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October 31, 2020

• INTERNAL: Improvements to internal admin tools and dashboards
• INTERNAL: The second mail server is now processing half of all outbound email.

October 23, 2020

• BUGFIX: In the /topic view, with infinite scroll, some messages would be displayed without the message footer.
• BUGFIX: Trial premium groups weren't being downgraded to free after the trial was over.
• SYSADMIN: Added two additional web servers to deal with increased load.
• CHANGE: Changed what we consider a valid email address to make it more strict and to reject extended unicode characters.

October 16, 2020

• NEW: In the Billing tab, for premium groups, show which features would be enabled/disabled if you downgraded to the free plan.
• CHANGE: Formatting changes to the Past Members page.
• BUGFIX: In a premium group, clicking on a rejected member activity log item will now bring you to the /pastmember page.
• CHANGE: Work to make DNS resolution when sending out email more robust, including adding more DNS resolver caches and changing some of the logic in the code.

October 9, 2020

• SYSADMIN: More work to bring up the second email server; working to get Microsoft to stop rate-limiting it.
• DOCS: Updates to the Owners Manual from Nina.
• INTERNAL: Switched the internal dashboards/admin system to a different domain to fix cookie issues I was having.
• INTERNAL: More work on converting templates to quicktemplate.
• BUGFIX: Fixed formatting of the Past Members page when viewing on mobile.
• INTERNAL: Better integration with statuspage.io, the hosts of status.groups.io, to make it easier to report/update incidents as they are happening. Also, linked to the @groupsio twitter account.
• CHANGE: When rejecting a pending message, include the original message in the rejection notice, not the edited version if it exists.
• NEW: Added infinite scrolling to the message search results page.
• BUGFIX: Repeating events that end on a specific date sometimes would end one before that date, due to an off-by-one error.
• CHANGE: On submitting a donation, we now disable the donate button while the donation is being processed to prevent an error on a double submit.