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Slack Changelog

What's new in Slack 4.38.115

Apr 24, 2024
  • What’s New:
  • Say hi to Slack AI! Our brand-new set of generative AI tools lets you search smarter, summarize conversations instantly, and much more. Head over to the Help Center to see how you can put Slack AI to work for you: https://slack.com/help/articles/25076892548883-Introducing--Slack-AI

New in Slack 4.37.101 (Apr 10, 2024)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Nothing to report this time. Well, nothing that you can see, but plenty going on under the surface. We’re working hard to make Slack better; this time it’s not so visible.
  • Security Guidance:
  • This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.

New in Slack 4.37.94 (Mar 19, 2024)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Screen sharing during huddles on macOS 14.4 will no longer prompt a system alert to allow Slack to capture your screen and audio.

New in Slack 4.36.140 (Jan 30, 2024)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

New in Slack 4.36.138 (Jan 15, 2024)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • All bugs that were fixed in this release were too small for the eye to see or too fiddly for human words to describe. Nevertheless, work was done, things tinkered with and the app became subtly better.

New in Slack 4.36.136 (Dec 22, 2023)

  • This release includes security improvements.

New in Slack 4.36.134 (Dec 22, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We don’t have anything in particular to call out for this release, but we thank you for staying up to date all the same.

New in Slack 4.35.131 (Dec 4, 2023)

  • This release includes security improvements. Updating is recommended.

New in Slack 4.35.130 (Dec 4, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tweaked some things too small to notice or too difficult to explain. We’ll return you to your regular, more interesting types of release next time (we hope).

New in Slack 4.35.126 (Nov 7, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Nothing major to report this week. Nothing minor to report either, as it turns out. Work is still happening, mind you—it’s just more the sort that happens behind the curtain in between scenes at a play. We’re quietly setting the stage for what’s to come.

New in Slack 4.35.121 (Oct 25, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Virtual machines were causing actual problems for Slack when both were running simultaneously. We're virtually certain we've eradicated the problem with this update.

New in Slack 4.34.121 (Sep 30, 2023)

  • This release includes security improvements. Updating is recommended.

New in Slack 4.34.119 (Sep 13, 2023)

  • This release includes security improvements. Updating is recommended.

New in Slack 4.34.115 (Sep 6, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tweaked some things too small to notice or too difficult to explain. We’ll return you to your regular, more interesting types of release next time (we hope).

New in Slack 4.33.90 (Aug 15, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

New in Slack 4.33.84 (Aug 2, 2023)

  • This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.

New in Slack 4.33.73 (Jun 29, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Intelligent quips often contain depth of thought, but that's not what we mean when we say that smartquotes were presenting a problem for deep links. Punctuation will no longer affect the punctuality of your deep link updates.
  • Good governance is all about removing roadblocks, which is why we've retooled the sign-in flow for GovSlack. Now when you sign in to a government workspace for the first time, we'll automatically restart the app in Gov mode (instead of kicking you back to the login page). Your Slack dollars at work!
  • Did you know that clicking on a banner notification will take you directly to the message that triggered it? Had you noticed that recently this feature stopped working? May we make you aware that this is now fixed? Shall we stop writing in rhetorical questions?
  • Security Guidance:
  • This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.

New in Slack 4.32.127 (Jun 7, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

New in Slack 4.32.126 (Jun 7, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 4.32.122 (May 2, 2023)

  • Security guidance:
  • This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.

New in Slack 4.31.156 (Apr 7, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tweaked some things too small to notice or too difficult to explain. We’ll return you to your regular, more interesting types of release next time (we hope).

New in Slack 4.31.155 (Apr 7, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

New in Slack 4.31.152 (Mar 21, 2023)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 4.31.150 (Mar 21, 2023)

  • What’s New:
  • Organizations will be able to manage Slack desktop client settings during rollout and ongoing operations. Configurations can be deployed with industry standard tooling: Group Policies on Windows, user preferences profiles on Mac and with configuration files on Linux. See https://slack.com/help/articles/11354894714899-Managing-desktop-client-configurations
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Double-clicking on the title bar now maximizes all Slack windows, not just the main one. Please enjoy this expansive change.
  • Ever navigate away from Slack during a huddle, then have trouble finding that window again? Clicking the dock icon will now focus your last-active window, bringing that hidden huddle out of hiding.
  • Security Guidance:
  • This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.

New in Slack 4.29.149 (Nov 15, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

New in Slack 4.29.144 (Oct 25, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • “What is this—a video player for ants?” YouTube videos embedded in Slack can now be expanded to play in full-screen mode, which we’re told is at least three times bigger.

New in Slack 4.28.184 (Sep 29, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tweaked some things too small to notice or too difficult to explain. We’ll return you to your regular, more interesting types of release next time (we hope).

New in Slack 4.28.182 (Sep 22, 2022)

  • This release includes significant security improvements. Updating is strongly recommended.

New in Slack 4.28.171 (Aug 25, 2022)

  • What’s New:
  • On Sept. 1, we’ll be deprecating support for some older operating systems and outdated versions of Slack. Please visit our Help Center to get all the details: https://slack.com/help/articles/115002037526-System-requirements-for-using-Slack.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Trying to capture your screen with a third-party app while also sharing your screen in Slack may have resulted in the non-Slack app crashing. We’d like to say that this was because the idea of “capture” is antithetical to “sharing,” but in truth it was just a “bug.”

New in Slack 4.27.154 (Jun 16, 2022)

  • What’s New:
  • You may have noticed that with this release there’s a new, larger number at the end of the version string. Going forward, while you’ll still see the numbers laid out in a sequence, the “Build” numbers will now correspond to specific builds on our end as opposed to a small sequential number. TL;DR: A few more numbers for you, a bit more specificity for everyone.
  • We’ve added the most common Apple and Microsoft file extensions to our approved list so you won’t be asked to confirm each time you open a Word doc or Keynote presentation. Are you sure you’d like one less approval? YES/NO
  • Bug Fixes:
  • If you’re in a locale that does not use the default system string encoding on Mac, opening certain file types would cause a crash in a native dependency that tries to interpret a string passed to it as the system default string encoding. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, well don’t worry because we fixed it.
  • Security Guidance:
  • This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.

New in Slack 4.26.1 (May 5, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

New in Slack 4.26.0 (Apr 26, 2022)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • If you tried to re-download a file that was already present in your Downloads folder, the app would pretend to download it again without actually producing a new file. Duplicitous duplication was never part of the plan—sorry about that.
  • Security Guidance:
  • This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.

New in Slack 4.25.0 (Mar 25, 2022)

  • What’s New:
  • Starting today, you’ll see a confirmation pop-up when a link in Slack is prompting another program to open. If you don’t want to see these each time because you enjoy living on the edge, just check the box “Always open files of this type.”
  • Bug Fixes:
  • We discovered that under very specific circumstances (stars being aligned, barometric pressure being just so, looking in a mirror and saying “Slackbot” 3 times), Active Directory users were ending up with a backslash in their Home directory, which was preventing the app from launching. However it happened, all slashes are welcome at the party, so Slack will run as expected now.

New in Slack 4.24.1 (Mar 14, 2022)

  • What’s New:
  • If you've been wanting to use a virtual camera on a video call in Slack, well, now you can! Plug in a custom video feed from your computer, or use a fancy digital camera for crystal clear picture. Daguerreotypes and hand-cranked movie cameras are not supported as input sources at this time.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • We discovered that when an update to the app failed, people were still being notified that the update was a success. There is a time and place for “fake it ‘til you make it,” but this was not one of them.
  • Security Guidance:
  • This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.

New in Slack 4.23.0 (Dec 8, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Those on MacOS 12 reported that notification sounds were still coming through despite Notification Sounds being set to “None.” We have updated the internal logic to the more explicit “None, not under any circumstances, not even if it’s very important, never, not once, nil, absolutely not.” We hope it takes the hint.
  • Some external URLs were occasionally launching within the Slack app window, but will now load in your default web browser, as is proper. Slack cannot have a little web page, even as a treat.

New in Slack 4.22.0 (Nov 8, 2021)

  • This release includes security improvements. Updating is recommended.

New in Slack 4.21.1 (Oct 26, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 4.21.0 (Oct 21, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We were occasionally displaying a message letting you know you had been removed from the desktop beta. However, some of you had never been part of the beta in the first place. We will no longer remind you of things that you are not, or when it is not your birthday, or when there is no update to the app.
  • Security Guidance:
  • This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.

New in Slack 4.20.0 (Sep 21, 2021)

  • What’s New:
  • When opening SSH, FTP, SFTP or SMB links, you’ll now see the option to allow all future URLs from just that same domain instead of the whole wide world. A little more secure for us, a little more peace of mind for you.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Certain versions of the app were not correctly changing availability to “Away” after 10 minutes of inactivity. While this has been fixed, we’d like to remind you that you can use your Custom Status to let your teammates know your whereabouts beyond simply Active or Away. Examples include: walking the dog, catching up after PTO, taking a mental break, or tweeting nice things to the Slack social media team.

New in Slack 4.19.0 (Aug 12, 2021)

  • This release includes significant security improvements. Updating is strongly recommended.

New in Slack 4.18.0 (Jul 15, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Certain menus were not being properly translated when switching languages in the app. You know what they say about menus — they’re most helpful when you can read them.
  • When the app was told to launch on login but remain hidden, it took those instructions a little too seriously, playing hide-and-seek when it should not. That which was hidden was sought, and the app window will now politely reveal itself when you want.

New in Slack 4.17.0 (Jun 4, 2021)

  • What’s New:
  • Bigger is better, or rather, closer is clearer. We now support additional zoom levels up to 200% to reduce the strain on your precious peepers.
  • Security Guidance:
  • This release includes security improvements. Updating is recommended.

New in Slack 4.16.2 (May 11, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 4.16.0 (May 4, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Depending on your zoom level, we weren’t always showing the password field when authorizing the use of a proxy. This, by proxy, made for an unpleasant overall experience within Slack.
  • Images and notifications were sometimes sharing real estate...inelegantly. We have given them both a talking-to, and they have agreed to joint custody of that section of the screen.
  • Security Guidance:
  • This release includes security improvements. Updating is recommended.

New in Slack 4.15.0 (Apr 13, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • In the Mac app, certain error screens made it very hard to find the part of the window that allowed you to click and drag. To be fair, entire genres of computer games have been built around hard-to-find click targets. Slack, however, is not a game of this genre — so we’ve made the clickable area a bit wider.
  • Security Guidance:
  • This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.

New in Slack 4.14.0 (Mar 18, 2021)

  • What’s New:
  • Did you update your Mac to Big Sur? Of course you did, you upstanding citizen. You’ll be rewarded with a freshly-updated Slack icon.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • We improved the restart experience when you’ve gone offline or are having loading issues.
  • We all have to sign out sometimes. If you sign out of all of your workspaces, you should have an easier time signing back in.
  • Hopefully you’ll be able to ask “Can you see my screen?” a little less these days. The green border that lets you know you’re screen sharing is back.
  • Security Guidance:
  • This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.

New in Slack 4.13.0 (Feb 17, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • When you move or resize Slack, we assume you are indeed trying to move or resize it — and so the crash that was regularly happening, instead, was unwelcome. We’ve fixed this. Here’s to properly-sized screens!
  • We’ve fixed several accessibility issues. Making Slack more accessible is a continuous journey, and we’re quite grateful that you’re along for the ride!

New in Slack 4.12.2 (Jan 12, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tweaked some things too small to notice or too difficult to explain. We’ll return you to your regular, more interesting types of release next time (we hope).

New in Slack 4.12.1 (Jan 12, 2021)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

New in Slack 4.12.0 (Dec 14, 2020)

  • What’s New:
  • È pronto! Italian language support has landed!
  • We inspected our app menus and decided they were due for a re-jigging. Give them a whirl and let us know what you think.
  • You can now attach recently used files–in one click–from the paperclip menu. Hasty screenshotters, the world is yours.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Some small but important accessibility improvements for those navigating with VoiceOver or a screen reader.
  • As a dancer gracefully recovers from a minor tumble, so shall our app gracefully reload whilst throttled by network failures.

New in Slack 4.11.3 (Nov 29, 2020)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 4.11.2 (Nov 18, 2020)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 4.11.1 (Nov 12, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • We tweaked some things too small to notice or too difficult to explain. We’ll return you to your regular, more interesting types of release next time (we hope).

New in Slack 4.11.0 (Nov 10, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • We’ve tuned the engine and given the interior a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

New in Slack 4.10.3 (Oct 16, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 4.10.2 (Oct 11, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • We tweaked some things too small to notice or too difficult to explain. We’ll return you to your regular, more interesting types of release next time (we hope).

New in Slack 4.10.1 (Oct 8, 2020)

  • We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

New in Slack 4.10.0 (Oct 7, 2020)

  • What’s new:
  • Use files? Us too! If you’ve recently used or linked to them on your device, Slack will be slicker at swooping them up and snatching them into your grasp in Slack.
  • Updates mean that Big Sur is totally supported in a very holistic, west coast, chill way. It’s, like, totally gnarly. Or sick! Whichever means “good”, basically.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Sometimes, you could not exit full screen mode with escape on windows, which was wrong, because that’s literally what escape means. Now, it works.
  • We fixed some issues that caused window resizing of Slack to be difficult. We never want to be difficult.
  • Quickly switching workspaces caused problems. Switching workspaces should only cause opportunities, so we fixed that.
  • There were a few little bugs that caused crashes, like bugs do. We fixed those, and we’ll fix the next ones too.

New in Slack 4.9.0 (Sep 3, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • We’ve tuned the engine and given the interior a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

New in Slack 4.8.0 (Jul 24, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • In rare cases, Slack would simply fail to start altogether. While we’re sure we could all use a coffee break, we know you could also use an application that runs. So we fixed that.
  • We made the screen you see when you have connection problems more useful. We also spruced it up a bit with a fresh coat of paint.
  • Our notifications system sprung a leak, so we brought it in for a tune-up. Everything should be running smoother now.

New in Slack 4.7.0 (Jul 2, 2020)

  • What’s New:
  • We’ve upgraded all the backend stuff that the apps run on, resulting in better performance and fewer bugs.

New in Slack 4.6.0 (May 22, 2020)

  • What’s New:
  • Batten the hatches! The app sandbox is now enabled for all web content. This is a fancy way of saying we’ve dialed up the security of the app. It wasn’t unsafe before, but it’s double safe now.
  • A preference that allows you to choose a unique save location per download, instead of choosing a folder for all of them. For the choosy types.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Downloading app updates is less prone to timing out on slow networks, as we’ve extended the timeout to something reasonable.
  • The Close button has returned to its rightful place on notifications, for all your dismissing needs.
  • If you found yourself, in some distant past, trying to start a song on Spotify with your keyboard’s play button, and it did not respond to your command while Slack was front and center, pesky hardware media keys were the problem. And this version is the cure.
  • The app should be less spicy to your CPU when you’re viewing certain network error pages.
  • When a download completes, we’ll show an in-app prompt rather than a bothersome system notification.

New in Slack 4.5.1 (May 20, 2020)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 4.5.0 (Apr 26, 2020)

  • We’ve upgraded all the backend stuff that the apps run on, resulting in better performance and fewer bugs.
  • Our spell checker has been swapped out for a newer model that’s faster, leaner, and capable of fixing your typos in… wait, can this be right? “Multiple languages at the same time”! Open the “Language & Region” preferences to choose your languages. And for whoever it is out there requires that functionality: our hats are off to you. We can barely type in one language right now.

New in Slack 4.4.2 (Apr 5, 2020)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We're always working on performance improvements - and this release repairs a previously broken performance diagnostic tool. You won't notice a difference, but we'll have an easier time improving Slack.

New in Slack 4.4.1 (Mar 25, 2020)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tweaked some things too small to notice or too difficult to explain. We’ll return you to your regular, more interesting types of release next time (we hope).

New in Slack 4.4.0 (Mar 20, 2020)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

New in Slack 4.3.3 (Feb 6, 2020)

  • What’s New:
  • We've tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Slack would sometimes crash when the user right-clicked to see the context menu. In context, that was unhelpful. So it no longer does that.
  • When maximized, the app had developed a bit of a distracting flicker. That flicker is now part of Slack history.
  • Occasionally, a restart would result in connectivity issues for Slack… now you should be back online and back to work lickety-split.

New in Slack 4.2.0 (Dec 5, 2019)

  • What’s New:
  • Our newest, fastest, best-performing, shiniest, most nutritious and delicious version of Slack is now fully rolled out, so that’s the one you’re now using. Brilliant.
  • Like zooming in and out? Use a numpad? Great news. You can now do these things, on that.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Notifications looked weird if your workspace name was long. Now, no matter your team name, notifications look lovely.
  • Some messages were being marked as read when Slack was hidden behind applications, or not visible on screen. Now we won’t mark it as read until you’ve actually seen it. Which seems fair.
  • Using three finger swipes to navigate channel history on touchpad now works again. And for those who never knew it could work in the first place: it does!

New in Slack 4.1.2 (Nov 1, 2019)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Long workspace names now no longer appear as incredibly long in menus.
  • Slack menus should now be showing up at the right language (meaning the one that is right for you).
  • Spellchecker stopped working for a small count of users, leading to a shorp uptick in avoidabull erratz. With spellcheck now fully back online for those users, any remaining typos are officially not our fault.

New in Slack 4.1.0 (Oct 15, 2019)

  • What’s New:
  • Thanks to a few tweaks to the engine, a polish of the pistons, and recalibrated valves, the app should be running smoother and faster, than before.
  • Spellcheck, revamped, is now a much better version of its old self (and back on Linux, to boot) — now it supports Greek, Portuguese and British English. So now spelling correctly should come more naturally to us all (which is good, because “correctly” can be a difacult word to spell).
  • Bug Fixes:
  • After uploading a video into Slack some found it would give an infinite circle of loading, but not play, which was never our plan. Now: it works! It plays; no more circle! Because, it turned out, all circ and no play made Slack a null ‘ploy.

New in Slack 4.0.3 (Aug 30, 2019)

  • What’s New:
  • We’ve updated all the background things to ensure that whenever a new OS update may arrive, Slack will continue to work perfectly. Or, at least, work as expected.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Now, when we check for network connectivity, it’s more reliable than it was before. Making for a quicker connection, and less frustration

New in Slack 4.0.2 (Aug 21, 2019)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • When opening your computer, Slack is now far more likely to launch reliably. Which is, let's face it, the very least it should do.
  • Now when we update the app, we'll send you a polite little notification telling you so.
  • A pesky leak involving in-channel videos has been plugged.

New in Slack 4.0.1 (Jul 30, 2019)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 4.0.0 (Jul 16, 2019)

  • What’s New:
  • Slack is now a little faster, thanks to a few small but important changes.
  • Admins now have a more stable mechanism to stay in control of when and how the app updates.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Dragging and dropping now drops less frequently, and is consequently less of a drag.
  • Resetting the app data now works better (should that be something you need to do).
  • For those in multiple workspaces, the sidebar is now neater, with your icons in a more pleasing line.
  • Hardware acceleration can now be turned off without foregrounding Slack. If that means something to you, you'll know it's good. If it doesn't — it's still good (and thank you for reading).
  • We'll no longer bounce the the icon in dock if DND is enabled. DND means DND.
  • We are now better at explaining why we ask for permissions to update Slack… though having improved stability, we should also ask less frequently.
  • Notifications sounds used to not play all the time. They now do. All of them. But not at once.
  • Your customized Slack shortcuts now work as you expected. Apologies that they ever did not.

New in Slack 3.4.2 (May 28, 2019)

  • What’s New:
  • Just as day follows night and winter gives way to spring, so have we updated Electron to 4.2.1
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Changed things to be smarter about the way push notifications on mobile get information from the desktop app. Hopefully, this is better for everyone. And faster.
  • Minor stability improvements in general. As always, the best kind of fix is one you don't notice at all because nothing is going wrong.

New in Slack 3.4.1 (May 6, 2019)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 3.4.0 (Apr 19, 2019)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Launch (and Hide) on Login now works better than once it did. Where by "once" we mean "five minutes ago before you updated your version of Slack".
  • Our Slack app icon was missing smaller icon sizes, which was both problematic and aesthetically bad. It now renders as it should.
  • Slack would occasionally crash while you were restarting your computer. We looked at the bug causing this, turned it off and on again, and now it works. Technology!
  • Some people were seeing sidebar icons from other teams they were signed into instead of the icons they were expecting. They will now show correctly.
  • Any keyboard and cursor actions you may have experienced behaving badly have been shown the error of their ways.

New in Slack 3.3.8 (Mar 10, 2019)

  • What’s New:
  • In a slight change to the way you sign in on desktop, you'll now sign in in the browser rather than directly inside the app.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • The new app icon was looking a little fuzzy on some docks, which simply wouldn't do. It should be much crisper now.
  • Equally, the new loading animation was looking a little stretched, or a little squished, depending on how you looked it. It's now practically perfect in every way.
  • If you have had problems logging in using SSO (single sign-on), you should no longer encounter those problems.
  • We fixed a problem wherein the "Open the Slack App" button in the browser did not, in fact, open the app. Honestly: it had *one* job. It now performs that job.

New in Slack 3.3.7 (Jan 21, 2019)

  • What’s New:
  • From today, you'll notice a shiny new app button that matches our new logo. You can read more about it on our blog at SlackHQ.com. Change! Everyone loves it. (Having said that, nothing about Slack or how you use it has changed. Just the button.)
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Users signing in with Single Sign-On would see the same message twice when logging in.
  • Users signing in with Single Sign-On would see the same message twice when logging in. This will not happen any more.
  • When trying to select a portion of a code-formatted block of text (text formatted with ` or ``` at either end), some characters were proving slippery and hard to select. Please copy and paste to your heart's content.
  • Several crashes — occurring rarely, and seemingly randomly, on launch and at other times — have been eliminated. More random and rare crashes inevitably exist, of course, and as soon as we know what they are, we'll eliminate those too.
  • When downloading particular audio or video files from Slack, the download window will no longer misbehave or look weird.
  • If you were running macOS Mojave, we sometimes wouldn’t ask you for permissions for microphone and video even though we needed to, which meant we couldn’t use them. We now will and can (with your blessing, of course).

New in Slack 3.3.3 (Oct 17, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • All updates are important, of course. This one contains security updates, and as we know, they’re the most important kind of all.

New in Slack 3.3.2 (Sep 11, 2018)

  • What’s New:
  • If you're having graphical issues, you can now use the "Disable Hardware Acceleration” in preferences to make things better.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Overall, stability of the app has been improved, thanks to a bevy of bug fixes.
  • We appreciate it when you report issues — so we've improved the diagnostic reporting tools so that we can analyze them, and fix them, faster.
  • Having multiple windows open sometimes led to you getting duplicate notifications at once. Whatever the message, it should now just be one ping per tool for y'all, one click to find them.
  • Color profiles being slightly different in 3.2.0 may have caused a little flicker, which should now have been extinguished.
  • The spellcheck, having had its logic tweaked, to be better at spellchecking, is now a lot bitter at chicken for erroneous spilling ersatz. In Slack.
  • When you download something, we're now better at telling you so.
  • In fact, notifications in general are noticeably more reliable now, too.
  • One particular bug causing the app to crash upon launch has been squished. There may be more. But when we find them, we'll fix those too.
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 3.3.1 (Sep 1, 2018)

  • What’s New:
  • If you're having graphical issues, you can now use the "Disable Hardware Acceleration” in preferences to make things better.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Overall, stability of the app has been improved, thanks to a bevy of bug fixes.
  • We appreciate it when you report issues — so we've improved the diagnostic reporting tools so that we can analyze them, and fix them, faster.
  • Having multiple windows open sometimes led to you getting duplicate notifications at once. Whatever the message, it should now just be one ping per tool for y'all, one click to find them.
  • Color profiles being slightly different in 3.2.0 may have caused a little flicker, which should now have been extinguished.
  • The spellcheck, having had its logic tweaked, to be better at spellchecking, is now a lot bitter at chicken for erroneous spilling ersatz. In Slack.
  • When you download something, we're now better at telling you so.
  • In fact, notifications in general are noticeably more reliable now, too.
  • One particular bug causing the app to crash upon launch has been squished. There may be more. But when we find them, we'll fix those too.
  • We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 3.2.0 (Jun 12, 2018)

  • What’s New:
  • Myriad improvements for the people of Enterprise Grid, including quicker Quick Switching, better proxy support, and direct message draft syncing across multiple workspaces (meaning that whichever workspace you started typing that message in, you can finish in another.)
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Unread badges were occasionally unreliable or inconsistent, so we tweaked a few doohickeys to improve them. It worked.
  • Smoothed some wrinkles in the loading of Slack calls and boosted general under-the-hood call performance while we were in there.
  • We tinkered with the workspace sign-in flow, updating how we handle errors and improving magic link support.
  • Copying email links now does what you’d expect (as long as you were expecting it to copy the email link. If you were expecting it to do something like file your taxes for you, you are still out of luck).
  • Slack will no longer interrupt macOS when restarting or shutting down.
  • After changing displays, pinch-to-zoom gestures will no longer insist on continuing to zoom the app when you pinch.
  • Twelve crashes have been fixed. Yes. 12. If you were unlucky enough to experience the full dozen, please accept a) this imaginary medal and b) our sincere apologies.

New in Slack 3.2.0 Beta (May 9, 2018)

  • What’s New:
  • Myriad improvements for the people of Enterprise Grid, including quicker Quick Switching, better proxy support, and direct message draft syncing across multiple workspaces (meaning that whichever workspace you started typing that message in, you can finish in another.)
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Unread badges were occasionally unreliable or inconsistent, so we tweaked a few doohickeys to improve them. It worked.
  • Smoothed some wrinkles in the loading of Slack calls and boosted general under-the-hood call performance while we were in there.
  • We tinkered with the workspace sign-in flow, updating how we handle errors and improving magic link support.
  • Copying email links now does what you’d expect (as long as you were expecting it to copy the email link. If you were expecting it to do something like file your taxes for you, you are still out of luck).
  • Slack will no longer interrupt macOS when restarting or shutting down.
  • After changing displays, pinch-to-zoom gestures will no longer insist on continuing to zoom the app when you pinch.
  • Twelve crashes have been fixed. Yes. 12. If you were unlucky enough to experience the full dozen, please accept a) this imaginary medal and b) our sincere apologies.

New in Slack 3.1.1 (Apr 3, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • We got so excited about your emoji we kept requesting them, particularly at the moment you switched channels. This caused all manner of slowness. We've since bottled our enthusiasm, and now request emoji exactly one (1) time.

New in Slack 3.1.0 (Apr 3, 2018)

  • What’s New:
  • We’re using a new font for Japanese. It’s clearer, more legible, and goes well with aubergine. (Which is the default color of your sidebar. As well as a vegetable.)
  • Sometimes Slack takes too long to start up. If that happens, a) we’re sorry that it does, but b) you’ll now see a link with some helpful troubleshooting ideas.
  • When a file’s done downloading, a new notification will dutifully let you know.
  • If you’ve asked Slack to launch right when your computer turns on, Slack now does so much more quietly — with less extraneous loading screen action, and fewer fanfares.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Badges about unread messages would linger on the dock icon, even after said messages had been read. These badges will linger no more.
  • Slack would occasionally crash when it wasn’t allowed to put files in the Temp folder. Now, it will simply use the Downloads folder, instead.
  • Some users who clicked on a magic link were not taken to their workspace. We have set our cauldrons to a slow simmer and magic links should now work as expected.
  • When trying to connect via a proxy, Slack no longer refuses to load.
  • Sometimes, during a support conversation, we’d ask you to reset your app data with the click of a button. Clicking this button will now actually reset all the necessary data, rather than some. Which is good for everyone.
  • Now you can download a file from Slack, delete it, and then download it again. If that seems like the way the Slack should’ve always worked, well, you aren’t wrong.
  • Right clicking “something” and choosing “Search with Google” had a tendency to search for “so”, “me”, or “thing.” It will now search for the entire text. So if you really do want to Google “something” (or something else), we’ll have your back.
  • While operating in the background, Slack would sometimes keep notifications to itself. Sharing is caring, and you should now receive notifications as normal.
  • If you quit Slack while the app was full screen, then started the app again, sometimes the gray bar that lets you close, minimize, and maximize the window would vanish for good. Now it doesn’t.
  • Too many text substitutions in your Mac settings would cause Slack to perform poorly. You can now use text replacement to your heart’s content.
  • Interacting with a notification will cause it to disappear, and not hang around indefinitely.
  • When replying to a notification from the notification pop-up, the reply will now always be sent. As opposed to before, when it occasionally wasn't.
  • A subtle gray border on the right edge of the window has been replaced with a subtler gray border. Subtle, one might say, to the point of invisibility. Ok, fine — we just removed it.
  • If you’d previously asked Slack to download files to a folder other than Downloads, that won’t work anymore. We’re very sorry about that. The option to choose a different folder will return shortly.

New in Slack 3.0.5 (Jan 18, 2018)

  • An important security update.

New in Slack 3.0.2 (Jan 6, 2018)

  • We've tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

New in Slack 3.0.2 Beta (Dec 20, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • We undid changes that have been causing some people to occasionally miss notifications with 3.0.0. You will now miss nothing. Unless you want to.
  • Clicking on and replying to notifications is now also more reliable.
  • macOS 10.13 High Sierra has a bug that impacts some 2012-2013 MacBook Pros, causing display problems with Slack. We have a temporary fix for these devices that may make performance slightly worse, but will at least avoid flickering and graphics glitches. Performant AND non-glitchy is the next step.

New in Slack 3.0.0 (Dec 9, 2017)

  • What's New:
  • When you’re in a lot of workspaces, the app now uses much less memory, and starting up is faster, to boot.
  • And flipping between those workspaces is now faster. Not super-sonic, but certainly somewhere between a jiffy and lickety-split.
  • We shunted the sign-in page out of the app — it's now rerouted to a new window, for reasons of reliability.
  • A new-fangled lock badge subtly lets you know which workspaces you're currently signed out of. Or of which you're currently signed out. Either way.
  • Our start up screen, spruced-up and slimmed-down, is worth a gander — as is the helpful way that dates now stick to the top of a channel while scrolling through messages. Though if you don't notice them, but quietly feel a little bit happier for reasons you can't put your finger on, that's cool too.
  • Fixed:
  • It’s been a long time coming but brings us joy to say: 100% less reloading during drag and drop. How much? 100%. That's all the percents, people. Sorry about the previous frustration.
  • For those encountering a screen claiming "Something’s not working", it turns out the main thing not working was this screen: it is no more.
  • If you kept the app running for a long time, you might be on the receiving end of two consecutive updates. Now good things come to those who wait, one-at-a-time, as is proper.
  • The sidebar now scoots considerately out of the way when viewing full-screen video.
  • We fixed exiting full-screen video when pressing the aptly-named “Escape” key.
  • The blackout caused by a window being closed while full-screen, with one request confoundingly eclipsing the other, has been sunsetted.
  • Found: One missing Ctrl-1 / Cmd-1 hotkey. Please call 1-800-SLACKME to claim. Don't actually call that. It doesn't do anything. Unlike the hotkey (now).
  • Should you forget what app you’re using, the About Slack window is all new and loads much faster than before.
  • Scrolling through messages is flicker-free.
  • There are now no more crashes in High Sierra when starting up the app.
  • Composing text in an IME (for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean customers) no longer inserts zero-width spaces; in other words, it’s blank-box-free.
  • The diacritics menu – the place where the alphabet goes to try on different hats and accents – no longer adds a duplicate letter to your input once you've chosen the one you want. We've said it before, but this time we really mëean it.
  • Pinch-to-zoom gestures could, sometimes, tragically, irreversibly zoom. You can now make things on your screen smaller again without resorting to moving your computer far away.
  • The popup that appears when you look up the definition of a word has been realigned to make more sense.
  • And finally, sometimes selecting text in the search box would move the window around. You could say… it was a bit of a drag.

New in Slack 3.0.0 Beta (Dec 8, 2017)

  • What's New:
  • When you’re in a lot of workspaces, the app now uses much less memory, and starting up is faster, to boot.
  • And flipping between those workspaces is now faster. Not super-sonic, but certainly somewhere between a jiffy and lickety-split.
  • We shunted the sign-in page out of the app — it's now rerouted to a new window, for reasons of reliability.
  • A new-fangled lock badge subtly lets you know which workspaces you're currently signed out of. Or of which you're currently signed out. Either way.
  • Our start up screen, spruced-up and slimmed-down, is worth a gander — as is the helpful way that dates now stick to the top of a channel while scrolling through messages. Though if you don't notice them, but quietly feel a little bit happier for reasons you can't put your finger on, that's cool too.
  • Fixed:
  • It’s been a long time coming but brings us joy to say: 100% less reloading during drag and drop. How much? 100%. That's all the percents, people. Sorry about the previous frustration.
  • For those encountering a screen claiming "Something’s not working", it turns out the main thing not working was this screen: it is no more.
  • If you kept the app running for a long time, you might be on the receiving end of two consecutive updates. Now good things come to those who wait, one-at-a-time, as is proper.
  • The sidebar now scoots considerately out of the way when viewing full-screen video.
  • We fixed exiting full-screen video when pressing the aptly-named “Escape” key.
  • The blackout caused by a window being closed while full-screen, with one request confoundingly eclipsing the other, has been sunsetted.
  • Found: One missing Ctrl-1 / Cmd-1 hotkey. Please call 1-800-SLACKME to claim. Don't actually call that. It doesn't do anything. Unlike the hotkey (now).
  • Should you forget what app you’re using, the About Slack window is all new and loads much faster than before.
  • Scrolling through messages is flicker-free.
  • There are now no more crashes in High Sierra when starting up the app.
  • Composing text in an IME (for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean customers) no longer inserts zero-width spaces; in other words, it’s blank-box-free.
  • The diacritics menu – the place where the alphabet goes to try on different hats and accents – no longer adds a duplicate letter to your input once you've chosen the one you want. We've said it before, but this time we really mëean it.
  • Pinch-to-zoom gestures could, sometimes, tragically, irreversibly zoom. You can now make things on your screen smaller again without resorting to moving your computer far away.
  • The popup that appears when you look up the definition of a word has been realigned to make more sense.
  • And finally, sometimes selecting text in the search box would move the window around. You could say… it was a bit of a drag.

New in Slack 2.9.0 (Nov 17, 2017)

  • Features:
  • Slack now officially, and fully, supports Japanese. Along with the already available French, German, Spanish, and, of course, English (of the US variety). Find them under Languages & Region in your preferences menu.

New in Slack 2.8.2 (Oct 17, 2017)

  • A small release containing nothing but another Electron update, this one better than the last.

New in Slack 2.8.1 (Sep 30, 2017)

  • Previously in Slack app releases: we fixed the Japanese input in 2.6.3. Then we re-broke it in 2.8.0. And now it’s fixed again. Stay tuned for the next thrilling installment.
  • Added bonus: An Electron update improving security. A precautionary measure, but it’s always good to be up to date.

New in Slack 2.8.0 (Sep 12, 2017)

  • What's New:
  • Support for a top secret, very hush-hush, highly classified and very exciting new feature that we wish we could call by name, but we cannot.
  • All mentions of “team” have been changed to “workspace” when referring to the app, though not when referring to the people in it. You create a workspace. You invite people from your team. Simple!
  • You can now configure the language used by the spellchecker in Preferences to be the language you wish to spell correctly.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed: A few rare crashes when making a call and/or screen sharing on a call are now, we believe, on the brink of extinction - or possibly, we hope, gone forever.
  • Fixed: An issue where the app would hang if your OS reported that you were in certain timezones.
  • Fixed: You may have been running into a `Something's Not Working` screen when waking your computer from sleep. Turns out the thing not working was that. So we fixed it.

New in Slack 2.7.1 (Aug 18, 2017)

  • What's new
  • The app now stores some login information on the keychain. So if a passerby requests permission (a dialog, not a stranger), do try and approve it.
  • File downloads are now pausable and – in perhaps a master stroke of matchmaking – resumable too.
  • A bevy of changes to make the app more keyboard navigable.
  • We’ve adjusted the app icon, but just a skosh. Putting our best foot forward.
  • Should the worst happen and the app fail to load, you’ll see a less dreadful error page and perhaps even a code you can share.
  • Fixed
  • Like an electrically-motivated vampire was Slack to your laptop’s battery. Put down the garlic; leave the stakes at home: we’ve done the slaying on our end.
  • We spliced some wires we shouldn’t have, causing a loading screen to flash briefly after signing into a team. Now it’s as it should be.
  • The team sidebar is no longer touch-challenged. Tap, flick, and drag teams to your heart’s content.
  • Canceling a running download is 38% less crashy. For when you decide you didn’t need that third gif after all.
  • If you’ve set the app to start hidden in your system login items, it will listen to you.
  • In a similar vein, if you send a reply from an alert-style notification, your teammates will hear you.
  • Entering characters from the accent menu no longer inserts an extra character. Voilà señorita: that souffleé is now an (edible) soufflé.

New in Slack 2..7.0 (Aug 10, 2017)

  • What's new:
  • The app now stores some login information on the keychain. So if a passerby requests permission (a dialog, not a stranger), do try and approve it.
  • File downloads are now pausable and – in perhaps a master stroke of matchmaking – resumable too.
  • A bevy of changes to make the app more keyboard navigable.
  • We’ve adjusted the app icon, but just a skosh. Putting our best foot forward.
  • Should the worst happen and the app fail to load, you’ll see a less dreadful error page and perhaps even a code you can share.
  • Fixed:
  • Like an electrically-motivated vampire was Slack to your laptop’s battery. Put down the garlic; leave the stakes at home: we’ve done the slaying on our end.
  • We spliced some wires we shouldn’t have, causing a loading screen to flash briefly after signing into a team. Now it’s as it should be.
  • The team sidebar is no longer touch-challenged. Tap, flick, and drag teams to your heart’s content.
  • Canceling a running download is 38% less crashy. For when you decide you didn’t need that third gif after all.
  • If you’ve set the app to start hidden in your system login items, it will listen to you.
  • In a similar vein, if you send a reply from an alert-style notification, your teammates will hear you.

New in Slack 2.7.0 Beta (Aug 3, 2017)

  • What's New:
  • The app now stores some login information on the keychain. So if a passerby requests permission (a dialog, not a stranger), do try and approve it.
  • File downloads are now pausable and – in perhaps a master stroke of matchmaking – resumable too.
  • A bevy of changes to make the app more keyboard navigable.
  • We’ve adjusted the app icon, but just a skosh. Putting our best foot forward.
  • Should the worst happen and the app fail to load, you'll see a less dreadful error page and perhaps even a code you can share.
  • Fixed:
  • Like an electrically-motivated vampire was Slack to your laptop’s battery. Put down the garlic; leave the stakes at home: we’ve done the slaying on our end.
  • If you’ve set the app to start hidden in your system login items, it will listen to you.
  • In a similar vein, if you send a reply from an alert-style notification, your teammates will hear you.
  • We spliced some wires we shouldn’t have, causing a loading screen to flash briefly after signing into a team. Now it’s as it should be.
  • The team sidebar is no longer touch-challenged. Tap, flick, and drag teams to your heart’s content.
  • Cancelling a running download is 38% less crashy. For when you decide you didn’t need that third gif after all.

New in Slack 2.6.3 (Jun 8, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • Sometimes if you changed networks, we used to rouse from sleep in a bit of a daze, greeting you with a blank screen. Now, we awaken bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Or at the very least, with your team displayed.
  • Where, in rare cases, some external links didn't end up pointing to the right place when you clicked them, they now do.
  • Video playback should now be much smoother, and nicer to your network.
  • On certain keyboard layouts, hitting backspace didn't actually delete the last character, which was a surprise, but a surprise of the lesser kind - there is now one fewer lesser surprise.

New in Slack 2.6.2 (May 24, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • Unexplainably, context menus and spell-check stopped working in some teams. OK: we have an explanation but we'd rather not discuss it. It's embarrassing. Rest easy knowing that it's fixed here.
  • We found – and cast out – the culprit behind high resource usage while the app's sitting idle.

New in Slack 2.6.1 (May 9, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • If you were experiencing issues making calls on macOS 10.10, you should no longer. Update and keep calling.

New in Slack 2.6.0 (May 5, 2017)

  • What's New:
  • We revamped video calls, making the experience more intuitive, and more attractive. As a bonus, they're more resource efficient and now let you change audio devices during a call. If that's the kind of thing you need to do.
  • Fixed:
  • We paved over a series of potholes that were strewn about the app, making crashes far less likely.
  • Should you ever wish to say goodbye to one of your teams, a right-click > Remove from the sidebar will do the trick now more reliably than before.
  • Switching teams using the numbered shortcuts is noticeably faster. We would say "37%" if we were forced to put a number on it. Fortunately, we aren't, and we won't.
  • Opening a context menu won't freeze videos or gifs playing in the app.
  • We dusted off the cobwebs in the app menu and composted a few menu items that weren't useful when signed into one team.
  • The default window size is a smidgen larger. You won't notice, because your window will keep being the same size it's always been. That's just the way it is, and we don't want it to change.
  • Our spellchecker would occasionally mark correctly spelled words as incorrect. It had ONE job. It now performs it.

New in Slack 2.5.2 (Mar 10, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • We made the act of signing in more reliable for teams using SSO.
  • It transpired that folks who downloaded our installer from slack.com were added to the beta program. If you wanted to be in the beta, you would have said so.
  • A crash on startup for Linux customers with a non-English keyboard has been dispatched with a flea in its ear. Because that's just not cricket.
  • For the times when Slack just... doesn't: try Help > Clear Cache and Restart. It has all the nougaty goodness of Reset App Data, without the stale aftertaste of losing your teams.

New in Slack 2.5.1 (Feb 24, 2017)

  • What's New:
  • The way we load teams you don't view often has been changed to reduce the app's memory footprint.
  • Folks consistently unable to load the app will now be greeted by a troubleshooting page that offers suggestions on making their situation better. (Spoiler: it's usually to do with over-zealous antivirus software).
  • Those pasting text with style into a Post then finding their text to have "no style" can now Paste & Match Style under the Edit menu.
  • You can see our Help Center documentation in – of all places – the Help menu. The almost over-intuitively named Open Help Center item will be your friend.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed: Waking Slack after hibernation or a system crash occasionally found all your teams missing. Thank you for your patience, and sorry for the inconvenience; it no longer should.
  • Fixed: Some bold explorers moved their user profile off of the default drive and started the app to find nothing but a cryptic error message. We weren't prepared for this boldness, but have since girded our loins. Fine, explorers: Set your profiles free.
  • Fixed: A rare bug where team icons shuffled out of formation in the sidebar. They're more stoic and sticky and as a bonus, rearranging them is smoother.
  • Fixed: Customers typing in languages that use IME composition (Korean, for example) will find that the message input is 82% stickier.

New in Slack 2.4.1 (Jan 11, 2017)

  • Discovered that removing a bunch of unnecessary processes improved app startup time. Who knew? Less really is more. Or at least, less is more-faster. Or should that be fewer? Whatever: It's better.
  • Simplified the way we remember your teams and app settings. This shouldn't affect much, aside from some bugs wherein we forgot your teams or app settings, which are now fixed.
  • For the savvy troubleshooter, a new tool: Help > Show Logs in Explorer will package up some app diagnostic files, should you ever need them.
  • You'll now receive an OS notification when you join or leave the beta program. Our apologies to the folks previously confounded by an perplexingly inoperable "Join the beta" button.
  • Our zoom levels now match the Chrome browser, so you should feel right at home (so long as your home is Chrome).
  • An infrequent crash when quitting the app has been dispatched.
  • A slightly more frequent crash while checking for updates; eliminated.
  • Signing out of teams from the right-click menu is 46.8% more reliable.
  • And finally, if you had multiple displays, new windows (such as a call or a Post) would appear on the primary display instead of the display that Slack was on. Rather than submit this to a physics journal for peer review, we decided to fix it. All is as it should be.

New in Slack 2.3.4 (Dec 17, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • There was a small bug in Calls. We don’t think you saw it, but we fixed it anyway.

New in Slack 2.3.3 (Dec 2, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Window zoom jumping back and forth? No longer–we locked it down and threw away the key.

New in Slack 2.3.2 (Nov 15, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Contractions aren't causing spellcheck errors any longer, unless tehy're misspelled.
  • We fixed a problem with idle timing that made you look inactive and unavailable when truth be told, you were quite busy and attentive. If you were receiving a few too many mobile notifications, this was the culprit.
  • When typing in languages that require input composition, (Korean, for example!) switching between the input method editor and our app caused characters to go missing.

New in Slack 2.3.1 (Oct 27, 2016)

  • The lag when selecting misspelled words in the message input has been squashed.

New in Slack 2.3.0 (Oct 25, 2016)

  • Summer is over and that means no more beach balls! ...Get it? Well then, how about this: the app starts a bit faster and switching channels or teams is a bit zippier.
  • If you're signed into more than one team, we've removed the titlebar from the window for a streamlined, modern look. High fashion.
  • A redesigned team sidebar with better support for light themes, and, as a bonus, it scrolls if you're signed into too many teams (you cosmopolitan!)
  • Signing into a new team gets the same full-screen treatment as our other dialogs, because your 8th team could be just as important as your 1st.
  • You're now able to approve (and then, with a lighthearted click, open) deep links from other apps.
  • Use Help > Report Issue to send feedback or file a bug. It attaches your log files automatically, to make troubleshooting that much simpler.

New in Slack 2.0.3 (May 31, 2016)

  • Fixed: In our last release we thought we'd eradicated all the problems plaguing the sign-in process, but it seems we missed a few. Good news, everyone, the plague has been eradicated. Again. Probably.
  • Fixed: An unfortunate state of affairs in which some of your teams might be forgotten by the app after a crash. The affair is over and now, as is fair, we remember.
  • Fixed: There was an understandable backlash to the backslash that attached itself to the front of single or double quotes when replying to notifications, so we took that slapdash backslash and burned it like the bug it was.

New in Slack 2.0.2 (Apr 26, 2016)

  • New: You can now send reactions directly from notification replies, it's all just a +:thumbs-up: away. Such a time saver.
  • Fixed: The issues that plagued the sign-in process something chronic are now fixed. We are no longer bubonic, and signing-in should be as pleasant as a walk in the park, or something similarly bucolic.
  • Fixed: A problem where the team list background color would change to a dark purple if you opened a post in any theme but aubergine has been fixed. You picked your sidebar colors, you get to keep your colors. (You did know you can change your sidebar colors, right?)

New in Slack 2.0.1 (Mar 25, 2016)

  • Fixed: Sometimes you'd download a file and '.txt' would be added to the end of the file name for no apparent reason. This was a case of the OS trying to be helpful. It was not help of the kind we, or anyone, needed.
  • Fixed: When replying to a message from its notification, hitting the button multiple times would send multiple replies. While we understand and appreciate enthusiasm, we now detect this and only send the reply once.
  • Fixed: While we offered the freedom to pick your download destination location of choice, several discovered their Desktop (a popular destination at any time of year) wasn't included in that. It is now.
  • Fixed: Also related to downloads, some folks chose destinations that they didn't have permission to write to. Slack used to just throw its hands in the air. Now a helpfully worded message will alert you to the problem.
  • Fixed: Keeping with the downloads theme… if you quit Slack while files were downloading it was difficult to resume the download when you restarted. Now the whole thing is just better.
  • Fixed: When entering a team name in the sign-in window we would sometimes crash if the OS spelling checker and suggestion system kicked in. Again: helpful. Too helpful.
  • Fixed: Strange circumstances that could cause the very nice Lato font not to load and all of your messages to render in a font that was still quite nice, but not as nice. You deserve nice things.
  • Fixed: An apology — In our Acknowledgements section we had an incorrect attribution link for OMGHTTPURLRQ. You should always give credit where credit is due, even if it's for something you can't say out loud without someone handing you a tissue.

New in Slack 2.0.0 (Feb 24, 2016)

  • New: The oft-requested ability to choose download location is now available. A rush and a push (or: an opening of Slack prefs and a choosing of Advanced Options) and the ability to choose your favored destination of downloaded files is yours.
  • Fixed: Help > Questions or Feedback now directs you to our new Help Center at https://get.slack.help. Which is lovely, by the way.
  • Fixed: If you were viewing a Post and zoomed in or out it modified the main app zoom level preference, making things all wonky the next time you launched Slack, but now it isn't. And with that our long night of magnification woe is hopefully over.
  • Fixed: A crash related to flip-flopping during the addition of new teams has been firmly booted.
  • Fixed: Sometimes when you went in and out of full screen mode we would leave a tiny empty window behind. This was littering, and littering is wrong.
  • Fixed: In situations where you were not in a team any more, it still showed up in the sidebar with no way to remove it. Now you can right-click on the team icon for an option to fully sign out of that team and remove it from the UI. We call it: PROJEKT-TEEM-B-GON. We don't really. We call it "fixed".
  • Fixed: Double-clicking in the background of the team switcher area no longer inexplicably minimizes the window.
  • Fixed: On Mac OS X 10.11 the Enter Full Screen menu item would appear twice. As you have only one life to live, so you have only one full screen to enter. We've accepted that now, and fixed it. So it goes.
  • Fixed: A maddening bug revolving around the downloading of files that you then deleted from your drive has been rectified with the addition of an option to download a fresh copy of the file. If this makes sense to you, we're delighted. If not, you probably never experienced it. Either way: :party_parrot:
  • Fixed: Many wonderful people wrote in to tell us about the click target area for the team icons being trapezoidal. One even made a blog post with images graphing the exact and incorrect geometry. Thank you all for your patience, assistance, and mathematical diligence. It is now a perfect rectangle. Or we hope it is, anyway.

New in Slack 1.1.10 (Jan 14, 2016)

  • Fixed: A crash if you were signed in to multiple accounts, quit the app, had one of the accounts disabled, and then launched again. It's sad enough that you were removed from a Slack team, we shouldn't make it worse by crashing repeatedly afterwards…so now we don't.
  • Fixed: Up there in the View menu are options to increase or decrease the size of the Slack display. For reasons that are too embarrassing to go into, no matter if you chose increase, or decrease, we wrote increase to your preferences. So if you went up two sizes, then down two sizes, then quit and relaunched everything would be 4x bigger.
  • Fixed: A pesky bug that would cause Slack notification sounds to play even if you had OS-level Do Not Disturb enabled.
  • Fixed: Sometimes, if you left Slack running all night on a sleeping machine — specifically if the computer was asleep when the time crossed midnight — it would crash and need to be helped back to life, in some bizarre inexplicable software version of a Cinderella Complex. After considerable therapy, the app once more believes in itself as a strong, independent entity, and will live happily ever after, even over the witching hour. Until the next time.

New in Slack 1.1.9 (Dec 16, 2015)

  • New: Updated emoji sprite-sheets. Now you can visually describe that time you got caught in a freak taco tornado with unnerving realism.
  • Fixed: We found what can only be described as a "hella big" memory leak that would happen any time you opened and closed a Post window. It has now been closed for, hopefully, good.
  • Fixed: The menu items to zoom the text size in and out now works in Posts windows. It was supposed to all along but it didn't and we apologize for any frustration or eye strain this may have caused.
  • Fixed: If you went full-screen, then went to add a new team, then switched windows, then went to add another new team we would crash. As a special holiday gift to you we no longer crash.

New in Slack 1.1.8 (Nov 18, 2015)

  • Fixed: If you quit Slack while a download was in progress we’d leave things in a weird state that made it impossible to resume the download when you relaunched. Now, once you reload, you can resume that download and that download will be yours forever*. *Or for the internet value of “forever”.
  • Fixed: The version number in the about pull down is now copyable text.
  • Fixed: In our last release we fixed a bug where we were dismissing notifications too aggressively, which was bad. But then we discovered that if your Notification Center preferences were set to alerts instead of banners then we wouldn’t ever dismiss the notification… ever. Which was the opposite (not the opposite of “bad”, we mean. It was still bad). Clicking on the notification will now both bring Slack to the foreground, AND dismiss the notification.
  • Fixed: If you had your mouse set to treat two-finger swipes as forward/backward actions we, well? We had the directions backwards. Let’s never mention it again.
  • Fixed: We just can’t get enough of fixing data cache corruption bugs… So we fixed another. one, because we needed to. Not because we wanted to distract you from the idiocy of the two-finger swipe thing we promised never to mention agai… Oh darn.

New in Slack 1.1.7 (Oct 19, 2015)

  • Fixed a slight distribution hiccup

New in Slack 1.1.6 (Oct 16, 2015)

  • New: Some plug-ins were giving up, and letting us down by not showing video, making people run around reinstalling plug-ins or desert the idea of watching video entirely. All our lovely media providers now serve us direct content that means we've been able to say goodbye to plug-ins forever. Now nothing can stop your roll.
  • Fixed: We updated crash reporting library to fix problems with it, itself, crashing. Very meta.
  • Fixed: The click targets of the team icons down the left side of the window were sometimes smaller than they should have been. It is no longer frustratingly difficult to click on the team icons.
  • Fixed: A bug that would prevent files from downloading properly — well, at all — for users on Mac OS X 10.7. (Side note: this is the last version of the app that will support OS X 10.7, because of stuff like this.)
  • Fixed: if your Mac abruptly shut down or restarted there was a chance that some of Slack's cached data would be left in a bad state. We now detect that this has happened and recover, which we feel is preferable to just crashing every time you launched the app.
  • Fixed: An unfortunate bug that would cause unfortunately poor performance when viewing Posts.
  • Fixed: A font loading issue that would cause some ligatures to not render.
  • Fixed: Sometimes you'd get a notification, and you'd reply directly from the notification, and the reply would never get posted. Now they always do.
  • Fixed: …And as if that wasn't enough, sometimes we'd accidentally clear all of your Slack notifications, whether you'd read them or not. That was a doozy. We do not do that anymore.
  • Fixed: A rare bug could leave you staring at a sign-in screen when all you wanted was to reload your content. We love our sign-in page, and first impressions are important… but not that important.

New in Slack 1.1.4 (Sep 11, 2015)

  • New: when viewing completed downloads in the flexpane you can open the file in its default application by holding down the shift key and clicking, with great flourish, upon the desired location.
  • Fixed: a vile bug that could corrupt cache files if your Mac shut down or restarted unexpectedly while Slack was running.
  • Fixed: a bug that would show greater than 100% completion of file downloads. This was not a useful area for overachievement.
  • Fixed: A bug causing an erroneous zipper issue, automatically decompressing gzip files after they were downloaded has been totally repaired.
  • Fixed: a bug that could leave you staring at a blank white window after signing in to a team whose session expiration time was set to zero. We now process the login result using a slightly larger value of zero. If you experienced this zero or less than zero times, congratulations. If you experienced it more than that, apologies, there is zero chance of you experiencing it again.

New in Slack 1.1.3 (Aug 8, 2015)

  • Fixed: A bug that prevented login when signing into a single team that required Google SSO or SAML authentication.

New in Slack 1.1.2 (Jul 31, 2015)

  • Fixed: Security update

New in Slack 1.1.1 (Jul 18, 2015)

  • New: Updated artwork to support emoji skin tone options…because not everyone feels fully represented by cartoon yellow.

New in Slack 1.1 (Jul 8, 2015)

  • New: O happy day: We no longer send you packing to your web browser to download files. It all happens right within Slack.
  • New: We added support for the slack:// URL scheme. Look to https://api.slack.com for upcoming documentation on all the nifty things it'll let you do.
  • New: Laid the foundation for some soon-to-be-announced features. They're very nice. Can't wait to see your reactions when you find out what they are.
  • New: It's a tiny thing but our About box now shows the build number as well as the app version. Should you need to contact us for support, it'll help us help you. And that makes us happy.
  • Fixed: Bug in our fonts that prevented the Apple logo and the musical quarter note characters from appearing. You no longer have to face the shame of trying to boast about your brand new (t) Watch
  • Fixed: Several bugs causing the app to repeatedly reload were meticulously massaged until all their tensions vanished in a puff of contentedness
  • Fixed: Problems with the display of the Box and Dropbox file pickers, begone.
  • Fixed: We made more bearable some annoyingly "quirky" interactions between the file upload panel and Quick Look.
  • Fixed: Problems related to SAML authentication windows. These have been defenestrated.
  • Fixed: Sometimes the file upload panel would drop down from a popped-up window rather than from the main application window, confusing everything and everyone. They were given a stern talking to until they realized the errors of their drop-down-pop-up ways.
  • Fixed: The zoom in/out feature was only applied to the frontmost team. Now it is applied to all teams. You wanted to make everything more (or less) readable all at once, right?

New in Slack 1.0.5 (Feb 27, 2015)

  • New: Hovering your cursor over a team icon will now show the full, glorious name of the team.
  • New: Command-E now magically copies your selected text and places it in the App’s search panel (Command+F), with a puff of smoke and the faint smell of burnt glitter.
  • Fixed: Slack 1.0.4 had an incompatibility with Mac OS 10.7. Doh!
  • Fixed: Command-9 didn’t switch to the 9th team. In fact it didn’t switch to any team. It now switches you to your 9th team. If you have a 9th team.
  • Fixed: There was a bug where team icons would highlight in strange ways if you rearranged the team order. While visually stimulating, it was pretty unclear which team you had selected. All is now clear.
  • Fixed: Both the Dropbox file picker and the file save panels broke in 1.0.3. In 1.0.4, they’re fixed. It’s like nothing happened.
  • Fixed: Doing a Quick Look in the file upload dialog would sometimes hide the file picker when the Quick Look closed. You no longer are required to play peekaboo with your software.
  • Cleaned out the gutters and convinced some kids to whitewash the fence — looking forward to spring.

New in Slack 1.0.3 (Jan 27, 2015)

  • New: retina 'loading' animation. Crisper, shinier hashtags for everyone.
  • Fixed: With duct tape and high hopes, a massive memory leak related to notifications was plugged.
  • Fixed: Replying directly in a notification no longer summons the app to foreground.
  • Fixed: As you'd hope, clicking on a notification will now take you to the right team and channel every single time.
  • Fixed: Potential crasher if a team name had two spaces in a row.
  • Fixed: Some clever people were frustrated when ⌘+comma didn't bring up the preferences panel for them if no window was open. It now does. On the upside: other people just learned you can use ⌘+comma to open the preferences panel.
  • Fixed: The "Slack" title of the window was missing. Now you'll always know what you're using (it's Slack.)
  • Fixed: Minor bugs around entering/exiting fullscreen mode.
  • Fixed: Bug where clicking on the "Watch on YouTube" button on an embedded YouTube video would stop video playback but keep playing the sound on a hidden window you could neither find, nor shut, which was nightmarish. We now open the YouTube video in your browser.
  • Fixed: Embedded YouTube videos which showed as a solid black frame on some older OSs now show as videos instead. We tingle in anticipation of what crazy YouTube bug will be, inevitably, next in line.
  • Fixed: Bug where the Refresh command singularly failed to work if you were only signed into one team.
  • Fixed: Closing the main window while in fullscreen mode could occasionally leave you stuck in fullscreen mode with just a black screen, which was an overly nihilistic experience for a communications tool.
  • Fixed: The Reload menu item would sometimes do nothing, not even reload. It now does the very least (or most) that can be expected of it.
  • Fixed: Spookily, as well as wrongly, the dock icon badge count would still show values for signed-out teams.
  • Filled the tank, gave it a wash, vacuumed the seats. Full service.

New in Slack 0.43 (May 2, 2014)

  • Loads emoji locally instead of over the network, to improve responsiveness
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes
  • Performance tweaks

New in Slack 0.41 (Apr 11, 2014)

  • More beautiful loading screen
  • Toned down aggressive auto-correct

New in Slack 0.40 (Mar 25, 2014)

  • Fixes for people that are unable to connect

New in Slack 0.39 (Mar 20, 2014)

  • Made icon slightly prettier
  • Ability to submit console logs to help team
  • Ability to reset settings
  • Fixes for SecureInput / TextExpander
  • Improved loading gif