Upcoming G Suite releases
Learn about the publicly announced products and features planned for G Suite. New items are added approximately every quarter, when launched features are removed from the list.
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Note: The list of releases is not an official commitment and is subject to change. Listed releases are not guaranteed to become generally available and may be modified from their current form.
| Product | Feature | Feature description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admin | Account settings | Enhanced company profile and account settings | In development |
| Admin | Malware security sandbox | Open attachments on VMs to detect malware before emails get delivered to user's inbox. Provides rules-based controls for inbound messages. | In beta. Learn more |
| Apps Script | New dashboard and APIs to manage projects | Use an increased set of features to view all projects, review usage, investigate issues, and track project health. Includes a Management API to create, manage, and deploy Google Apps Script projects and an Admin API to track Apps Script data, such as deployment and adoption. | In development |
| Apps Script | Flexible quotas for built-in Apps Script services | Expanded execution quota and a new, flexible quota model for popular built-in APIs. | In development |
| Apps Script | Easy connection to OAuth secured APIs | Easily consume third-party REST APIs secured with OAuth. | In development |
| Apps Script | Job service | Break large jobs into "batch" processes that run in parallel. | In development |
| Apps Script | Apps Script GCP Cloud projects adhere to Cloud policies | GCP Cloud projects that run behind each Apps Script project will be moved inside the Cloud organization so that they adhere to policies defined by admins. Apps Script developers can no longer access Cloud projects and don't need to go to the Cloud Console to enable Google APIs (Advanced Services). | Launched. Learn more |
| Apps Script | Modern JavaScript runtime | More performance and reliability. Supports ES2017. | In development |
| Calendar | OOO status in Gmail compose | Show OOO status of recipients in Gmail compose if OOO has been set in Calendar. | In development |
| Classroom | Gradebook | Gradebook lets teachers view and analyze all of the grades for a class. Students can see their overall progress in a class. | In beta. Learn more |
| Classroom | Locked mode quizzes | Locked mode prevents students from navigating away from the quiz in their Chrome browser until they submit their answers. | In beta. Learn more |
| Cloud Search | Google Cloud Search with third-party connectivity | Indexing API and in-product experience for third-party content. | In beta |
| Course Kit | Margin comments for PDFs, images, and videos | Add margin comments for PDFs, images, and videos. | In development |
| Course Kit | LTI 1.3 support | Improve data reliability with LTI 1.3, the next version of the LTI standard. | In beta |
| Course Kit | Course Kit | A set of tools to help educators create, collect, and give feedback on assignments. | In beta |
| Currents (formerly, Google+) | Preserve posts of former employees | Preserve important knowledge and information shared in posts when an employee leaves the organization. | In development |
| Currents (formerly, Google+) | Currents Vault integration | Currents content can now have retention rules applied in Google Vault. | In development |
| Currents (formerly, Google+) | Advanced search | Enable users to make advanced searches such as looking for posts between certain dates or within a certain community | In development |
| Currents (formerly, Google+) | Rebranded enterprise-only Currents product | In addition to the new Currents brand, users will see updated layout that brings Google's latest Material Design patterns to Currents, with new single-column stream layout, new formatting options for post content, and more streamlined navigation. | In development. Beta coming soon. Learn more |
| Currents (formerly, Google+) | Starring posts | Enable users to star a post so that they can easily refer to it again later by navigating to the Starred stream. | In development |
| Currents (formerly, Google+) | Removing profile creation requirement | Currents users will no longer need to setup a separate Currents profile before starting to use the product. | In development |
| Currents (formerly, Google+) | Enhanced tagging support | Allow users to follow tags, view suggested tags while composing new posts, view tags that are trending in the domain, and view suggested tags to follow. | In development |
| Currents (formerly, Google+) | Customs streams | Allow administrators to setup streams of posts that are visible to the entire domain or to specific groups of users. Admins can use any of the supported Currents search operators to define the posts to display in a given custom stream. | In development |
| Currents (formerly, Google+) | Recommended Spotlight posts | Allow leaders to create posts that are prominently recommended in the Home stream of all users in the organization. | In development |
| Currents (formerly, Google+) | Content administrator management tools | New content administrator role that lets you manage the tags that are suggested to users, define the leaders in the organization, and define the custom streams that users will see. | In development |
| Currents (formerly, Google+) | Post analytics | Allow post authors to view detailed post analytics on how other users are engaging with their posts, including total number of views, comments, +1s, and reshares broken down by different groups within the organization. | In development |
| Docs | Compare Google Docs | Enable users to compare two Docs and show the differences as suggested edits in a new Doc. | In development |
| Docs | Office editing | Allow users to collaborate on Office files using Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This will also include saving right back to the file format, roundtripping, unsupported content warning, and UI changes. | Launched. Learn more |
| Doc | Offline pinning for Docs, Sheets, and Slides formats | Pin Docs, Sheets, and Slides files so that they're available offline through Drive's web interface in Chrome. | In development |
| Drive | Slack channels and Team Drives | Enable teams to pair a Slack channel with a Team Drive so that content uploaded in Drive is automatically available in Slack. | In development |
| Drive | Set metadata in Drive | Gives you the ability to set structured metadata in Drive. | In development |
| Drive | Request approvals for documents | Gives you the ability to request and give binding approvals for Drive items, whether you are on your desktop or mobile device. | In development |
| Drive | Pincode sharing | Enable users without Google accounts to securely view, comment, suggest changes, and edit files. | In development |
| Drive | Priority | Intelligent access point in Google Drive that surfaces the most important files and relevant content for each user, to help them stay informed. | Launched. Learn more |
| Drive | See Drive File Stream in the Google Device Management console | You can see which devices are using Drive File Stream in the Google Device Management Tool. | Launched Learn more |
| Drive | Folder sharing in Team Drives | Allows you and your users to grant additional access to subfolders within a Team Drive. | In development |
| Drive | Office editing | Allow users to collaborate on Office files using Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This will also include saving right back to the file format, roundtripping, unsupported content warning, and UI changes. | Launched. Learn more |
| Drive | PIN-verified visitor sharing | Enable collaboration with users who don't use Google accounts through pincodes. Visitors who have the pincode can view, comment, suggest edits, and directly edit Docs, Sheets, and Slides, as well as other file types like PDFs and Microsoft Office files. | In beta (beta closed). Learn more |
| Drive | Shortcuts in Drive | Enable users to create shortcuts to keep pointers on working content they might not own. | In development |
| Drive | Offline pinning for non-G Suite file formats | Pin non-G Suite file formats so that they're available offline through Drive's web interface, together with Drive File Stream. | In development |
| Drive | Offline pinning for Docs, Sheets, and Slides formats | Pin Docs, Sheets, and Slides files so that they're available offline through Drive's web interface in Chrome. | In development |
| Drive | Search for files from Chrome URL bar | Search for files directly from the URL bar in Chrome. | In development |
| Drive | Drive sharing dialog redesign | Unify and improve the Drives sharing dialogs. | In development |
| Drive | Custom link sharing | Allows admins to set more granular recommendations for link sharing | In development |
| Forms | Transition to new Forms UI | Open all copied Forms in the new UI and disable access to editing Forms in the old UI. | In development |
| Forms | Quizzes in locked mode on Chromebooks | Prevent students from navigating away from a quiz until they submit their answers on managed Chromebooks. | In development |
| Forms | Legacy Forms UI fully-transitioned | Turn off access to editing old Forms (open all copied Forms in the new UI). | In development |
| G Suite | Automate tasks in G Suite | No-code apps to help automate busy work across G Suite. | In development |
| Gmail | Signature support for Android | Signature support for Android (currently on desktop and iOS). | In development |
| Gmail | MTA-STS and TLS reporting | Gmail became the first major email provider to follow the new SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) RFC 8461 and SMTP TLS Reporting RFC 8460 internet standards. | In beta. Learn more |
| Gmail | Advanced anti-phishing and malware controls | New controls, allowing admins to quarantine emails based on the controls. | In beta. Learn more |
| Gmail | OOO status in Gmail compose | Show OOO status of recipients in Gmail compose if OOO has been set in Calendar. | In development |
| Gmail | Malware security sandbox | Open attachments on VMs to detect malware before emails get delivered to user's inbox. Provides rules-based controls for inbound messages. | In beta. Learn more |
| Groups | Audit logging | Improved audit logging capabilities for changes made to enterprise groups. | Launched |
| Groups | Groups-based policy | Enable admins to apply policies using Groups in addition to organizational units. | In development |
| Hangouts Chat | Chat in Gmail | Replace classic Hangouts with Chat in the lower left section of Gmail. | In beta. Learn more |
| Hangouts Chat | Guest access | Enable users to chat with people outside of their domain via direct messages and rooms where external guests can be added. | In beta. Learn more |
| Hangouts Chat | New desktop app | Chat desktop app will be upgraded to Progressive Web App (PWA) and available on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. | In beta. Learn more |
| Hangouts Meet | Adaptive layouts | Show appropriate layout based on the context of the meeting. | Launched. Learn more |
| Hangouts Meet | Voice actions on Hangouts Meet hardware | Meeting controls (join, mute) through voice commands on Hangouts Meet hardware. | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | Acer Chromebase for meetings | A 24-inch touchscreen with 8th Gen Intel Core i7. | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | Room kit bundles from Logitech | 3 new hardware bundles from Logitech is launching for Hangouts Meet hardware. Small room kit (Meetup camera, Chromebox, TAP controller), medium room kit (Rally camera, Rally speakers and mic, Chromebox, TAP controller), and large room kit (Rally Camera, 2 Rally speakers, 2 mic pods, Chromebox, TAP controller). | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | Public live streaming | Invite up to 100K out-of-domain users to a Meet live stream. | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | Performance improvements for Meet device lists | Performance improvements for managing large number of devices interactively in the Google Admin console and visual filters to make it easier to find devices. | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | Display power saving for hardware | CEC for Hangouts Meet hardware allows administrators to enable CEC power-saving signalling over HDMI to turn off external TV monitors to save power when not in use. | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | New experience for enrollment of Hangouts Meet hardware | Update to the user experience for in-room enrollment of Hangouts Meet hardware. | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | Meet Hardware fleet information bulk-export to CSV file | Enable admins to export the full fleet information of all Hangouts Meet hardware devices to a single CSV file in a single batch operation. | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | Redesigned Google meeting room hardware policy page | Redesign of the user interface for the Google meeting room hardware policy page for improved performance and usability. | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | Turn on captions in meetings | Turn on captions for your Meet call (web, Chromebox for Meetings, iOS, Android). | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | Data Studio template | G Suite Enterprise edition customers can use a Data Studio template to visualise Meet usage and quality. | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | Present screen using an HDMI cable | Present screen by plugging the HDMI cable from Hangouts Meet hardware into your device. Admin will be able to enable client-side quality of service. | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | 250 person meetings | Enable meetings for up to 250 participants on meetings organized by G Suite Enterprise users. | In development |
| Hangouts Meet | Present video with audio | Enable presenters to share video content at high quality with audio support. | In development |
| Jamboard | Auto-timeout of idle jams | Configure the Jamboard Admin console to automatically close idle jam sessions on the Jamboard kiosk. | In development |
| Jamboard | Improved experience saving and loading jams | Simpler experience saving and loading jams to and from the Jamboard kiosk. | In development |
| Jamboard | Jamboard engagement metrics dashboard for Google Admin console | Allows you to view the engagement of Jamboards in the fleet. | In development |
| Jamboard | Japanese localization | Localize Jamboard in Japanese. | In development |
| Jamboard | Landscape support on mobile | Landscape support for the Jamboard app on iOS and Android phones. | In development |
| Jamboard | Owner verification and strict sharing mode | Admins can enable verification of ownership of jams and prevent sharing of unowned jams. | In development |
| Jamboard | Remote configuration of network certificates | Easily upload network certificates for a kiosk device in the Jamboard Admin console. | In development |
| Jamboard | Support for installing Wi-Fi certificates | Improved support for installing Wi-Fi certificates. | In development |
| Jamboard | Mobile and tablet apps update | Redesign of Jamboard mobile and tablet apps for improved usability and performance. | In development |
| Jamboard | Richer editing capabilities on the web | Additional functionalities on Jamboard web for the user to interact and edit their Jams. | In development |
| Jamboard | Full screen video calls and join scheduled meetings | Full screen video calls with Jamboard and ability to join scheduled meetings. | Launched. Learn more |
| Keep | Auto-bulleting and numbered lists | Create numbered lists in text notes. | In development |
| Reporting | Work Insights | Provides digital transformation insights, including productivity, collaboration, and work-life balance. | In beta. Learn more |
| Security | DLP document fingerprinting | Helps you to protect information that is similar in content or context to known sensitive documents. | In development |
| Security | DLP incident highlighting | Empower end users to see and correct DLP violations as they compose an email. | In development |
| Security | DLP incident management | Enable admins to see DLP incidents and charts, investigate them, and take action. | In development |
| Security | DLP rules for Drive categories | Enable admins to configure DLP policies based on Drive document labels. | In development |
| Security | Unified DLP rules | Enable you to utilize one policy to configure DLP for multiple G Suite apps. | In development |
| Security | Information Rights Management (IRM) for DLP | Enable IRM enforcement as a DLP remediation action. | In development |
| Security | Access Transparency | Access Transparency gives you near real-time logs when administrators access your content. | Launched. Learn more |
| Security | Alert center collaboration | Enable admins to assign team members, select workflow status, and define severity of alerts. Admins can also view Related Alerts, Alert History, and Search by Email. | In beta. Learn more |
| Sheets | Slicers | Filter charts, pivot tables, and tables of data on a dashboard without having to expose or go back to the source data sheet. | In development |
| Sheets | Show edit history of a specific cell | Users can now see the edit history of a cell including the user who made the last direct edit to the cell, a timestamp of the last direct edit to the cell, the change itself (previous and current values), and ability to go back to prior edits. | In development |
| Sheets | Office editing | Allow users to collaborate on Office files using Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This will also include saving right back to the file format, roundtripping, unsupported content warning, and UI changes. | Launched. Learn more |
| Sheets | Offline pinning for Docs, Sheets, and Slides formats | Pin Docs, Sheets, and Slides files so that they're available offline through Drive's web interface in Chrome. | In development |
| Sheets | Connected sheets | New integration between Sheets and BigQuery that lets you collaborate on up to 10 billion rows of BigQuery data right from within Sheets, no SQL knowledge required. | In development. Beta coming soon. Learn more |
| Sites | Collapsible text | Ability to add collapsible text to a page. | In development |
| Sites | Image carousels | Ability to add image carousels to a page. | Launched. Learn more |
| Sites | Review all changes before publishing | Ability to see what’s changed between the previous published version and current draft of a Site. | In development |
| Sites | Version history | Enable editors to review recent changes and rollback to a previous version. | In development |
| Sites | Templates | Provide editors with templates for common Site types and the ability to build custom templates. | In development |
| Slides | Office editing | Allow users to collaborate on Office files using Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This will also include saving right back to the file format, roundtripping, unsupported content warning, and UI changes. | Launched. Learn more |
| Slides | Offline pinning for Docs, Sheets, and Slides formats | Pin Docs, Sheets, and Slides files so that they're available offline through Drive's web interface in Chrome. | In development |
| Vault | Vault for Sites | Full Vault support (retention, holds, search and export) for new Sites. | In beta. Learn more |
| Vault | Vault for Voice | Vault for Voice will be available as an alpha release to Vault customers. | In development |
| Voice | Google Voice | Smart, easy-to-use cloud telephony solution for G Suite. | Launched. Learn more |
| Voice | Voice available in Canada, Ireland, and the Netherlands | Voice is making it possible to set up new G Suite users in Canada, Ireland, and the Netherlands. | In development |
| Voice | Vault for Voice | Vault for Voice will be available as an alpha release to Vault customers. | In development |
| Voice | Desk phones available for Voice | Customers may purchase Polycom phones for direct use with Voice. | In development |
| Voice | Voice call from Hangouts Chat | Call the contact number of a person in Chat. | In development |
| Voice | Extended Voice and Meet integration | Call back into Meet meetings with a click. | In development |
| Voice | Voice calling in Gmail | Manage Voice calls within Gmail. | In development |
| Voice | Voice usage reports | Reporting for organization calls. | In development |
| Voice | Voice call transfer | Extending call transfer function to Voice soft clients. | In development |
| Voice | Voice ring groups | Automatic call routing rules. | In development |
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