Spring 25 for Developers

Slide deck from my talk at the January London Salesforce Developers event, covering the features that developers should care about from the Spring '25 Salesforce release.

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1. Salesforce Spring 25 for Developers 1 Keir Bowden, Salesforce CTO​, Credera @bob_buzzard www.linkedin.com/in/keirbowden
2. 2 Agentforce Digital Wallet
3. 3 Agentforce Digital Wallet
4. 4 Agent Versions • Create and test new version • Leave existing version active • Create up to 20 versions of a single agent Agent for Setup • Troubleshoot user access issues • Create Report Types • Find answers in Help documentation • Available starting Feb ’25 Update Omni-Channel User Configuration action • Add/remove queue/skill assignments • Change skill levels for users Agentforce Agentforce
5. 5 Customisation Sort List Views By Multiple Columns 1 2 • Up to 5 columns • Only applies to your user • Cannot save as default
6. 6 Customisation Sort Related Lists by Multiple Columns 1 2
7. 7 View All permission renamed • View All Records Modify All permission renamed • Modify All Records View All Fields • New permission • Includes fields added later • No data access granted! Customisation Permissions
8. 8 Activities custom field limit • Increased from 100 to 300 • If fewer than 400 million activities Customisation Other Reset password link supports multiple clicks • Extra step in reset process • Link is valid for 24 hours, or until user clicks ‘Reset Password’ • Setup-> Identity Verification -> Display a confirmation page during password reset
9. 9 Custom components must specify API version • Possible to save without API version prior to Winter 24 • “Behind the scenes the component was compiled with an internal API version” Lighting Web Security tightened iframe restrictions • Explicit src attribute applies cross-origin restrictions • Regardless of source Single Lightning Component Security Guide • Locker and LWS • bit.ly/422roE9 Development Lightning Web Components
10. 10 Demo Development Local Dev GA for Lightning Apps Can’t debug in browser Vote up the idea https://sforce.co/42s3GkX
11. 11 Demo Development Compress/Extract Zip Files in Apex GA
12. 12 Demo Development Evaluate Dynamic Formulas in Apex GA https://github.com/keirbowden/Spring25
13. 13 Concurent Long-Running Apex Requests Limit now based on licenses • 100 licenses = 1 long-running request • Minimum is 10 • Maximum is 50 Pause and resume scheduled jobs in Apex Master-Detail Reparenting Restrictions Enforced • Prior to API 63.0, possible to reparent event if not configured Apex no longer supports JSON serialisation of exceptions • Didn’t work before! Development Apex
14. 14 Metadata API will error if overwhelmed • readMetadata() and retrieve() requests • New orgs created in Winter ’25 and later Development API
15. 15 Development Flow Builder – Visual Progress Indicator
16. 16 Development Flow Creation with Einstein GA
17. 17 Development Summarize Flow with Einstein
18. 18 Development Create Flow Formulas with Einstein
19. 19 Development Flow Builder - Transform Element
20. 20 Development Flow Builder – Limit Get Records results
21. 21 Beta SLDS2
22. CONFIDENTIAL Save the Date 22 5th February 2025 4-5pm Spring ‘25 Release Webinar Spring ‘25 for all