CloudM Automate Release Notes

All release notes for the CloudM Automate platform and its core functions: Workflows, Archive, Backup, Drive Management, and Signatures.

Find out what's new in the latest releases of CloudM Automate below.

11 August 2026: multi-function release, including Drive Management

This release introduces Drive Management in early access through CloudM Labs, and brings updates to the core Automate platform, Backup and Archive.

Drive Management

Early access, via CloudM Labs

Drive Management is a new area in Automate giving administrators a single place to see and manage every shared drive across their domain, browse the folders and files inside them, and view an individual user's My Drive without signing in as the user.

⚠️ This is an early access release in CloudM Labs, not a general release. If you submit a request via CloudM Labs, CloudM will approve and the Drive Management option will be available. 

If you are already approved for CloudM Labs, then the option will be available immediately.

✨ New & improved

• Every shared drive in one list — with search, filters, configurable columns, sorting and pagination across your whole domain.
• Unmanaged shared drives are flagged — drives left behind with no manager are surfaced automatically, with a one-click filter to review them.
• Manage a drive without leaving Automate — update its settings, move it between organisational units, manage members and roles, rename it, delete it, or create a new one. You can also select several drives and apply an action across all of them.
• Browse folders and files inside a drive — and review or change sharing at the file level.
• Export a drive's data — the current columns and their contents.
• View a user's My Drive — from their record in Directory, including their storage use and transferring ownership of individual files.

Find out more: Drive Management

Automate

Version 3.4.0.0

This release completes the move of Organisational Units onto the modern Automate interface, and improves offboarding exports and notifications.

✨ New & improved

• Organisational Units rebuilt — the OU list, creation flow and detail view have been rebuilt in the modern Automate interface, with actions available directly from the OU.
• Inherited values are now visible — inherited settings are clearly marked, so you can tell at a glance what an OU sets itself and what it takes from its parent. Nothing about your configuration has changed, only how it is displayed.

🛠️ Bug fixes

• Send-as names — you can now type a space in a send-as name, and the left and right arrow keys no longer change which send-as address is set as the default.
• Inspect configuration — “Deprovisioning” no longer appears under Directory > User Actions for users where deprovisioning is not configured.
• Organisational unit photos — resolved an issue where OU photos failed to load.
• Editing an organisational unit — improvements to the edit OU experience.

Backup

Version 1.15

This release is focused on getting your data back faster, and on giving you control over how much of it a first backup captures.

✨ New & improved

• Restore more than one thing at a time — restores now run at the same time instead of queueing behind each other. We have also lifted the restriction that blocked a restore to a user while another restore to that same user was already in progress. In practice a large recovery no longer has to be run one job at a time, and a mistake in one restore no longer blocks the next.
• Limit how far back an initial backup goes — you can now set a history limit on initial backups for Drive, My Drive and Shared Drives, so a first-time backup captures a defined period rather than everything ever created. Note that the limit applies to the first backup only; ongoing backups continue to capture everything that changes.
• Modernised authentication — backup authentication has been brought up to date so that CloudM's activity is verifiably attributable in your Google Cloud audit logs, rather than appearing only as your own service account from an anonymous address. This defaults to your current configuration, so no action is needed and your existing backups carry on as normal.

🛠️ Bug fixes

• Large domains — backups no longer fail when a job has been waiting in the queue for a long time before it runs.

Archive

Version 2.15

This release makes archive restorations significantly faster where more than one service is involved.

✨ New & improved

• Faster restorations — an archive restore now brings back Mail, Drive and Chat at the same time rather than one service after another, so a restore covering more than one service finishes considerably sooner.