Introduce more organizations to your integration by making it compatible with Slack Connect — Slack Connect is a new, more secure and productive way for organizations to work together. It makes collaborating with external partners in Slack as simple as with your own team — replacing email and streamlining teamwork for everyone. More than 41,000 organizations rely on Slack Connect to collaborate with clients…

Now available in developer open beta — You can now develop components of a Slack app that will soon be available as steps in Workflow Builder, enabling anyone to create custom workflows in Slack that integrate with their external tools. Since launching Workflow Builder late last year, hundreds of thousands of builders have published workflows that are…

Learn how the latest Slack apps built shortcuts as a simpler, more intuitive way to drive user interactions in Slack. Reposted from April 29, 2020 We recently introduced new ways to interact with apps — including shortcuts, simpler, more intuitive ways for users to take action with Slack apps. …

Improvements that make working in Slack — and using apps — easier for everyone — Slack now offers a simpler, more organized experience for users — whether you’re a power user or just starting on Slack, working remotely or in an office. These improvements also make it easier for the 12 million people who use Slack everyday to discover, understand, and use apps. The average…

A custom app success story — Early last year, our Sales Analytics team approached us with an idea for a new custom bot. Our Sales reps were spending many hours each week creating customer slide decks. They were building these decks by copy/pasting content from our BI tool into Google Slides. …

New interactive elements and surfaces for your Slack app — Slack shines when users are empowered to get their work done quickly and easily — with app builders, like yourself, but making those delightful experiences possible. Today, there are a few new ways to make those apps sing: the latest interactive app surface, the app home tab; and the newest…

Submit your app’s security and compliance information to the App Directory — Apps make work more pleasant and productive for teams in Slack. To make that happen, apps request permission to access information in a workspace. Slack admins use app approvals to maintain control over the apps installed on their workspaces and to protect company data from security threats. Before installing an…

Granular permissions now available for Slack apps — We recently introduced the Slack app toolkit — the happy path for building apps that anyone can easily discover, understand, and use in Slack. Permissions, or the way apps request information in Slack, are the first component of the toolkit. We’ve redesigned the bot token with a revised permissions model…

Upgrade by March 4, 2020 — TL;DR On March 4, 2020, Slack will end support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 and 1.1. In advance of this, we will implement a 24-hour test deprecation on February 19, 2020. If your Slack app or organization is using an unsupported version of TLS, requests sent to any Slack…