Slack Changelog

Temporarily mute channels

When things get a little too chatty, temporarily mute a channel for an hour or until the next day.

Start your day with Today

Get up to speed on your most important work faster with Slack's personalized, AI-powered landing page (now in open beta). Sign up for the waitlist so you can get a bird's eye view of your meetings, action items, and conversation highlights in one place.

Reduce distractions with focus mode

Turn on focus mode for a quieter sidebar — no bolding, limited badging, and reduced notifications.

Manage Salesforce records with Slackbot

Let Slackbot take care of creating or updating Salesforce records for you. Slackbot can only access Salesforce data you have permissions for, and Slack admins and owners can decide which record actions Slackbot can take.

Other news in May

• Slackbot can now read, create, and edit lists. You'll be able to review and approve changes, just like with canvas creation and editing.

Schedule forwarded messages to send in the future

When forwarding a message, choose a time to send it by clicking the arrow icon next to Forward and selecting Schedule for later.

Other news

• GitHub issues will now show up in enterprise search results alongside pull requests. Org Owners and Admins can connect up to five organizations when configuring GitHub as a data source.

Org Owners and Admins can add Google Mail and Microsoft Outlook as enterprise search data sources so members can search for email content in Slack.

Find content from Gmail or Microsoft Outlook in Slack — Org Owners and Admins can add Google Mail and Microsoft Outlook as enterprise search data sources so members can search for email content in Slack.

Approve certain scopes when reviewing app requests — Workspace Owners and app managers can choose which scopes to approve or deny when reviewing app requests with optional scopes.

Other updates:

• People with permission can now change the owner of a Salesforce record in Slack
• All agents (including Agentforce and third-party agents) moved to the Tools tab
• New Stop button to pause Slackbot responses

Keep your organization's confidential information like API tokens, webhooks, and access keys secure with new built-in DLP rules.

The new Activity view is your one-stop shop for staying informed, managing messages, and taking action on everything you're working on in Slack. You'll now find direct messages (DMs), messages from channels set to All new posts, and reminders in Activity, along with new filtering options to easily find and sort your work and conversations.

After a brief hiatus, you can once again use split view to open conversations and other pages side-by-side in Slack.

Data residency for Slack is now available in São Paulo, Brazil; Zurich, Switzerland; and Dubai, UAE.

To help you build workflows for more complex processes, you can now nest workflow branches below another branch.

You can now access canvases and lists in the Files tab, and find workflows, apps, and channel templates in the new Tools tab. The People, Channels, and External Connections tabs have moved to a Directories page at the top of the sidebar in Home.