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Release 1 of 68 · October 2003

Salesforce Winter ’04 release notes

The sforce API and Dashboards arrive

Open Winter ’04 in 3DSalesforce’s release notes (PDF)
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
74
AI-related
0
0% of the release
In beta or pilot
0
Retirements
2

What it brought

Salesforce shipped the sforce Enterprise Web Services API in Winter '04: SOAP/WSDL-based, strongly typed, with a WSDL regenerated whenever a field changed. With it came sforce Object Query Language and up to 50 sforce custom objects for data outside the standard records, the point where Salesforce became a platform as well as an application. Admins got the new Dashboards tab, a report charting engine, page layouts assigned per profile and record type, and a setup audit trail. The older XML-RPC and SOAP APIs stayed supported but were frozen, and all future work went to the new API.

New API
sforce Enterprise Web Services API
New tab for admins
Dashboards, up to 20 charts per dashboard
First custom objects
50 sforce custom objects, API access only
Frozen but still supported
Old XML-RPC and SOAP APIs get no more work
Most changes in
Platform (23 of 74 notes)

By capability

  • Customization20
  • Analytics11
  • Sales11
  • APIs & Integration7
  • Security & Identity6
  • Automation5
  • Service4
  • Collaboration4
  • Infrastructure & Ops2
  • Data2
  • UX & Mobile2

By product

  • Platform23
  • Sales Cloud14
  • Security & Identity12
  • Analytics8
  • Integration & APIs8
  • Chatter & Collaboration5
  • Service Cloud3
  • Data Cloud / Data 3601

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 Winter ’04

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

Sales Cloud14
Service Cloud3
Chatter & Collaboration5
Analytics8
Data Cloud / Data 3601
Platform23
Integration & APIs8
Security & Identity12