This is a feature many large group owners are wanting… desperately. Once it rolls out things should be nicer in several ways.
This is the feature that bans and ejects a user or group of users from a group. Now we can eject them. But, on open groups the ejected user just joins up again and they are back. Group ban will add them to a list server side and the servers will not let them join the group again. Pesky problem solved.
On Wednesday an infrastructure part of the feature rolled out to the backend servers. This isn’t anything we can see now, but the main grid is a step closer to having Group Ban. One more change is needed before the server RC channels get the new code for Group Ban. The Tuesday down time messed up that schedule. I suspect it will recover quickly.
Maestro says that only one region server update will need to go through the RC channels. That assumes no bugs.
There is a set of viewer changes winding through QA and then RC. But, we are getting close to having Group Ban.