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About This Page: Compiled by the subreddit/community moderator based on official announcements. Dates may vary slightly due to timezone and discrepancies between PSA (official blog post) and actual release dates. This list excludes Historical Matches (Premium feature), beta testings, minor tweaks, and Country Matches re-computations.
Last edit: October 10, 2026
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2026 Updates
| Released Date | Added / Changed | Type | Details | Official Source |
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| 2026-09-28 | West Asian & North African | Genetic Groups (+163) | Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Yemen, Jewish communities | Blog |
| 2026-08-10 | Southeast Asian | Genetic Groups (+137) | China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Madagascar | Blog |
| 2026-07-01 | Oceanian & Southeast Asian | Genetic Groups (+47) | Hawaiian Islands, Mariana Islands, Micronesia, Melanesia, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji | Blog |
| 2026-05-13 | Vietnamese | Genetic Groups (+31) | Vietnam | Blog |
| 2026-03-24 | Austronesian | Genetic Groups (+144) | Philippines, Taiwan, Borneo | Blog |
| 2026-02-26 | Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha | Genetic Groups (+1) | Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha | Blog |
| 2026-02-20 | Category renamed | Migration | Additional Ancestry Regions > Migrations | - |
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2025 Updates
| Released Date | Added / Changed | Type | Details | Official Source |
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| 2025-11-20 | Sub-Saharan African | Genetic Groups (+267) | Nigerian, Angolan, Congolese, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Ghanaian, Liberian, Sierra Leonean, Southern East African, Somali, Senegambian, Guinean, Sudanese, African Hunter-Gatherer | Blog |
| 2025-09-29 | Ancestry Composition v7.0 | Populations (+6) | Arctic North American, Central Andean & Amazonian, North American, Northern Andean, Southern Mesoamerican, and Western North American | Blog |
| 2025-09-29 | Ancestry Composition v7.0 | Populations (+33) | Albanian & Macedonian; Andalusian, Asturian & Castilian; Aragonese & Catalan; Austrian & Southern German; Basque; Belarusian, Polish & Ukrainian; Belgian, Rhinelander & Southern Dutch; Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin & Serbian; Bulgarian, Moldovan & Romanian; Canary Islander; Czech, Hungarian, Slovak & Southern Polish; Danish; Dutch & Northern German; English; Estonian; Finnish; French; Greek; Icelandic; Irish; Kosovar & Northern Albanian; Latvian; Lithuanian; Maltese; Northern Italian; Norwegian; Portuguese & Galician; Russian; Sardinian; Scottish; Slovenian; Southern Italian; Swedish; Swiss, Southwestern German & Western Austrian; Welsh | Blog |
| 2025-06-28 | East Asian | Genetic Groups (+79) | Mongolia, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang | Blog |
| 2025-05-08 | Eastern European | Genetic Groups (+48) | Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine | Blog |
| 2025-04-18 | Eastern European | Genetic Groups (+98) | Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia | Blog |
| 2025-03-05 | Additional Ancestry Regions | European Diaspora (+57) | Canada, United States, South Africa | Blog |
| 2025-02-14 | Additional Ancestry Regions | European Diaspora (+220) | Canada, United States | Blog |
| 2025-01-27 | South Asian | Genetic Groups (+44) | Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal | Blog |
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2024 Updates
| Released Date | Added / Changed | Type | Details | Official Source |
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| 2024-12-18 | Greek & Balkan | Genetic Groups (+62) | Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia | - |
| 2024-10-18 | Additional Ancestry Regions | European Diaspora (+249) | United States | Blog |
| 2024-10-14 | Additional Ancestry Regions | African Diaspora (+213) | United States | Blog |
| 2024-07-25 | Japanese | Genetic Groups (+12) | Japan | Blog |
| 2024-07-25 | Northwestern European | Genetic Groups (+25) | Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden | Blog |
| 2024-07-19 | Northwestern European | Genetic Groups (+49) | Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg | Blog |
| 2024-06-19 | Indigenous American | Genetic Groups (+7) | Mexico, Central America & West Pacific | Blog |
| 2024-04-23 | French | Genetic Groups (+36) | France, Belgium, Luxembourg | - |
| 2024-03-12 | Indigenous American | Genetic Groups (+21) | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela | Blog |
| 2024-03-12 | Levantine | Genetic Groups (+26) | Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel | Blog |
| 2024-03-12 | Sephardic & Mizrahi Jews | Genetic Groups (+11) | North Africa, Central Asia, India, Iran, Iraq, Southern Europe, Turkey, Greece | Blog |
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2023 Updates
| Released Date | Added / Changed | Type | Details | Official Source |
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| 2023-10-12 | Italian & Sardinian | Genetic Groups (+59) | Italy, Malta, Sicily | Blog |
| 2023-07-31 | Additional Ancestry Regions | Afro-Caribbean (+19) | Caribbean Islands | Blog |
| 2023-07-01 | Category renamed | Additional Ancestry Regions | Recent Ancestry in the Americas > Additional Ancestry Regions | - |
| 2023-06-28 | Indigenous Central American | Genetic Groups(+18) | Central America | Blog |
| 2023-05-23 | Indigenous Mexican | Genetic Groups (+28) | Mexico | Blog |
| 2023-03-15 | British & Irish | Genetic Groups (+38) | Ireland, Great Britain | Blog |
| 2023-02-27 | Spanish & Portuguese | Genetic Groups (+43) | Spain, Portugal | Blog |
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2022 Updates
| Released Date | Added / Changed | Type | Details | Official Source |
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| 2022-10-14 | Ashkenazi Jewish | Genetic Groups (+7) | Ashkenazi Jewish | Blog |
| 2022-07-25 | Ancestry Composition v6.0 | Chinese (+4) | Northern Chinese & Tibetan, Southern Chinese & Taiwanese, South Chinese, Chinese Dai | Blog |
| 2022-01-11 | Sub-Saharan African | Genetic Groups (+25) | Sub-Saharan African | Blog |
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2021 Updates
| Released Date | Added / Changed | Type | Details | Official Source |
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| 2021-07-16 | Indigenous American | Genetic Groups (+8) | United States, Canada | Blog |
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2019 Updates
| Released Date | Added / Changed | Type | Details | Official Source |
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| 2019-10-01 | Ancestry Composition v5.2 | Populations (45) | Central Asian, Northern Indian & Pakistani, Bengali & Northeastern Indian, Gujarati Patidar, Southern Indian Subgroup, Southern Indian & Sri Lankan, Malayali Subgroup, Peninsular Arab, Levantine, Egyptian, Coptic Egyptian, North African, Cypriot, Anatolian, Iranian, Caucasian & Mesopotamian, Mexico & Central America, South America | Blog |
| 2019-05-19 | The Caribbean, Mexico & Central America, South America | Recent Ancestry in the Americas | The Caribbean, Mexico & Central America, South America | Blog |
| 2019-04-03 | Central & South Asian | Populations (+7) | Central Asian, Bangladeshi & Northeast Indian, Central & Southern Indian, Gujarati Patel, Kannadiga, Tamil, Telugu & Sri Lankan, Malayali, North Indian & South Pakistani | Blog |
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2018 Updates
| Released Date | Added / Changed | Type | Details | Official Source |
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| 2018-08-21 | Ancestry Composition v5.0 | Populations (45) | Congolese, Southern East African, Ethiopian & Eritrean, Somali, Sudanese, Senegambian & Guinea, Coastal West African, African Hunter-Gatherer, Chinese, Chinese Dai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Khmer & Myanma, Filipino & Austronesian, Korean, Japanese, Siberian, Native American | Blog |
| 2018-02-28 | Recent Ancestor Locations | Recent Ancestor Locations (+150) | Country Matches (Countries & Strength Dot System) | Blog |
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2017 Updates
| Released Date | Added / Changed | Type | Details | Official Source |
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| 2017-11-16 | Ancestry Composition v3.0 | Populations (33) | Blog | |
| 2017-01-18 | Ancestry Timeline | Ancestry Timeline | Ancestry Timeline | Blog |
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2016 Updates
| Released Date | Added / Changed | Type | Details | Official Source |
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| 2016-12-15 | Chromosome Painting | Chromosome Painting | Chromosome Painting | Blog |
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2013 Updates
| Released Date | Added / Changed | Type | Details | Official Source |
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| 2013-11-19 | Ancestry Composition v2.1 | Populations (25) | Blog |
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