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October 16, 2026

Editor & Drafts

• BUGFIX: When a moderator replied to the sender or to the moderators, the Send As Special Notice option could still be checked, although it only applies to messages sent to the group. It is now unchecked and greyed out unless the reply is going to the group. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41439
• BUGFIX: On a message page, if you discarded a reply and then clicked Reply again, the reply window came back with the discarded text and kept trying to save it to the deleted draft. That showed a "There was an error saving the draft" alert with a retry countdown and another asking you to reload the page, and clicking Send didn't send the reply. It saved it as a new draft instead. Clicking Reply after Discard now starts a new reply. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41323
• BUGFIX: The Drafts count in the sidebar didn't change when you started writing a reply on a message page or discarded one, until you went to another page. It now updates as soon as the reply is first saved or is discarded. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41323
• BUGFIX: If a draft you were writing was deleted in another window, the editor kept trying to save it and showed an error alert with a retry countdown again and again. It now stops trying and tells you once that the draft was deleted, so you can copy your text before leaving the page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41323
• BUGFIX: Members whose request to join was waiting for approval saw Drafts in the sidebar, and clicking it took them to the group's home page. Drafts is no longer shown until the membership is approved. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41458
• BUGFIX: Members of announcement-only groups, and members not allowed to post, saw Drafts in the sidebar, but clicking it took them to the group's home page. They can now open their Drafts.

Email & Delivery

• BUGFIX: Replies sent to the moderators from the website never reached them. The message was rejected by our own mail server, so only the BCC Me copy, if requested, was delivered, even though the website said it had been sent. Because the message never arrived, it was also missing from the member's Owner Messages history and from the Activity log. Replies to the moderators are now delivered to them with the [Owner] and group tags in the subject, saved in the member's Owner Messages history, and logged in the Activity log, like a message sent to the group's +owner address by email. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41439
• BUGFIX: Some email providers send vacation and out-of-office replies to the address group messages are sent from, which is used to collect bounces, instead of the group. Each of those replies was recorded as a bounce for the member, showing "Unable to parse bounce message" in their Email Delivery History. Auto-replies are now ignored and no longer counted as bounces.

Members

• CHANGE: Member labels on a member's page were larger than on the Members page and didn't use its label text style, so they looked like the Set Labels button next to them. They now look the same as on the Members page. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41394
• CHANGE: Member label tooltips on the Members page and a member's page now show the label's description as well as its name. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41384
• CHANGE: The Moderator Note icon on the Members page and a member's page is now solid and darker, so it stands out next to the member's badges. It now also shows its tooltip when you move to it with the keyboard and is read out by screen readers. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41384
• CHANGE: Hovering over or tabbing to the Moderator Note icon on the Members page and a member's page now shows the note itself and when it was last updated, instead of just "Has Moderator Note". Long notes show their end, where the newest entries usually are. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41395
• BUGFIX: In groups where members can see the member list, ordinary members could see the Moderator Note icon next to members who had a note. The icon is now shown only to moderators who can manage members.
• BUGFIX: In groups where members can see the member list, searching the Members page also searched moderator notes, so ordinary members could find out which members had notes containing a word. Moderator notes are now searched only for moderators who can manage members.
• API BUGFIX: /searchmembers also searched moderator notes for callers who could not read them. Moderator notes are now searched only for callers with permission to manage members.
• API BUGFIX: /searchmemberdirectory didn't follow the rules of the member directory on the website. It required permission to view the member list instead of the member directory, searched every extra member data field, returned pending, banned and unconfirmed members and members with private profiles, and let members whose own profile is private search. It now matches the website: it requires the view_member_directory permission, searches only the extra member data fields marked Viewable In A Member's Profile, returns only active members, shows members with private profiles only to moderators and owners, and returns an inadequate_permissions error to members whose own profile is private. Moderators and owners can now also search by email address, as on the website.
• CHANGE: Sorting the Members page by a column cleared any members you had checked. Checked members now stay checked when you sort, including ones checked on other pages. The same applies on Pending Messages, your own Pending Messages, Drafts, View RSVPs, and Direct Add for subgroups. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41424
• BUGFIX: On the Members page, Drafts, and a member's Subgroups page, if you unchecked something you had checked before going to another page, it was checked again when you changed pages. Unchecked rows now stay unchecked.
• CHANGE: The Moderator Note tooltip on the Members page and a member's page showed only the last 300 characters of a long note. That suited moderators who add new entries at the bottom, but not those who add them at the top. Long notes now show their beginning and their end, separated by an ellipsis, and the tooltip shows up to 400 characters. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41434
• CHANGE: In the Set Labels window on a member's page and the Change Member Labels window on the Members page, the checkboxes still had the old style, and you had to click exactly on a checkbox to check or uncheck it. The checkboxes now match the rest of the site, and clicking anywhere on a label's row, including its name or description, checks or unchecks it. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41386