Google Workspace developer release notes

Generally Available: The Google Workspace Marketplace SDK now prompts developers to sync draft changes when host products are added or removed in a deployment's manifest. New host products appear in the App Integrations section of the App Configuration tab with a status of "Unsaved". After saving changes as a draft, developers can submit the draft for review on the Store Listing tab before publishing the new host product to their Google Workspace Marketplace listing. Additionally, the App Configuration tab now displays the published status (Unsaved, Draft, Under review, or Published) for each supported host product. To learn more, see Update your app listing with drafts and Identify how your app integrates with Google Workspace applications.

Generally Available: Apps Script now supports data regions in Google Workspace, adhering to organizational data location policies configured in the Google Admin console:

• Data at rest: Script project files, code definitions, manifest configurations, trigger metadata, and key-value storage (such as Property Service and Cache Service) are stored within the designated geographic region.
• Data processing: Script executions, container-bound automations, and associated runtime operations are processed within the selected region.

This feature is available for Google Workspace Enterprise Plus and Frontline Plus editions (in-region storage and processing), and Education Standard and Education Plus editions (in-region storage only). Scripts running on the legacy Rhino runtime are not supported under strict data region policies; projects must use the V8 runtime. For details on covered data and managing non-regionalized services, see What data is covered by a data region policy? and Set up advanced settings for data regions.

Meet API

Generally Available: The spaces.members resource is now generally available. You can use the Meet API to manage meeting space members and assign co-host roles before or during a meeting.

The following methods are available on the spaces.members resource:

• create: Adds a member to a meeting space.
• delete: Removes a member from a meeting space.
• get: Retrieves details about a member.
• list: Lists members in a meeting space.
• patch: Updates a member's role.
• batchUpdate: Updates multiple members' roles in a single request.

For details, see Manage meeting space members.

Generally Available: The copyComments query parameter on the files.copy method is now generally available.

This parameter allows you to copy open comments and suggestions when copying a Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides file. For more information, see Copy comments.

Developer Preview: The Google Slides API now supports comments, letting you programmatically read, create, reply to, update, and delete comments in presentations.

To get started, see the Manage comments guide.

Developer Preview: The Google Chat Model Context Protocol (MCP) server now supports three new tools: mark_as_read, mark_as_unread, and list_memberships. These tools enable AI agents to update the read state of a space or thread and list memberships on the user's behalf. This feature is available as part of the Developer Preview Program.

To get started with the new tools, see the Set up the Chat MCP server guide or view the full list of tools in the Chat MCP tool reference.

Developer Preview: You can now add citations and footer sources to Google Chat text messages. This feature is available as part of the Developer Preview Program.

You can provide sources in two ways:

• Inline citations: Interactive cards that appear when users hold the pointer over specific parts of your message text.
• Footer sources: A list of sources displayed at the bottom of the message as footer links.

Citations are supported when the message's markupSyntax is set to MARKUP_SYNTAX_MARKDOWN and when messages are created asynchronously using the Google Chat API.

For more information, see Add citations to a text message.

Generally Available: 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.

Generally Available: 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.

Generally Available: You can now format Google Chat messages using standard Markdown syntax. By specifying the markupSyntax field as MARKUP_SYNTAX_MARKDOWN when creating a message using the Chat API, the body text is parsed using standard Markdown formatting.

For more information, see Format your messages.

Generally Available: You can now use the spaces.search method of the Chat API to manage and search for spaces that the calling user is a member of without administrator privileges.

For more information, see Search for spaces.

Gemini Beta: You can now use the Gemini side panel in the Apps Script editor to generate, modify, and debug code, and ask questions. Gemini uses context from your active script project and attached container (if available) to provide relevant Apps Script code and explanation.

To learn more, see Use the Gemini side panel in the Apps Script editor.

Generally Available: You can now use the search method on the Message Resource of the Chat API (REST, RPC) to search for messages that the authenticated user has access to.

For more information, see Search messages.

Developer Preview: You can now programmatically create and manage comments in Google Sheets with the Google Sheets API. This includes:

• Creating comment threads and replying to comment threads using the InsertCommentRequest and AddCommentReplyRequest.

• Modifying existing comment and reply posts using UpdateCommentPostRequest.

• Deleting comments and replies using DeleteCommentRequest and DeleteCommentReplyRequest.

For more information, see Manage comments.

Generally Available: You no longer need to manually configure a Google Chat app in the Google Cloud console for integrations that only use the Chat API to read data (for example, GetSpace, ListMessages) on behalf of a user using OAuth. For read-only actions, you only need to enable the API and create an OAuth client.

For more information, see Configure the Google Chat API.