Google Workspace Changes

Updated 'What’s new in G Suite?' Help Center article with filterable and searchable lists.

Google has updated the 'What’s new in G Suite?' Help Center article to include a comprehensive list of launches from the past six months. Users can now filter these updates by product or search by keyword to easily find and learn about specific recent launches.

Retirement of the Sheets v3 API

Google is retiring the Sheets v3 API and requiring users to migrate their apps to the Sheets v4 API to ensure continued functionality. After several extensions, the final turndown date for all components of the v3 API is August 2, 2021.

Search, view and add bots directly within Hangouts Chat

Google is making it easier to find bots within Hangouts Chat by introducing a catalog. When users select 'Find a Bot', they can now discover bots, view more information about them, and choose to either message the bot or add it to a room, depending on the bot's capabilities.

Custom line spacing less than one is now available in Google Docs and Google Slides.

Google Docs and Google Slides now allow users to set custom line spacing to be less than one. This provides more detailed control over font appearance, helping users meet strict brand guidelines and create visually polished documentation. Additionally, this update improves the preservation of formatting when importing and exporting files in legacy formats.

Google Vault API updates to replace Team Drives fields

We recently updated the Vault API to reflect the renaming of “Team Drives” to “shared drives.”

Postponing the final transition date from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat to no sooner than June 2020.

Officially postponing the final transition date (i.e. phase 4 in this timeline) to no sooner than June 2020. In the interim, Google will continue to improve the transition experience of classic Hangouts group conversations, as well as add new Chat features like Read receipts.

Improving real-time collaboration in Google Docs for assistive technology users

It’s now easier for users of assistive technologies, like screen readers and Braille displays, to keep track of real-time updates made by collaborators in a document. With live edits, you can view a periodically updated summary of collaborator changes in a convenient sidebar.

You can now enable Dark mode for Keep on the web.

You can now enable Dark mode for Keep on the web. To activate Dark mode, click Settings (gear icon) in the top bar and select “Enable Dark mode” from the dropdown menu.

We’re adding SAML integration for five additional applications.

With Single-Sign-On (SSO), users can access all of their enterprise cloud applications—including the Admin console for admins—after signing in just one time. Google supports the two most popular enterprise SSO standards, OpenID Connect and SAML, and there are already many applications with pre-integrated SSO support in our third-party apps catalog.

Search and export new Sites with Vault beta

You can use Vault to search and export content in new Google Sites with a new beta program.

SSO + network mask domains can now force Google password reset on next login

We’re providing more control over user password policies for some customers using third-party identity providers (IdPs) via SAML.

Consolidated Google Groups audit logs are now available in the G Suite AdminSDK Reports API

Introducing a new consolidated log named groups_enterprise, which includes changes to groups and group memberships across all products and APIs. These were previously split across the groups and admin audit logs. This new log is now available through the AdminSDK Reports API

Consolidated Google Groups audit logs are now available in the G Suite AdminSDK Reports API and GCP Cloud Audit Logs.

Consolidated Google Groups audit logs are now available in the G Suite AdminSDK Reports API and GCP Cloud Audit Logs. A new consolidated log named groups_enterprise includes changes to groups and group memberships across all products and APIs. Google Groups information is added to Cloud Audit Logs (CAL) in Stackdriver.

Google Keep will now support Dark mode on Android.

Google Keep will now support Dark mode on Android. Dark mode is a popular feature that’s frequently requested by Calendar and Keep users. It creates a better viewing experience in low-light conditions by reducing brightness.

Changing how Apps Script manages Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects to help IT Admins govern these projects and simplify how developers manage projects.

We’re changing how Apps Script manages Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects. This will help IT Admins govern these projects and simplify how developers manage projects as well. New Apps Script GCP projects will now live in a new folder (“apps-script”) in the GCP resource hierarchy.