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February 21, 2020

• BUGFIX: For some queries, wiki search would return a blank second page.
• BUGFIX: For search queries with URL encoded characters, we would not properly decode them correctly on the subsequent search pages.
• API: Misc improvements to the documentation.
• API: Added "bad_request": "no space" errors to /addphotos, /updatephoto and /addfiles endpoints.
• CHANGE: Moderators now cannot change the role of Owners.
• CHANGE: Moderators now cannot change the subscription options of Owners.
• API: Added support for extended=true to the drafts API endpoints.
• API: /updatemember can now return: "bad_request": "moderators cannot change role of owners" is returned if a non-owner attempts to change the mod_status field of an owner.
• API: /updatemember can now return: "bad_request": "moderators cannot make members owners" is returned if a non-owner attempts to make a member an owner.
• API: /updatemember can now return: "bad_request": "moderators cannot change owner subscription settings" is returned if a non-owner attempts to change an owner's subscription settings.

February 14, 2020

• INTERNAL: Added additional monitoring of the search cluster.
• INTERNAL: Switched over to a new Elasticsearch 7 search cluster. All of this work around search has multiple goals:
• INTERNAL: Re-indexed all of our data in a new search cluster.
• BUGFIX: Found a file descriptor leak in some networking code.
• INTERNAL: Began deleting attachments in groups that are over their storage allotment.
• CHANGE: Changed more instances of subscriber to member on the website.

February 7, 2020

• CHANGE: Standardized on the term member; we used subscriber and user previously. Several tweaks to the group settings page. Changed NuM to NMM.
• INTERNAL: Much work to support moving from Elasticsearch 5 to Elasticsearch 7, including optimizations for full reindexing.
• BUGFIX: Introduced and then fixed a bug that caused errors when trying to join a subgroup.
• CHANGE: The text when creating a group said that new members would be NuM 2, but the group was created with NuM 1. All new groups are now created with NuM 2.