Slack
An AI-powered Today view entered open beta, giving users a personalized landing page with meetings, action items, and conversation highlights.1
The Today view reorganizes your morning. Slack's new AI-powered landing page surfaces your upcoming meetings, outstanding action items, and conversation highlights in one place.2 Users can join the waitlist now; Slackbot gained the ability to read, create, and edit lists alongside canvas changes.
New platform controls reduce noise. Channels can now be temporarily muted for an hour or until the next day.3 Focus mode trims the sidebar — no bolding, reduced badging, and fewer notifications — for quieter stretches of work.4
Slackbot took on more workflow tasks. Slackbot can now create and update Salesforce records directly, limited to data the user already has access to.5 Admins control which record actions Slackbot is permitted to take.
Block Kit expanded for agent-facing messages. Card, Carousel, and Alert block types shipped in @slack/types@2.21.0 (Node and Python SDKs); BlocksChunk followed to support Block Kit blocks inside streaming messages.6 @slack/web-api@7.16.0 added highlight_type to filesUploadV2 for optimistic rendering on file uploads.7
Security hardening across Bolt JS. v4.7.3 rejected empty signingSecret values at initialization, closing a potential HMAC forgery path.8 Earlier, v4.7.2 tightened ssl_check to require the exact string "1".9 Socket Mode (v2.0.7) now force-terminates stale closing connections instead of waiting indefinitely, speeding up reconnection after expected periodic disconnects.10
