Slack

An AI-powered Today view entered open beta, giving users a personalized landing page with meetings, action items, and conversation highlights.

The Today view reorganizes your morning. Slack's AI-powered landing page surfaces upcoming meetings, outstanding action items, and conversation highlights in one place. Users can join the waitlist now; Slackbot also gained the ability to read, create, and edit lists alongside canvas changes.

Enterprise admins gained a dedicated Slackbot dashboard. A new analytics dashboard for Enterprise orgs surfaces Slackbot activity at scale. Members can now flag channel names, topics, and descriptions for administrative review.

New platform controls reduce noise. Channels can be temporarily muted for an hour or until the next day. Focus mode trims the sidebar — no bolding, reduced badging, and fewer notifications — for quieter stretches of work. Forwarding a message now supports scheduling it for later delivery.

Slackbot took on more workflow tasks. Slackbot can create and update Salesforce records directly, limited to data the user already has access to. 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. @slack/web-api@7.16.0 added highlight_type to filesUploadV2 for optimistic rendering on file uploads.

ChatStreamer gained a recovery path. @slack/web-api@7.17.0 exposed a public read-only ts getter on ChatStreamer, letting callers fall back to chat.update when a stream expires server-side. @slack/cli-test@4.0.0 also made the app argument explicit — commands no longer default to --app deployed and must now pass "local", "deployed", or an app ID.

Security hardening across Bolt JS. v4.7.3 rejected empty signingSecret values at initialization, closing a potential HMAC forgery path.