--- schema_version: "1" id: 57de2fed4d304f6f077e94531d0fc3df18741783052c17c797a2434ba3a6f253 title: Platform collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/release-notes/264-0-0/rn_platform.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_platform.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: e6e6669452605331f41b9c75348a28803ecbf1db0d7cb29d865d1a09e542f2f2 description: Explore the latest Platform enhancements designed to help you build, secure, and scale custom applications and automated workflows with greater speed and flexibility. products: - Cross Cloud release: "264" --- # 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_appexchange.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Check out what's new in AgentExchange. - **[AgentExchange Partners](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_appexchange_partners.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Find out what's new for AgentExchange partners. - **[Apex](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_apex.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Learn about improvements, new capabilities, and important announcements in API version 68.0. - **[API Catalog](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_catalog.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_deploy.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_enterprise_messaging.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Changes to Change Data Capture, Event Bus, and Platform Events - **[Experience Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_experience_cloud.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_ext_services.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** External services schemas now support any type. - **[General Setup](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_customization_general.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_globalization.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Update label translations for 12 languages to improve accuracy. Adopt ICU locale formats to standardize date, time, and currency formatting. - **[Lightning App Builder](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_lab.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Expose the standard Follow button on Dynamic Highlights Panels in Lightning App Builder so users can subscribe to updates on key records. - **[Lightning Components](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_lc.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_mobile_platform.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_packaging.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_tools.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_licensing.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_permissions.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_salesforce_cms.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_sf_connect.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** The cross-org adapter now supports named credentials for authentication. - **[Salesforce Functions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_functions.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Salesforce Functions is no longer available for purchase or renewal. Learn about the retirement plan for Salesforce Functions. - **[Salesforce Lightning Design System](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_slds.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_dev_environments.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** 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](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_development_new_changed.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)** Here is where you can find new and changed objects, calls, classes, components, commands, and more that help you customize Salesforce features. ## Platform Release Note Changes by Month We made these additions and changes to published release notes. ### October 2026 - **AgentExchange Partners**: [Verify Email-Sending Domains to Create New Templates and Trialforce Source Orgs](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_appexchange_trialforce_identify_domain_verification.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Due to a Salesforce security enhancement for outbound email, you must verify the email-sending domains associated with your Trialforce branded email sets. Starting in Winter ’27, you must verify the email-sending domains in your Trialforce management org (TMO) to create a new associated Trialforce source org (TSO) for a branded email set. This requirement also applies to new templates generated from TSOs associated with your TMO in previous releases. If you’ve already set up a DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) key or an authorized email domain, the associated email sets are automatically verified and you don’t need to take further action.") (Updated the week of October 26, 2026) - Updated the release note to clarify that email-domain verification is now required to create a new associated Trialforce source org (TSO) for a branded email set. This requirement also applies to new templates generated from TSOs associated with your Trialforce management org (TMO) in previous releases. - **API: New and Changed Items**: [GraphQL API](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_graphql.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "See what’s new with GraphQL API.") (Updated the week of October 26, 2026) - Updated availability dates for controlling unauthenticated guest user access to GraphQL API. - **API: New and Changed Items**: [Update Instanced URLs in API Traffic (Release Update)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_update_instanced_urls_in_api_traffic.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To prevent disruption when Salesforce ends support for API traffic that uses an incorrect instanced URL, make sure that API traffic to your org uses the org’s My Domain login URL. First available in Summer ’25, this release update was scheduled to be enforced in Spring ’26, but we postponed enforcement to a phased schedule that starts in October 2026 in sandboxes and January 2027 in production.") (Updated the week of October 19, 2026) - Updated the release note with a phased enforcement schedule. - **Lightning Components**: [AI Tags for LWCs and Aura Components Are No Longer Supported](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_lwc_ai_tags_unsupported.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Starting in Winter '27, the platform throws an error if you add an tag to Lightning web component configuration files or the equivalent tag to Aura component design bundles. Components that included these tags before the Winter '27 release continue to work as expected. Previously, you could implement these tags to add AI descriptions for custom components.") (Added the week of October 19, 2026) - **DevOps**: [Catch Deployment Errors Early with Validate-Only Deployment](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_lifecycle_center_validate_only_deployment.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Run a validate-only deployment to find deployment errors, Apex test failures, and code coverage issues before you promote your changes to the target org. Validate-only deployment doesn't modify the target org or merge branches, so you can investigate and fix problems risk-free. When a validation succeeds and stays eligible, complete the promotion within 10 days without rerunning Apex tests.") (Added the week of October 19, 2026) - **Salesforce Mobile App**: [Control Which External Domains Can Frame Your Visualforce Pages](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_mobile_iframe_trusted_domains.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "External domains can frame your Visualforce pages or surveys in an inline frame (iframe) only when you add them to an allowlist. To let a trusted site load a Visualforce page or survey in an iframe, add its domain in Session Settings and set the iframe type to Visualforce Pages. Domains that aren't on the allowlist can't frame your pages.") (Added the week of October 12, 2026) - **Mobile Publisher Apps** : [Update Your Mobile Publisher App for Stronger Mobile Security](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_mobile_rtr_ec_apps_support.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To defend against stolen-credential and token-replay attacks, Salesforce is enabling Refresh Token Rotation (RTR). Because refresh tokens keep users signed in without re-entering passwords, updating your app for RTR support ensures their access remains secure and uninterrupted.") (Added the week of October 12, 2026) - **API: New and Changed Items**: [Metadata API](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_meta.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access more metadata through these new and changed metadata types.") (Updated the week of October 12, 2026) - Added an entry to the Sharing section about the SharingReason metadata type. - **Apex: New and Changed Items**: [Custom Sharing Reason Available on Standard Objects](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_apex_standard_sharing_reasons.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Grant record access on standard objects by referencing a custom sharing reason (row cause) in Apex, the same way you do for custom objects. Previously, programmatic shares on standard objects were limited to the Manual row cause. A share that uses a custom sharing reason isn't deleted when the record owner changes, and a descriptive reason appears on the record's sharing page.") (Added the week of October 12, 2026) - **Agentic Mobile Apps**: [Create Native Mobile Apps for Employees and Customers with Agentforce (Generally Available)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_mobile_agentic_apps.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Skip months of development and design work: Describe the app that you want, using natural language, and Agentforce builds a mobile app for you. Quickly build apps for your employees or for your customers, by using natural language prompts. Design and preview the layout, publish to the App Store and Google Play, and analyze usage, all in one connected flow.") (Added the week of October 12, 2026) - **Salesforce Mobile App**: [Update Your Branded App for Stronger Mobile Security](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_mobile_rtr_support.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To defend against stolen-credential and token-replay attacks, Salesforce is enabling Refresh Token Rotation (RTR). Because refresh tokens keep users signed in without re-entering passwords, updating your app for RTR support ensures their access remains secure and uninterrupted.") (Added the week of October 12, 2026) - **API: New and Changed Items**: [Metadata API](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_meta.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access more metadata through these new and changed metadata types.") (Updated the week of October 5, 2026) - Added an entry to the Marketing section about the new MarketingObject metadata type. - **API Catalog**: [Authenticate to External MCP Servers with Per-User Credentials in API Catalog and Headlessly](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_catalog_per_user_auth_ext_mcp_servers.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Let your users access an external MCP server through OAuth 2.0 browser flows with their own credentials instead of a shared system-to-system connection. Register the server with an external credential that provides per-user authentication.") (Added the week of October 5, 2026) - **API Catalog**: [Create Custom Salesforce-Hosted MCP Servers Headlessly](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_catalog_connect_rest_api_custom_mcp_servers.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Create custom Salesforce-hosted MCP servers through the API Catalog Connect REST API. Use the API in headless workflows to create servers that expose tools and prompts to Agentforce and supported MCP clients.") (Added the week of October 5, 2026) - **Digital Wallet**: [Check Out the New Digital Wallet Home Page and Left-Side Navigation](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_wallet_home_page.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "The Digital Wallet app’s home page serves as your central hub to monitor and manage your Salesforce investment. The new left-side navigation menu eliminates tab overload and groups related Digital Wallet features together so you can quickly find what you’re looking for. And you now have direct access to view billing information, such as invoices and contracts, in Digital Wallet.") (Added the week of October 5, 2026) - The Digital Wallet app’s home page serves as your central hub to monitor and manage your Salesforce investment. - **Digital Wallet**: [Digital Wallet Consumption Analytics Dashboard Enhancements](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_wallet_ca_dash_enhancements.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "We’ve enhanced the Consumption Analytics Dashboard to improve the information it provides and enable some key Tableau Next features.") (Added the week of October 5, 2026) - We’ve enhanced the Consumption Analytics Dashboard to improve the information it provides and enable some key Tableau Next features. - **Digital Wallet**: [Export License Utilization Data from Digital Wallet](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_wallet_license_export.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Export your license utilization data to a CSV file to review it holistically or analyze it in an external business intelligence (BI) tool.") (Added the week of October 5, 2026) - Export license utilization data to a CSV file for further analysis. - **DevOps**: [Save Time by Importing Jira Work Items into Lifecycle Center](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_lifecycle_center_jira_integration.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Connect your Jira workspace to import Jira work items into Lifecycle Center, removing the need to manually reenter work details. Once connected, search, filter, and bulk-import work items while retaining their original summaries and descriptions. Lifecycle Center creates corresponding work items that maintain a permanent reference back to their original Jira work items, ensuring full traceability between systems.") (Added the week of October 5, 2026) - **Globalization**: [User Interface Language Translations to Catalan and Basque Are Generally Available](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_globalization_ui_lang_ga.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Improve the experience of Catalan and Basque speakers with user interface language support for Service Cloud and Agentforce Public Sector. Catalan and Basque UI text falls back to Spanish when translations aren’t available.") (Added the week of September 21, 2026) - **Globalization**: [Review Updated Label Translations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_globalization_review_label_translations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To improve accuracy and your users’ experience, we updated the translations for some standard object, tab, and field names for these languages: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.") (Added the week of September 21, 2026) - Translations or updated translations for these languages are available in October 2026: Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. ### September 2026 - **Digital Wallet**: [Track Agentforce Vibes Usage in Scratch Orgs in Digital Wallet](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_wallet_scratch_orgs.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Gain full visibility into developer-driven costs by monitoring Agentforce Vibes consumption in Digital Wallet.") (Added the week of September 28, 2026) - Track Agentforce Vibes consumption in scratch orgs. - **Salesforce CMS** [Delete Content and Folders in Bulk in Enhanced CMS Workspaces](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_cms_bulk_delete.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Delete folders and content in bulk to keep your enhanced CMS workspace organized. Delete any item of CMS content, even when it’s published, and when you delete a folder, everything within it gets deleted too. Previously, deletion was limited to one unpublished content item at a time from the content detail page, and to empty folders only. This feature was developed based on your idea on IdeaExchange.") (Updated the week of September 28, 2026) - Updated the release note to clarify that this feature is available starting September 28, 2026. - **Platform**: [Manage Change, Releases, and AI Governance in One Place with Lifecycle Center](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_lifecycle_center_rebrand.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Next Generation DevOps Center is now Lifecycle Center. Bring governance, change and release management, and real-time analytics together in one place to manage your application lifecycle. Your existing projects, pipelines, environments, and work items continue to work as before under the new name.") (Added the week of September 28, 2026) - Added a release note announcing that Next Generation DevOps Center is now Lifecycle Center. - **Platform**: [Govern Coding Agents at Scale with Lifecycle Center Governance (Beta)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_lifecycle_center_governance_beta.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Lifecycle Center Governance includes predefined policies organized by category. Policies are defined and managed in Lifecycle Center, then applied to coding agents in Agentforce Vibes. Each policy groups rules that define and monitor coding agent behavior. Each rule maps to enforcements—such as Code Analyzer checks—that apply automatically when enabled. Enable or disable individual rules to tailor enforcement to your org's needs.") (Added the week of September 28, 2026) - **Platform**: [Access Your Schedule Hands-Free with Siri Shortcuts](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_mobile_siri_shortcuts.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Quickly view your schedule, review recent conversations, or record meetings using voice commands with the new Siri Shortcuts integration. You can now ask Siri to display your upcoming or past meetings without opening the app. You can also launch meeting transcriptions right from those displayed events.") (Added the week of September 21, 2026) - **Platform**: [Screen Rotation Now Supported on Android 17 Tablets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_mobile_tablet_rotation.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "The Salesforce app now rotates smoothly on Android 17 tablets, fitting both horizontal and vertical screens. The app interface automatically adjusts to portrait or landscape mode as users rotate their tablets, ensuring a continuous visual workflow without requiring admin configuration.") (Added the week of September 21, 2026) - **Customization**: [Monitor Org Health and Usage from Setup](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_customization_org_health_usage.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You no longer have to turn on Salesforce with Agentforce to monitor your orgs health and usage metrics. Org Health and Usage is now available in Setup for all admins. It provides insights into the health of your org and opportunities to improve it. It shows metrics for security, performance, trust, usage, and more. It also ranks the metrics based on severity, so the metrics that need your attention appear first.") (Added the week of September 15, 2026) - Enhanced documentation to provide more details about metrics, refined Apex metrics and severity definitions, and updated UI for greater clarity. - **Salesforce Lightning Design System**: [Give Your Users the Option of Dark Mode (Generally Available)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_slds_dark_mode_ga.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Dark mode for Salesforce Lightning Design System 2 (SLDS 2) themes is now generally available, so your users can switch to a darker appearance whenever they want. You can also upload a dark-mode version of your company's logo to match. Dark mode presents light-colored text and visual elements on a dark background, which reduces eye strain in low-light conditions and improves readability.") (Added the week of September 14, 2026) - **API: New and Changed Items**: [New and Changed Objects](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_objects.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access more data through these new and changed standard objects.") (Updated the week of September 14, 2026) - Added a release note about new Error and FailedAssertions fields on the FlowTestResult object. - **Platform**: Control Component Visibility with New Picklist Field Visibility Rule Operators (Removed the week of September 14, 2026) - Removed this release note because the feature isn't available. - **AgentExchange Partners**: [Manage Dev Hub from Your Coding Client with an AI Skill](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_devhub_ai_skill.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use the new dx-org-devhub-configure AI Skill to enable and manage your Dev Hub directly from your AI coding client by using natural-language prompts.") (Added the week of September 14, 2026) - **AgentExchange Partners**: [Create and Track Trial Orgs with AI Skills](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_trialforce_ai_skills.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use AI Skills to manage your trial orgs directly from your AI coding client. AI Skills are packaged instruction sets that give AI coding clients specialized knowledge for building on the Salesforce platform. When you describe what you want in natural language, two skills help you create trial, Developer Edition, and Trialforce orgs, and track when your orgs expire.") (Added the week of September 14, 2026) - **Packaging**: [Automate Managed Package Post-Install Configuration with an AI Skill](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_packaging_post_install_ai_skill.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use the dx-pkg-post-install-configure AI Skill to automate post-install configuration for any Salesforce managed package directly from your AI coding client. AI Skills are packaged instruction sets that give AI coding clients specialized knowledge for building on the Salesforce platform. After you install a package, describe your setup task in plain language, and the skill handles the configuration for you.") (Added the week of September 14, 2026) - **Sandbox and Scratch Orgs**: [Manage the Full Lifecycle of Your Sandboxes with AI Skills](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_sandboxes_ai_skills.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use AI Skills to manage your sandboxes directly from your AI coding client. AI Skills are packaged instruction sets that give AI coding clients specialized knowledge for building on the Salesforce platform. When you describe what you want in natural language, three skills help you create, refresh, and activate sandboxes, and generate and apply post-copy configuration files.") (Added the week of September 14, 2026) - **Sandbox and Scratch Orgs**: [Create, Compare, and Manage Scratch Orgs with AI Skills](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_scratch_orgs_ai_skills.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use AI Skills to manage your scratch orgs directly from your AI coding client. AI Skills are packaged instruction sets that give AI coding clients specialized knowledge for building on the Salesforce platform. When you describe what you want in natural language, five skills help you create and manage scratch orgs, org shapes, and scratch org snapshots, compare orgs for drift, and track org expiration.") (Added the week of September 14, 2026) - **Platform**: [Generate Multi-Framework Insights in Scale Center (Beta)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_scale_center_mfw.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Now, you can access actionable metrics for your most-used Multi-Framework apps inside of Scale Center. The Multi-Framework Insights (Beta) dashboard analyzes up to ten apps with the most total page views over the last seven days.") (Added the week of September 14, 2026) - **Platform**: [Track Agentforce Vibes Usage in DevOps Center with Agentic Development (Developer Preview)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_devops_agentic_development.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use the Agentic Development dashboard to track and analyze Agentforce Vibes data from across your orgs. To access the dashboard, turn on the Analytics tab of DevOps Center. In the latest release of Agentic Development, you can access more granular data on model usage. Also, you can enable Developer-Level Insights (Developer Preview) in DevOps Center to see individual user analytics.") (Added the week of September 14, 2026) - **Apex: New and Changed Items**: [System namespace](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_apex_nc.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "These classes, enums, and interfaces are new or have changes.") (Updated the week of September 7, 2026) - Removed the `Limits.getLimitDataCloudFlexCredits` and the `Limits.getDataCloudFlexCredits` methods from the System namespace section. These methods aren’t quite ready yet, so we removed them for now. - **API: New and Changed Items**: [Metadata API](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_meta.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access more metadata through these new and changed metadata types.") (Updated the week of September 7, 2026) - Added an entry to the Customization section about the removal of the enableAuraSecStaticResCRUCPref field on the LightningExperienceSettings metadata type. - Added an entry to the Development section about the enableAsyncApexElasticExecutions and the enableBlockPackagedApexExecAnon fields on the ApexSettings metadata type. - **Platform**: [Keep Field Generation Responses Focused on Business Use Cases](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_einstein_prompt_builder_template_field_gen.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "By default, field generation follow-up refinement requests aren't validated to ensure relevance to business requests. This means users can make unrelated, non-business requests within the field generation panel. To steer users back to your specific business goals, turn on the new Validate Field Generation Refinements setting in Setup. This limits the agent's focus entirely to field generation-related activity, ensuring your Einstein credits are spent only on relevant business use cases.") (Added the week of August 31, 2026) - **Platform**: [Field Generation Refinements Now Respect Your Selected Model](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_einstein_prompt_builder_template_field_gen_model.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Previously, follow-up responses from Einstein in the field generation panel used the Salesforce default LLM instead of the model assigned to your field generation prompt template. Follow-up and refinement responses are now generated from the model that you selected in the prompt template.") (Added the week of August 31, 2026) - **Platform**: Control Component Visibility with New Picklist Field Visibility Rule Operators (Added the week of August 31, 2026) - **Platform**: [Build Reusable Quick Action Experiences with Page-Based Quick Actions (Beta)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_lab_quick_action_pages.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Create quick actions based on accessible, reusable action layouts using the same authoring tool you use for Lightning pages. Build a quick action page one time in Lightning App Builder and associate it with multiple quick actions. Configure dynamic visibility rules, organize fields into sections, and set field behavior—all in one familiar interface. When you update the quick action page, your changes apply to all actions that use it, giving you a consistent, efficient way to manage action experiences.") (Added the week of August 31, 2026) - **API: New and Changed Items**: [Metadata API](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_meta.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access more metadata through these new and changed metadata types.") (Updated the week of August 31, 2026) - Added entries to the Customization section about new Quick Action Page-related changes on the FlexiPage and QuickAction metadata types. - **Digital Wallet**: [Gain Deeper Visibility into Slackbot Usage via Digital Wallet](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_wallet_slackbot.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Track and monitor your Flex Credits Slackbot consumption in Digital Wallet. After your organization opts into this feature, Slackbot Consumption draws on Flex Credits after your plan's pre-allocated message allowance is exhausted. Flex Credit billing is only supported for connections to production Salesforce orgs.") (Added the week of August 31, 2026) - Track and monitor Slackbot Consumption on the Flex Credits consumption card. - **Salesforce Lightning Design System**: [Customize Components with the SLDS 2 Styling API and Component-Level Hooks (Developer Preview)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_slds_c_level_hooks.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "We're expanding our styling hook system with a full Styling API that now includes component-level hooks. Use the Salesforce Lightning Design System 2 (SLDS 2) Styling API component-level styling hooks to gain granular control over individual design components without affecting global styling hooks or other components.") (Updated the week of August 31, 2026) - Added a link to the component-level styling hooks documentation and information on how to sign up for the developer preview. ### August 2026 - **Platform**: [Monitor Org Health and Usage from Setup](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_customization_org_health_usage.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You no longer have to turn on Salesforce with Agentforce to monitor your orgs health and usage metrics. Org Health and Usage is now available in Setup for all admins. It provides insights into the health of your org and opportunities to improve it. It shows metrics for security, performance, trust, usage, and more. It also ranks the metrics based on severity, so the metrics that need your attention appear first.") (Added the week of August 31, 2026) - Added access to Org Health and Usage for users who haven't enabled Setup for Agentforce. - **API: New and Changed Items**: [Metadata API](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_meta.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access more metadata through these new and changed metadata types.") (Added the week of August 31, 2026) - Added a release note about the new MCETransformationsSettings metadata type. - **API: New and Changed Items**: [Metadata API](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_meta.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access more metadata through these new and changed metadata types.") (Updated the week of August 31, 2026) - Added a release note about new date operator values on Flow and FlowTest metadata types. - **Apex**: [Process Data 360 Data Model Objects with Apex Cursors (Beta)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_apex_cursors_dmo.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use Apex cursors with Data 360 data model objects (DMOs) to process large SOQL query result sets in manageable chunks. Create a cursor with Database.getCursor(), retrieve records with Cursor.fetch(), and get the result set size with Cursor.getNumRecords(). Monitor Data 360 cursor rows, cursor instances, and Data 360 Flex Credit limits as you process DMO records.") (Added the week of August 31, 2026) - Added a release note to announce that Apex Cursors now support Data 360 DMO queries. - **Lightning Components**: Use Complex Template Expressions in Your Lightning Web Components (Generally Available) (Removed the week of August 31, 2026) - This feature became generally available in a previous release. - **Apex: New and Changed Items**: [SF\_Archive namespace](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_apex_nc.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "These classes, enums, and interfaces are new or have changes.") (Added the week of August 31, 2026) - Added release notes to announce SF\_Archive namespace methods for testing your Apex without making live callouts to archived data. - **Experience Cloud**: [Experience Builder Agent (Beta) Is Discontinued](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_experiences_eb_agent_beta_discontinued.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "The Experience Builder Agent, previously announced as a beta feature for enhanced LWR sites, is discontinued as of Winter ’27. If you created an Experience Builder Agent during the beta, you can no longer use it. If you didn’t turn on this feature during the beta, you can no longer enable it.")(Added the week of August 31, 2026) - The Experience Builder Agent, previously announced as a beta feature, is discontinued as of Winter ’27. - **Experience Cloud**: Add Multiple Flow Approval Processes to a Record with the Request Approvals Component in Experience Builder (Removed the week of August 31, 2026) - This feature isn't quite ready yet, so we removed it for now. - **API: New and Changed Items**: [Metadata API](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_meta.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access more metadata through these new and changed metadata types.") (Added the week of August 31, 2026) - Added a release note to announce the new FlowSettings field for controlling the Enable the Automation Lightning App org preference in Process Automation Settings via Metadata API. - **Apex**: [Handle Larger Datasets with Increased Apex Heap Limits](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_apex_heap_limit.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Handle larger datasets and perform more complex operations without hitting heap constraints. Increased Apex heap limits reduce the chance of encountering runtime limit errors that interrupt business processes. The Apex heap limit for synchronous transactions increases from 6 MB to 10 MB, and the limit for asynchronous transactions increases from 12 MB to 25 MB.") (Updated the week of August 24, 2026) - Updated the availability of the “Enforce the Summer ’26 Apex heap limit” button to all Winter ’27 nonproduction orgs. Previously, it was stated that the button would be available only until all production orgs were upgraded to Winter ’27. - **Apex**: [Reduce Overhead by Recompiling Only Invalid Apex Classes and Triggers](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_apex_recompile_invalid_apex.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Return compilation results for Apex classes and triggers with validation errors, instead of recompiling the entire org. Access the compilation results through Setup or the Tooling API endpoint. Salesforce automatically identifies only classes and triggers that require recompilation, reducing compilation overhead and minimizing potential runtime errors. Routinely perform this targeted recompilation to prevent runtime delays during peak traffic.") (Updated the week of August 24, 2026) - Clarified the behavior of the “Compile only invalid classes” and “Compile only invalid triggers” buttons in Setup. - **API: New and Changed Items**: [GraphQL API](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_graphql.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "See what’s new with GraphQL API.") and [Metadata API](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_meta.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access more metadata through these new and changed metadata types.") (Added the week of August 24, 2026) - Added release notes to announce that admins can control guest user access to GraphQL API. - **Lightning Components**: [Accelerate Lightning Development with LWC Skills](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_lwc_skills.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Agentforce Vibes now includes skills that provide guidance across the entire LWC lifecycle, covering accessibility, data, design, development, documentation, migration, testing, security, and quality review. Each skill is automatically applied when your task matches, so you can generate LWC code quickly based on the latest best practices.") (Added the week of August 24, 2026) - **Lightning Components**: [Changed Aura Components](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_aura_components.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "These components have changes.") (Updated the week of August 24, 2026) - Removed the color picker update on `lightning:input` as it isn’t ready for external use. - **Lightning Components**: [New and Changed Lightning Web Components](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_lwc_components.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Build UI easily with these new and changed components.") (Updated the week of August 24, 2026) - Removed the color picker update on `lightning-input` as it isn’t ready for external use. - **API**: [Salesforce Platform API Versions 31.0 Through 40.0 Are Being Retired](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_retirement.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Salesforce Platform API versions 31.0 through 40.0 are being deprecated and retired.") (Updated the week of August 24, 2026) - Added release notes to announce to admins that API versions 31.0–40.0 will be deprecated in Summer '27 and retired in Summer '28. - **API** (Updated the week of August 24, 2026) - Removed a no longer relevant release note informing admins that API versions 21.0–30.0 were being retired in Summer '25. - **API: New and Changed Items**: [Metadata API](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_meta.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access more metadata through these new and changed metadata types.") (Updated the week of August 17, 2026) - Added a release note about accessing related Data Model Object records in a Record Query Flow. - Added a release note about running a flow explicitly in user context. - **API: New and Changed Items**: [Tooling API New and Changed Objects](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_api_tooling_new_and_changed_objects.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Access more metadata through these new and changed Tooling API objects.") (Updated the week of August 17, 2026) - Added a release note about running a flow explicitly in user context.