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# Salesforce release notes, decoded: Winter '26
- URL: https://www.namastesalesforce.com/blog/salesforce-release-notes-decoded-winter-26/
- Published: 2025-06-18T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-18T09:00:00.000Z
- Description: Six hundred pages of release notes, reduced to the eleven changes that will actually touch your org — and the two that might break it.
- Author: Swarnil Singhai
- Tags: #blog, Admin, #blog-layout-magazine, #Import 2026-09-03 19:13

Six hundred pages of release notes, reduced to the eleven changes that will actually touch your org — and the two that might break it.

## Read the retirements first

The gold is at the back: features entering retirement. Workflow rules and process builder migrations stop being optional the release they go read-only — count backwards from that date, not forwards from today.

## The quiet permission changes

Every release tightens a default somewhere. This one touches guest user access and API versions below 40 — run the release-update checklist in a sandbox on preview weekend, not in production on go-live morning.

## What I am actually excited about

Flow gets reactive screens everywhere, and the new Apex Cursors go GA — pagination over big queries without the offset dance. Both land in the courses here over the next month.