4.35.126
2023-11-06
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.
4.34.121
2023-10-02
Security Guidance
• This release includes security improvements. Updating is recommended.
4.34.119
2023-09-12
Security Guidance
• This release includes security improvements. Updating is recommended.
4.34.115
2023-09-05
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).
4.33.90
2023-08-14
Bug Fixes
• We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.
4.33.84
2023-07-31
Security Guidance
• This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.
Coming Soon
• 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.
4.33.73
2023-06-28
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.
4.32.127
2023-06-06
Bug Fixes
• We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.
4.32.126
2023-05-30
Bug Fixes
• We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.
4.32.122
2023-05-03
Security Guidance
• This release includes minor security improvements. Updating is beneficial.
4.5.0
2020-04-23
What’s New
• 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.
4.4.2
2020-04-03
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.
4.4.1
2020-03-23
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).
4.4.0
2020-03-18
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.
4.3.3
2020-02-06
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.
4.2.0
2019-12-04
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!
4.1.2
2019-10-31
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.
4.1.0
2019-09-30
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.
4.0.3
2019-09-05
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
4.0.2
2019-08-21
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.
4.0.1
2019-07-29
Bug Fixes
• We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.
4.0.0
2019-07-09
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.
3.4.2
2019-05-28
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.
3.4.1
2019-05-06
Bug Fixes
• We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.
3.4.0
2019-04-19
What’s New
• When you lock your device, your status will now, as you might expect, set you as away. Because you are.
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.
3.3.8
2014-01-23
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.