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Apr 11, 2025

We want to update you about our previous announcement regarding support for classic apps. After much consideration and feedback, we have decided to push back the deprecation date to May 25, 2026.

Apr 10, 2025

The Slack CLI is now open source! Long a staple of workflow apps built with the Deno Slack SDK—and now with recent support for Bolt frameworks—we're proud to make the ever-growing Slack CLI part of our collection of open source tooling. We love contributions from our community, so we encourage you to explore and interact with the Github repo. Contributions, bug reports, and any feedback are all helpful; let us nurture the Slack CLI together to help make building Slack apps more pleasant for everyone. Not familiar with the Slack CLI? Visit the docs and follow the installation guide to begin your journey.

Apr 10, 2025

Version 3.0.4 of the developer tools for the Slack platform is here!

    We fixed a bug: we updated the URL in the hooks.json error message to use a working, valid URL.

Mar 27, 2025

Retiring of api.slack.com: as previously announced, the Slack platform and developer tools documentation are moving: the Slack platform documentation is now in beta on docs.slack.dev, and the developer tools documentation has moved to its new home on tools.slack.dev. Our next step is to sunset the old documentation experience on api.slack.com, and we plan to do so by the end of June 2025. In the meantime, you may want to update any bookmarks you have pointing to api.slack.com—but not to worry, we'll have redirects in place to make sure you end up right where you need to be!

Mar 27, 2025

Version 3.0.2 of the developer tools for the Slack platform is here!

    We've updated the slack version command to include additional descriptive information and examples when using the --help flag.
    We've updated the feedback URL when using the slack feedback command to point to the home of our new and improved documentation on docs.slack.dev!

Mar 19, 2025

Slack CLI version 3.0.1 delivers a handful of small improvements thank to our developer community feedback.

    We've fixed the --token flag and it'll work when combined with the --app and --team flags.
    We've fixed the --app flag to use the specified app and it'll work when combined with the --team flag.
    We've disabled app manifest caching and overwrite protection for Deno SDK apps that run on Slack because it's not required.
    We've fixed a bug to support large manifest files by allowing the hooks to parse multi-line boundaries.
    We've fixed a bug to prevent creating a new app that would overwrite an existing app for a specified team.
    We've fixed a bug to show an app's team name and team ID, when the app's auth is missing.
    We've fixed a bug to reset terminal text formatting after prompts, which conflicts with tools such as Python virtual environments.
    We've improved the performance of resolving the authentication for local, dev apps by reducing the reading of your credentials file.

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