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October 16, 2026

Members

• CHANGE: The Send To Member button on the page for sending a message to members is now green with a paper airplane icon, like the Send button for new topics and replies. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41457

Moderation

• BUGFIX: Searching the Activity log only found whole words, and parts of email addresses and hostnames weren't always separate words. For example, searching for asourcing didn't find info.asourcingelectronics-ic.com. Searches made up of plain words now also match those words anywhere inside an email address, hostname, or name, so you no longer need to add * wildcards. Searches for a full email address still match only that address. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41412

Group Settings

• CHANGE: After you submitted an Export Group Data request, the page showed only a confirmation box, and closing it left a blank page. You now return to the export form with the confirmation notice at the top, as on other pages, so you can start another export. The confirmation's close button was also missing its X. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41402
• BUGFIX: Clicking Export Group Data with nothing selected emailed you an empty zip file. It now asks you to select the data you want to export. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41402
• BUGFIX: Going to an Admin page from a link outside the sidebar, such as the Export button on the Topics or Messages page, highlighted it in the sidebar but left the Admin menu collapsed, so nothing looked selected. The sidebar now opens the menus around it. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41402
• BUGFIX: On the group Settings page and other group pages, pressing Enter in a text box saved the changes and showed "Your changes have been saved", but the text box still had its focus outline, so it looked like it was still being edited. After a successful save, focus now moves off the field. If the save fails, focus still stays on the field with the error. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41320

Subgroups

• BUGFIX: The email sent to members directly added to a subgroup always told them the address to send email to the group, even when the subgroup was announcement-only and they couldn't post to it. That sentence is now left out for announcement-only subgroups, as it already was in the email for members directly added to a main group. The sentence also said "the groups" instead of "the group". https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41050

Calendar

• CHANGE: On View RSVPs, changing the response of the checked attendees cleared the checks. They now stay checked.

Photos

• BUGFIX: HEIC photos could not be uploaded to a Photos album. Browsers that can't display HEIC, including Chrome and Edge on most Windows computers, don't identify those files as images, so the uploader rejected them with "You can't upload files of this type", and HEIC files didn't appear when choosing photos. HEIC and HEIF photos can now be uploaded to albums, and they are converted to JPEG, as they already were when posting messages. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41431
• BUGFIX: In the Sort By menus on the Photos, album, and photo search pages, the up and down arrows next to each choice were the wrong way round, so choosing an option with an up arrow sorted the other way from what you expected and showed a down arrow once the page reloaded. Ascending choices now show an up arrow and descending choices a down arrow, matching the Sort By label and the sort arrows on other pages. On album pages, the arrow in the Sort By label itself was also reversed, and now matches too. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41299

Wiki

• BUGFIX: On the wiki edit page, clicking Discard briefly showed the page's raw HTML before going back to the previous page. The same happened when going back with the browser's Back button from any page with the message editor. The editor now stays hidden while the previous page loads. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41317
• BUGFIX: In the wiki Image Library, selecting or dropping a file in the Upload File window left an empty preview box, and the window stayed that way for every later upload until the page was reloaded. The selected image now shows in the preview each time. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41317
• CHANGE: In the wiki Image Library, the Delete button sat between Cancel and Insert. It is now on the left, away from Insert, with Cancel and Insert together on the right. Add New and the Upload File window's Add button now use a plus icon. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41317
• CHANGE: The Yes button in the wiki's Verify Edit window now uses the same checkmark icon as other confirmation buttons. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41317
• CHANGE: On the wiki edit page, Page History and New Page left the page without warning, losing any unsaved edits. They now open in a new tab. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41317

Ask

• BUGFIX: In Ask, after you thanked it and then asked a follow-up, the answer ended with "Nothing in this group's archive matched your search" even though it had answered from the earlier results. The thank-you turn stored no search results, and the follow-up reused that empty set. Follow-ups now reuse the results of the last answer that had any, and the no-results note is only added when a search actually ran. https://beta.groups.io/g/ai/message/177
• BUGFIX: In Ask, a long request that contained a capitalized AND, such as "find all files whose titles include X AND whose content includes Y", was treated as search-engine syntax and sent to the search engine as a literal query, so every word had to match and nothing was found. Only short queries are now treated as search syntax; longer requests are read as questions. https://beta.groups.io/g/ai/message/177
• CHANGE: When you ask Ask to look only in the Files section, it now considers up to 50 matching files instead of 10, so lists of files are less likely to be cut short. Punctuation typed inside quotes, like "pathology," is no longer treated as part of the quoted word. https://beta.groups.io/g/ai/message/177
• CHANGE: Ask now reads the rest of the discussion around each message it finds, not just the message that matched your words, since the answer to a question is usually in the replies. It also ranks what it found before writing, so the most relevant messages are read first.
• CHANGE: Ask answers now cite their sources with numbered links, and every link is checked against the sources Ask actually read before the answer is shown, so a link can no longer point at something that wasn't there. Each answer ends with a Sources list naming the cited messages, wiki pages, and files, with their senders and dates.