Google Workspace Changes

Additional language support for live captions in Google Meet

Expanding live captions in Google Meet to French, German, Portuguese and Spanish (Spain and Latin America) speakers. They were previously only available in English. Live captions allow deaf and hard of hearing users, users with different primary languages, and users in noisy environments to participate more fully in meetings.

Shared external contacts limit increased from 50,000 to 200,000 contacts.

Shared external contacts are users outside of your domain who you add to your company directory. Previously, there was a limit of 50,000 external contacts. Now that limit is 200,000. Additionally, the total storage limit has been increased from 20MB to 40MB.

Google Vault for Google Voice now generally available

Google Vault now supports Google Voice. This means you can use Vault to retain, hold, search, and export Google Voice data including text messages, call logs, voicemails, and voicemail transcripts.

Redesigned the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Google Apps Script. The new IDE offers a more modern and simplified development experience

We’ve redesigned the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Google Apps Script. The new IDE offers a more modern and simplified development experience which makes it quicker and easier to build solutions that make Google Workspace apps more useful for your organization.

Changes to Google Chat group conversations and classic Hangouts coming December 3, 2020

Starting December 3, 2020, we’ll make three changes to how group conversations work in Google Chat: Add and change members. You’ll be able to add and change members of new group conversations.