Productivity & Collaboration

Slack fixes forwarded-email identity mix-up

Slack corrected how forwarded emails appear in channels so they no longer display the name and icon of unrelated apps.

• —Slack now labels forwarded emails with their own identity instead of borrowing another app's name and icon in channels.

Notion ships a routine maintenance release

Notion released a patch-only update focused on bug fixes and performance improvements, with no new user-facing capabilities.

Notion SDK gains agent and session controls

Notion's JavaScript SDK added first-class agent and session APIs, enabling programmatic management of agents, session streaming with retry logic, and typed session events.

• —Notion SDK for JS now exposes client.agents methods to retrieve, query, delete, batch, and manage agent status or credit limits.
• —New client.sessions API supports retrieving, updating, canceling, and querying sessions, plus async-iterable event streaming with retries before opening and no event replay afterward.

Notion refines stability and performance

Notion shipped a maintenance update focused on bug fixes and performance improvements across the platform.

• —Notion improved overall stability and responsiveness with its latest maintenance release.

Slack SDKs ship agent session APIs and a socket leak fix

Slack's Node and Python SDKs added agent session management methods, new block types, and a socket-close fix; webhook delivery no longer retries after success, and web-api gained lease expiration support.

• —Slack Node SDK patched a leaked TCP socket bug on disconnect that could block onboarding, adding a 30s close-handshake timeout and force-destroying stale connections.
• —Slack webhook and web-api now resolve empty 2xx webhook responses without throwing, preventing duplicate Workflow Builder runs; Slack web-api added admin user expiration and agent session rename/status methods, with Python SDK adding JWT-based StatelessOAuthStateStore and min/max line rich text input constraints.

Slack ships a quiet maintenance update

Slack released version 26.08.40 with no notable user-facing changes, just routine upkeep.

Notion ships bug fixes and performance gains

Notion’s latest update focuses on stability and speed, addressing bugs and improving overall performance for users.

Figma adds erase tools and enterprise MCP control

Figma shipped drag-to-fill and erase interactions for vector editing, while giving Enterprise and Organization admins central control over MCP server connections to AI agents via their identity provider.

• —Figma's vector editing now supports erase and drag-to-fill interactions for more precise on-canvas edits.
• —Figma lets Enterprise and Organization admins centrally manage MCP connections to AI agents, removing per-user authentication and consent prompts.

Notion ships routine maintenance update

Notion's only release today is a maintenance update.

Linear coding sessions run and test code

Linear's coding sessions now set up, run, and verify code with browser testing and transparent token-plus-runtime pricing.

• —Linear Agent coding sessions now install toolchains and dependencies, run the code, and test it before returning results.
• —Browser testing lets the agent navigate and verify flows, with before-and-after screenshots for review.
• —Pricing shifts to a transparent model—provider-rate tokens plus $0.25 per 20-minute sandbox block—with workspace and per-user spend limits.