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Dev Channel Update for ChromeOS / ChromeOS Flex

The ChromeOS Dev channel is being updated to OS version 16667.5.0 (Browser version 149.0.7827.4) for most ChromeOS devices.

If you find new issues, please let us know one of the following ways:
  1. File a bug

  2. Visit our ChromeOS communities

    1. General: Chromebook Help Community

    2. Beta Specific: ChromeOS Beta Help Community

  3. Report an issue or send feedback on Chrome

  4. Interested in switching channels? Find out how.

Luis Menezes

Google ChromeOS

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Data Manager API: Introducing support for Google Ads store sales and more event ingestion use cases for Google Analytics

We're excited to announce several significant enhancements to the Data Manager API. This release introduces support for uploading store sales conversions to Google Ads and broadens support for Google Analytics event ingestion.

Store sales conversions

The Data Manager API offers a streamlined ingestion workflow for sending store sales conversions to Google Ads. This workflow eliminates the need to create and monitor multiple offline jobs and replaces those jobs with a single API request. You can also leverage additional features such as confidential matching, encryption for user identifiers, and support for sending multiple items per event in CartData. To use this feature, your Google Ads account must meet certain eligibility requirements.

Google Analytics web and app events

Building on our existing capabilities, we've expanded support for sending events to Google Analytics within the Data Manager API.

  • Web and app data stream event ingestion: You can now send any event to both your Google Analytics web and app data streams, provided they're not reserved events.
  • Event routing: Configure a destination using your Firebase App ID or Measurement ID to send an event to your Google Analytics app stream or web stream respectively.
  • Expanded support for events sent as an additional data source: The Data Manager API now supports sending any event with a transaction ID to both web and app data streams as an additional data source for your tag or Google Analytics for Firebase (GA4F) SDK implementation.
    • This feature is no longer restricted to purchase events sent to web data streams.
    • This feature is limited to Google Analytics properties on an allowlist; please fill out this form if you're interested in adding your property to the allowlist.

Get started

Connect with us

If you have any questions or want to discuss this post, please reach out to us on our "Google Advertising and Measurement Community" Discord server. You can also contact us through the support page if you have an issue or need help with the API.

If you're interested in becoming a data partner, please fill out the Partner Interest Form.

- Lindsey Volta, on behalf of the Data Manager API Team
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Google Workspace Studio available in more languages

Google Workspace Studio has expanded its support to include seven new languages. In addition to English, Workspace Studio now offers full capabilities in:

  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Business: Business Starter, Standard, and Plus
  • Enterprise: Enterprise Standard and Plus
  • Education: Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, Teaching and Learning
  • AI Add-ons: Google AI Pro for Education

Resources

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Managing your integrations at scale: Ads DevCast E4

Scaling an advertising integration is more than just writing code—it requires a deep understanding of efficiency, resilience, and auditability. In Episode 4 of Ads DevCast, "Managing your integrations at scale," we break down universal architectural best practices and product-specific solutions to help you optimize your advertising integrations.

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Whether you are working with the Google Ads API, Google Ads scripts, Data Manager API, DV360, or Google Analytics, here is a summary of the key takeaways to build high-performance, scalable systems.

Universal Principles of Robust Integrations

  1. Respect Rate Limits: Rate limits are a reality of using APIs at scale. Understand your limits beforehand to prevent lockouts and maintain a healthy integration. Read the error messages — they may contain instructions on what to do next. For transient or retry-able errors, don't hammer the server with rapid retries. Instead, implement exponential back-off with jitter to give the system time to recover.
  2. Prioritize Logging and Monitoring: Always consider logging in production where appropriate. Capture crucial metadata, like the Google Ads API request_id, in your structured logs to trace failures instantly. If a call is erroring, write that error payload to logs. Set up proactive alerts to catch errors before they impact operations.
  3. Use Official Client Libraries: While direct REST/gRPC calls are supported in many of our products, using official libraries saves development time and handles heavy lifting (e.g., serialization and authentication) out of the box.
  4. Cache Smartly: Reduce redundant queries. If you are querying historical data that will no longer change, cache it locally to save bandwidth and rate limits.

Product-Specific Best Practices

  • Google Ads API: Optimize efficiency by Batching Operations. Group operations logically to reduce round-trips. Order your operations correctly to improve execution efficiency.
  • Data Manager API: Batch ingestion requests to process events efficiently. Understand the difference between synchronous errors (structural issues returned instantly that reject the whole batch) and asynchronous validation (monitored via the Diagnostics endpoint).
  • Google Ads scripts: Avoid sequential iterations when dealing with many accounts at once. Use Bulk Uploads with CSV tables to apply scaled operations, and leverage the executeInParallel method for MCC scripts to run up to 50 concurrent execution threads.
  • Display & Video 360 API: Utilize Structured Data Files (SDFs) to manage YouTube line items and ad group bulk operations that aren't natively supported by the API.
  • Google Analytics: Enable daily BigQuery Exports for event-level data, and utilize Long-running Asynchronous Report Tasks in the Analytics Data API v1alpha to build scalable, customized reports without HTTP timeouts.

Next Steps:

Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel (or listen on YT Music)

Check out our Advertising and Measurement Developer Hub.

Join our community on Discord and share your scaling stories or questions with Googlers and other developers.

Learn more in our guides below:

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A look ahead: Making it easier and faster to publish safer apps

Posted by Vijaya Kaza, VP, Product, App & Ecosystem Trust


The mobile ecosystem is always evolving, bringing both new opportunities and new threats. Through these changes, Android and Google Play remain committed to ensuring that billions of users can continue to enjoy their apps with confidence and developer innovation can thrive. Earlier this year, we shared how Android and Google Play kept the ecosystem safe in 2025 by deepening our investments in AI and real-time defenses. Today, we’re giving you a look at how we’re making it easier and faster than ever for millions of developers to publish safer apps.

Simpler ways to build safer apps from the start

To help you catch potential issues before you hit submit, we’re integrating insights and new customized guidance built with AI to your publishing journey:

  • Catch policy issues while you code with expanded Play Policy Insights in Android Studio, which now offer warnings for common issues, like missing login credentials. Later this year, when you choose to connect your Play developer account directly to Android Studio, you’ll get tailored insights.
  • Choose the right SDKs with confidence by leveraging SDK Index. Later this year, we are bringing SDK insights directly into your development workflow so you can instantly see which SDKs comply with Play policies.

More powerful protection for your business and users

With new ways to stay ahead of fraud and abuse, and better tools to protect your users, we’re also making it easier to secure your app’s revenue and reputation.

  • Detect security threats and abuse faster with our stronger Play Integrity API, which developers rely on to make billions of checks everyday to help keep their business secure. With significantly shorter warm-up latency, you can use these real-time checks in your most speed-critical user journeys, like logins or payments, to catch unauthorized access and risky interactions.
  • Simplify how you manage user privacy with easy-to-integrate tools like the contact picker and location button to give users clearer choices. We're also updating our policies to raise the standard for user privacy.
  • Future-proofing app signing security on your behalf. We’re adding support for post-quantum cryptography in Play App Signing this year, which will protect your apps and app updates from potential threats with the emergence of quantum computing.

Faster, more predictable app publishing

We know how important it is to maintain a predictable release cycle, so we’re making the publishing process faster and more transparent.

  • Avoid unexpected review rejections with our expanding pre-review checks, which now identify unnecessary photo permission requests and other common violations before you submit.
  • Improve the speed and predictability of your review cycles by using the new release status API to check if your release is approved and published. We also added a new way for you to block new commits if a review is already in progress, so you don’t unintentionally restart your place in the queue.
  • Publish your releases even faster when we change our review architecture later this year to enable parallel publishing and faster reviews for your test tracks. You’ll be able to isolate your closed, open, and production tracks so that a review on one track no longer holds up updates on another.
  • Track your release history with the Submission history log later this year. Built at your request, this feature provides a complete record of every time you send an app or update for review and its status. This makes it easier for your team to coordinate and troubleshoot without digging through multiple menus.
  • Manage business changes securely with the account transfers feature to help you move ownership to new partners, entities, or team members (video). We’ve designed this highly developer-requested feature with safeguards to protect your business from fraud and account hijacking.
  • Get the right policy support when you need it. In the coming months you'll see AI-powered recommendations directly in your Play Console that help you resolve minor issues immediately. For more complex issues, you can create a ticket to connect with our policy specialists. We’re also giving new developers more guided support, including new Play Academy courses, to publish their first app with confidence. Later this year, we’ll expand this coaching experience for new developers.

Stronger security across the ecosystem

Finally, we’re bringing developer verification to the entire Android ecosystem to add another layer of security and make it much harder for malicious actors to repeatedly spread harm. Starting in September, these protections will roll out in select countries to help users feel more confident in the apps they download and without changing most users’ install experience. We will also update Android Bench to uplift the entire ecosystem’s ability to build and launch safer, higher quality apps using generative AI.

What’s next

Google Play is committed to helping you grow your business while keeping users safe, and we appreciate your continued feedback on the tools and programs. Thank you for partnering with us to make Android and Google Play a secure, trusted platform for everyone.

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