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November 13, 2026

Billing

• NEW: The Attachments page, linked from Usage and Billing, is now Manage Attachments. Attachments to group messages usually take up most of a group's storage, and until now the only way to remove one was to edit its message. Manage Attachments lists every attachment, largest first, with its filename, size, sender, message and date, and owners and moderators can delete attachments one at a time, or select up to a page of them and delete them together. Deleting an attachment removes only that attachment: the message text, its other attachments, author and date stay, nothing is emailed to the group, and the deletion is recorded in the activity log. The list can be sorted by size, newest or oldest, and filtered by filename, type, sender, minimum size, and whether a copy has been saved to Files or Photos. Deleting several attachments at once requires the Edit Archives permission.
• NEW: The Sponsor Group page now shows what the group's hosting costs: the next renewal for a premium group, or a year of the Premium plan for a free group. A progress bar shows how much members have sponsored toward it, and the page says when sponsorships already cover it. Before, the page said only that sponsorships would be used to pay hosting fees as needed.
• NEW: The Sponsor Group page has $5, $20 and $50 buttons that fill in the amount. Sponsors can also choose to have their first name and last initial listed on the page, and the page shows the most recent sponsors who chose this. Nobody's name is shown unless they choose it, including past sponsors. The page also now says that sponsorships pay for Groups.io hosting and are not tax-deductible.
• NEW: The new Sponsorships page, linked from Usage and Billing, lists every sponsorship the group has received, with the date, sponsor, amount, status and whether the name is shown publicly, and can download the list as a CSV file. Its Ask Members button starts a new topic asking members to sponsor the group, with the goal and a link to the Sponsor Group page already filled in, for the owner to edit before sending.
• NEW: When Ask Members For Sponsorships is on and sponsorships won't cover the next renewal, the owners now get an email 30 days before an annual renewal or 7 days before a monthly one. It says how much is still uncovered, who will be charged for it, and links to start a topic asking members for help.
• CHANGE: On Manage Attachments, the list can now also be sorted by attachment name, which helps when several attachments share a name. Names are compared without regard to case, and attachments without a name come last. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41597
• CHANGE: When the Manage Attachments list is filtered, the page now also says how many attachments match and how much space they use, under the totals for the whole group. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41597
• BUGFIX: On Manage Attachments, sorting by Date put attachments in message-number order, which isn't date order in groups that imported an archive: imported messages keep their original dates but are numbered after the messages already in the group. Sorting newest first ran backwards in time, then jumped forward to more recent dates and ran backwards again. Sorting by Date now uses each message's date. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41580
• BUGFIX: On Manage Attachments, pressing Filter or Clear put the list back in size order. Both now keep the order you chose. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41597

Enterprise

• NEW: Enterprise owners can now change their site's logo themselves, from the new Logo section of Enterprise Settings. Before, changing the logo meant asking Groups.io support. The section shows the current logo on the header's background color, and when you choose a new file it shows a preview on the same color before anything is uploaded, with a warning if the image isn't 400×100. Logos must be 400×100 PNGs with a transparent background; if an upload is rejected, the page says exactly why. The new logo appears in the site header straight away, and the image used for social media link previews is updated to match.
• NEW: Enterprise owners can upload an icon on the Enterprise settings page, next to the logo. It is the icon shown in browser tabs and on members' home screens when they add the site to their phone. It needs to be a square PNG at least 512×512, and the page previews it and warns about the wrong shape or size before uploading.
• CHANGE: The Enterprise setup checklist previewed an uploaded logo on a near-black background. It now previews it on the site header's color, so it shows how the logo will actually look.
• CHANGE: Enterprise sites showed the Groups.io icon in browser tabs and on home screens unless we had replaced it by hand. Sites without their own icon now get one with two initials from the site's name on a colored background, and it is redrawn when the site's name changes on the Enterprise settings page.
• BUGFIX: Changes saved on Enterprise Settings, such as the title, sign-up and +1 settings, login page text and single sign-on settings, were saved but could keep showing and acting on the old values until the site was restarted. They now take effect as soon as they're saved.

Design & Accessibility

• CHANGE: On phones, menus opened from a button, such as Filter and Actions, appeared as small pop-up boxes under the button. They now slide up from the bottom of the screen over a dimmed page, with larger rows that are easier to tap, the way menus work in phone apps. Tap outside the menu to close it.

Public Pages & Help

• NEW: Every site has a new Get the App page at /app, linked from your account menu and the bottom of the page. On enterprise groups with their own app it links to the App Store and Google Play. On other sites it explains how to add the site to your phone's home screen, where it opens like an app with its own icon and can send notifications, with an Install button when your browser offers one. On a computer, it shows a QR code that opens the page on your phone.
• NEW: When you're logged in on iPhone or iPad in Safari, sites with their own app show Safari's banner offering to open or install it. On Android, Chrome now offers those sites' apps from Google Play instead of installing the website.
• CHANGE: The Help Center now links to the Email Provider Status page, which shows delivery delays at the major email providers, and to the Groups.io system status page, so both can be found from the Help link. https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/41604

Mobile App

• CHANGE: Pressing and holding the top bar or the tabs at the bottom of the app opened a link preview or selected their text. It now does nothing, as in other apps.
• CHANGE: Opening a page in the app now slides it in from the right, and going back slides the previous page in from the left, while the top bar and bottom tabs stay in place. Phones set to reduce motion load pages without the animation.