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April 24, 2026

• CHANGE: Mobile/app improvements:
  • Back button nav on most pages
  • Removed breadcrumbs and moved the page title, group name, and search icon into the navbar
  • Improved group home page
  • Smoother transitions between pages
  • Native date and time pickers
  • Improved /groups page
  • Improved /feed page
  • Improved /topics page
  • Improved /calendar page
  • Hide the navbar on scroll on some pages
  • /groups button on the bottom navbar for easy navigation
  • Better display of image attachments in messages
• CHANGE: Chat improvements:
  • better handling of video, thumbnail shows up immediately
  • grouping of messages by same person
  • typing indicator
  • emoji picker
  • swipe to reply
  • added haptics on the app (vibrations)
  • file attachments
  • improved user name picker, displays avatars and names, does substring matching, displays the username as a pill in messages
• CHANGE: General UI improvements:
  • Form restyling
  • Panel heading restyling

April 20, 2026

• BUGFIX: Fixed timeout issue with /ask taking too long

April 15, 2026

• BUGFIX: Cancelling single event instances of a repeating event via email sometimes did not correctly update the database, leading to the cancelled event not being represented in the ICS file.

April 14, 2026

• BUGFIX: Fixed handling MHT attachments in the web post editor.

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.