What’s changing

We’re adding a range of official, fixed IP addresses to be used exclusively for classic Hangouts and Hangouts Meet in G Suite domains. That means that you can identify video conference traffic used in G Suite and deprioritize Hangouts traffic from consumer accounts. This can help you better configure and optimize network and firewall access.

Who’s impacted

Admins and network operators only

Why you’d use it

Hangouts Meet IP addresses allow you to recognize the G Suite video conference traffic. Use the IPs to:

• Open Meet’s TCP and UDP ports for Meet IPs
• Avoid tunneling or DPI for Meet IPs
• Reduce latency by providing the shortest path possible to the internet for Meet traffic

How to get started

• Admins: Update your firewall for Hangouts IP addresses. You can find those IP addresses and more information in the Help Center.
• End users: No end user impact.

Additional information

Hangouts Meet and classic Hangouts will stop using the old IP address on February 14, 2019. As this change might interfere with previous network optimization you might have set up, we recommend adopting these IP addresses as part of your firewall and network configuration.

Helpful links

• Help Center: Optimize your network for Meet

Availability

Rollout details

• Rapid Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on February 14, 2019
• Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on February 14, 2019

G Suite editions
Available to all G Suite editions

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What’s changing 

We’re adding SAML integration for five additional applications:

• Carbonite 
• ComponentSpace 
• Emburse 
• Sentry 
• Twic 

Use our Help Center to see the full list of SAML apps and find out how to configure SAML applications.

Who’s impacted 

Admins only

Why you’d use it 

With Single-Sign-On (SSO), users can access all of their enterprise cloud applications—including the Admin console for admins—after signing in just one time. Google supports the two most popular enterprise SSO standards, OpenID Connect and SAML, and there are already many applications with pre-integrated SSO support in our third-party apps catalog.

How to get started 

• Admins: You can find our full list of pre-integrated applications, as well as instructions for installing them, in the Help Center.
• End users: No action needed.

Additional details 

Note that apart from the pre-integrated SAML applications, G Suite also supports installing “Custom SAML Applications,” which means that admins can install any third-party application that supports SAML. The advantage of a pre-integrated app is that the installation is much easier. Use out Help Center to learn more about installing Custom SAML Applications.

Helpful links 

Help Center: Using SAML to set up federated SSO 
Help Center: Set up your own custom SAML applicationAvailability 

Rollout details 

• Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on Jan 30, 2019 
• Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on Jan 30, 2019 

G Suite editions 
Available to all G Suite editions.
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Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed a new format to our launch announcements on this blog. Based on customer feedback, we tried to:

• Use headings to make our posts more scannable 
• Reorder information to call out what’s most important for you to know. 

We hope that this new formatting saves you time and makes our launch announcements more useful for you. If you haven’t already provided feedback, we’d love to get your thoughts on the new style. Please let us know what you think of the changes by filling out this form.


Thanks, The G Suite Launch Announcement team

What’s changing

In addition to similar announcements we’ve recently made for Drive and Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Sites on the web, we’re now bringing a new look to Gmail on mobile, too.

As part of the new design, you can quickly view attachments—like photos—without opening or scrolling through the conversation. It’s also easier to switch between personal and work accounts, so you can access all of your emails without breaking a sweat.

A more minimal use of color helps you focus on content and what's important to you. We’ve also replaced the search button with a more prominent search bar at the top of the screen.


And just like on the web, you’ll get big, red warnings to alert you when something looks phish-y. 

Who’s impacted

All end users

Why you’d use it

This update is part of a larger effort to bring the look and feel of our G Suite apps together as a whole, and always with ease-of-use in mind.

How to get started

• Admins: No action needed
• End users: You'll see the changes coming to your Android and iOS devices over the coming weeks.

Additional details

We’ve already updated the web apps for Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and most recently Google Docs and Sites. In the coming weeks, you’ll see the new mobile design in Gmail on Android and iOS, with more G Suite mobile apps to follow later this year.

Helpful links

• Help Center: Search in Gmail
• Help Center: Add another email account to the Gmail app
• Help Center: Check emails from other accounts
• Help Center: Sign out of Gmail

Availability

Rollout details

• Rapid Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 29, 2019
• Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on January 29, 2019

G Suite editions
Available to all G Suite editions

On/off by default?
This feature will be ON by default.

Stay up to date with G Suite launches

• Get G Suite product update alerts by email
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• Subscribe to the RSS feed of these updates

Quick launch summary 

We’ve expanded language options for creating a 2019 Calendar Template in Sheets. The new language options available are:

• Brazilian Portuguese 
• Chinese 
• Danish 
• Dutch 
• Filipino 
• French 
• German 
• Hindi 
• Indonesian 
• Italian 
• Japanese 
• Korean 
• Latin American Spanish 
• Polish 
• Russian 
• Spanish 
• Swedish 
• Thai 
• Turkish 
• Vietnamese 

Note: The template was previously released in English languages.

Availability