Development Features – Salesforce Releases
Keep up with the latest Salesforce platform enhancements built for developers. Whether you’re working in Apex, Lightning Web Components, or Salesforce DX, new capabilities are being introduced regularly to increase flexibility, improve debugging, and modernize your development workflows.
This page highlights key developer-focused features from recent Salesforce releases and will continue to grow as new tools and updates are announced. Bookmark this resource to stay on top of what’s new for technical teams.
Winter ’26 Release – Salesforce
October 13, 2025
The Winter ’26 Release enhances developer productivity and reliability across the Salesforce Platform. From expanded AI integration to new testing, deployment, and flow-building capabilities, these updates help development teams build smarter, deploy faster, and deliver higher-quality applications with greater confidence.
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| Bring Your Org to Life with Salesforce Lightning Design System 2 (Generally Available) | The next generation of the Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS 2) delivers a modernized, more flexible design framework for building Lightning Web Components and custom UIs. It introduces a refreshed look and feel, updated accessibility standards, and improved token architecture to make customization easier and more consistent across experiences. | Release notes |
AI integration
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New AI developer tools make it easier to embed generative decision-making into Salesforce automations. Developers can now create Custom Agent Actions that return structured outputs and use Generative AI to evaluate complex inputs, summarize data, or make next-step recommendations. These enhancements let teams safely extend AI logic into business workflows while maintaining predictable, structured responses. | Automated decisions release notes
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Agent Development
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Agentforce DX reaches general availability with new CLI commands and VS Code integration that streamline agent creation, testing, and deployment for developers. The Named Query API (Beta) lets you define reusable, parameterized queries to interact with data consistently across agents, improving performance and maintainability. Together, they give development teams a unified toolset for building intelligent, governed Agentforce solutions. | DX release notes
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Core Apex
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Testing and deployment in Salesforce are now more transparent and resilient. Developers can view and run Apex and Flow tests directly in the Setup UI with clearer results, while new deployment states provide better tracking and recovery during metadata deployments. These updates improve release reliability and reduce time spent managing test execution and deployment rollbacks. | Testing release notes
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Flow Building
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With Nested Loops (Beta), builders can now process related records (such as parent-child relationships) within a single flow, making it easier to handle complex data structures without workarounds. The ability to use newly created records immediately within the same flow eliminates the need for extra queries, improving performance and simplifying logic. Finally, developers can now embed Lightning Web Components (LWCs) as local actions in Screen Flows, allowing real-time data processing and custom interactions directly in the user interface. Together, these updates make flows more efficient, dynamic, and capable of handling enterprise-scale automation with less code and fewer external dependencies. | Nested loops release notes
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Summer ’25 Release – Salesforce
June 14, 2025
This release introduces more flexibility and intelligence to Salesforce mobile and field workflows. With enhancements to Agentforce actions, Data Capture Forms, new Lightning Web Components for data entry, and hands-free Siri-powered pre-work brief access, developers and technicians can build and execute tasks faster, safer, and with greater accuracy.
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| Data Capture Forms & Work Plans | Data Capture Forms allow teams to launch context-specific forms directly from defined Work Plan steps, such as safety, maintenance, or completion checklists. These forms operate both online and offline, synchronizing data automatically once reconnected. They eliminate the need for third-party apps, streamline field workflows, and ensure data is collected accurately in real time. The result is improved compliance, faster task completion, and better customer experiences. | Release notes |
| LWC Enhancements to Data Capture Flows | New Lightning Web Components—including Matrix, Image Upload, and Visual Picker—bring more flexibility to data capture experiences. The Matrix component presents multi-question grids for rapid yes/no entry, Image Upload automatically tags photos with geolocation and prevents gallery selection, and Visual Picker replaces text with intuitive icons and large tap targets. These updates make mobile data entry faster, more accurate, and more user-friendly for field technicians. | Release notes |
| Access Pre-Work Brief on the Go [iOS] | With Siri integration, mobile workers can now ask, “Hey Siri, tell me about my next job in Field Service,” and the app will read out the pre-work brief hands-free. This feature leverages Apple Shortcuts and Einstein GPT to enhance mobility and safety, allowing technicians to prepare while driving or handling equipment. It reduces friction in accessing key job details and improves productivity for teams in motion. | Release notes |
| Run Agent Action | The new Run Agent action allows Flows to call Agentforce agents directly, enabling true two-way automation. Once activated in Agent Builder, agents can be added to any flow type to analyze requests, summarize inputs, and trigger actions automatically. This feature helps automate repetitive processes and proactively manage tasks across the business. | Release notes |
Spring ’25 Release – Salesforce
April 16, 2025
The Spring ’25 release delivers powerful updates for developers, including enhanced control over scheduled jobs, improved type checking in LWC, stricter Apex data handling, and new pro-code tools like Agentforce DX and the Database Access debug log. These features boost productivity, code quality, and platform visibility.
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| Pause and Resume Scheduled Jobs by Using Apex | With new methods in the System class, you can programmatically pause and resume Apex scheduled jobs. This feature complements the ability to monitor scheduled jobs from the Setup UI, which was introduced in Summer ’24. To pause or resume a scheduled job, you specify the job’s name or cronTriggerId. Calling the pause and resume methods counts towards the DML statement limit. | Release notes |
| Create and Test Agents by Using Agentforce DX (Beta) | We’re thrilled to announce the beta release of Agentforce DX. This set of pro-code tools includes new Salesforce CLI commands and a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension. These tools help you create and test agents directly in a Salesforce DX project. | Release notes |
| Wire Adapters Have Improved Type Checking | Beginning in Spring ’25, TypeScript users get better type checking of @wire configuration and property values. Type checking also resolves reactive props to the type used by the component. For example, a string starting with $ like $reactiveProp. | Release notes |
| Enforce Reparenting Restrictions for Master-Detail Relationships in Apex | In API version 63.0 and later, an attempt to reparent a child record in Apex throws a System.DmlException exception if the option to allow reparenting isn’t selected in the master-detail definition. This behavior is versioned. In API 62.0 and earlier, reparenting such child records could succeed and not result in an exception, depending on the sequence in which the fields were set. | Release notes |
| Use the New Database Access Debug Log Category | We added a new debug log category called Database Access. Use this debug log category to log rules and policy information for objects accessed from the UI. Use this log category to determine accessibility issues at the object level. | Release notes |
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