Salesforce rolls out three major releases yearly, and the Summer ’25 release will bring changes you need to act on immediately. The Salesforce release date is May 16, 2025, and spans several weekends: May 10, May 17, June 7, and June 14, 2025.
The Sandbox Preview starts May 9, 2025, so you can check Salesforce release readiness and test new features against your customizations.
This detailed guide shows you the hidden features and critical updates in the Salesforce Summer ’25 release that could affect your instance. You’ll learn about Salesforce latest release updates for users, admins, and developers in:
LinkedIn is retiring legacy APIs, so Salesforce users syncing LinkedIn Lead Forms must update their integration settings by May ’25. Without this update, lead syncing will stop.
Expert Tips: Coordinate with your LinkedIn admin to enable two-factor authentication during the API connection setup. Schedule this update before May to avoid disruption.
Salesforce for Outlook will stop working and be retired by December 2027. Salesforce recommends migrating users to Outlook Integration and Einstein Activity Capture.
Sales Cloud Go has been rebranded as Salesforce Go, which might mean it will soon be available on other Salesforce Clouds.
Admins can limit email capture to “header-only” (sender, recipient, date/time). In sensitive scenarios, the subject and body will not be captured for compliance and security.
Header-Only Email Capture
Email Integration UI now combines logging and traffic controls. To track emails, users must log them explicitly, for better compliance, auditability, and transparency.
Users can now refresh individual widgets instead of entire dashboards. You can enable this in Reports and Dashboards Settings.
Expert Tip: Enable this for end users to reduce data load times and improve dashboard interactions.
Ensure compliance with your organization’s security standards by controlling who can export and publish quota plans for territory-based forecasts in Pipeline Forecasting.
Sales Quota Planning Enhancements
Learn how to enable options to export and publish quota plans.
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Service representatives can now quickly close cases directly from the case details page.
This update reduces extra clicks and boosts efficiency for case management.
Check how to enable The Close Case button.
Improve survey responses with dynamic emoji ratings, visual progress bars, attachment limit increases (20 per survey), and compatible URL setup.
Optionally notify senders directly if their emails weren’t processed correctly via Email-to-Case.
Learn how to turn on the notifications
Hourly single email send limits are now unified. Emails sent via Case Lightning Email Composer are included, limiting each user to 250 recipients per hour.
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A redesigned dropdown menu for List Views improves scrolling, recently viewed access, and direct search functionality, driving an intuitive, consistent UX across Salesforce.
Enhanced Recent List Views
Before deleting, now admins can easily identify related objects to remove dependencies efficiently, blocking custom object deletions.
Direct report and dashboard subscription emails to come from a predefined organization-wide address rather than the subscriber’s personal email, reducing confusion and admin workload.
Enable Org-Wide Email Address for Report Subscription
Admins can now mass-update object permissions across all custom profiles and permission sets in a single action within Object Manager.
Edit Account Object Permissions in Permission Sets
Easily edit user, object, field, and custom permissions directly from the Permission Set Summary View, removing multiple clicks across setup pages.
Permission Set Summary Editing
Quickly manage included permission sets within permission set groups from the summary page for faster administrative adjustments.
Permission Set Group Management
Gain a consolidated view to manage individual user access across Permission Sets, Groups, and Queues, including easy search, sorting, and quick modifications.
User Permission Sets, Groups, and Queues Summary
Salesforce has official TypeScript type definitions for Lightning Base Components, which provide type checking and safety for JavaScript developers working with Lightning Web Components.
To add the typings to your component, import the types as follows at the top of your JavaScript file, converted to TypeScript:
import { LightningElement } from ‘lwc’;
import ‘@salesforce/lightning-types’;
import type LightningButton from ‘lightning/button’;
export default class ComponentExample extends LightningElement {
submitLabel: string = ‘Submit’;
}
Apex’s FormulaBuilder class now supports dynamic formula evaluation with merge-field syntax via the new method parseAsTemplate(). This makes the code more readable and reduces database roundtrips.
ApexGuru now provides deeper insights and more precise optimization recommendations for Apex code for anti-patterns like SOQL-in-loops, inefficient query filters, and other costly operations.
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Marketers can now connect WhatsApp Business to Account Engagement and send messages to prospects via Marketing Cloud.
Admins can now dismiss non-essential custom configuration warnings in Optimizer and focus on essential or business-critical issues. If requirements change, admins can restore previously rejected warnings.
A new Failed Email Sends report makes it easier for admins to troubleshoot email sends, with details on failed messages, timestamps, affected prospects and the reason (e.g. invalid addresses or missing content).
Salesforce now notifies authenticated users on Lightning Web Runtime (LWR) sites 5 minutes before their session expires. This notification allows users to save work or re-login without interruption.
Admins can now use the new Record List component in LWR sites. This component allows users to view, search, sort, and paginate items like accounts or cases. It is customizable and responsive on desktops, tablets, and mobile devices.
Customizable Record Lists for LWR Sites
Learn how to enable the new Record List component in Experience Builder.
Salesforce now requires sender email verification for new Aura and LWR sites to improve security and ensure trustworthy welcome emails.
Check how to verify sender email addresses in Experience Builder.
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Get more out of your volunteer management in Salesforce by recruiting better volunteers, assigning roles more effectively, and increasing volunteer engagement and retention. You can also use built-in reporting to measure and prove your volunteers’ impact.
Use the Volunteer Management data model in Salesforce to schedule volunteers, track volunteer hours, and simplify reporting of volunteer metrics. Experience Cloud allows you to create a volunteer portal where volunteers can find opportunities, apply for roles, and track their contributions.
Check also new objects in Volunteer Management.
Agentforce SDR now supports French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Portuguese. SDR agents can engage prospects in their preferred language.
Learn how to configure default language settings.
In June 2025, this agent will analyze deal interactions and recommend the next best actions, reducing the rep workload.
Learn how to turn on Agentforce Deal Agent.
Agentforce SDR can now engage not just leads but also Contacts and Person Accounts. This is perfect for cross-selling, upselling, and customer nurture programs.
Learn how to activate Agentforce SDR actions on the Contact and Person Account layout pages.
Einstein Conversation Translate allows service teams and supervisors to read and respond to customer messages in their own language in real-time.
Check how to use Einstein Conversation Translate.
From March 31, 2025, admins will be able to test AI-generated SDR emails in Agent Builder to get higher-quality outreach.
Email-Generation Testing in Agent Builder
Check how to test Agentforce SDR email generation in Agent Builder.
Einstein Conversation Insights (ECI) now supports direct upload of third-party video call recordings and automatically provides meeting insights and transcripts to identify coachable moments.
Video Uploads for Salesforce Conversation Insights
Discover how to turn on this feature.
Sales Signals dashboard now shows Pricing and Objection conversations to see team performance on key topics.
Pricing and Objection in Sales Signal Dashboard
Check how to see Pricing and Objection topics in Sales Signals.
Prompt Builder allows developers to pull external object data directly into Salesforce generative AI prompts. This is perfect for use cases where real-time external system data (e.g., orders, shipments, etc.) needs to be queried.
Learn how to access the external object fields in Prompt Builder.
The Einstein Send Time Optimization (STO) data model upgrade allows developers to generate data graphs so you can get granular, personalized email delivery timing
To enable richer AI experiences with Agentforce, Salesforce is introducing two new LWC targets:
Classic Approval Processes are being phased out in favor of Flow-based Approvals. Users are now being prompted via banners in Approval Processes Setup to use Flow Approval Processes.
New Flow Approval Processes in Salesforce
Check how to create a Flow Approval Process from the approvals app.
New in this release, Flow Approval Processes can have a “recall path” for specific actions when a user recalls an approval request.
When recalled, it cancels any active approval stages and open tasks and executes background steps specific to recall scenarios so you can proactively handle recalled requests.
A new Flow Debug Panel is introduced—it is larger, collapsible, and easier to manage for better workflow debugging. Users can quickly copy and analyze debug logs for faster troubleshooting.
You can view output when configuring Subflows or Actions in the Flow Builder. Output has explicit labels, names, and data types, making it easier to see and troubleshoot.
Explore automated testing for Data Cloud-triggered and Record-triggered Flows now supports checks on Create, Update, Delete actions and Action elements for errors.
Automated Flow Testing for Error Handling
Learn how to create a Test Flow.
Replace Apex coding with Flow Builder’s new Authentication Provider User Registration flow template to simplify single sign-on (SSO) user provisioning for Experience Cloud sites.
Developers can now use conversation transcripts from Einstein Conversation Insights in Flow Builder automation flows to scale and centralize sales follow-up processes or coaching session scheduling.
How to Use Conversation Transcripts from Einstein Conversation Insights in Flow Builder
Learn how to add Get Conversation Transcript in Flow Builder.
Flow Builder has a new Einstein panel with a flexible, drag-and-drop layout, simultaneous configuration panels, and improved navigation for a better UI.
New Einstein Panel in Flow Builder
Check how to enjoy the new Einstein Panel in Flow Builder.
Admins can now add Einstein Decision elements to Salesforce Flows to automatically adjust marketing journeys based on real-time email engagement metrics, such as click likelihood or marketing email saturation.
Learn how to add Einstein Decision element to Flow.
When “Sync Email as Salesforce Activity” is enabled, Salesforce provides a default flow (“Activities: Match Email to Records”) that matches emails to contacts, accounts, opportunities, or custom objects.
To enable this feature, go to Setup > Flows > choose Activities: Match Email to Records.
The highly used Send Email Action has been rebuilt and has clear field separation: Receiver, Sender, and Email Content. A new rich-text WYSIWYG editor makes creating well-formatted emails easier.
Enhanced UX in Email Editor
Summer ‘25 introduces a dedicated Time data type for Flow useful for workflows triggered by specific times of the day rather than dates.
The Salesforce Summer ’25 release brings significant changes in many areas that need your attention. Your proactive testing and preparation will help you smoothly transition through crucial updates.
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