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New in Dock: topic groups, breakout rooms, Sheets and much more

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A big wave: topic groups, labels, translation and voice messages, breakout rooms and webinars, Sheets, Base and Drive upgrades, people and admin tools, and security hardening.

Illustration: Dock's little monster surfing a big friendly wave surrounded by app icons

What's new

Topic groups, labels, translation and voice messages

  • Messenger gets topic groups, private labels, message translation and voice messages.
  • Topic groups with a per-topic unread count and follow.
  • Private chat labels, Done and Hide, and a fuller chat-list context menu.
  • Translate a message or auto-translate a chat; Show original is always available.
  • Voice messages: hold to record, playback speed, transcript on demand.
  • Merge-forward a selection as one chat-history card; link previews; custom emoji and stickers.
  • External groups show a banner and an EXT tag.

Breakout rooms, webinars and meeting rooms

  • Run bigger, more structured meetings, with guests joining by link.
  • Breakout rooms: the host creates up to 20 rooms, assigns people, sets a timer and broadcasts.
  • Guest join by a public link with a name, device check and lobby admit.
  • Webinar mode with view-only attendees, panelists, Q&A and optional registration.
  • Annotations on shared screens and bookable meeting rooms with a display page.

Sheets, Base and Drive upgrades

  • Pivot tables and conditional formatting in Sheets, linked records and field permissions in Base.
  • Sheets: conditional formatting, data validation with dropdown chips, pivot tables, named and protected ranges, filter views.
  • Base: two-way links, lookups and rollups, multi-level grouping, record hierarchy, conditional colours and field-level permissions.
  • Drive: read-only previews of docx, xlsx, pptx and zip with Open as Doc, Sheet or Slides; folder upload keeps structure.

People and admin wave

  • Custom admin roles, member offboarding, guest accounts, single sign-on and richer email.
  • Custom admin roles with scoped permissions.
  • Edit a member, restore an offboarded member and transfer their resources.
  • Department group chats and extra profile fields with birthdays.
  • Email rules, templates, signatures, out-of-office replies, mailing lists and calendar invitations in mail.
  • Guest accounts and OpenID Connect single sign-on.
  • Download my data and account deletion requests.

Security and limits hardening

  • Login, share-link and public-page limits now key off the real client address.

What's new page and release newsletter

  • Every change now has a dated, versioned note you can read in the app, on a public page and in a feed.
  • What's new page with version cards, type chips, filters and search; a dot shows until you open it.
  • Public read-only page at /changelog and an Atom feed at /changelog.xml (published notes only).
  • Admins can write a note, publish it, email it to members (preview and test send first, opt-out per person) and post it to a chat.
  • Connect AI tool list_changelog lets an assistant read the published notes.

Improved

  • Network-quality indicator and gallery paging above 25 people.
  • Pasting from Excel or Google Sheets keeps styles.
  • Importing a .docx and restoring a Drive version now count against workspace storage limits.

Fixed

  • A spreadsheet formula with wildcard patterns could freeze the server; it now fails safely.

Security

  • Every HTTP route now checks suspended and idle-expired sessions the same way the chat connection does.
  • Login attempts are counted per network before any password hashing is done.
  • Share-link password guessing is throttled per link as well as per client address.
  • Link previews fetch pages with SSRF protection and re-host images.
  • Only the server operator can use the email sending key or change the sending identity.