After reading all 1078 pages of the latest release notes I realized the truth – there is happening way to much to keep up with everything. A while ago I still had a feeling I more or less knows the whole platform or at least have a clue of the different clouds. With the latest release I realized there are tons of new products I haven’t even heard about – Agentforce IT Services, HR Services and tons of other. Also it looks like three releases a year isn’t enough anymore and a lot of products switched/introduced a monthly releases as well, with the AI topic is being updated on weekly basis. Uff, I don’t really have energy to keep up with that.
Anyway, still a lot of interesting things to digest from the release notes:
- Chatter is off by default in new orgs, at the same time Slack is automatically provisioned including Slack Channels being enabled for the key objects and lovely Slack pannel added to Lightning Pages – I have to admin it looks really great. At the same time, if it is auto enabled how to handle clients who already have slack?
- Chat transcript is being moved to AWS while a lot of other things are migrated from AWS to Salesforce – not sure about the direction here
- Chat in Agentforce available in Slovak language, while Agentforce Voice in Czech
- Prompt Template deployable via metadata
- Report and dashboard brand palette
- Batch size can be specified for scheduled flows
- Email template reference by name not id which should result in easier deployment
- Hiding flow path to gain more screen space
- Date operators in decision logic in flows!
- Data table show readable record name, not id only
- Radio button groups to vizualize radio buttons horizontally
- Formula can be typed directly in actions input, no need to create a variable for it, same for transform & apex-defined variables in flows
- Timeout path for async paths to handle errors – it never occured to me so far!
- Flow version comparisons tools
- Group approval where all needs to approve – so far the flow approval process allowed only one from group to approve
- Excel Agent for auto-fill excel files (no need to export report and manipulate) (part of Agentforce Operations product – one of the new products I haven’t heard about)
- Sharing with queue member superior can be switched off – yes!
- Manage Shared List Views & Shared list view editing so you don’t have to give users the right to manage all public groups, but only those shared with their role/group, which might slightly limit their rights
- Setup with Agentforce generally available, each org can enjoy 500 free monthly actions (contractual limit, so shouldn’t pay anything above)
- Field service scheduling console looks really nice
- Embedding of existing React/Angular/Vue/JS apps in SF (developer preview) including data exchange
- Apex database operations run in user mode by default (breaking change in API 67), WITH SECURITY_ENFORCED is removed, also WITH SHARING is set by default (while apex triggers run with WITHOUT SHARING always)
- Elastic limits for queueable and future can be enabled in Apex settings and will schedule jobs over limit in throttled rate – cool, we spoke about the challenges around these jobs at ArchitectDreamin and this might be very handy feature
- Apex Anonymous Code Execution from managed packages is blocked – I know about some, which used this handy feature
- Multiline strings in Apex utilizing triple apostrophes to start/end the text – this is absolutely awesome
- API version lower than 40 is being retired (and SOAP login call all the way to version 64)
- Data Mask available for all editions? That would be great
- 10GB size limit for files uploaded to SF + malicious files detection out-of-the-box
- Get Scheduling Recommendations with Appointment Insights alias why we are getting so little slots answers
- Guide Students to Conflict-Free Course Schedules
- Elevate In-Person Meetings with Mobile AI Transcription – hard to figure out whether this is free for everyone or not, but looks pretty cool
- Log In to the Salesforce Mobile App with Email by Default, no need to enter password
- Keep Approvals Moving in Slack for advanced approvals or flow approval processes – at first glance it looks like a feature in Revenue Cloud only, but maybe it is also for the flow approvals
- Login with username first only (password/passkey as a next step)
- Find Case Experts Instantly with Agentforce Actions
- Illustrate Complex Customer Issues with Rich Text Case Descriptions (Beta)
- See Deal Engagement at a Glance in Pipeline Inspection
Looks like another busy release, with a lot of happening in flows, first release I can recall which has breaking changes in Apex and some interesting features across the product.