Summer '25 for Developers

Slide deck from my talk to the London Salesforce Developers trailblazer community group on the new features coming in the Summer '25 Salesforce release.

Transcript

1. Summer ‘25 For Developers 1 Keir Bowden, CTA, MVP HoF
2. General
3. API Platform API versions 21.0 30.0 retiring REST, SOAP, Bulk APIs REQUESTS WILL FAIL Deploy and retrieve pilot metadata Synchronous compile on deploy in sandbox Banner displayed if enabled
4. Custom fields Custom field type conversion impacting > 85 million records The deployment failed because we couldn’t change the data type of one or more custom fields Delete custom object with references (e.g. Lookup) List of Object and Field API Names Object API Name is hyperlinked
5. User Management
6. Update Object Permissions from Object Access
7. Edit Permissions in PS Summary
8. Manage Permission Sets in PS Group Summary
9. Manage User’s Perm Sets, Groups and Queues
10. Artificial Intelligence
11. Agentforce DX - Beta
12. Structured User Interface (Dev Preview)
13. Structured User Interface (Dev Preview) Custom Lightning Types Schema.json Editor.json
14. Structured User Interface (Dev Preview) Renderer.json New targets
15. Flow Builder Einstein Panel
16. Experience Builder Agent (Beta) Setup -> Digital Experiences -> Settings Enable Agentforce (Beta) in Experience Builder Setup -> Agentforce Agents Create Agent using Experience Builder Template LWR Site : Settings -> General, Define brand details
17. Use External Data in Prompt Builder
18. Agentforce Other Route work directly to Agentforce No need for Omnichannel Flow Update Service Rep’s presence using natural language Via Agentforce (Default), FKA Copilot Agentforce Packaging 2GP support for Topics, Actions and Prompts
19. AgentExchange
20. Low Code
21. Test Flows for Error Handling
22. Customise Screen Flow Component Size
23. Display Screen Flow Choices as Tiles
24. Flow Debugging
25. Flow Approval Process Create from Approvals app wizard Up to 3 levels of approvals Final actions Recall path Create Flow Approval Process Action Outputs draft flow - configure elements and activate Run Approval Process from autolaunched Flow
26. Flow Get Related Records (Beta)
27. Pro Code
28. Apex Generate debug logs during deployment
29. Apex Evaluate Dynamic Formulas in Template Mode bobbuzz.me.uk/Su25FormulaApex Action Extension Metadata (Invocable Apex) - Developer Preview Define how to present action inputs Order, Descriptions, Labels Scratch org with feature enabled Adoption guide coming soon
30. Lightning Web Components Strict access checks on Aura/LWC imports No {COMPONENT/MODULE} named {name} found - check imports ISV Component - ask vendor Salesforce component - remove reference Internal DOM structure is changing Tests relying on structure will fail Stop doing that!
31. Lightning Web Components ESLint V9 support V8 support to end in Winter ‘26 Use Typescript with Lightning Base Components - Developer Preview
32. Lightning Web Components Preview a single component using local dev - Beta Don’t have to publish to org Lightning Base Components documentation updated More guidance on usage Advantages on using for customization Consistent naming (was sometimes base Lightning components)
33. Experience Cloud
34. Record List Component (LWR Sites)
35. Modernized Record Experience (Aura Sites) Enforced release update Upgrade components to modern LWC technology Create Record Form Record Banner Record Detail
36. Other Email verification mandatory for users creating sites Must be verified to send welcome emails Use Flow for SSO registration handler Enhanced security for Salesforce CDN (LWR Sites) Malicious traffic, crawlers, scrapers, bots, and DDOS attacks Legitimate bots and crawlers are preserved
37. Thank You