Secondary calendars for non-personal Workspace accounts now follow the lifecycle of their owner, so calendars owned by a deleted user are deleted with the account. Markdown (.md and .markdown) files can now be viewed, edited, and collaborated on directly in Google Docs, with rendered previews in Drive; the recap also covers stock charts in Sheets, Trello cards from Chat, point-in-time editing in Vids, Carrier Link in 14 more countries, and new logic and search steps in Workspace Studio.
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Workspace Studio flows gain nested branching logic, a Gmail thread trigger option that skips follow-up replies, Google Meet outputs with full calendar invitee lists and post-meeting follow-up draft templates, and a Google Drive step that searches for document files dynamically. Features are on by default across all Workspace customers and Workspace Individual subscribers, rolling out gradually starting October 13, 2026.
Carrier Link, which lets Workspace customers add phone numbers and calling plans from certified local carriers via a pre-configured multi-tenant SIP Link, is now available in 14 additional countries including the US, Canada, and much of Europe. The feature is available to Google Voice Starter, Standard, and Premier subscribers, with gradual rollout starting October 8, 2026.
Point-in-time editing makes the canvas dynamically update as you scrub the timeline, showing only elements active at that timestamp instead of all elements across a scene. Editors can click object tracks to move the playhead, and no longer need to split scenes to manage multiple timed objects. The behavior is default for all sessions with no admin or end user setting, rolling out gradually from September 29 for Rapid Release domains and from October 13 for Scheduled Release domains.
The refreshed Trello for Google Workspace app replaces the Trello for Gmail experience and adds the ability to create new Trello cards from Google Chat messages. Existing Trello for Gmail users can continue using the app without reinstalling or reauthorizing; creating cards from Chat requires adding the app to a space or direct message and following the sign-in prompt.
Google Sheets now supports High-Low-Close and Open-High-Low-Close stock charts, condensing each period's price points into a single marker. Excel files containing HLC and OHLC stock charts are now preserved on import instead of being dropped.
Markdown (.md or .markdown) files can now be viewed, edited, and collaborated on directly in Google Docs, and rendered previews with clickable links and tables are available in Drive. Previously Markdown files had to be imported and converted to Doc format, which altered formatting, stripped comments, and fragmented files.
Secondary calendars for non-personal Workspace accounts now follow the lifecycle of their owner: when a user account is deleted, calendars they own are deleted too, and when a user is suspended, their owned secondary calendars are suspended. Ownership must be transferred before the original owner's account is deleted or suspended to preserve a secondary calendar.
Docs/Sheets/Slides comment APIs; Gems give way to skills
Breaking (minor)Developers can now programmatically create, read, and manage comments across the Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides APIs, with Docs also gaining API support for suggested edits. Skills, reusable prompts that guide Gemini, will roll out to Workspace users over the coming weeks and eventually replace Gems, while Google Vids gains customizable caption styling and upgraded Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS voiceovers.
Built-in video conferencing device interoperability between Google Meet and Microsoft Teams on Android (AOSP) devices moves from early preview to general availability, letting Android-based Google Meet hardware join Microsoft Teams meetings and Android-based Microsoft Teams Rooms devices join Google Meet meetings. Full rollout begins October 1, 2026 for all Workspace customers with Meet hardware running Android/AOSP.
The Gemini student hub, previously limited to personal accounts, is now available to Google Workspace for Education users of all ages, offering study notebooks, flashcards, and practice quizzes at gemini.google.com/students. It is governed by existing Generative AI settings in the Admin console and is available to all Workspace customers and Workspace Individual subscribers outside the EEA.
Admins can now set up Workspace client-side encryption through a simplified path in the Admin console that combines Cloud HSM Keys with Google Identity, instead of configuring a third-party key service and identity provider manually. The standard CSE setup process remains available for custom configurations.
The Docs, Sheets, and Slides MCP servers in Developer Preview can now read comments via an optional commentsIncluded field and create, reply to, resolve or reopen, update, and delete comments and replies through their update tools. The servers also added writeControl revision fields, field masks, inline batchUpdate request schemas, a new read_slide_page and read_slide_page_thumbnail tool, and expanded tool annotation definitions.
Developers can now create, read, and manage comments across the Docs, Sheets, and Slides APIs, with the Docs API also accepting proposed text changes as suggestions for user review. Comment support in the Docs, Sheets, and Slides MCP servers remains in developer preview.
Captions in Google Vids are now fully customizable, letting users change font and typography, on-screen position, and animation instead of the previous single set style. The feature is available now to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains across Business, Enterprise, Education, and consumer editions, with no admin or end-user setting.
Skills, reusable custom instructions built on the Markdown-native SKILL.md standard, roll out to Workspace starting October 5 and to the Gemini app starting October 13. Gems support is gradually removed, with business and enterprise Gems unusable no sooner than March 1, 2027 and education Gems no sooner than June 1, 2027; Workspace Studio flows using the Ask a Gem step stop working at that time and remaining Gems are auto-migrated to draft skills in the Gemini app. Skills do not sync between the Gemini app and Workspace, so they must be created separately in each.
The Google Docs API is generally available for programmatically reading, creating, and managing comments and suggestions, including writing edits as suggestions via writeControl.writeMode set to SUGGEST and accepting, rejecting, or deleting suggestion threads. The Sheets and Slides APIs are also generally available for reading, creating, and managing comment threads and replies.
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Google Vids now uses the Gemini 3.8 Flash Lite TTS model for AI voiceovers and avatar narration, improving sentence flow, pacing, and context-aware emphasis while synthesizing audio fast enough for real-time script iteration. Available now with no admin or end-user setting.
Google Workspace now supports assigning admin roles for a defined period with automatic revocation, a manual calculation setting in Sheets that pauses automatic recalculation until a sheet-wide update is triggered, and GA of simplified email import from any IMAP provider. Other additions include Workday for Google Sheets, Confluence for Google Chat, study notebooks in Gemini, up to three time zones in Calendar on the web, and new Meet take-notes settings taking effect September 29th.
Google Calendar on the web now displays up to three time zones—primary, secondary, and tertiary—on the main calendar grid (Day, Week, and Custom multi-day views) and in the Find a Time scheduling view, where previously only two were supported. Custom labels such as "SFO" or "ZRH" can be set for each time zone in Settings.