This article lists all the updates made to Google add-ons and extensions since 2 May 2024.
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This change log covers the following Google add-ons and extensions:
- Gmail add-on
- The legacy Smartbar
- The new Smartbar
- UFO
- AODocs Chatbot
- AwesomeDrive
Note: Under normal circumstances, all releases are deployed to all customer domains and instances (US and EU). Learn more: What are AODocs instances? However, AODocs Life Sciences domains use a separate release cycle. We may occasionally restrict the deployment to specific domains or instances for technical reasons.
Details of major releases and hot fixes
Gmail add-on 7.2.7 released on 18 November 2024
- Feature improvement: The results of batch exports are provided more quickly after the export is completed. Previously, the status sometimes took hours to be updated, now it takes minutes.
- Bug fix: Batch exports could end in failure if the user's quota for Gmail or Drive operations was reached. We now try for a longer period and throttle operations to avoid this.
Gmail add-on 7.2.6 released on 7 November 2024
New features and improvements:
- The Gmail add-on is now compatible with libraries using Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and Azure Blob Storage. Single and batch exports are available for these libraries, with the following limitations:
- the email body can't be exported as as a Google Doc
- conversion to Google documents isn't available
- single export as a new version of an existing document isn't available
- Users can no longer select Gmail system labels (such as Inbox or Trash) as the basis for a rule. It is only possible to select custom labels. This is to avoid exporting the whole Inbox or archived emails for example.
- Text updates throughout the user interface.
Bug fix:
Users can no longer access the page to set up rules when the batch export feature isn't active on their domain.
New Smartbar 1.7 released on 29 October 2024
New features and improvements
- The AODocs Support team can set the default instance (US or EU) for customer domains. Contact the Support team by email at support@aodocs.com or open a ticket.
- When Smartbar Production and Smartbar Staging are both installed, only the Production version is active.
- We improved the speed of uploading multiple files or folders by parallelizing the process.
- We added a task manager at the bottom right of the screen to follow the progress of parallel uploads.
- You can close the library selector by pressing "Esc".
- The Smartbar switches to dark mode when dark mode is active is Google Drive.
Bug fixes
- When you uploaded several files into Drive by drag and drop, only the first one was uploaded. This has been fixed.
- Windows and MacOS hidden system files are now ignored when uploading a folder.
- The "Open with local software" action was no longer displayed for non-AODocs files. This has been fixed.
- We removed the broken "Learn more" link in the authentication warning dialog.
New Smartbar 1.6 released on 2 September 2024
Bug fix: The file action buttons didn't appear after a "Search in current folder". This has been fixed.
Legacy Smartbar 16.20 released on 26 August 2024
Bug fix
The Rename button on files stopped working on 1 August 2024 due to the Google Drive keyboard shortcut change. This has been fixed.
Legacy Smartbar 16.19 released on 19 August 2024
Bug fix: In Gmail, the Import into AODocs button was not always visible due to a Gmail change. This has been fixed.
Gmail add-on 7.1 released on 13 August 2024
New features and feature improvements
- Users can now choose to receive a summary email after a rule export. They can choose to get it systematically, or just in case of errors. The setup is in the personal settings of the dashboard.
- We removed the default library, class and behaviour settings in the personal settings of the dashboard. Instead, the add-on remembers the last library and class used, and the default behaviour for exports is always to create a new document.
- The rules export flow has been revamped (user interface design and text).
- There is a new option Dashboard in the add-on menu.
New Smartbar 1.5 released on 8 August 2024
Bug fixes
- When using multiple Google Accounts in a single Chrome profile:
- the authorization pop-up window reappeared when performing Smartbar actions – this has been fixed
- it wasn't possible to navigate to AODocs libraries unless the current Google Drive view was an AODocs library – this has been fixed
- Users with uppercase letters in their email address can now import files into AODocs.
- Security improvements.
Note: The Smartbar OAuth client ID has changed in version 1.5 from
“993707107224-njnu7p2ihf2f1mft5j06q7thquegdmsk.apps.googleusercontent.com” to “993707107224-rqsdapeccs58k03fe3st3dmif19jdoiv.apps.googleusercontent.com”.
Legacy Smartbar 16.10 released on 24 July 2023
Bug fixes:
- We fixed an initialisation problem in Google editors (Docs, Sheets, Presentations, Drawings).
- Microsoft Office file creation options in the New menu were not displayed on all Google Drive pages. This has been fixed.
Gmail add-on 7.0 released 22 July 2024
New features and feature improvements:
- Revamp of the single export flow.
- For single exports, you can select the destination folder in the library. You you can select whether to export the email’s EML file and/or the body of the email.
- For single exports, you can select whether to export the email’s EML file and/or the body of the email.
- At the end of the single export, a link allows the user to track the progress of the export.
- You can export to Team Folder and Secured Folder libraries, in single mode as well as through rules.
- You can export to any document class, even if they don't have an "Email ID" property. There is no check on the uniqueness of emails.
New Smartbar 1.4 released on 18 June 2024
Bug fixes
- The new Smartbar was unusable due to a Google interface change.
- Users with a real name including parentheses could not authenticate.
UFO 10.3 released on 17 June 2024
Bug fixes
- The Open file icon is no longer displayed on on Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, or Google Drawings files. The icon appeared incorrectly following a Google Drive change.
- A small percentage of users had the red banner UFO has been updated or uninstalled constantly visible, while UFO remained usable. A prior attempt to fix the problem was not effective. We have now removed the banner.
Feature improvement
- We added French translations for authentication labels.
Gmail add-on 6.4.0 released on 13 June 2024
Technical improvement: Users now sign in through a pop-up because Google deprecated the same-page method.
New Smartbar 1.3 released on 13 June 2024
Bug fix: We fixed a bug that occurred in the new Smartbar on the AODocs EU instance. The AODocs properties modal window, the AODocs library link, and the AODocs document link were inaccessible to users with email addresses beginning with the letters "u" through "z".
New Smartbar 1.2 released on 23 May 2024
Bug fixes:
- On the EU instance, the sign-in page was displayed in AODocs documents instead of document properties.
- On the EU instance, the authorization consent flow showed a warning message, which no longer appears.
UFO 10.2 released on 16 May 2024
Bug fix: A small percentage of users have the red 'updated' banner constantly visible, while UFO remains otherwise usable. We added a change to fix the banner issue.
AwesomeDrive 8.3 released on 16 May 2024
Bug fix: The Open file button stopped opening Microsoft Office files due to a Google Drive change. This has been fixed.
New Smartbar 1.1 was released on 2 May 2024
Bug fix: Files in AODocs libraries displayed an Import into AODocs button instead of the expected actions. This was due to a Google Drive change and has been fixed.