Platform

Explore the latest Platform enhancements designed to help you build, secure, and scale custom applications and automated workflows with greater speed and flexibility.

• AgentExchange
  Check out what's new in AgentExchange.
• AgentExchange Partners
  Find out what's new for AgentExchange partners.
• Apex
  Get better performance with higher Apex heap limits. Apply elastic limits (beta) to Batch jobs and test elastic limits in nonproduction orgs. Write Apex integration tests that can share test data and call real HTTP endpoints. Filter Test Discovery API results by test level. Prevent namespace shadowing conflicts in dynamic managed Apex SOQL queries. Prepare for the Block Apex Anonymous Code Execution from Managed Packages release update. Build richer development tools with the Apex Symbol API (beta). Recompile only invalid Apex classes and triggers. Get compiler warnings for Apex saved at API versions 9.0 through 19.0.
• API
  Learn about improvements, new capabilities, and important announcements in API version 68.0.
• API Catalog
  Centralize and manage your services, such as APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, in one place with API Catalog. Bring in APIs from sources like MuleSoft, Heroku, and Apex to use in Agentforce agents and flows. Create and activate Salesforce-hosted MCP servers to use with Agentforce and supported external MCP clients. Register external MCP servers, including MuleSoft servers, to use with Agentforce.
• DevOps
  Salesforce DevOps brings best practices to development teams, empowering developers and builders to collaborate and deliver high-quality applications. By using a repeatable and scalable process aligned with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) principles, your teams can accelerate innovation.
• Enterprise Messaging
  Changes to Change Data Capture, Event Bus, and Platform Events
• Experience Cloud
  Reduce the risk of downtime during Salesforce maintenance for custom domain sites that you serve via a third party. Improve efficiency for Aura and Lightning Web Runtime site visitors who submit records or use the Orchestration Work Guide. Keep sensitive information invisible to guest users and take advantage of new email-related security features for your sites.
• External Services
  External services schemas now support any type.
• General Setup
  Give record submitters a choice of up to 10 flow approval processes with the Request Approvals component in Lightning App Builder. The Orchestration Work Guide component can now open the next work item from a run automatically when a user finishes the current one. Plus, two new User Interface Settings loosen page layout restrictions on inline editing in list views.
• Globalization
  Update label translations for 12 languages to improve accuracy. Adopt ICU locale formats to standardize date, time, and currency formatting.
• Lightning App Builder
  Expose the standard Follow button on Dynamic Highlights Panels in Lightning App Builder so users can subscribe to updates on key records.
• Lightning Components
  Complex template expressions are generally available. Also, Third-Party Web Components are generally available. Call the refresh() action for state managers to fetch data more easily. Upgrade to LWC API v68.0.
• Mobile
  Boost productivity on the go with new mobile features. Easily follow up on meetings with AI-suggested next steps, backed by reliable hybrid cloud and on-device AI audio processing. Record key post-meeting context directly in the Salesforce mobile app using Post-Meeting Voice Notes. Plus, Mobile Publisher users can access a faster, native Agentforce chat experience straight from the floating action button.
• Packaging
  Packaging facilitates the development and distribution of business apps. Use second-generation managed packages to create apps to sell and distribute on AppExchange. Use unlocked packages to develop internal business apps.
• Platform Development Tools
  Build applications collaboratively and deliver continuously with Salesforce Developer Experience (DX), the open and integrated experience for custom app development on Salesforce.
• Platform Licensing and Digital Wallet
  Platform licensing and provisioning automatically activates your org's purchased Salesforce products and features. You can then manage user access to these products and features by assigning Platform user licenses and permission set licenses. Digital Wallet tracks usage for consumption-based features, licenses, and capacity allowances all in one place. Unlock historical usage patterns and actionable insights that help you optimize investments and proactively manage operational costs.
• Permissions and Sharing
  You can now choose whether to keep manual shares when you transfer a record’s ownership. Review the release updates that turn on profile filtering by default and address new sharing recalculation behavior.
• Salesforce CMS
  Do more in enhanced CMS workspaces with the Brand content type and the bulk deletion feature. Brands are now available in general CMS workspaces, and you can use them for React web apps. Efficiently clean up your workspace by deleting dozens of content items and folders all at once. Deploy the latest version of the CMS Base data kit for improved AI-powered search results.
• Salesforce Connect
  The cross-org adapter now supports named credentials for authentication.
• Salesforce Functions
  Salesforce Functions is no longer available for purchase or renewal. Learn about the retirement plan for Salesforce Functions.
• Salesforce Lightning Design System
  Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) includes the resources to create user interfaces consistent with Salesforce Lightning principles, design language, and best practices.
• Sandbox and Scratch Orgs
  Sandbox and scratch orgs are full-featured Salesforce environments that you use to develop and test new or existing features, configurations, and custom applications.
• New and Changed Items for Developers
  Here is where you can find new and changed objects, calls, classes, components, commands, and more that help you customize Salesforce features.