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October 14th, 2026

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Required Prism Bot Scope Changes

If you are running the a previous Community Edition of the Slack plugin, you will need to check if you have any changes to make, however here are the scope differences you should be aware of:
  • Open Source Studio Edition
The Studio Edition is now open source, allowing for greater customization and community contributions.
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June 15th, 2026

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Required Prism Bot Scope Changes

  • groups:read
See the Installation Documentation for more information on updating the Slack app and Prism settings (Particularly Step 5 and Step 6).
Studio Edition
  • Added Slack menu options for USD based states in the State Manager
If you traditionally run USD in your pipeline and use the USD states from the state manager, you will now see the Slack options populate for those states as well.
Community Edition
  • Artist Notification on Export
When running an Export state, the artist can notify another artist on the team.
  • View in Slack
If the content has been published to Slack, the ‘Publish to Slack’ in the Media Browser changes to ‘View in Slack’ and directs you to the message.
  • Streamlined Package Installation
The installation process for the Slack plugin comes with a one-click script to install all necessary python depenencies.
  • Initial logging
We’ve added logging to the plugin to help with debugging and error handling. This will allow us to better understand any issues that may arise and provide better support for our users.
  • PRISM_SLACK_CONFIG_PATH environment variable as an option
You can now set the PRISM_SLACK_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to specify a custom path for the Slack configuration file.
  • Initial After Effects Support
The Slack plugin now has initial support for After Effects. It currently only works if you choose to render from the Dialog window. Render Queue and AME are not supported.
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March 9th, 2026
Studio Edition
  • Execution Graph Node and Graphs
We’ve added a new Execution Graph Node for the Slack plugin that allows you to publish media directly to Slack from the Execution Graph. It also comes with example graphs to show how it can be used in different scenarios. See the Execution Graph Documentation for more information.
  • Nuke Support
The Slack plugin now supports Nuke and all its publishing features.
  • Initial After Effects Support
The Slack plugin now has initial support for After Effects. It currently only works if you choose to render from the Dialog window. Render Queue and AME are not supported.
  • Sign-out of Slack
You can now sign out of Slack from the User Settings tab by selecting the same button you use to sign in. This will remove your information from the Prism user configuration file and revoke the auth from the Slack App as well.
  • Giving a status during publishing will apply it to the version metadata
When you publish content with a status, it will now apply that status to the version metadata.
  • Marking a publish in Slack with the Approvals buttons will now update the version metadata with the status
  1. Mark the publish with the corresponding status in Prism.
  2. Apply comments left by the user who approved or rejected the publish in Prism.
    (Requires the Bolt Server to be running and connected to the Project)
  • Adds CBB And Needs Revised project statuses if they don’t exist
When you publish to Slack, it makes sure that the project has the CBB and Needs Revised statuses and if they don’t it adds them to the project automatically.
  • Comments to a published post in Slack will now apply those comments to the local version
When you add comments to a published post in Slack, it will now apply those comments to the local version so as to keep all the information consistent between Slack and Prism.
(Requires the Bolt Server to be running and connected to the Project)
  • Initial logging
We’ve added logging to the plugin to help with debugging and error handling. This will allow us to better understand any issues that may arise and provide better support for our users.
  • PRISM_SLACK_CONFIG_PATH environment variable as an option
You can now set the PRISM_SLACK_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to specify a custom path for the Slack configuration file.
  • PRISM_SLACK_STUDIO_LICENSE_KEY environment variable as an option
You can now set the PRISM_SLACK_STUDIO_LICENSE_KEY environment variable to specify your license key for the Studio Edition of the Slack plugin. This is useful if you dont have the Studio plugin enabled or the above environment variable set and you don’t want to pass the license key around.


Community Edition
There isn’t anything new in the Community Edition for this update, we are still waiting to make sure there are no major issues with some of the new features in the Studio Edition from the previous version (v2.1.0).However, on v2.1.2 you can expect these features:
  • View in Slack
  • Artist Notification on Export
  • Streamlined Package Installation
  • Logging
  • PRISM_SLACK_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
  • Initial After Effects Support
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January 7th, 2026
When running the Studio plugin with Prism+ or Prism Pro, an Admin needs to update and relaunch Prism to apply the new Slack settings to the config file. Otherwise it will error on standard artists.

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Required Prism Bot Scope Changes

  • usergroups:read

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Required Prism User Scope Changes

  • openid
  • profile
See the Installation Documentation for more information on updating the Slack app and Prism settings (Particularly Step 5 and Step 6).
Studio Edition
  • Windows, MacOS, and Linux Support
The Slack Studio Edition plugin now supports MacOS and Linux in addition to Windows.
  • Licensing
The Slack Studio Edition plugin is now licensed. See the Licensing Documentation for more information.
  • Sign-in with Slack
You can now sign in to Slack from the Prism User Settings tab. This will allow for better publishing flows and user verification.
  • Settings are now tabbed
The settings for the Slack plugin have been tabbed for better organization and user experience.
  • Artist Notification on Export
When running an Export state, the artist can notify another artist on the team.
  • View in Slack
If the content has been published to Slack, the ‘Publish to Slack’ in the Media Browser changes to ‘View in Slack’ and directs you to the message.
  • Tagging Artist Optional
You can disable tagging the artist in the settings when making a publish.
  • Optional No Text on Publishes
When Tagging the artist is disabled from the settings and the artist who published to Slack doesn’t leave comments, it will eliminate all text from the publish to minimize space.
  • Slack Approval Buttons
You will now have access to submit your published content from Prism with an Approvals option in your State Manager, Media Browser. You can find more information on the Approvals in the docs here: Slack/Approvals
Note: This doesn’t change task status’ locally yet.
  • Usergroups for Slack Approvals
Usergroups are now possible for Approvals. Input and Verify your usergroup for approvals. You can find more information here: Slack/Usergroups
  • Slack Menu in Project Browser
A new Slack menu has been added to the Project Browser for easy access to the website, documentation, or managing licenses.
  • Streamlined Package Installation
The installation process for the Slack plugin comes with a one-click script to install all necessary python depenencies.
  • Metadata Added to Publishes
Metadata now gets added to posts that are published to Slack from artists.
  • Metadata now added to Versioninfo
Slack metadata now gets added to the versioninfo file when published to Slack
  • License skip for non-gui processes
The Slack plugin will not check for a license when using a non-gui process so it can be used on renderfarms and the console.


Community Edition
  • Settings are now tabbed
The settings for the Slack plugin have been tabbed for better organization and user experience.
  • Slack Menu in Project Browser
A new Slack menu has been added to the Project Browser for easy access to the Fraktl website or plugin documentation.