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May 1, 2026

Gmail API

Announcement

Generally Available: Updates to Gmail API usage quotas

A new tiering model with updates to API usage quotas will start to roll out. For more information, see Google Workspace standardized model for agent tools and APIs.

Announcement

Generally Available: Quota units for drafts.get, messages.attachments.get, messages.get, messages.trash, threads.get, and threads.trash have changed.

Google Calendar API

Announcement

Generally Available: Updates to Calendar API usage quotas

A new tiering model with updates to API usage quotas will start to roll out. For more information, see Google Workspace standardized model for agent tools and APIs.

Google Drive API

Announcement

Generally Available: Updates to Drive API usage quotas

A new tiering model with updates to API usage quotas will start to roll out. For more information, see Google Workspace standardized model for agent tools and APIs.

Announcement

Generally Available: To help align resource usage in the Google Drive API, usage quotas will change to be measured in quota units instead of the number of requests. Additionally, Google Workspace users can now only egress 1 TB per day. For more information, see Google Drive API usage limits.

Apr 22, 2026

Chat API

Feature

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.

Gmail API

Feature

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.

Google Calendar API

Feature

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.

Google Drive API

Feature

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.

Apr 21, 2026

Google Drive API

Feature

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:

You 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.

Apr 16, 2026

Google Meet

Announcement

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.

Apr 15, 2026

Chat API

Feature

Generally Available: Chat apps can find existing group conversations with specific members using the FindGroupChats method. For more information, see Find a group chat.

Apr 10, 2026

Chat API

Feature

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.

Google Workspace add-ons

Feature

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.

Apr 2, 2026

Google Meet

Announcement

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.started

  • google.workspace.meet.smartNote.v2.ended

  • google.workspace.meet.smartNote.v2.fileGenerated

For details, see Subscribe to Google Meet events and Respond to events from Google Meet.

Apr 1, 2026

Chat API

Feature

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:

Mar 31, 2026

Chat API

Feature

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:

Mar 19, 2026

Chat API

Feature

Generally available: Chat apps can now format text with block quotes. For details, see Format your messages.

Mar 12, 2026

Google Apps Script

Feature

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.

Google Workspace add-ons

Feature

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.

Feature

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.

Mar 10, 2026

Chat API

Feature

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.

Mar 5, 2026

Google Apps Script

Deprecated

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.

Feature

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().

Feb 25, 2026

Google Drive API

Deprecated

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.

Feb 17, 2026

Google Calendar API

Announcement

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.

Feb 9, 2026

Chat API

Feature

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.

Feb 3, 2026

Chat API

Feature

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.

Gmail API

Feature

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.

Jan 14, 2026

Chat API

Feature

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.

Jan 12, 2026

Google Apps Script

Feature

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.

Jan 8, 2026

Google Workspace Marketplace API

Deprecated

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.

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