@slack/client v4.1.0

• IncomingWebhook.send() works with both callbacks and Promises (#508) - thanks @clavin
• Completes type defintions for all WebClient method arguments (#512) - thanks @clavin
• Allows files.upload to work with Buffers (in addition to ReadableStreams) (#500) - thanks @KharitonOff
• Allows any WebClient methods argument to work with binary types (#519) - thanks @clavin and @aoberoi
• Fails when WebClient.apiCall() options don't look like the right type (#522) - thanks @aoberoi
• Fixes TypeScript compile errors in node >=6 <=8 related to callbackify (#518) - thanks @aoberoi
• Fixes mismatched parenthesis in RTMClient usage example documentation (#511) - thanks @parthsr
• Adds examples directory back to the repository (#520) - thanks @aoberoi

@slack/client v4.0.1

• Fixes crash in projects where "name" or "version" were not defined in the package.json file (#478) - thanks @wilhelmklopp @clavin @aoberoi
• Fixes IncomingWebhook.send() to parse the response as text instead of JSON (#477) - thanks @aoberoi
• Allows IncomingWebhook to be initialized without defaults (#479) - thanks @aoberoi
• Allows WebClient to be initialized without a token in TypeScript (#482) - thanks @aoberoi
• Allows unspecificed arguments to be used with WebClient method aliases and apiCall() (#484) - thanks @clavin
• Exports method argument types as top level exports in the type declarations (#483) - thanks @aoberoi
• Fixes inaccurate property type for as_user in ChatPostMessageArguments (#475) - thanks @harveyr
• Improves the OAuthAccessArguments and OAuthTokenArguments types (#481) - thanks @aoberoi

@slack/client v4.0.0

Breaking Changes If you are upgrading from a previous version, follow our comprehensive
Migration Guide to learn how to transport
your app into the new, shiny, future!

WebClient

• New apiCall(method, options) public API for making generic Web API calls.
• Improved logging
• Improved error management
• Configuration for custom http Agent
• Custom TLS configuration
• Tons of performance improvements

RTMClient

• Improved message queuing - No need to wait for client to connect before sending a message.
• Lifecycle events driven by an all-new state machine
• New keep-alive algorithm
• Improved logging
• Improved error management
• Configuration for custom http Agent
• Custom TLS configuration
• Tons of performance improvements

General

• TypeScript declarations available for all APIs 🎉
• Updates all dependencies to their latest version
• Drops support for node versions less than 6.0

@slack/client v3.16.0

• Adds several missing RTM events into RTM.EVENTS export (thanks @clavin) #457 #448
• Adds users.lookupByEmail to WebClient (thanks @DominikPalo) #434
• Fixes stale values kept across requests when using requestOptionsTransport (thanks @bertrandom) #450
• Adds documentation for presence subscription over RTM (thanks @aoberoi) #454
• Fixes typos in documentation (thanks @konklone, @marclemagne, @aoberoi) #444, #446, #461, #466

As always, just run npm install @slack/client to get the latest version. Stay tuned for v4, coming soon!

@slack/client v3.15.0

Deprecates data store APIs See the migration document for more details: https://github.com/slackapi/node-slack-sdk/wiki/DataStore-v3.x-Migration-Guide

• Major docs content rewrite (thanks @aoberoi) #428, #239, #305, #310, #364, #366, #413, #411, #423
• Adds chat.getPermalink Web API method (thanks @DominikPalo) #431
• Adds opts.user argument to users.identity Web API method (thanks @bertrandom) #432
• Fixes bug with not passing optional arguments for conversations.info (thanks @aoberoi) #441
• Fixes dead link to node-retry (thanks @pine) #433
• Adds eaiser support for Buffer input in files.upload Web API method (thanks @aoeberoi) #307
• Refactors logger usage across the package (thanks @aoberoi) #334
• General JSDoc, require(), dead code, clean up

@slack/client 3.14.2

Adds a new transport that lets you define options on the request module, expose it from the library

@slack/client v3.14.0

Adds support for Dialogs

@slack/client v3.13.0

• Adds support for the conversations.* family of Web API methods. See https://api.slack.com/docs/conversations-api. - thanks @aoberoi
• Adds locale awareness options to various Web API methods. - thanks @aoberoi
• Fixes an argument encoding issue with calling users.profile.set (#360) - thanks @aoberoi
• Removes an inaccurate comment (#394) - thanks @AriLFrankel

@slack/client v3.12.0

• Adds MPIM data to the DataStore as Groups (#389) - thanks @aoberoi and @bradslavin

@slack/client v3.11.0

• Added chat.postEphemeral Web API endpoint to the WebClient (#384) - thanks @shanedewael
• Added linkNames option to IncomingWebhook (#342) - thanks @mozamimy
• Ignored package-lock.json for use with npm 5 (#385) - thanks @aoberoi