Product Update: Slack + Teams & Chat Experience

Oct 2025 Shipping Themes

• Slack + Teams
• Chat experience
• Business Answers usability

Slack + Teams

Seamless integration with your communication tools:

• Slack Integration: Full Slack chat and DM support, “Add to Slack” OAuth streamlined, and major reliability improvements for auth and threading.
• Microsoft Teams: Official Teams integration is now shipped!

Business Answers + Chat UX

Making the chat experience more powerful and intuitive:

• Full-Screen Results: View your data with more room to breathe.
• Query Preview: See the generated query before you run it to build trust.
• Better Messaging: Improved progress updates and clearer language throughout the chat.
• Consistency: Unified presentation for analyst-written and AI-generated answers.

Detailed Release Notes

• Prevent self-certification when required reviewers > 0
• Pull in latest mssql-fabric changes
• Simplify workspace actions permission checks
• Ignore AI-generated queries during duplicate query detection
• Slack chat
• Fix internal messages breaking Slack responses
• Add side rail to answer embed
• Slack DMs
• Skip “thinking” message when assigned to an analyst
• Fix Slack DM threading
• Multiple business users in a chat thread
• Ensure world demo DB has null catalogName
• Move params description below heading
• Query Widget: only show author of current query version
• Handle missing vectorize index in findKNearest
• Fix querySuggest OpenSearch filter bug
• Exclude deleted workspaces from AccountCard
• Ask Runa: progress messages
• Teams integration
• Workaround for column checking for non-SELECT statements
• Skip chart intent when in Ask state
• Extra checks to ensure AI-generated queries aren’t added to OpenSearch
• Add progress message between “searching for query” and “generating query”
• Business Answers: see the query before running it
• Query for common column values
• Add to Slack OAuth support
• DBMS-specific query generation hints
• Add completed status for cancelled/accepted messages
• Don’t extract params until after query generation
• Fix Slack install OAuth flow
• Business Answers: hide query error in chart tab
• More Slack auth fixes
• Remove query params from Slack page after landing
• Pass state through OAuth flow
• Fix Slack bot token issues
• Sample values migration: missing migration fix
• Business Answers: full-screen results
• Don’t include processing messages in chat summary
• Add system message when a chat is reopened
• Use more answer-centric language in chat
• Improve chat thread “more” menu options
• Fix bug related to param value fallback
• Prevent “Panel size not found for panel” error
• Add tooltip on sample values buttons
• Remove reference to specific column names in eval questions
• Add hint about editing record property metadata
• Show analyst + AI-generated queries the same way in Business Answers
• Fix bug where thread is assigned to analyst when they’re acting as the business user
• Keep AI in the chat
• Collect query-gen evaluation data
• Improve matching existing queries

— The runQL Team