This page is updated with each product release. The changelog lists releases by date and includes any new features, bug fixes, and significant performance improvements. You can also browse and filter all release notes for all products in the [Google API Console](https://console.cloud.google.com/release-notes). To subscribe to these release notes, add the [feed URL](https://developers.google.com/static/feeds/places-release-notes.xml) of this page to your [RSS feed reader](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators). [](https://developers.google.com/static/feeds/places-release-notes.xml) See the [Getting Started](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/cloud-setup) documentation for information on how to get started using the Places API (New). ## August 06, 2026 Feature **New fields: entrances and navigationPoints** The `entrances` and `navigationPoints` fields can be included in the field mask of a Nearby Search (New), Text Search (New), and Place Details (New) request. The response body for `entrances` includes entry and exit points for a place. The response body for `navigationPoints` defines road-side locations where navigation should end. For more information, see [Get entrances and navigation points](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-details.md.txt#entrances-navigation-points). ## May 20, 2026 Feature **New field: transitStation** The `transitStation` field can be included in the field mask of a Nearby Search (New), Text Search (New), and Place Details (New) request. The response body includes information about the station, including the station name, affiliated transit agencies, and transit lines serving the station. For more information, see [Get transit station information](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-details.md.txt#get-transit-station-information). ## March 17, 2026 Feature **New request parameter: includeFutureOpeningBusinesses** The optional `includeFutureOpeningBusinesses` parameter is available for use in Nearby Search (New), Text Search (New), and Autocomplete (New) requests. If set to `true`, the API returns businesses that will open in the future. For more information, see [Find businesses opening in the future](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/text-search.md.txt#find_businesses_opening_in_the_future). Feature **New field: openingDate** The `openingDate` field can be included in the field mask of a Nearby Search (New), Text Search (New), and Place Details (New) request. For businesses that are expected to open in the future, this field provides the anticipated opening date. For more information, see the [API reference](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/reference/rest/v1/places.md.txt#resource:-place). ## February 12, 2026 Feature **New field: `googleMapsTypeLabel`** The `googleMapsTypeLabel` field is available in the response body and provides the type label of a place on Google Maps (for example, "restaurant", "cafe", "airport", etc.), localized to the language specified in the request body, if applicable. Type labels may be different from the primary type display name and may not be a supported place type. For more information, see the [API reference](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/reference/rest/v1/places.md.txt#resource:-place). Announcement **New place types** Places API (New) supports 180 new types, which can be used to filter results in Autocomplete (New), Nearby Search (New), and Text Search (New) requests and are returned in the API response. For a complete list of supported types, see [Place Types (New)](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-types.md.txt#table-a). Types added in this release are marked with an asterisk (\*). ## October 20, 2025 Feature **New fields: `movedPlace` and `movedPlaceId`** The `movedPlace` and `movedPlaceId` fields can be included in the field mask of a Nearby Search (New), Text Search (New), or Place Details (New) request. If a place has relocated, these fields provide information about the next location. For more information, see [Get place details for a moved place](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-details.md.txt#get-place-details-for-a-moved-place). ## August 21, 2025 Announcement **AI-powered place and review summaries expansion** Place and review summaries are now available in the following languages and regions: - **[Place summaries](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-summaries.md.txt):** Available in English in India and the United States. - **[Review summaries](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/review-summaries.md.txt):** Available in English in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Available in Japanese in Japan. For more information, see [AI-powered summaries](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/op-overview.md.txt#ai-powered_summaries). Announcement **googleMapsLinks field generally available** The `googleMapsLinks` field is now generally available. Places API (New) requests that include `googleMapsLinks` in the field mask will be billed at the [appropriate SKU](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/usage-and-billing.md.txt). For more information, see [Link to Google Maps](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/maps-links.md.txt). ## May 08, 2025 Feature **New feature: AI-powered summaries** AI-powered summaries are now generally available. Places API (New) supports the following types of AI-powered summaries: - [Place summaries](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-summaries.md.txt), which are short overview summaries related to a specific place. - [Review summaries](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/review-summaries.md.txt), which are digestible summaries of what reviewers have said about a place. - [Area summaries](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/area-summaries.md.txt), which provide overviews of nearby and popular places in the surrounding area. These include neighborhood summaries and EV charging station summaries. For more information, see [AI-powered summaries](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/op-overview.md.txt#ai-powered_summaries). ## April 15, 2025 Feature **New feature: AI-powered summaries (Preview)** AI-powered summaries are now available in Preview. Places API (New) supports the following types of AI-powered summaries: - [Place summaries](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-summaries.md.txt), which are short overview summaries related to a specific place. - [Review summaries](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/review-summaries.md.txt), which are digestible summaries of what reviewers have said about a place. - [Area summaries](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/area-summaries.md.txt), which provide overviews of nearby and popular places in the surrounding area. These include neighborhood summaries and EV charging station summaries. For more information, see [AI-powered summaries](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/op-overview.md.txt#ai-powered_summaries). ## April 08, 2025 Feature **New field: addressDescriptor** The `addressDescriptor` field can be included in the field mask of a Place Details (New), Text Search (New), or Nearby Search (New) request. Address descriptors provide relational information about a place's location, including nearby landmarks and containing areas. For more information, see the [API reference](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/reference/rest/v1/places.md.txt#addressdescriptor). Address descriptors are generally available for customers in India and are experimental elsewhere. **Note:** Places API requests that use only `addressDescriptor` in the field mask will be billed at the appropriate SKU. For more information, see [SKU details](https://developers.google.com/maps/billing-and-pricing/sku-details.md.txt). ## March 11, 2025 Feature **New field: postalAddress** Places API (New) supports filtering using the [`postalAddress`](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/reference/rest/v1/places.md.txt#postaladdress) field, which provides location information for postal services. `postalAddress` can be included in the field mask of a request to Nearby Search (New), Text Search (New), and Place Details (New). Postal address information is well-defined for the following countries: Argentina, Austria, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Great Britain, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Malta, Mexico, Nigeria, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America. Postal address information outside of these countries is experimental. ## November 07, 2024 Announcement **New place types** Places API (New) supports 104 new types, which can be used to filter results in Autocomplete (New), Nearby Search (New), and Text Search (New) requests and are returned in the API response. For a complete list of supported types, see [Place Types (New)](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-types.md.txt#table-a). Types added in this release are marked with an asterisk (\*). Feature **New fields: containingPlaces, pureServiceAreaBusiness, priceRange, nextOpenTime, and nextCloseTime** Three new fields have been added to the response body and are available for filtering results using the Places API (New): - `containingPlaces`: Provides a list of places in which the current place is located. - `priceRange`: The price range associated with a place. - `pureServiceAreaBusiness`: Indicates whether a place is a pure service area business, which visits or delivers to customers directly but does not have a physical address (for example, a mobile cleaning service). Additionally, Text Search (New) and Autocomplete (New) now support searching for pure service area businesses using the `includePureServiceAreaBusinesses` parameter in the request body. For more information, see [Optional parameters](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/text-search.md.txt#includepureserviceareabusinesses). The Places API (New) also returns `nextOpenTime` and `nextCloseTime` to help developers calculate the minutes until a place opens or closes. For more information, see [OpeningHours](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/reference/rest/v1/places.md.txt#openinghours). ## October 29, 2024 Feature **New field: googleMapsLinks** The `googleMapsLinks` field is now available in Preview. Your users can browse to these Google Maps links to see additional information about a place in the response. For more information, see [Link to Google Maps](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/maps-links.md.txt). Feature **New field: RoutingSummary.directionsUri** The `RoutingSummary.directionsUri` field is now available in Preview. When you calculate a routing summary, this field contains a link to open directions to the place in Google Maps. For more information, see [Calculate routing summary](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/routing-summary.md.txt). If you combine routing summary calculations with search along a route, then `RoutingSummary.directionsUri` contains a link to open directions from the route origin to the place and then to the route destination. For more information, see [Combine routing summaries with search along route](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/routing-summary-sar.md.txt). Feature **New field: flagContentUri** The new `flagContentUri` field is now available in Preview. This field has been added to all reviews, photos, and generative summaries included in a Places API response. It contains a link, including a unique content identifier, that lets users notify Google of inappropriate content. For more information, see [Report inappropriate content](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/content-reporting.md.txt). ## October 15, 2024 Feature New experimental `addressDescriptor` field added to the [`Place`](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/reference/rest/v1/places.md.txt#Place.FIELDS.address_descriptor) response object. Address descriptors include additional information that help describe a location using landmarks and areas. This feature is available in all regions. See [coverage details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/address-descriptors/coverage). This feature is in the pre-GA Experimental stage and there is no charge, meaning billing is $0, for usage during Experimental. > [!NOTE] > **Note:** This feature is in the **Experimental launch stage (pre-GA)** . Pre-GA products and features might have limited support, and changes to pre-GA products and features might not be compatible with other pre-GA versions. This Pre-GA feature does not have any latency or availability guarantee. Pre-GA Offerings are covered by the [Google Maps Platform Service Specific Terms](https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/maps-service-terms). For more information, see the [launch stage descriptions](https://developers.google.com/maps/launch-stages.md.txt). ## September 17, 2024 Feature **Search along route** Search along a route is now generally available in the Places API (New). With this release, you can: - **(Text Search only)** Search for places along a predefined trip route. - **(Text Search and Nearby Search)** Calculate the routing summary, meaning the duration and distance, from a specified routing origin location to each place in the search results. - **(Text Search only)** Calculate the routing summary for each place along a predefined trip route. For more information, see [Overview of search along route](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/sar-overview.md.txt). ## May 28, 2024 Feature **Autocomplete (New) and session tokens** Autocomplete (New) is now generally available. The Autocomplete (New) service returns place predictions and query predictions based on full words and substrings of an input. For more information, see [Autocomplete (New)](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-autocomplete.md.txt). Session tokens are user-generated strings that group the query and selection phases of a search using Autocomplete (New) into a discrete "session" for billing purposes. For more information, see [Session tokens](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-session-tokens.md.txt). After making an Autocomplete (New) request, if you make a Place Details request using the [SKU: Place Details (Location Only)](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/usage-and-billing.md.txt#location-placedetails), and then make an Address Validation request before the session token expires (in that order), the request using [SKU: Place Details (Location Only)](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/usage-and-billing.md.txt#location-placedetails) is free. The Address Validation request is billed using the [SKU: Address Validation Preferred](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/usage-and-billing.md.txt#address-validation-preferred). For more information, see [Autocomplete (New) and session pricing](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/session-pricing.md.txt). ## May 13, 2024 Deprecated **Places API (New) field maxResultCount deprecated** To better meet developer needs, the Text Search (New) field `maxResultCount` in the Places API (New) is deprecated as of May 13, 2024. Instead, use [`pageSize`](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/text-search.md.txt#pagesize) to specify the number of results to return per page. ## February 21, 2024 Feature **New Place Details SKU** SKU: Place Details (Location Only) is a Preview feature that contains fields that were previously included in SKU: Place Details (Basic). Usage during Preview is at no charge. For more information, see [SKU: Place Details (Location Only)](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/usage-and-billing.md.txt#location-placedetails). Feature **New Text Search parameters** Two new [`evOptions`](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/text-search.md.txt#evoptions) parameters are available as optional fields in Text Search: - `connectorTypes`: Filters by the type of EV charging connector available at a place. - `minimumChargingRateKw`: Filters places by minimum EV charging rate in kilowatts (kW). Feature **New fields: evChargeOptions, fuelOptions, parkingOptions** The following fields are available in GA and are charged for use: - `evChargeOptions`: Number of electric vehicle (EV) chargers at this station. - `fuelOptions`: The most recent information about fuel options available at a gas station. - `parkingOptions`: Parking options provided by the place. For more information, see [About the Places API (New)](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/op-overview.md.txt). Feature **Autocomplete (New) and session tokens** The Autocomplete (New) service returns place predictions and query predictions based on full words and substrings of an input. For more information, see [Autocomplete (New)](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-autocomplete.md.txt). Session tokens are user-generated strings that group the query and selection phases of a search using Autocomplete (New) into a discrete "session" for billing purposes. For more information, see [Session tokens](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-session-tokens.md.txt). **Note:** Autocomplete (New) and session tokens are in preview. Announcement **Places API** Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of the Places API. See the [Release Notes](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/release-notes.md.txt) for information about this release and for all other releases. If you are a new user, see [Set Up in the Google Cloud Console](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/cloud-setup) to start the installation process. ## October 26, 2023 Announcement **Places API** Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of the Places API. See the [Release Notes](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/support.md.txt) for information about this release and for all other releases. If you are a new user, see [Set Up in the Google Cloud Console](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/cloud-setup) to start the installation process. Feature **New APIs, fields, and accessibility options** Four new APIs are available through the Places API (New): - [Nearby Search](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/nearby-search.md.txt): Takes one or more place types and returns a list of matching places within the specified area. - [Text Search](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/text-search.md.txt): Returns information about a set of places based on string. - [Place Details](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-details.md.txt): Returns comprehensive information about a particular establishment or point of interest. - [Place Photos](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/place-photos.md.txt): Provides access to high-quality photos stored in the Places database. New [fields](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/op-overview.md.txt#fields) provide more information about a place, including secondary opening hours, payment and parking options, EV charging availability, and more. New [attributes](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/op-overview.md.txt#attributes) provide additional context about a place, including whether a place has outdoor seating, live music, a children's menu, restrooms, and more. New [accessibility options](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/op-overview.md.txt#accessibility_options) indicate whether a place has wheelchair-accessible parking, entrances, restrooms, and seating. For more information, see [About the New Places APIs](https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/places/web-service/op-overview.md.txt).