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Release 51 of 68 · February 2021 · API 51.0

Salesforce Spring ’21 release notes

Salesforce Functions and Data Pipelines land

Winter ’04: 74 notesSpring ’04: 91 notesSummer ’04: 75 notesWinter ’05: 117 notesSummer ’05: 138 notesWinter ’06: 170 notesSummer ’06: 76 notesWinter ’07: 276 notesSpring ’07: 105 notesSummer ’07: 217 notesWinter ’08: 130 notesSpring ’08: 106 notesSummer ’08: 159 notesWinter ’09: 162 notesSpring ’09: 57 notesSummer ’09: 55 notesWinter ’10: 107 notesSpring ’10: 135 notesSummer ’10: 90 notesWinter ’11: 112 notesSpring ’11: 59 notesSummer ’11: 44 notesWinter ’12: 101 notesSpring ’12: 145 notesSummer ’12: 91 notesWinter ’13: 220 notesSpring ’13: 136 notesSummer ’13: 278 notesWinter ’14: 353 notesSpring ’14: 339 notesSummer ’14: 288 notesWinter ’15: 276 notesSpring ’15: 325 notesSummer ’15: 341 notesWinter ’16: 470 notesSpring ’16: 512 notesSummer ’16: 510 notesWinter ’17: 561 notesSpring ’17: 559 notesSummer ’17: 630 notesWinter ’18: 582 notesSpring ’18: 566 notesSummer ’18: 600 notesWinter ’19: 551 notesSpring ’19: 539 notesSummer ’19: 607 notesWinter ’20: 649 notesSpring ’20: 619 notesSummer ’20: 632 notesWinter ’21: 643 notesSpring ’21: 621 notesSummer ’21: 633 notesWinter ’22: 696 notesSpring ’22: 677 notesSummer ’22: 743 notesWinter ’23: 840 notesSpring ’23: 806 notesSummer ’23: 902 notesWinter ’24: 868 notesSpring ’24: 969 notesSummer ’24: 1,070 notesWinter ’25: 1,107 notesSpring ’25: 1,191 notesSummer ’25: 1,230 notesWinter ’26: 1,456 notesSpring ’26: 1,498 notesSummer ’26: 1,879 notesWinter ’27: 1,277 notes
Documented changes
621
22 fewer than Winter ’21
AI-related
55
9% of the release
In beta or pilot
55
Retirements
24

What it brought

Salesforce Data Pipelines is a new product for modifying and enriching CRM data at scale, and Data Processing Engine is generally available, so admins can gather and transform data across objects with clicks. Salesforce Functions appears in Apex as a beta namespace for running elastic compute alongside the org. Industries account for 126 of 621 notes. Commerce gets Omnichannel Inventory for real-time availability across fulfilment channels, and the Build Your Own (LWR) template goes GA for fast Experience Cloud sites. Legacy Platform API versions are flagged for retirement in Summer '21.

Developer beta
Salesforce Functions
New data product
Salesforce Data Pipelines
Automation with clicks
Data Processing Engine GA
Biggest share of notes
Platform (132 of 621 notes)
Advance retirement notice
Legacy Platform API versions, Summer '21

By capability

  • Security & Identity71
  • Analytics61
  • Developer56
  • APIs & Integration52
  • Automation47
  • Service46
  • UX & Mobile45
  • Collaboration45
  • AI42
  • Marketing & Commerce41
  • Industries41
  • Sales25
  • Infrastructure & Ops20
  • Customization17
  • Data12

By product

  • Platform132
  • Industries126
  • Service Cloud66
  • Analytics56
  • Sales Cloud49
  • Salesforce Overall40
  • Security & Identity30
  • Commerce Cloud25
  • Experience Cloud25
  • Marketing Cloud20
  • Mobile16
  • Chatter & Collaboration14
  • Revenue Cloud13
  • Data Cloud / Data 3607
  • Other2

Capabilities and change types are Jev’s categories; products come from Salesforce’s own headings. How the notes were categorized

Retirements and deprecations

Every note in Spring ’21

By product, in the order of the PDF. Each title links to its page in Salesforce’s release notes.

Sales Cloud49
Revenue Cloud13
Service Cloud66
Marketing Cloud20
Commerce Cloud25
Industries126
Experience Cloud25
Chatter & Collaboration14
Mobile16
Analytics56
Data Cloud / Data 3607
Platform132
Security & Identity30
Salesforce Overall40
Other2