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Earlier today, we announced that Inbox by Gmail is now open to all consumers—no invitation required. We also announced several new features for Inbox like undo send and signatures. In addition, while we’re still in the early stages of bringing Inbox to work, we’ve expanded the Inbox early adopter program—announced earlier this year—so any Google Apps for Work customer who wants to join can do so.

We want to build an Inbox that changes the way people get things done at work by collaborating with Apps for Work customers to bring Inbox to work, and we encourage Apps for Work customers interested in the early adopter program to get involved by joining the Inbox early adopter community. 

Notes: 

  • If you use Vault, you should carefully evaluate how existing domain rules work with Inbox before enabling Inbox for your domain.
  • The early adopter program is currently not available for Google Apps for Education, Google Apps for Nonprofits, or Google Apps for Government customers. 

Check out the Help Center for more details on the Inbox early adopter program.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

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A new version of the Google Drive app for Android is coming to Google Play this week. New features include:

  • PDF Viewer enhancement: see completed form data
  • Performance and interface improvements

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release (gradual rollout)

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New versions of the Google Docs and Slides apps for Android and iOS are now available on Google Play and the App Store. New features include:

  • Docs
    • Insert images
  • Slides
    • Insert, crop and mask images
    • Insert and manipulate tables

All of today’s improvements to Docs and Slides will remain available when you’re offline. You’ll just need the updated mobile apps.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

For more information:
Get the latest Docs and Slides apps on Google Play and the App Store (Docs | Slides)
Help Center: Docs
Help Center: Slides


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To improve overall performance, we’re moving from using hash marks (#) to using the HTML5 History API in Google Drive. This means that moving forward, Google Drive folder and page URLs will no longer include hash marks (for example, https://drive.google.com/drive/#folders/ABC will become https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ABC and https://drive.google.com/drive/#starred will become https://drive.google.com/drive/starred).

Links to Drive folder and page URLs containing hash marks will continue to work indefinitely, but this change could impact any Google Apps admins or employees who parse Drive folder or page URLs specifically for the “#” symbol or who use Chrome extensions that employ the old-style URLs for Drive navigation.

This change is currently live for Rapid release domains; the rollout to Scheduled release domains is planned for June 9th.

Release track:
Live on Rapid release, with Scheduled release to follow on June 9th

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In January, we launched a Classroom mobile app for iOS and Android, because we knew that students were increasingly relying on mobile devices to get homework done on the go. That app has now been downloaded more than 2.5 million times. This functionality isn’t just useful for students, however. We’ve heard from teachers that they also want to be able to keep track of their classes no matter where they are or what device they’re on. Today, we’re making that even easier with several new features. Teachers can now:

  • Create and edit assignments on the go, make copies of attachments, and attach new photos to assignments. 
  • Grade assignments from their phones or tablets, and add private comments for students.
  • Snap pictures to create assignments, so whiteboard photos and class notes can be posted to the stream for students who are absent and/or assigned to the class for a deeper dive.


Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

More information:
Help Center: Get the classroom app
Google for Education blog post

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OAuth is the de facto standard for authorization today and used by most modern APIs. To assist with connecting Apps Script to OAuth-protected APIs, we recently created two new open source libraries: OAuth1 for Apps Script and OAuth2 for Apps Script. These libraries replace and extend the capabilities of the UrlFetch service's limited OAuthConfig class.

All Google APIs (Google Calendar, Google Drive, etc.) stopped supporting OAuth1 (and by extension OAuthConfig) on April 20th, 2015. Scripts using these APIs should have been migrated to the OAuth2 for Apps Script library or the API’s equivalent Advanced Service.

On July 6th, 2015*, we will go one step further and shut down the OAuthConfig class completely. This means that if you have scripts that still use OAuthConfig to connect to APIs, you will need to update your code to use the OAuth1 for Apps Script library before July 6th, 2015.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

*Note: this date was changed to July 6, 2015 from June 26, 2015 on June 10, 2015.

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Check out the latest "What's New in Google Apps" newsletter [pdf] for a roundup of all Apps launches from April 2015.

Newsletter Archive & Translated Versions (coming soon for April issue)


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Today, we’re announcing Google+ Collections, a new way to group posts by topic.

Every collection is a focused set of posts on a particular topic, providing an easy way for people using Google+ to organize their interests and focus areas. For Google Apps customers, collections could be used for communicating to a project team or organizing an event, allowing followers to easily access all relevant posts in one location.

Each collection can be shared publicly, privately, or with a custom set of people. Once you create your first collection, your profile will display a new tab where other people can find and follow your collections. Posts in collections you follow will appear in your Home stream, with a link to easily jump right into the collection so you can get to similar content from that author.

Collections is available on Android and the web starting today, with iOS coming later.

Release track:
Rapid release and Scheduled release

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Help Center
Get the latest Google+ Android app on Google Play
Google+ announcement

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