Release Notes

Improved Default Task Fields List: Users can now use Completed By and Date Completed to organize their tasks.

[Bug Fix] Assignee filter value would disappear in global search.
[Bug Fix] Some chat messages on Android would turn into links incorrectly.
[Bug Fix] While using the numeric custom field, a wrong value would appear in the activity area.

Archive: Allows users to hide completed or inactive items to keep your Slingshot instance clean and focused.
AI Action Items: Users create action items directly from discussions for quicker task creation.
AI Summarization: Users can now automatically generate summaries from discussions, saving time on keeping you informed.
Custom Fields: Users can now create custom fields to tailor their tasks and projects according to their specific needs, enhancing flexibility in tracking and managing work.
Custom Task Types: Users can now define custom task types, enabling better organization and categorization of work across teams.

Crash Report Screen Update: A comment field has been added to the crash report screen, allowing users to provide more context and help pinpoint the root causes of crashes.
Improved the initial dashboard template flow to simplify where users save dashboards and data sources.
Onboarding Enhancements: Adjustments made to the onboarding process based on users' feedback.
Slingshot Productivity Boosts: Enhancements to the visibility of seamless integrations across Slingshot's features, enabling smoother transitions between tasks, discussions and pins to help teams work more efficiently and stay organized.
[Bug Fix] Chat Attachment Display: When starting a chat with an attachment, the chat would appear empty until re-navigating back to the chat.
[Bug Fix] Deleted Messages in Notifications: Deleted messages will now be properly removed from notifications, ensuring that old or irrelevant information is not displayed.
[Bug Fix] Notification Sync Issue: Notification counter would get out of sync when a user's device reconnects to the internet.

Improved People Picker
Improved Task Filters
[Bug Fix] A request access dialog would show up when mentioning someone who already had access to a discussion.
[Bug Fix] Calendar view would show an incorrect date.
[Bug Fix] Dashboard Filter was displayed during load of filters.
[Bug Fix] Deleted messages would show up in the search results.
[Bug Fix] Notifications would appear hidden when another notification was being expanded.
[Bug Fix] When adding a dashboard directly in the data catalog, the organization would show up twice.
[Bug Fix] When choosing End date for a project, the Due Date would show up instead.
[Bug Fix] When using a dashboard template, the wrong Data source icon would appear.

Improved Task Filters
New icons for Data Sources
Out-of-the-box Templates for Workspaces, Projects and Dashboards
Task Templates: Users can now see all their templates under the All section in the Task Templates dialog and search for them by name.

Adjusted size of various modals in order to take advantage of available space
Default Task Views: Owners of workspaces and projects can create a default view for tasks, based on View Type (List, Kanban, Timeline) and List Settings (Group By..., Fields, Sort By...).
Task Templates: Blocks of tasks that can be saved as templates for future re-use

Ability for contributors and viewers to mention a user or a group of people who don't have direct access to a discussion
Friendly dates for upcoming dates (Today, Tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
Improved Data Charts
New colored icons
Option to reply to a message in a chat
Pin any dashboard to your workspace/projects Dashboards Tab without having to move it there
Slingshot's API

Ability to duplicate tasks with sub-tasks
Ability to set the threshold used to display the Others slice for Pie and Doughnut visualizations
New onboarding experience
x64 version of Windows desktop version

[Bug Fix] A blur appeared on the text input when you tried sending a message.
[Bug Fix] A link to a message in a task activity opened a new task rather than scrolling to the open task.
[Bug Fix] Large images would lead to the desktop app to crash.
[Bug Fix] The desktop app crashed when you tried maximizing it on a large screen.
[Improvement] When you try uploading a file with invalid characters, a warning will show up.

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