Salesforce Overall

Learn about new features and enhancements that affect your Salesforce experience overall.

General Enhancements
Winter ’25 gives you more reasons to love Lightning Experience.
Salesforce Scheduler
Manage service resource capacity and use a QR-code-based check-in tool to manage traffic with these improvements to Salesforce Scheduler.
Einstein Search
Work faster, complete tasks directly from the search results, and get results that are most relevant to you. Use Search Manager and Search Settings to configure search features and enhance results.
Salesforce Data Pipelines
Connect to secure data sources with support for virtual private connections on Snowflake. Give users read-only access to recipes in Data Manager. Allocate billing for Google BigQuery connections. Download data sync job logs in Data Manager to better diagnose issues. Improve the performance of recipes that you use to snapshot data.
Salesforce Archive
Get to know Salesforce Archive.
Trust Site Enhancements
The Trust site is the single place to see the status of Salesforce services, upcoming availability impacting activities, and availability-related communications. It now has links to additional product statuses.

August 8: Get early access by signing up for a Pre-Release org

Admins can sign up for a pre-release Developer Edition environment, which is full of all the Winter ’25 features to explore to your heart’s content. Developer environments are stand-alone environments where you can learn, build, and get comfortable with features and functionality. If you already had a pre-release org for Summer ’24, you can log back into that one.

August 14: Review the Release Notes

Search the products you use for release updates in the Release Notes section of Salesforce Help. The notes will go live August 14 and we will share the link here.

Get help from the community! With each release, there are a number of blogs by community members who break it down. Check out the Release Readiness Trailblazer Community Group where you can continue to get updates, share your favorite features, and ask questions about the upcoming release.

August 19: Be Release Ready with Winter ’25 features for Admins

Starting on August 19th, we’ll begin publishing blog posts on the Admin Blog to help you Be Release Ready with Winter ’25 features. Get ready to dive into blog posts featuring Winter ’25 user access highlights and more!

As blog posts and more release resources become available, we’ll be updating the Be Release Ready page with all the resources and information you need to get started with Winter ’25.

August 29 before 5 p.m. PT: Be sure to refresh your Sandbox

Once you’ve explored the pre-release org and reviewed the Release Notes for features that are important to you, it’s time to try out features related to your customizations in your sandbox. This is a great time to evaluate how specific features may be useful or impact the way your organization uses Salesforce.

During each release, there is a group of sandboxes slated to remain on the non-preview instance (i.e. the current release) while there is another group of sandboxes that will upgrade to the preview instance.

Use the Salesforce Sandbox Preview Guide to determine the plan for your sandbox instance(s). Use the tool where you can search by sandbox instance and then specify what you want to do with your sandbox — stay on the non-preview or move to preview. It will then instruct you to refresh your sandbox to get to the desired instance or inform you that there is no action needed because your sandbox is slated for the desired instance.

Contact Tectonic today if you need assistance getting Salesforce release ready.