We completely redesigned Google Groups from the ground up to offer a new and improved user interface, collaborative inbox, take and assign topic functionality, multi-domain support, advanced search operators, new ways of viewing group content, and much more.

Release track:
Rapid

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All supported languages

How to access what's new:
Beginning May 15, Rapid Release users who navigate to the Google Groups page will see a horizontal blue bar toward the top of the groups page saying, “The old Google Groups will be going away soon. Switch to the new Google Groups.”

Scheduled Release users who navigate to the Google Groups page will simply see a notification that Groups will be changing soon.

*Google Apps domains on the Scheduled Release track will see the old Google Groups but will also see a notification informing users that the old groups will soon be going away.

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Version 4.05 of Google Apps Device Policy is now available for your Android users with the following improvements:

- Multiple Account support: Google Apps Device Policy app allows users to register with multiple Google Apps domains.
- New supported settings for Android in the Google Apps control panel Settings > Mobile > Org Settings:

Number of days before password expires for Android 3.0+

Number of expired passwords that are blocked for Android 3.0+

Allow/block camera for Android 4.0+

NOTE: If a Google Apps domain is enforcing policies that are not supported by a user’s Android device, the affected users will be blocked from accessing their accounts. Learn more about enforcing device policies.

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported

How to access what's new:
Download Device Policy on Google Play

For more information:
Device Policy Administration
Device Policy Overview for Users
Mobile Management: Org Settings

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Starting Wednesday, May 16th, we will begin the process of migrating legacy Google documents (those created before July 2010) to the new document editor. The new editor has the following features:

- Real time collaboration: See updates from other collaborators as they edit the document.
- Higher-quality imports: More consistent imports from your desktop into Google Docs.
- Ruler: Google documents have a ruler for setting margins, indentations, and tab stops.
- Chat with other collaborators: As you make your edits, you can chat with other document editors about the changes, from within the document.

Release track:
Rapid & Scheduled

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported

For more information:
https://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176442
http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2398701
http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=183813

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Gmail now has the following new features:
- Automatic language translation
- The text in the browser tab now reads "Inbox (20) - user@example.com - Gmail" instead of "Gmail - Inbox (20) - user@example.com.”
- A change to the way "Mute" works

Please see the blog URL below to read which labs have been retired.

Release track:
Rapid

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All supported languages

For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/say-hello-or-ola-or-halo-or-salam-to.htmlhttp://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47787

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The following features are now available to domains following the Scheduled Release track:

- Gmail: Compact conversation view becomes more compact
- Gmail: New Google Plus people widget

The following features are intended for release to these domains on May 8th:
- No new features to announce

Release track:
Scheduled*

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

*Scheduled Release track: Domains with ‘Scheduled Release’ option enabled in the administrator control panel. Learn more.

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Beginning Monday, April 30th, a new Control Panel Dashboard user interface will start to roll out over the next 2-3 weeks.

The new design simplifies the Dashboard layout and brings commonly used actions and setup tasks to the main page.

Google Apps for Education and Government customers will receive this update around late-May to early-June 2012.

Release track:
Rapid & Scheduled

Editions included:
Google Apps and Google Apps for Business

Languages included:
US English only (Next Generation release only)

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Contacts delegation allows users to delegate full access to the contacts in their “My Contacts” group without granting access to their mail or anything else in their accounts.

You may delegate your contacts only to other users within your domain. Like mail delegation, you may delegate your contacts to no more than 25 other users at the same time. Delegation allows the sharing of the entire “My Contacts” list only. You cannot delegate a subset of your “My Contacts” or delegate contacts not in your “My Contacts.”

Release track:
Rapid

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported

How to access what's new:
- Navigate to www.google.com/contacts
- The "More" menu now has a "Manage delegation settings" option

For more information:
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=20016&answer=2590392

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The following features are now available to domains following the Scheduled Release track:
- No new features to announce

The following features are intended for release to these domains on May 1st:
- Gmail: Compact conversation view becomes more compact
- Gmail: New Google Plus people widget

Release track:
Scheduled*

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

*Scheduled Release track: Domains with ‘Scheduled Release’ option enabled in the administrator control panel. Learn more.

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Administrators can now purchase additional Google Drive storage space which can be managed and distributed through the Google Apps control panel. Storage can be used with Google Drive only (not Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, Blogger, etc).

This new administrator feature is covered by our 99.9% SLA uptime guarantee and 24/7 support.

Release track:
Rapid & Scheduled

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business

Languages included:
All languages supported

For more information:
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1727173&topic=1727149
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=177064

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