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November 13, 2026

Photos

• BUGFIX: Deleting an image from the Emailed Photos album could delete the image itself even when removing it from its message then failed. The image is now only deleted once its message has been updated. The album also now explains that its photos are attachments to group messages.
• BUGFIX: On the Edit Photo page, pressing Enter in the Name or Description field rotated the photo left and threw away the change being made. Pressing Enter now does nothing. The Rotate Left and Rotate Right buttons were also tiny and sat off to one side; they're now normal-sized buttons centered under the photo, and the page no longer scrolls sideways on phones.
• BUGFIX: The Edit Album and Delete Album buttons both had a plus sign for an icon. They now have the edit and trash can icons. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41598

Databases

• CHANGE: Column colors in a database table were a faint tint of the color chosen in the color picker. They're now the full color, with white or dark text chosen so it stays readable, and links in colored columns use the same text color. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41546
• BUGFIX: Column colors showed on only every other row of a database table, so they looked like row colors, and they disappeared from a row while the mouse was over it. Column colors now fill the whole column. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41546
• BUGFIX: Clicking a long text cell in a database table, one with a Show More link, did nothing, so on rows with long descriptions the only way to open the row was to check its box and press View/Edit Row. Clicking anywhere in the cell now opens the row; the Show More link still shows the full text. Cells that open the row also now show the pointing-hand cursor. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41548

Ask

• CHANGE: When a long document in Files was too big to include whole in an answer, Ask kept only its opening pages, so the part that answered the question was often cut off. Ask now keeps the opening plus the passages that best match the question, in the order they appear in the document.
• CHANGE: A question that quoted a file's title, such as "it's in Files, the one titled "2023 consensus"", was treated as a search-box query and matched nothing. Only a quoted phrase with a few keywords around it is now treated that way; a sentence that quotes a title is treated as a question.
• CHANGE: Ask's icon in the sidebar and page header was a paper airplane, the same icon used for sending a question and for sending messages, so it was easy to confuse with a Send button. Ask now has its own sparkles icon; the paper airplane is still used for sending. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41571
• CHANGE: When a question matched many files, every file got the same share of the space for the answer, so the one document that answered it could be cut short beside dozens of files that only mentioned the same words. Ask now picks the files that best answer the question, judging them by their folder, name and opening text rather than by how often they repeat the question's words, puts them first, and gives them up to half the space, enough for a long paper to go in whole.

Account & Login

• NEW: On the Account page, the Current Password fields for changing your email address or password now offer "Forgot it? Email me a code instead." The emailed code can be entered in place of your current password for one change, and expires after 15 minutes.
• CHANGE: Changing your email address or password on the Account page, or your email address on the pages shown when your account is bouncing or needs reverifying, needed only a logged-in browser, so anyone at a computer you'd left logged in could take over your account. These changes, and Delete Password, now also ask for your current password. Accounts with no password set, such as ones that log in only with a passkey, Google or Facebook, aren't asked.
• CHANGE: "Email me a link to log in" emailed a link that logged in whichever browser opened it, so it didn't work when you read your email on a different device, in a site added to your iPhone's home screen, or when your email provider's security scanner opened the link first. It's now "Email me a login code": we email a 6-digit code to enter on the next page. The code works once, expires in 15 minutes, and only on the site where you asked for it. After 10 incorrect codes for an address in a day, codes for it are refused until the next day.
• CHANGE: Login links in emails, such as the one sent when a moderator adds you to a group directly, could be used again and again for 24 hours. They now open a page with a Log In button and stop working once you've logged in, so a security scanner opening the email no longer uses the link up.
• CHANGE: The page for entering an emailed login code had a single text field. It now shows six large boxes, one per digit. Typing moves to the next box and Backspace to the previous one, pasting a code (spaces and dashes are ignored) or having your phone fill it in from Mail fills all six, and the code is checked as soon as the last digit is entered.
• BUGFIX: The page for turning on two-factor authentication, and its help article, said you could no longer log in with an emailed login link once it was on. That wasn't the case: emailed logins still work and ask for your two-factor code as well. Only Google and Facebook logins are turned off, and the page and article now say so.
• BUGFIX: On iPhone and iPad, the Notifications settings page said notifications weren't supported in this browser. They are, once you add the site to your home screen, and the page now says so and links to instructions.
• BUGFIX: Since changing your password started asking for your current one, there was no way to set a new password if you had forgotten it: logging in with an emailed code worked, but the Account page still wanted the old password, and so did Delete Password. "Forgot your password?" on the login page now emails a code that logs you in and takes you to the Account page, where you can set a new password without the old one for the next 15 minutes. Setting it logs you out everywhere else. https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/topic/122252130
• API CHANGE: /updateuser changed a user's email address or password with only an API key or a logged-in session, so anything holding the key, such as a script or an AI agent it had been given to, could take over the account. Changing email or password now also requires the user's current password in the new current_password parameter; without it, or with the wrong one, /updateuser returns bad_request with invalid current_password. Accounts with no password set can't change their email address or password through the API. Other preferences can still be changed without the password.
• API CHANGE: Login links sent by /sendloginlink now open a page with a Log In button instead of logging in straight away, and can be used only once.