FIXES - Fixed multiple issues with Activity Topics, ensuring topics display, filters, and links work correctly across feeds. - Fixed link previews not showing when adding links in new posts. - Fixed post titles displaying HTML-encoded characters in the news feed. - Fixed an issue where links tapped before content finished loading became unclickable. - Fixed incorrect “Send Request” button showing instead of “Join Group” for open groups.

FIXES - Fixed images shifting in the Activity Feed when viewed or reopened. - Fixed Vimeo videos continuing to play after navigating away. - Fixed app crash when swiping up in the message input area. - Fixed translation errors during App Store Connect uploads. - Fixed iOS crash related to loading the Noto Sans TC font. - Fixed an issue where Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages couldn’t be closed on iOS.

FIXES - Fixed a critical issue causing Vimeo videos to glitch or reload when viewed in fullscreen. - Fixed missing topic filter in the Activity Feed after reopening the app. - Fixed group tab links opening in a web view instead of the native group screen.

NEW - Added featured images and post titles in activity feeds and groups. - Added H3/H4 text formatting for clearer, more organized posts. UPDATE - Added a new “Unanswered” filter to view posts without replies. FIXES - Fixed app freezing when reacting to posts. - Fixed crash when mentioning users in new posts. - Fixed error when starting a new forum discussion from custom links. - Fixed missing user avatar in the app header menu. - Fixed translation issues with activity topic filters.

ADDED: - Localized experiences: The app now supports multiple languages, including Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. FIXES - Moderation – Fixed issue where media items like photos and videos could not be reported from the App. - Profile – Fixed issue where profile cover and group avatar images were not displaying in the App - Media – Fixed issue where videos were not playing or displaying properly on iOS devices

NEW - Added support for multiple languages in the app, enabling a localized experience. - Introduced Activity Topics for categorizing and filtering posts in activity feeds and groups. UPDATES - Improved image quality when opening images from the Activity page. FIXES - Fixed an issue where scrolling down was triggered unexpectedly when using the menu search bar. - Fixed incorrect display of the Terms of Service label when Privacy Policy was not set. - Fixed deep linking issues with links having different URL hosts. - Fixed filter functionality for Group Photos and Albums. - Fixed an issue on iOS where Terms of Service and Privacy Policy modals closed when swiping down — they now remain open as intended. - Fixed a crash when tapping the ‘Next’ button on the keyboard after entering an email on the login screen. - Fixed an issue where the recipient count in group messages didn’t update after deleting members. - Fixed an issue where new notifications were not appearing automatically after tapping a second notification. - Fixed an issue where Follow/Unfollow did not work when accessing profiles from the Activity Feed.

UPDATES: - Improved app loading speed for discussions, and notifications. FIXES: Activity Feed & Media - Media now loads and displays correctly in activity comments. - Fixed duplicate posts, image order, and layout issues in the activity feed. - Resolved video playback, full-screen view, and grid layout for images. Messaging & Notifications - Fixed message sending issues and media preview slider in messaging. - Notifications now open the correct screens and update info instantly. Groups, Forums & Profiles - Resolved issues with group invites, subgroup search, and group photos. - Fixed long forum title display and navigation to profiles from comments. General Stability - Fixed crashes related to app routing, and page navigation - Improved file upload reliability and resolved document access issues. - Corrected UI glitches like button alignment, back button misplacement

Changes: - App's screenshots – Revised the app's iPhone 5.5-inch screenshots to remove non-iOS status bar images - App Completeness – Fixed issue "App unavailable" on app launch Fixes: - Activity – Fixed an issue where data was not loading while scrolling up after the first login in Activity lists - Activity – Fixed the issue with improper image layout and border-radius in the activity feed for multiple image uploads - Core – Resolved an issue causing buttons and headers to appear duplicated while scrolling in the app - Groups – Fixed an issue where the Photos, Videos, and Albums in groups were not clickable - Messages – Fixed an issue with deep linking where the “Send Message” button incorrectly opened the inbox instead of the specific member’s conversation

Changes: - Activity – The new ‘Whats on your mind’ input box was only showing on the activity feed if the feed was accessed from the Tab bar not from quick links or page links Fixes: - Core – Fixed an issue where users with restricted “Create Post” access in a group could still post - Forums – Fixed Replies in the discussion thread are now properly aligned in the app, even when the reply thread level is set to a large number - Groups – Resolved an issue where the navigation bar link color did not reflect correctly on the Group > About section - Groups – Fixed a group permission issue allowing members to post in restricted groups from the app - Messages – Fixed an issue preventing users from sending photo-only messages in the app message

New: - New Feature! – In the app plugin, header menu, we have added a new small but powerful feature that allows you to add or remove a post activity ‘Whats on your mind’ box that we all know so well, to the top of the main activity feed - New Feature! – In this update we have introduced Polls. Polls is a highly requested feature that allows Admins and group Owners & Moderators make use of Polls either in the main activity feed or group activity feed. Fixed: - Bug: Groups – Editing comments from a group feed which was related to a post which are “Joined the group” or “Posted an update” then showed a critical error - Bug: Groups – Group invitation in the App was not working as expected - Bug: Groups – Users were unable to create groups using the plus icon

Fixed: - Core – App was crashing on launch due to conflicts with custom typography - Core – Corrected typos in the app - Core – No error message now showing when playing WEBM videos in iOS app - Media – When the group albums were set to the default tab they would display on the web but not in the app - Media – Videos were not playing correctly on the iPad

New: - Group – Admins and Groups organizers and moderators now have the ability to use scheduling posts - Group – new group header to be more engaging and most of all remove the group tab page and load directly into the group feed Changed: - Activity – Images that have been uploaded to the activity feed in a portrait view will now fill the image preview pane creating a better look and feel of the images - Messages – When typing long messages on private messaging, the scroll feature was not working smoothly and the keyboard autoclosed when a user tried to minimize Fixed: - Activity – When Pining a Post from the activity comment modal would cause an unexpected error in some cases - Activity – Aa text formatting and Edit Activity Post menu option was not showing - Activity – Keyboard was not automatically showing when clicking pencil icon to post in certain iOS devices - Activity – When select a group to post into did not show the search bar properly on iPhone 14 - Core – When logging out and logging back in again the app would crash in some circumstances - Core – Keyboard failed to show up on an iPhone 13 mini when creating an activity post - Core – When scrolling through activity posts or comments to read more in some cases the feed was pulling the same posts and comments from the previous pagination - Core – Comment and Like buttons were showing on comments from Group feed posts. - Document – The upload document button was showing on the page when viewing another member’s document - Forum – Full description for forums were not showing - Groups – Groups that had long Group Descriptions when trying to edit would not scroll to the top forcing only new text to be added to the end - Messages – A white screen was showing when trying to add more recipients into an existing message - Messages – When using Live Messaging the typing indicator was not showing in the app correctly - Media – Deleting a Folder from the Documents tab in a user’s profile was causing the app to crash

Changed: - Media – changed the default behavior to when downloading media to download to photo library by default with the option to then save to other locations Fixed: - Activity – When the app is opened the Activity block was not updating automatically - Forums – Critical error was showing on Forum discussion when clicking Report Reply - Forums – When replying to discussion with many tags the message input text preview section would not show until hiding the keyboard - Groups – Group forum discussion/replies which were also posted in News Feed, showed link preview in the News Feed even if the link preview is disabled for both Activity and Forum

Added: - New Feature! Activity – Users now have the ability to Turn off Notifications on specific posts they have interacted with that they no longer have interest in. - New Feature! Activity – To make the activity feed more streamlined we have introduced the View more comments and View more replies which will allow users to expand the threads they are interested in rather than showing the full expanded user interactions - New Feature! Activity – Close comments allows post authors and admins to turn off commenting on any specific post, which gives users and admins another great way to maintain control and moderation Fixed: - Activity – The Load More button in the activity feed was not working properly when scrolling down - Forums – Users were unable to edit standalone discussions as the page would just sit in a loading state - Messages – Users were not seeing the instantly sent message in thread and also even when the send button was greyed out users were able to send a blank message as the send button was still active - Moderation – Suspended users were still able to access the app

Added: - New Feature – Introducing reaction into the platform – members will now have the ability to react with different emotions to posts, comments and replies. Fixed: - Activity – Activity Feed skeleton post loader, continued to load infinitely when reaching the end of the screen - Groups – The radio button was not clickable within the groups Manage pages when you have already selected Group Discussion and Course while creating a Group - Groups – The Accept or Reject member request button was not updating to show whether the member had been accepted or rejected - Forums – The full description of a forum was not displaying correctly - Forums – The keyboard collapses/hides when a tags is selected within the forum discussion reply - Media – Video information not showing when posting or editing video posts in the activity feed - Media – When scrolling the Video directory quickly users were encountering a critical error - Messages – The send message button was not working and was stopping messages being sent - Messages – When pressing Send to send message the button would stay highlighted and clickable while the message was sending in the background causing multiple messages if the user kept pressing the button - Messages – When viewing messages you could scroll through and see recent messages but when scrolling up you were unable to load the message history - Moderation – In certain situations if a member was reported, then a different member could have been suspended instead of the reported member - User – Users would encounter a one-time critical error after uploading a new document and then changing the document privacy

Added: - Activity – Pin to Activity feed also known as Pin to Posts - Notifications – new gesture capability into Notifications screen to mark individual notifications as Read or Unread - Notifications – new option to Mark All Notifications as Read Changed: - Performance – Fixed conflicts with iOS 17 causing app crashing in some circumstance Fixed: - Forums – Could not start a discussion after joining a group - Groups – Users were unable to report members from the Group members list - Forums – Video & Document content was not showing when you tried to edit content within a group or standalone forum discussion - Styling – Within Send Invites the keyboard would cover the Recipient Details input box - Videos – Change Thumbnail > Choose from Videos issues - Groups – Subscribe/Unsubscribe button was not responsive

Fixed: - Activity – When editing a post in Discussions or Discussions reply, users were unable to remove Giff’s - Activity – Link Preview causing fatal error when using www. instead of https:// on the URL link - Groups – Member request screen was not being refreshed after action was taken - Groups – Activity notifications were still received after leaving a hidden group - Forums – App crashed when opening a forum discussion with a link preview - Forums – Discussion post was not displaying - Forums – Discussion Reply notification doesn’t scroll user to the reply when the number of replies is high - Media – Image positioning fixed when viewed in landscape orientation - Media – Vertical video previews were not correctly displayed - Media – Videos were not being played when WP Offload is installed - Messages – Unable to create group messages with someone you already have a private message with has now been resolved - Profiles – Date field in “Repeater field” was not saving due to “Invalid date” error

Changed: - Activity – Aligned the Like and Comment icons on the activity feed - Activity – Improved Moderation for Activity Feed - Groups – Improved Moderation for Groups - Forums – Improved Moderation for Forums Fixed: - Discussions – Fixed issue where some discussions were not showing up and left users with a continuous spinner - Groups – Group message not available for users with existing 1:1 conversations - Groups – Group messages will no longer automatically select all members when using the search on the members screen - Groups – Groups were not able to be created immediately after deleting one - Media – Excel and Word documents will now provide download option when previewing is unavailable - Media – Media being opened from Videos or Photos screens would only load the first media file - Photos – Reply comment to photos is not shown - Videos – Videos continued playing audio after closing - Videos – Videos were not rotating on iOS to landscape mode when in full screen

Added: - Support for App Links – all links using the Site URL(https://connect.ggcn.org) will open directly in the app, as long as the app is installed on the member's iOS device Fixed: - Activity – Spacing issue when mentioning users on timelines - App Crash – When accessing Documents while logged out - Media – Documents can now be uploaded into sub-folders - Media – UI improvement for comments on Photos - Media – UI Styling on Photo Directory - Send Invites – UI fixed

New: - New Feature! Group Subscriptions Changed: - Forum Subscriptions have been relocated to Notifications Settings, previously known as Notification Preferences - Notifications Settings – a user can now receive notifications on new posts in a group he is subscribed to. Fixed: - Fixed – Date ranges on profiles not displaying correct values - Groups – Forum discussions not removed after deletion in the Web - Groups – Documents moved into folder will no longer leave a copy in the original location - Messaging – Multiple documents can now be attached - Messaging – The first character is no longer hidden within To field - Messaging – Fixed unresponsive Send Message button - Profile – Telephone and email hyperlinks are now clickable

Changed: - Fixed – App crashing on New Discussion Notifications when Subscribed to Forum - Fixed – App crash on profile icon while logged out - Fixed – App crash when Twitter preview links are posted on the News Feed - Fixed – Issue with user profile navigation opening the “Content Not Found” screen instead of the Profile screen - Messaging – Fixed loading placeholder when scrolling down

Added: - Moderation – The Moderation component has been extended to allow members to report other members from the app - Members – Online status now available throughout the app - Messages – Real-time messaging now supported - Media – New albums can now be created from the global Photos and Videos Screens in the App - Notifications – New and improved flow for managing notifications has been implemented Changed: - Sign-in page – Privacy and Terms of Service are now available - Compatibility – Improved appearance with Dynamic Island enabled Fixed: - Messages – Corrected a crash that may occur after sending the first message to a new user - Fixed – padding when using the Tab Bar on all screens - Groups – Corrected the bug about Group Invite Send button sometimes not showing - Notifications – Corrected a crash that may occur when the app is opened by tapping on a push notification - Pages – Corrected the bug about Privacy Policy and Terms & Condition pages are not loading full content

Added: Videos–Added ability to change the thumbnail of uploaded videos Content–Added ability to @mention other users in posts and comments Group–Added ability to send a single message to all members of a group Changed: Performance–After first launch, the speed of subsequent launches has been significantly improved Content – Changed the text size of links to match the size of surrounding text content Experience – Improved writing experience for RTL languages Fixed: Activities–Fixed crashes in activities Activities–Videos no longer play in the background after being closed Groups–Fixed crash when viewing a group as a guest user Messages–Fixed permissions to upload videos, images, documents etc in group messages Photos – Fixed the bug regarding photo viewer header getting stuck in landscape mode Activities – Fixed the bug regarding link previews getting cut off by “Read More” button