Welcome back! After a February packed with major updates, you might think things would slow down. Instead, March brought its own wave of exciting news, including a big milestone for the Slack Community, powerful new features for task management, and major upgrades for Enterprise Search.
It’s clear the momentum isn’t stopping, so let’s dive into everything new from March!
Community
The Slack Community Turns Six! On March 28th, we celebrated the 6th anniversary of the Slack Community. Because of you, the community has been filled with so many fun moments, great laughs, and amazing user group events around the world.
I can’t wait to see what else we accomplish together. After all, you’re helping us build the product with your feedback and insights! Keep holding us accountable, sharing your ideas, and of course, uploading your favorite emojis. If you’re not yet a member, what are you waiting for? Join the community today!
Salesforce & Slack
Agentforce in Slack is Getting an Upgrade More Agentforce innovations are set to arrive soon, with brand new features that will allow you to:
- At-mention Agentforce directly in a channel.
- Broaden access to Agentforce for every team member.
- Build ISV partner solutions with Agentforce and Slack.
Salesforce Record Creation Arrives on Mobile You can now create Salesforce records directly from the Slack mobile app.
- How it Works: Record creation is supported via Quick Actions (which can be assigned to page layouts) and from within related and standalone list views.
- Current Limitations: Quick Actions that create
TaskorEventobjects are not yet supported, but that functionality will be added shortly. - Availability: This is rolling out with mobile version **
25.03.20**on both iOS and Android.
Enterprise
Introducing AI-Powered Enterprise Search The search experience in Slack just got a major upgrade with Enterprise Search, an AI-powered experience that extends across your organization’s apps and files.
Highlights include:
- Google Drive Connector: Search across all the slide decks, documents, and spreadsheets your company has stored in Google Drive.
- GitHub Connector: Instantly access pull requests from your repositories without leaving Slack. AI-powered answers about your code stack will now reference your PRs, enabling faster troubleshooting and deeper insights.
Enterprise Search for Google Drive and GitHub is available today to customers with Slack AI licenses on the Enterprise Grid plan. More data sources will be released soon!
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General Updates
Upgrades for VIP Notifications You now have more control over notifications from your VIPs.
- Custom VIP Sounds: Set a preferred sound for VIP messages and mentions on desktop, Android, and iOS. You can find this in
Preferences > Notifications > Sound & appearance. If no VIP sound is set, it will use your default notification sound. - Upgraded VIP Unreads Section: The header menu in the “VIP unreads” section of your sidebar will now show your 20 most recently read VIP items, making it easy to find recent conversations.
- New VIP Unreads Pill: A new notification “pill” will appear for out-of-view VIP unreads. Clicking it will scroll your sidebar directly to the first unread VIP message.
Lists
Major Upgrade to Lists for Task Management Get ready for three new features in Lists, designed to supercharge task management based on your feedback!
- Default Task Tracking Fields: When you create a new list, it will now automatically include Assignee, Due Date, and Completed fields. If you assign a task, it automatically gets added to that person’s “Assigned to you” view.
- Subtasks: You can now break larger tasks into smaller, more manageable subtasks, complete with their own assignees and due dates.
- Programmatic Reminders: Easily set up alerts for assignees on upcoming or overdue items, or post a summary in a channel for team-wide visibility.
For Developers
New Documentation Sites are Live!
The new documentation sites are here! The Slack platform documentation is now in beta on
ocs.slack.dev, and the developer tools documentation has moved to tools.slack.dev.
Come on in, take a look around, and share your feedback!
Slack CLI Updates Versions 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 were released with a handful of improvements based on developer community feedback.
- The
-tokenand-appflags have been fixed to work correctly when combined with other flags. - Fixed bugs related to creating new apps that could overwrite existing ones and improved how an app’s team name is displayed.
- The
slack version --helpcommand now includes more descriptive information. - The
slack feedbackcommand now points to the new documentation site.
Deprecation Update: files.upload
After considering community feedback, the deprecation date for the legacy
files.upload API method has been pushed back to November 12, 2025.
New Python Slack SDK Release For Python developers, slack-sdk v3.35.0 is now available and includes support for Asyncio SQLAlchemy. You can find the full release notes here.
Wrapping Up March
And that brings our March roundup to a close. From celebrating the community’s anniversary to launching powerful new tools for search and task management, it’s been another transformative month.
I hope this overview helps you discover and leverage these new capabilities. I’ll be back in early May with all the exciting updates from April.
Until then, happy exploring!
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