Developer Preview: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Google Chat is now available in developer preview. MCP is an open protocol that enables seamless integration between AI applications and your Chat conversations. By configuring the Chat MCP server, you enable AI agents to securely list messages and take actions, such as sending messages in your spaces.
For example, you can ask your AI agent: "What's the latest update in the 'Project X' space?"
To get started with the Chat MCP server, see the following documentation:
To find more available MCP servers, see Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Google Workspace.
Developer Preview: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Gmail is now available in developer preview. MCP is an open protocol that enables seamless integration between AI applications and Gmail. By configuring the Gmail MCP server, you enable AI agents to securely read your emails and take actions, such as creating drafts and labeling messages.
For example, you can ask your AI agent: "What did Ariel say in her last email about our marketing plan?"
To get started with the Gmail MCP server, see the following documentation:
To find more available MCP servers, see Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Google Workspace.
Developer Preview: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Google Calendar is now available in developer preview. MCP is an open protocol that enables seamless integration between AI applications and your calendars. By configuring the Calendar MCP server, you enable AI agents to securely read your schedule and take actions, such as creating, updating, or deleting events.
For example, you can ask your AI agent: "When is my next meeting with Ariel?"
To get started with the Calendar MCP server, see the following documentation:
To find more available MCP servers, see Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Google Workspace.
Developer Preview: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Google Drive is now available in developer preview. MCP is an open protocol that enables seamless integration between AI applications and your Drive files. By configuring the Drive MCP server, you enable AI agents to securely search your files and take actions, such as reading content or creating files.
For example, you can ask your AI agent: "Summarize the file 'Marketing Plan'."
To get started with the Drive MCP server, see the following documentation:
To find more available MCP servers, see Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in Google Workspace.
]]>Generally Available: The Google Drive API now lets you start and manage
approvals on Drive files through the
approvals
resource. The following API methods have been added:
approvals.startapprovals.approveapprovals.declineapprovals.reassignapprovals.cancelapprovals.commentYou can still retrieve and list the status of your approvals using either the
approvals.get
or the
approvals.list
method.
For details, see Manage approvals.
]]>Meet API
Generally Available: The phoneAccess
and
gatewaySipAccess
fields on the
spaces
resource can now be used to identify and join a meeting space.
For details, see How Meet identifies a meeting space.
]]>Generally Available: Chat apps can find existing group conversations with specific members using the FindGroupChats method. For more information, see Find a group chat.
Developer Preview: You can now configure and respond to message actions in Google Chat. Message actions let users invoke your Chat app from the message context menu. This feature is available for both Google Chat apps and Google Workspace Add-ons that extend Google Chat through the Developer Preview Program.
Developer Preview: You can now configure and respond to message actions in Google Chat. Message actions let users invoke your Chat app from the message context menu. This feature is available for both Google Chat apps and Google Workspace Add-ons that extend Google Chat through the Developer Preview Program.
]]>Meet API
Generally Available: The get
and
list
methods on the
smartNotes
resource can now retrieve smart notes files in a conference record. For details,
see Work with
artifacts.
Additionally, subscriptions are now generally available for the following
smartNotes events:
google.workspace.meet.smartNote.v2.startedgoogle.workspace.meet.smartNote.v2.endedgoogle.workspace.meet.smartNote.v2.fileGeneratedFor details, see Subscribe to Google Meet events and Respond to events from Google Meet.
]]>Generally Available: Generally available - You can now call the Chat API to create and manage custom sections and organize conversations into a personalized view.
For more information, see the following guides:
]]>Generally available: The following Chat API methods support app authentication with administrator approval:
Additionally, Chat apps can now call the following methods in the Google Workspace Events API using app authentication with administrator approval:
]]>Generally available: Chat apps can now format text with block quotes. For details, see Format your messages.
]]>Generally Available: The AddOnsResponseService and its associated classes in Apps Script are now generally available. This service allows developers to create and manage interactive responses for Google Workspace Add-ons that extend Google Chat.
Generally Available: The Dialogflow integrations for Google Workspace Add-ons that extend Google Chat is now generally available. These integrations let add-ons use Dialogflow CX or Dialogflow ES to understand and respond to user queries in natural language. For more information, see Build a Dialogflow CX Chat app or Build a Dialogflow ES Chat app.
Generally Available: The Google Cloud Pub/Sub integration for Google Workspace Add-ons that extend Google Chat is now generally available. This integration allows add-ons to receive and respond to events from Google Chat using Pub/Sub. For more information, see Build a Chat app that uses Pub/Sub.
]]>Developer Preview: Chat apps can now create messages containing cards on behalf of users with user authentication. Additionally, apps can asynchronously update the cards in these messages without requiring user interaction. For more information, see Create and update interactive cards.
]]>Deprecated: The method setAuthentication(clientId, signingKey) has been deprecated and is scheduled for sunset in June 2026. This change is because Maps platform client IDs were deprecated on May 26, 2025, and can't be used after May 31, 2026. Instead, use setAuthenticationByKey(apiKey) or setAuthenticationByKey(apiKey, signingKey). To get an API key, refer to the Client ID Migration Guide.
Generally Available: To authenticate to the Maps service, you can now use an API key with the new methods setAuthenticationByKey(apiKey) and setAuthenticationByKey(apiKey, signingKey). To reset authentication to the default mode, use resetAuthenticationApiKey().
Generally Available: The enforceExpansiveAccess query parameter is now deprecated for all methods in the permissions resource (v2 and v3). To restrict item access, use the folders with limited access setting instead.
We have updated the guidance for using Google Meet conferences on Google Calendar events.
Reusing Google Meet codes across different events can cause access issues, and
can expose meeting details to unintended users. We recommend that you generate a
new conference using the createRequest field for every new event.
For more information about using events with the Calendar API, see the documentation for the events resource.
Generally Available: When sending a message with app authentication, Google Chat API now supports mentioning users who haven't joined a Chat space or are members of a space that is in import mode. Previously, only sending a message with user authentication was supported. To learn how, see Mention users in a text message.
]]>Developer Preview: You can now build Google Chat apps as Google Workspace add-ons that use Cloud Pub/Sub to receive messages. This architecture is useful if your Chat app is behind a firewall. For details, see Build a Chat app that uses Pub/Sub.
Generally Available: The Gmail Postmaster Tools API v2 is now generally available. The API provides access to the full Postmaster Tools dataset—including compliance status data—and includes enhancements like flexible querying with queryDomainStats and support for batch operations. For details on how to use the v2 API, see the updated Postmaster Tools API documentation.
Generally Available: You can now convert your interactive event-driven Chat apps to Google Workspace Add-ons that extends Chat.
By converting, your Google Chat app can use the Google Workspace Add-ons framework, opening up new possibilities for integration and features within Google Chat and across Google Workspace. For example, instead of two distributions — one Google Chat app and one Google Workspace add-on — you can distribute a single Google Workspace add-on through Google Workspace Marketplace that extends Chat apps alongside other Google Workspace host applications, like Gmail, Calendar, and Docs.
To learn more, see Convert an interactive Google Chat app to a Google Workspace add-on.
]]>Generally Available: Use Apps Script's Vertex AI advanced service to call the Vertex AI API and prompt AI models to generate text, images, and more.
For details, see the Vertex AI advanced service reference documentation.
]]>The licenseNotification resource and the licenseNotification.list method are now deprecated. The licenseNotification.list method previously retrieved a list of licensing notifications for a given app.
There is no alternative resource or method within the Google Workspace Marketplace API. However, user-initiated install events can be tracked through Google Analytics.
]]>The Google Chat platform samples gallery now lets you find samples by products, language, and sample type. The gallery also features the following new samples for building Chat apps:
The Apps Script samples gallery now lets you find samples by use case, products, and sample type. The gallery also features the following new samples:
Developer Preview: You can now build Chat apps that extend Google Workspace add-ons using Apps Script's AddOnsResponseService. For details, see AddOns Response Service.
The Add-ons samples gallery now lets you find samples by products, languages, sample type, and add-on type. The gallery also features the following new samples:
]]>License Manager API: The SKU name "Gemini Education" has been renamed to "Google AI Pro for Education." For details, see the Google Product and SKU IDs documentation and announcement.
]]>Generally Available: The Google Drive API now supports the reading of content approvals on Drive files through the approvals resource. To retrieve approvals on a file, you can use either the get or list method.
For details, see Manage approvals.
(Developer Preview): You can now get approval events in Google Drive. The following event types are supported:
For details, see Subscribe to Google Drive events in the Google Workspace Events API documentation. For information on how to receive Google Drive events from Google Cloud Pub/Sub, see Work with events from Google Drive.
Meet API
Developer Preview: Subscriptions are now available for the following smartNotes events:
google.workspace.meet.smartNote.v2.startedgoogle.workspace.meet.smartNote.v2.endedgoogle.workspace.meet.smartNote.v2.fileGeneratedFor details, see Subscribe to Google Meet events in the Google Workspace Events API documentation.
For information on how to receive Google Meet events from Google Cloud Pub/Sub, see Respond to events from Google Meet.
]]>Meet API
Developer Preview: Available as part of the Developer Preview Program, which grants early access to certain features.
You can now retrieve smart notes files in a conference record using the get and list methods on the smartNotes resource.
For details, see Work with artifacts.
]]>Developer Preview: You can now dynamically populate drop-down menus in Google Chat apps with data from Google Workspace or external data sources, with an autocomplete functionality. To learn more, see Add interactive UI elements to cards.
]]>Developer Preview: You can now call the Chat API to create and manage custom sections and organize conversations in a personalized view:
To learn more, see Section (RPC, REST) and SectionItem (RPC, REST) in the Chat API documentation.
Limited Preview: Extending Google Workspace Studio with add-ons is in limited preview.
]]>Generally available: The Chat API now supports reading rich links to Gmail threads in Chat messages that appear as chips. To learn more, see RichLinkType in the Chat API reference documentation.
Developer Preview: You can now build Dialogflow CX and Dialogflow ES Chat apps as Google Workspace add-ons.
]]>Generally Available: You can now build add-ons that extend Google Workspace Studio (previously known as Google Workspace Flows). For details, see Extend Google Workspace Studio.
For ideas about what you can build, see Introducing Google Workspace Studio: Automate everyday work with AI agents in the Google Workspace blog.
]]>Developer Preview: You can now access data in Gmail Postmaster Tools v2 using the v2beta API. The new API provides access to the full Postmaster Tools dataset, including compliance status data.
The v2beta API also includes enhancements such as the queryDomainStats method for
flexible querying, and adds support for batch operations.
To learn how to use the API, see the Postmaster Tools API documentation.
]]>Meet API
Developer Preview: Available as part of the Developer Preview Program, which grants early access to certain features.
You can now identify and join a meeting space using the phoneAccess and gatewaySipAccess fields on the spaces resource.
For details, see How Meet identifies a meeting space.
]]>Meet API
Generally Available: Calendar invitees can now receive google.workspace.meet.conference.v2.started and google.workspace.meet.transcript.v2.fileGenerated events.
For details, see Subscribe to Google Meet events in the Google Workspace Events API documentation.
For information on how to receive Google Meet events from Google Cloud Pub/Sub, see Respond to events from Google Meet.
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