Updates to the Groups.io service.

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November 8, 2021

• NEW: There is a new activity log entry, `Paid invoice`, which is logged whenever a group invoice is paid.

November 4, 2021

• CHANGE: When going to a chat, we no longer scroll to the latest message. We return you to the last message you read, and pop up an unread counter/scroll to latest arrow button.

November 3, 2021

• BUGFIX: The Database Import button was not functional if there were no existing database tables.
• BUGFIX: The chat member display dialog would only display one member of the chat.
• CHANGES: Changes to the chat window formatting, including: increasing the size of the chat window, aligning the buttons at the bottom, and preventing the window from horizontal scrolling.

November 2, 2021

• BUGFIX: Chat messages with long lines (like URLs), would cause the App/Mobile site to horizontally scroll.
• BUGFIX: Exporting a group with many subgroups could lock many activity database rows, causing a cascading effect resulting in all activity database connections to be exhausted, resulting in timeouts on the website and other services and some activity log entries not being saved.

October 28, 2021

• NEW: On the mobile view of the /groups page, added a sort by activity icon.

October 27, 2021

• NEW: On the mobile view of the /groups page, added red unread badges over the group icons.
• BUGFIX: When paying an overdue invoice, the credit card brand and last 4 digits was not recorded in the invoice record, causing an erroneous `Sponsorship reserves` entry to be displayed as the Payment Method in the group billing page.

October 25, 2021

• NEW: The Update Folder dialog box now has a `Notify Members` checkbox.
• BUGFIX: When renaming a file, even if the `Notify Members` checkbox was checked, a group notification was not generated. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/renaming_file_doesn_t_notify/86542578?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86542578,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1632607301757336576&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1632607301757336576
• NEW: The Files section Move dialog box now has a `Notify Members` checkbox.
• BUGFIX: Web-originated private replies to group messages where the sender is subject to DMARC re-writing would have a From line with an incomplete 'via ' part. The Reply-To was correct however.
• BUGFIX: There was an extra leading `/` in file modification notification messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/double_fwd_slash_is_displayed/86564834?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86564834,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1632607301757336576&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1632607301757336576

October 22, 2021

• BUGFIX: When merging two accounts, if both accounts had subscriptions to the same group, an activity log message was not generated for that group showing the email address change. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/account_merge_and_possibly/86513652?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86513652,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1632501742199127530&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1632501742199127530
• BUGFIX: In the Topic Properties page, in the App, the hashtag selector did not work properly. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/adding_tags_not_working/86516775?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86516775,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1621615410312566585&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1621615410312566585
• DOCS: Updates from Nina. [Owners Manual Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/revision-history).

October 21, 2021

• CHANGE: Microsoft emailers will sometimes encode an attachment filename improperly, causing the resulting decoded filename to include Unicode replacement characters. We now detect that and use an alternative header to get the correct filename.
• BUGFIX: When downloading some attachments with UTF-8 encoded file names, the saved file name ended up being the encoded version, not the decoded version.
• INTERNAL: Upgrade jQuery to 1.12.4.

October 20, 2021

• BUGFIX: For some groups with many files, the export group process would timeout generating the export archive, causing the export process to fail.
• BUGFIX: Do not display the group Sponsorship button in the app. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/bug_sponsor_group_cc_link/86431538?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86431538,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1632340410790501564&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1632340410790501564
• CHANGE: Some Microsoft emails have quoted printable HTML parts that contain unicode characters that cause our quoted printable reader to error out when decoding the message. These unicode characters are when the message contains parts in a different language than the rest of the email (ZH-CN in one specific example). We now strip out these extra unicode characters so that the rest of the message can be decoded.

October 19, 2021

• BUGFIX: Email replying to a message from a topic that has been split sometimes would incorrectly create a new topic. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/merge_subject_retention/86289356?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86289356,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1632340410790501564&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1632340410790501564

October 18, 2021

• BUGFIX: Members with `Override: not moderated` posting status should be allowed to post attachments regardless of the group setting. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/override_not_moderated_vs/86420952?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86420952,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1632339382726542350&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1632339382726542350

October 15, 2021

• DOCS: Updates from Nina. [Owners Manual Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/ownersmanual/1/revision-history), [Members Manual Revision History](https://groups.io/helpcenter/membersmanual/1/revision-history).

October 14, 2021

• BUGFIX: In replies to messages that had been merged into a different topic, we were using the subject of the original, pre-merge, message instead of the subjec of the merged-into topic. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/merge_subject_retention/86289356?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86289356,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1632218096428836583&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1632218096428836583
• CHANGE: We now send messages to all moderators instead of just the payor for the following billing issues: when an invoice is one week overdue, and when we downgrade a group because of an overdue invoice (at two weeks).

October 13, 2021

• NEW: There is now an overall Pending Messages page, where you can review all the pending messages for all the groups you're a moderator of. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/one_page_to_see_all_pending/86170815?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86170815,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631886172937827806&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631886172937827806
• CHANGE: Include Monthly Reminder notices in the Member Notices selector when sending a message to a member. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/allow_manual_sending_of/86280993?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86280993,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631886172937827806&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631886172937827806
• NEW: Activity log entries are now generated when pending subscriptions and messages are deleted because they expired. The log entries are of the form "test@example.com's pending subscription expired and was deleted, via system" and "test@example.com's pending message "test" expired and was deleted, via system". Also, in the Past Members page, expired pending members are now listed as 'Expired' instead of 'Removed'. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/14_day_expired_pending_member/86204661?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86204661,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631886172937827806&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631886172937827806
• INTERNAL: We now check for and fix inconsistencies in our internal counts for numbers of topics in a group. These inconsistencies could have led to not being able to view all topics in the archive for a group.

October 8, 2021

• DOCS: Updates from Nina.
• BUGFIX: More work to eliminate bogus draft saving error messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/improved_draft_saving/84780734?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,84780734,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631311525875970862&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631311525875970862
• CHANGE: Removed the `Remove` option from the Banned Members page, as it didn't make sense/was mostly a duplicate of the `Unban` option. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/non_members_becoming_past/85982043?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85982043,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631311525875970862&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631311525875970862
• CHANGE: Unbanning someone no longer generates a past member record. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/non_members_becoming_past/85982043?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,85982043,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1631311525875970862&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1631311525875970862

October 7, 2021

• CHANGE: Changed `Recent Bounces` to `Bounces` in the Account sidebar. In the `Email Delivery History` page as well as the account `Bounces` page, changed `Recent Bounces` to `Bounces`.
• BUGFIX: When making a change or adding a new group member notice, and an existing member notice of the same type does not have a name set, the update would silently fail. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/trying_to_add_member_notice/86006205?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86006205,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1630789183639896555&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1630789183639896555

October 6, 2021

• BUGFIX: Attachments with non-ascii characters in their names would fail to download. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/attachment_fails_with_special/85974955?p=,,,100,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,100,2,0,85974955,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1626985975747984618&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1626985975747984618
• BUGFIX: `Post Status: Override: not moderated` should override any moderated hashtags. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/override_not_moderated/86046290?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86046290,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1630730755797002212&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1630730755797002212

October 5, 2021

• BUGFIX: Better handling on small screens of non-breaking topic summaries. https://beta.groups.io/g/app/topic/86053152?p=%2C%2C%2C100%2C0%2C0%2C0%3A%3Arecentpostdate%2C%2C%2C100%2C2%2C0%2C0%2Cprevid%3D1633455316085272923%2Cnextid%3D1632860246670451138&previd=1633455316085272923&nextid=1632860246670451138&allview=1
• BUGFIX: For photos with spaces in the name, properly encode the Download URL so that the spaces are intact. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/allow_downloading_photos/86024492?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86024492,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1630594433055408420&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1630594433055408420
• BUGFIX: The `Subgroup Category` dropdown in the group settings page was not working. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/subgroup_category_setting/86077278?p=,,,50,0,0,0::recentpostdate/sticky,,,50,2,0,86077278,previd=9223372036854775807,nextid=1630594433055408420&previd=9223372036854775807&nextid=1630594433055408420

September 28, 2021

• CHANGE: The email notification of a pending message will no longer include the original message attached to the message in cases where: the message was generated from a non-subscriber, the message contains a virus, the message was sent from a pending member. The notification email will continue to include the text of the pending message.