--- schema_version: "1" id: 011cba2f4048965bc4a244b87e1b568e111d479c66d42e39c61b525b993eda07 title: Lifecycle Center collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/platform/264-0-0/next_generation_devops_center.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.next_generation_devops_center.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: dce8a9d89ee7fb664f16b051ec7edfe8bee4e10155993f87367202a19b61e756 description: Lifecycle Center (formerly next-generation DevOps Center) brings modern DevOps best practices to your team with an AI-powered, click-based user interface (UI). Built on the principles of DevOps Center (Managed Package), Lifecycle Center serves as a central development hub where your team can collaborate—with built-in governance that keeps coding agents and users safe and compliant. products: - Salesforce Platform release: "264" --- # Lifecycle Center Lifecycle Center (formerly next-generation DevOps Center) brings modern DevOps best practices to your team with an AI-powered, click-based user interface (UI). Built on the principles of DevOps Center (Managed Package), Lifecycle Center serves as a central development hub where your team can collaborate—with built-in governance that keeps coding agents and users safe and compliant. ### Required Editions
Available in: Lightning Experience in Professional (API access required), Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions
Not available in: Government Cloud Plus. Contact your Salesforce account executive for more details.
Not available in: EU Operating Zone. EU Operating zone is a special paid offering that provides an enhanced level of data residency commitment. Lifecycle Center is supported in orgs in the EU that aren't part of EU OZ, per standard product terms and conditions.
Lifecycle Center uses source control as the single source of truth for your team. Lifecycle Center MCP tools, available through Salesforce DX MCP Server, provide AI-based recommendations for work item management, conflict resolution, and deployment failure resolution. Lifecycle Center skills automate these workflows using natural language prompts. ![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/images/icon_note.png) Note Lifecycle Center MCP tools and skills may be used by, or in connection with, tools, including Salesforce Services, that consume paid credits or entitlements. ![Lifecycle Center home page with projects, work items, and activity history](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/devops_center/images/next_gen_home_page.png) ## Enhancements Over DevOps Center (Managed Package) While DevOps Center (Managed Package) provides essential capabilities for pipeline, change, and release management, Lifecycle Center introduces these capabilities: - AI-powered assistance and resolution: Use natural language prompts to resolve complex DevOps issues, such as merge conflicts. This experience is powered by Lifecycle Center MCP tools in Salesforce DX MCP Server and Lifecycle Center skills. - Governance for coding agents and users: Define policies that guide user and agent actions across your org. Lifecycle Center Governance evaluates agent actions against active policies and provides guidance to keep development aligned with your standards. - Instant setup: Access Lifecycle Center immediately from the App Launcher without downloading or installing packages. - Modern and extensible UI: A new, intuitive, and extensible UI built on Salesforce Lightning Design System 2 (SLDS 2) helps teams customize Lifecycle Center. With advanced themes and flexible layouts, teams can integrate tools that align with their specific governance models. - Flexible environment support: Teams can manually add and commit changes from non-source-tracked development environments. This enhancement is ideal for workflows with complex data configuration where source tracking isn't enabled. - Integrated change tracking: Lifecycle Center integrates with DX Inspector to streamline tracking, committing, and reviewing metadata and data changes directly from your development orgs. This integration provides greater visibility and control over what's being promoted through your pipeline. ## Lifecycle Center Governance (Developer Preview) Lifecycle Center Governance provides a central policy layer with guidelines for user and agent actions in your Salesforce org. The governance layer evaluates user and agent actions against active policies. These policies guide Agentforce Vibes users and agents to align their actions with your company's security and compliance standards. When an action doesn't align with an active policy, Lifecycle Center identifies the applicable Salesforce-defined policy, explains why, and recommends an alternative. See [Get Started with Lifecycle Center Governance (Beta)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_governance_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Lifecycle Center Governance helps you maintain control and compliance across agentic development in your organization. It automatically enforces security and compliance policies, monitors coding agent activity in real time, and prevents violations before they reach your environment."). ## Testing in Lifecycle Center Lifecycle Center Testing embeds automated and manual testing directly into your Lifecycle Center pipeline, enforcing quality at every stage from the first review to the final promotion into production. Automated testing happens in two phases: - Left-Shift Testing: Triggered when a developer creates a review in DX Inspector, catching issues early in the pipeline. - Testing Before Promotion: Triggered before a work item advances to the next stage, so that only validated changes reach Integration, Staging, and Production. When automated testing fails because quality gate criteria aren't met, an execution error occurs, or a configuration issue arises, On-Demand Testing lets you manually verify whether tests are passing before attempting the promotion again. A new test execution runs automatically when the promotion is attempted. ![Lifecycle Center Pipeline view showing the Tests tab with Test Providers, Test Suites, Quality Gates, and Last Sync summary, and stage cards for Development, Integration, Staging, and Production with Add options for test suites](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center-264-0-0-production-enus/166010c3-4c34-4087-92ad-aea917baf524/devops_center/images/devops_center_testing_pipeline_tests_tab.png) With Lifecycle Center Testing, you can: - Automatically run test suites on review creation and before every promotion. - Enforce quality gates with pass thresholds, severity limits, and essential test requirements. - Monitor test execution and drill into granular results at any pipeline stage. - Run tests manually when automated execution needs a targeted follow-up. - Track a complete audit trail of test status, executions, and actions in the Activity History. See [Set Up Lifecycle Center Testing](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_testing_setup.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Configure Lifecycle Center Testing to enforce quality at every stage of your pipeline, from the first review to the final promotion into production."). ## Provide Feedback To provide general feedback, request support, or product enhancements, use the [DevOps Center GitHub repository](https://github.com/forcedotcom/NextGeneration-DevOpsCenter/issues). #### See Also - [Lightning Design Systems 2](https://www.lightningdesignsystem.com/2e1ef8501/p/85bd85-lightning-design-system-2) - [Lifecycle Center MCP Tools and Skills](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_mcp_tools.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Accelerate your DevOps application lifecycle with Lifecycle Center MCP tools and skills. Use natural-language prompts in your IDE to interact with Lifecycle Center, or use skills to automate release workflows. MCP tools and skills simplify and standardize Lifecycle Center workflows.") - [DX Inspector](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.devops_center_dx_inspector.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Connect your development environment directly to your Lifecycle Center project to manage work items and track changes without leaving your org.")