page, the link to group sponsorship information was outdated. (Thanks Nina!)

May 19, 2025

• BUGFIX: The Help Center mistakenly required being logged in to access.
• CHANGE: Added permalinks to individual Help Center FAQ entries.