Release Notes

Slack 1.0.5 (Antennas to Heaven)

You can now customize where notifications appear. Put them anywhere that your heart desires, as long as your heart desires monitor screen corners (and whose doesn’t?)

In Windows 8 and above, we’ve added the ability to learn new spell-check words, for all your non-dictionaritorial needs.

Fixed: an issue where certain Unicode characters were garbled in notifications.
Fixed: Users can now copy images straight from the context menu.
Fixed: Scraped out the crusty black gunk when the app window loads. It was gross in there. We don’t want to talk about it.
Fixed: Clever installer improvements mean that machines with Software Restriction Policies restricting installation to LocalAppData can now run Slack, happily.

Fix a CPU usage issue on Windows 7 in certain circumstances where processes were being needlessly created and destroyed, in true Sisyphean fashion.
Fix unread message badges, which were disappearing despite the existence of unread messages.
Remove the "Inspect Element" context menu item, to maintain an air of propriety.

We've added a new preference that will disable hardware-dependent features and fall back to safer (but less pretty) defaults:

Use this if you experience:

Spell-check now Automagically detects the language being typed, rather than using the one implied by the keyboard layout.
Allow users to back up if they get stuck during login. No one likes a dead-end.
We no longer trust the sanity of users' environment variables, and instead try to use our own folders for everything. This should fix a number of installation issues.
We now unpack native modules on install, which should cause AV vendors to give us less problems (especially WebRoot, who didn't care for that at all).
Delightful Slack loading messages have returned. Because delight is important.
Fixes for Swedish and other keyboards which use AltGr, to prevent inadvertent zooming.
Performance improvements that should make the app should feel a bit snappier.
Support for per-monitor DPI on Windows 8.1 (i.e. Retina display laptop connected to non-Retina display).
Workaround or provide better error messages for more early installation cases.
Fix an issue where users' installed copies of node.js would white screen the app.
Improve the rendering of Japanese text.
Prevent the team selector from occasionally going MIA.
Alt-F4 no longer kills the app (Ctrl-Q is your new Quit hotkey).
Emojis in notifications are no longer cruelly cut off.
Tooltips aren't so sluggish, and we no longer create (Empty) ones.
People who are on more than nine teams (nine? REALLY?) you can now sign into all of them. All more-than-nine.

Initial Release.