- September 2025
- In the Owners Manual and the Members Manual, updated existing topics and added new topics about the new GitHub Identity column type for database tables and extra member data. (Email from Mark Fletcher)
- In Owners Manual > Customizing group settings > Message policy settings > Max Photo Size in Email, changed “640 pixels” to “2048 pixels” in the note about inline images. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39722)
- In General information > Standard group email addresses, corrected the fourth entry in the left column from groupname+help@groups.io (which was an incorrect duplicate of the entry above it) to groupname+digest@groups.io. (https://beta.groups.io/g/docs/message/607)
- In Members Manual > Web features > Wikis > Deleting a wiki page, updated step 4 to reflect the addition of a confirmation acknowledgement. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39522)
- August 2025
- In the Owners Manual, updated the Creating a Group and Creating a Subgroup topics to document the addition of a checkbox that must be selected to acknowledge compliance with the Groups.io Online Safety Policy and Terms of Service. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39468)
- July 2025
- In the General information section:
- Added an Instructional videos help topic that links to the new Videos page. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39421)
- Added a help topic that lists the IP addresses of Groups.io’s outgoing mail servers. (Request from Mark Fletcher)
- Added a help topic that contains links to the Groups.io System Status page and the Email Provider Status page.
- Added an Analytics dashboard topic to the Owners Manual to document that new feature. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39354)
- In Owners Manual > Managing members, added a Using member labels topic to document that new feature. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39420)
- Added a link to the Overview video in the Introduction to Groups.io help topic in the Members Manual, Members Getting Started Guide, and Owners Getting Started Guide.
- In the General information section:
- May 2025
- Updated the topics in the Owners Manual and Owners Getting Started Guide about the types of plans and creating groups to reflect the reversion from a 90-day free Premium trial back to a 30-day free Premium trial. (https://beta.groups.io/g/docs/message/602 and https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39299)
- In Owners Manual > Managing Members > Displaying an individual member's record and Members Manual > Topics and messages > Checking your email delivery history for a group, added a note that Groups.io stores only the 20 most recent successful and attempted email delivery results. (https://beta.groups.io/g/docs/message/603 and https://groups.io/g/GroupManagersForum/message/49310)
- In Owners Manual > Customizing group settings > Group type and moderation settings, added a topic for the new Invite-Only Group setting. Also updated other affected topics throughout the Help Center, including adding two questions to the Owner FAQ. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39322)
- Under Owners Manual > Integrations, added a topic about the new Bluesky cross-posting integration feature. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39296)
- Updated Owners Manual > Customizing group settings > Feature settings > Message reposting settings to include notes that only the first message in a topic can be reposted and that members can repost only their own messages. Also added a link to Members Manual > Topics and messages > Reposting messages. (https://beta.groups.io/g/docs/message/597 and https://beta.groups.io/g/docs/message/591)
- Revised Owners Manual > Upgrading or downgrading groups > Upgrading a group to better organize the content and to document that existing Free groups now can be changed to free trial Premium groups. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39271 and https://beta.groups.io/g/docs/message/594)
- Updated Members Manual > Sponsoring groups to help cover their hosting costs and Owners Manual > Donations and sponsorships > Using the sponsorship feature to defray Groups.io hosting costs to add that Apple Pay and Google Pay are now available as payment options. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39271)
- April 2025
- Updated the topics related to the Max Attachment Size setting to reflect the change from allowing attachments of any size to restricting attachments to a maximum size of 15MB. Also added that when links to attachments are sent and 5 or more days have elapsed since members received the email with the attachment links, members need to log in to Groups.io to view the attachments. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39234)
The affected topics are Owners Manual > Setting membership defaults > Default subscription settings for group members > Max Attachment Size and Members Manual > Group subscription and notification preferences > Advanced subscription preferences > Max Attachment Size. - Updated the note in Owners Manual > Managing members > Handling members marked NC to clarify that NC is an account status and to add that accounts remaining in NC status for more than six months are deleted. (https://beta.groups.io/g/docs/message/583)
- Updated Owners Manual > Customizing group settings > Feature settings > Message reposting settings to state that the Allow Reposts setting can be 0 and that there is no maximum cutoff time for reposting. (https://beta.groups.io/g/docs/message/584)
- Updated Owners Manual > Renaming a group and Owners Manual > Customizing group settings > General settings > Subject Tag to reflect that the subject tag is now updated automatically when a group is renamed. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39263 and https://beta.groups.io/g/docs/message/586)
- Updated the topics related to the Max Attachment Size setting to reflect the change from allowing attachments of any size to restricting attachments to a maximum size of 15MB. Also added that when links to attachments are sent and 5 or more days have elapsed since members received the email with the attachment links, members need to log in to Groups.io to view the attachments. (https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/39234)
- March 2025
- Formatting and content tweaks to optimize output for online and print (PDF) presentation.
- New Groups.io Help Center moved from beta to production.
- February 2025
Formatting and content updates to the beta version of the new Groups.io Help Center.
- December 2024
Publication of the beta version of a new version of the Groups.io Help Center updated, reorganized, and reformatted using Adobe RoboHelp.
- 2020
- August 7: Initial publication of the Groups.io Getting Started Guide for Group Owners.
- July 10: Initial publication of the Groups.io Glossary as a standalone resource outside of the Owners Manual and Members Manual.
- April 8: Initial publication of the Groups.io Help Center, which included the Groups.io Owners Manual, Groups.io Members Manual, and Groups.io FAQ.