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Slack platform and developer changelog updates

Slack API Changelog Monitoring

Slack apps depend on message APIs, events, scopes, workflows, and platform rules that can evolve without much room for delay. This Slack API Changelog Monitoring page is designed to help you scan those updates quickly and keep internal bots, notifications, and app features aligned with current platform behavior.

Strong Slack API Changelog Monitoring helps teams catch app permission changes, event updates, and platform announcements before they interrupt internal automation. It also supports better release reviews by giving product and engineering a shared view of what changed and why it matters.

The benefit of Slack API Changelog Monitoring is simple: your team gets a repeatable way to watch changes, evaluate risk, and act before small upstream updates turn into customer-facing bugs. Slack platform and developer changelog updates

Slack API down?

Slack API down? Soon we will add direct API status monitoring alongside Slack API Changelog Monitoring. For now, go to the official API status page on the Slack website. In the future, we plan to detect when Slack APIs may be down even before the public status page is updated.

Recent changes

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08-20-2026

Announcing Slack Code

An agent can answer a question in a thread, but some tasks become bigger than a single question. A coding agent may need to implement a change, share a prototype, and iterate on it. A research agent may need to gather information and work through decisions with the people involved. This kind of work needs more than a single response.

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08-20-2026

The next wave of Agent messaging experience

We're rolling out a wave of updates to agents on Slack, along with an important heads-up about the road ahead for the Assistant messaging experience.

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07-31-2026

Announcing the Slack MCP and Skills Plugin

We're excited to introduce the Slack MCP and Skills Plugin for AI tools, which bundles a set of skills that help you develop on the Slack platform alongside the Slack MCP Server. The plugin is currently available for Claude Code and Cursor.

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07-30-2026

Release: Slack CLI v4.6.0

Version 4.6.0 of the Slack CLI is now available!

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07-21-2026

Release: Slack CLI v4.5.0

Version 4.5.0 of the developer tools for the Slack platform has landed!

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07-15-2026

Release: Bolt for JS v5

Version 5.0.0 of Bolt for JS is here! This release follows the Node Slack SDK's shift from axios to the native Fetch API, removes the deprecated Workflow Steps from Apps feature, and raises the minimum Node.js version to 20.

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07-14-2026

Release: Multiple Node Slack SDK package updates

Our collection of Node Slack SDK packages have received new major versions.

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07-13-2026

Desktop notifications now pull text from blocks first

Slack desktop client notifications now pull text from blocks first, falling back to the top-level text field only if no text can be extracted from blocks. Mobile notifications continue to exclusively use message.text.

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07-02-2026

Agent context has landed

Agent apps can now receive context about what a user is currently viewing when they send a message. When a user has a channel, DM, thread, canvas, or list open and messages your app, Slack will pass that context automatically.

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06-30-2026

Introducing the Agent messaging experience

Agents now support a new messaging experience, set by your app manifest:

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