Slack für Mac (Beta) - Versionshinweise

Slack 4.1.2-beta1

October 15, 2019

Bug Fixes

Long workspace names now no longer appear as incredibly long in menus.
Spellchecker stopped working for a small count of users, leading to a shorp uptick in avoidabull erratz. With spellcheck now fully back online for those users, any remaining typos are officially not our fault.
Slack menus should now be showing up at the right language (meaning the one that is right for you).

Slack 4.1.0-beta5

September 11, 2019

Bug Fixes

We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

Slack 4.1.0-beta3

September 2, 2019

What’s New

Thanks to a few tweaks to the engine, a polish of the pistons, and recalibrated valves, the app should be running smoother and faster, than before.
Spellcheck, revamped, is now a much better version of its old self (and back on Linux, to boot) — now it supports Greek, Portuguese and British English. So now spelling correctly should come more naturally to us all (which is good, because “correctly” can be a difacult word to spell).

Bug Fixes

After uploading a video into Slack some found it would give an infinite circle of loading, but not play, which was never our plan. Now: it works! It plays; no more circle! Because, it turned out, all circ and no play made Slack a null ‘ploy.

Slack 4.0.3-beta2

August 22, 2019

Bug Fixes

We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

Slack 4.0.2-beta1

July 24, 2019

What’s New

A pesky leak involving in-channel videos has been plugged.

Slack 4.0.1-beta2

July 18, 2019

Bug Fixes

We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

Slack 4.0.0-beta2

June 17, 2019

What’s New

Slack is now a little faster, thanks to a few small but important changes.
Admins now have a more stable mechanism to stay in control of when and how the app updates.

Bug Fixes

Dragging and dropping now drops less frequently, and is consequently less of a drag.
Resetting the app data now works better (should that be something you need to do).
For those in multiple workspaces, the sidebar is now neater, with your icons in a more pleasing line.
Hardware acceleration can now be turned off without foregrounding Slack. If that means something to you, you'll know it's good. If it doesn't — it's still good (and thank you for reading).
We'll no longer bounce the the icon in dock if DND is enabled. DND means DND.
We now are better at explaining why we ask for permissions to update Slack… though having improved stability, we should also now ask less frequently.
Notifications sounds on mac used to not play all the time. They now do. All of them. But not at once.
Your customized Slack shortcuts on macOS now work as you expected. Apologies that they ever did not.

Slack 3.4.2-beta4

May 21, 2019

What’s New

Just as day follows night and winter gives way to spring, so have we updated Electron to 4.2.1

Bug Fixes

The push notification time between desktop and mobile has been changed for the better.
Like stability? Us too. So we tweaked things, and now everything is more stable. In our app.

Slack 3.4.1-beta3

April 18, 2019

Bug Fixes

We’ve tinkered with the internal workings and polished some rough edges. The app is now better than it was.

Slack 3.4.0-beta1

March 28, 2019

Bug Fixes

Launch (and Hide) on Login now works better than once it did. Where by "once" we mean "five minutes ago before you updated your version of Slack".
Our Slack app icon was missing smaller icon sizes, which was both problematic and aesthetically bad. It now renders as it should.
Slack would occasionally crash while you were restarting your computer. We looked at the bug causing this, turned it off and on again, and now it works. Technology!
Some people were seeing sidebar icons from other teams they were signed into instead of the icons they were expecting. They will now show correctly.
Any keyboard and cursor actions you may have experienced behaving badly have been shown the error of their ways.

Slack 3.3.8

March 4, 2019

Bug Fixes

We’ve made some additional tweaks to our new sign-in and sign-out flows.

Slack 3.3.8-beta1

February 12, 2019

What’s New

In a slight change to the way you sign in on desktop, you'll now sign in in the browser rather than directly inside the app.

Bug Fixes

The new app icon was looking a little fuzzy on some docks, which simply wouldn't do. It should be much crisper now.
Equally, the new loading animation was looking a little stretched, or a little squished, depending on how you looked it. It's now practically perfect in every way.
If you have had problems logging in using SSO (single sign-on), you should no longer encounter those problems.
We fixed a problem wherein the "Open the Slack App" button in the browser did not, in fact, open the app. Honestly: it had *one* job. It now performs that job.

Slack 3.3.7

January 16, 2019

What’s New

From today, you'll notice a shiny new app button that matches our new logo. You can read more about it on our blog at SlackHQ.com. Change! Everyone loves it. (Having said that, nothing about Slack or how you use it has changed. Just the button.)

Slack 3.3.4

January 10, 2019

Bug Fixes

Users signing in with Single Sign-On would see the same message twice when logging in.
Users signing in with Single Sign-On would see the same message twice when logging in. This will not happen any more.
When trying to select a portion of a code-formatted block of text (text formatted with ` or ``` at either end), some characters were proving slippery and hard to select. Please copy and paste to your heart's content.
Several crashes — occurring rarely, and seemingly randomly, on launch and at other times — have been eliminated. More random and rare crashes inevitably exist, of course, and as soon as we know what they are, we'll eliminate those too.
When downloading particular audio or video files from Slack, the download window will no longer misbehave or look weird.
If you were running macOS Mojave, we sometimes wouldn’t ask you for permissions for microphone and video even though we needed to, which meant we couldn’t use them. We now will and can (with your blessing, of course).

Slack 3.3.4-beta3

December 12, 2018

Bug Fixes

Notification sounds, which are meant to make a sound when you have a notification, were not doing that. They now are, once more.

Slack 3.3.4-beta2

November 16, 2018

Bug Fixes

A few connectivity issues caused by PAC (proxy auto-configuration) files, are issues no longer. Because we fixed them! Hurrah. Now on to the next million things.

Slack 3.3.4

October 16, 2018

Bug Fixes

Users signing in with Single Sign-On would see the same message twice when logging in. This will not happen any more.
When trying to select a portion of a code-formatted block of text (text formatted with ` or ``` at either end), some characters were proving slippery and hard to select. Please copy and paste to your heart's content.
Several crashes — occurring rarely, and seemingly randomly, on launch and at other times — have been eliminated. More random and rare crashes inevitably exist, of course, and as soon as we know what they are, we'll eliminate those too.
When downloading particular audio or video files from Slack, the download window will no longer misbehave or look weird.
If you were running macOS Mojave, we sometimes wouldn’t ask you for permissions for microphone and video even though we needed to. We now will.

Slack 3.3.3

October 1, 2018

Bug Fixes

All updates are important, of course. This one contains security updates, and as we know, they’re the most important kind of all.

Slack 3.3.0

July 31, 2018

What’s New

If you're having graphical issues, you can now use the "Disable Hardware Acceleration” in preferences to make things better.

Bug Fixes

Overall, stability of the app has been improved, thanks to a bevy of bug fixes.
We appreciate it when you report issues — so we've improved the diagnostic reporting tools so that we can analyze them, and fix them, faster.
Having multiple windows open sometimes led to you getting duplicate notifications at once. Whatever the message, it should now just be one ping per tool for y'all, one click to find them.
Color profiles being slightly different in 3.2.0 may have caused a little flicker, which should now have been extinguished.
The spellcheck, having had its logic tweaked, to be better at spellchecking, is now a lot bitter at chicken for erroneous spilling ersatz. In Slack.
When you download something, we're now better at telling you so.
In fact, notifications in general are noticeably more reliable now, too.
One particular bug causing the app to crash upon launch has been squished. There may be more. But when we find them, we'll fix those too.

Slack 3.2.0

April 26, 2018

What’s New

Myriad improvements for the people of Enterprise Grid, including quicker Quick Switching, better proxy support, and direct message draft syncing across multiple workspaces (meaning that whichever workspace you started typing that message in, you can finish in another.)

Bug Fixes

Unread badges were occasionally unreliable or inconsistent, so we tweaked a few doohickeys to improve them. It worked.
Smoothed some wrinkles in the loading of Slack calls and boosted general under-the-hood call performance while we were in there.
We tinkered with the workspace sign-in flow, updating how we handle errors and improving magic link support.
Copying email links now does what you’d expect (as long as you were expecting it to copy the email link. If you were expecting it to do something like file your taxes for you, you are still out of luck).
Slack will no longer interrupt macOS when restarting or shutting down.
After changing displays, pinch-to-zoom gestures will no longer insist on continuing to zoom the app when you pinch.
Twelve crashes have been fixed. Yes. 12. If you were unlucky enough to experience the full dozen, please accept a) this imaginary medal and b) our sincere apologies.

Slack 3.1.1

April 6, 2018

Bug Fixes

We got so excited about your emoji we kept requesting them, particularly at the moment you switched channels. This caused all manner of slowness. We've since bottled our enthusiasm, and now request emoji exactly one (1) time.

Slack 3.1.0

February 15, 2018

What’s New

We’re using a new font for Japanese. It’s clearer, more legible, and goes well with aubergine. (Which is is the default color of your sidebar. As well as a vegetable.)
Sometimes Slack takes too long to start up. If that happens, you’ll now see a link with some helpful troubleshooting ideas.
When a file’s done downloading, a new notification will dutifully let you know.
If you’ve asked Slack to launch right when your computer turns on, Slack now does so much more quietly — with less fanfare, and fewer loading screens.

Bug Fixes

Badges about unread messages would linger on the dock icon, even after said messages had been read. These badges will linger no more.
Slack would occasionally crash when it wasn’t allowed to put files in the Temp folder. Now, it will simply use the Downloads folder, instead.
Some users who clicked on a magic link were not taken to their workspace. We have set our cauldrons to a slow simmer and magic links should now work as expected.
When trying to connect via a proxy, Slack simply refused to load. No longer!
Now you can download a file from Slack, delete it, and then download it again. If that seems like the way the Slack should’ve always worked, well, you aren’t wrong. But now it actually does.
Right clicking “something” and choosing “Search with Google” had a tendency to search for “so”, “me”, or “thing.” It will now search for the entire text. So if you really do want to Google “something” (or something else), we’ll have your back.
While operating in the background, Slack would sometimes keep notifications to itself. Sharing is caring, and you should now receive notifications as normal.
Quitting Slack while the app is full screen will no longer vanish the title bar.
Too many text substitutions would cause Slack to perform poorly. You can now use text replacement to your heart’s content.
Interacting with a notification will cause it to disappear, and not hang around indefinitely.
A subtle gray border on the right edge of the window has been replaced with a subtler, invisible gray border.

Slack 3.0.5

January 15, 2018

Bug Fixes

An important security update. Security updates are always important. This is one of those.

Slack 3.0.2

December 19, 2017

Bug Fixes

We undid changes that have been causing some people to occasionally miss notifications with 3.0.0. You will now miss nothing. Unless you want to.
Clicking on and replying to notifications is now also more reliable.
macOS 10.13 High Sierra has a bug that impacts some 2012-2013 MacBook Pros, causing display problems with Slack. We have a temporary fix for these devices that may make performance slightly worse, but will at least avoid flickering and graphics glitches. Performant AND non-glitchy is the next step.

Slack 3.0.0

October 27, 2017

What’s New

When you’re in a lot of workspaces, the app now uses much less memory, and starting up is faster, to boot.
And flipping between those workspaces is now faster. Not super-sonic, but certainly somewhere between a jiffy and lickety-split.
We shunted the sign-in page out of the app — it's now rerouted to a new window, for reasons of reliability.
A new-fangled lock badge subtly lets you know which workspaces you're currently signed out of. Or of which you're currently signed out. Either way.
Our start up screen, spruced-up and slimmed-down, is worth a gander — as is the helpful way that dates now stick to the top of a channel while scrolling through messages. Though if you don't notice them, but quietly feel a little bit happier for reasons you can't put your finger on, that's cool too.

Bug Fixes

It’s been a long time coming but brings us joy to say: 100% less reloading during drag and drop. How much? 100%. That's all the percents, people. Sorry about the previous frustration.
For those encountering a screen claiming "Something’s not working", it turns out the main thing not working was this screen: it is no more.
If you kept the app running for a long time, you might be on the receiving end of two consecutive updates. Now good things come to those who wait, one-at-a-time, as is proper.
The sidebar now scoots considerately out of the way when viewing full-screen video.
We fixed exiting full-screen video when pressing the aptly-named “Escape” key.
The blackout caused by a window being closed while full-screen, with one request confoundingly eclipsing the other, has been sunsetted.
Found: One missing Ctrl-1 / Cmd-1 hotkey. Please call 1-800-SLACKME to claim. Don't actually call that. It doesn't do anything. Unlike the hotkey (now).
Should you forget what app you’re using, the About Slack window is all new and loads much faster than before.
Scrolling through messages is flicker-free.
There are now no more crashes in High Sierra when starting up the app.
Composing text in an IME (for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean customers) no longer inserts zero-width spaces; in other words, it’s blank-box-free.
The diacritics menu – the place where the alphabet goes to try on different hats and accents – no longer adds a duplicate letter to your input once you've chosen the one you want. We've said it before, but this time we really mëean it.
Pinch-to-zoom gestures could, sometimes, tragically, irreversibly zoom. You can now make things on your screen smaller again without resorting to moving your computer far away.
The popup that appears when you look up the definition of a word has been realigned to make more sense.
And finally, sometimes selecting text in the search box would move the window around. You could say… it was a bit of a drag.
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Slack 2.8.0

September 6, 2017

What’s New

Support for a top secret, very hush-hush, highly classified and very exciting new feature that we wish we could call by name, but we cannot.
All mentions of “team” have been changed to “workspace” when referring to the app, though not when referring to the people in it. You create a workspace. You invite people from your team. Simple!

Bug Fixes

Fixed: A few rare crashes when making a call and/or screen sharing on a call are now, we believe, on the brink of extinction - or possibly, we hope, gone forever.
Fixed: An issue where the app would hang if your OS reported that you were in certain timezones
Fixed: You may have been running into a Something's Not Working screen when waking your computer from sleep. Turns out the thing not working was that. So we fixed it.

Slack 2.7.1

August 15, 2017

Bug Fixes

You're nearly finished signing in when suddenly – bonk – you're brought back to the first page. Hey, what gives? Please accept our apologies and, in this version, 100% less bonking.
Entering characters from the accent menu no longer inserts an extra character. Voilà señorita: that souffleé is now an (edible) soufflé.

Slack 2.7.0

July 24, 2017

What’s New

The app now stores some login information on the keychain. So if a passerby requests permission (a dialog, not a stranger), do try and approve it.
File downloads are now pausable and – in perhaps a master stroke of matchmaking – resumable too.
A bevy of changes to make the app more keyboard navigable.
We’ve adjusted the app icon, but just a skosh. Putting our best foot forward.
Should the worst happen and the app fail to load, you'll see a less dreadful error page and perhaps even a code you can share.

Bug Fixes

Like an electrically-motivated vampire was Slack to your laptop’s battery. Put down the garlic; leave the stakes at home: we’ve done the slaying on our end.
If you’ve set the app to start hidden in your system login items, it will listen to you.
In a similar vein, if you send a reply from an alert-style notification, your teammates will hear you.
We spliced some wires we shouldn’t have, causing a loading screen to flash briefly after signing into a team. Now it’s as it should be.
The team sidebar is no longer touch-challenged. Tap, flick, and drag teams to your heart’s content.
Cancelling a running download is 38% less crashy. For when you decide you didn’t need that third gif after all.

Slack 2.6.3

June 2, 2017

Bug Fixes

Sometimes if you changed networks, we used to rouse from sleep in a bit of a daze, greeting you with a blank screen. Now, we awaken bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Or at the very least, with your team displayed.
Where, in rare cases, some external links didn't end up pointing to the right place when you clicked them, they now do.
Video playback should now be much smoother, and nicer to your network.
On certain keyboard layouts, hitting backspace didn't actually delete the last character, which was a surprise, but a surprise of the lesser kind - there is now one fewer lesser surprise.

Slack 2.6.2

May 17, 2017

Bug Fixes

Unexplainably, context menus and spell-check stopped working in some teams. OK: we have an explanation but we'd rather not discuss it. It's embarrassing. Rest easy knowing that it's fixed here.
We found – and cast out – the culprit behind high resource usage while the app's sitting idle.

Slack 2.6.1

May 1, 2017

Bug Fixes

If you were experiencing issues making calls on macOS 10.10, you should no longer. Update and keep calling.

Slack 2.6.0

April 20, 2017

What’s New

We revamped video calls, making the experience more intuitive, and more attractive. As a bonus, they're more resource efficient and now let you change audio devices during a call. If that's the kind of thing you need to do.

Bug Fixes

We paved over a series of potholes that were strewn about the app, making crashes far less likely.
Should you ever wish to say goodbye to one of your teams, a right-click > Remove from the sidebar will do the trick now more reliably than before.
Switching teams using the numbered shortcuts is noticeably faster. We would say "37%" if we were forced to put a number on it. Fortunately, we aren't, and we won't.
Opening a context menu won't freeze videos or gifs playing in the app.
We dusted off the cobwebs in the app menu and composted a few menu items that weren't useful when signed into one team.
The default window size is a smidgen larger. You won't notice, because your window will keep being the same size it's always been. That's just the way it is, and we don't want it to change.
Our spellchecker would occasionally mark correctly spelled words as incorrect. It had ONE job. It now performs it.

Slack 2.5.2

March 9, 2017

Bug Fixes

We made the act of signing in more reliable for teams using SSO.
For the times when Slack just... doesn't: try Help > Clear Cache and Restart. It has all the nougaty goodness of Reset App Data, without the stale aftertaste of losing your teams.

Slack 2.5.1

February 14, 2017

What’s New

The way we load teams you don’t view often has been changed to improve the memory footprint of the app. One day, it will be a pitter patter of tiny footprints. For now, it’s a tad slower, a little less hefty, and a lot more attractive. Think “brontosaurus in a nice hat.”
Folks consistently unable to load the app will now be greeted by a troubleshooting page that offers suggestions on making their situation better. (Spoiler: it's usually to do with over-zealous antivirus software).
Those pasting text with style into a Post then finding their text to have "no style" can now Paste & Match Style under the Edit menu.
You can see our Help Center documentation in – of all places – the Help menu. The almost over-intuitively named Open Help Center item will be your friend.

Bug Fixes

Fixed: Waking Slack after hibernation or a system crash occasionally found all your teams missing. Thank you for your patience, and sorry for the inconvenience; it no longer should.
Fixed: Some bold explorers moved their user profile off of the default drive and started the app to find nothing but a cryptic error message. We weren't prepared for this boldness, but have since girded our loins. Fine, explorers: Set your profiles free.
Fixed: A rare bug where team icons shuffled out of formation in the sidebar. They're more stoic and sticky and as a bonus, rearranging them is smoother.
Fixed: Customers typing in languages that use IME composition (Korean, for example) will find that the message input is 82% stickier.