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Release 17 of 68 · October 2009 · API 17.0

Salesforce Winter ’10 release notes

Salesforce Knowledge and the Bulk API land

Open Winter ’10 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
107
52 more than Summer ’09
AI-related
0
0% of the release
In beta or pilot
22
Retirements
0

What it brought

Salesforce Knowledge arrived in Winter '10 for Enterprise, Unlimited and Developer Editions, with article types, an Article Management tab and data category groups. Developers got the Bulk API for asynchronous inserts, updates and upserts of large record volumes, API version 17.0 and custom settings for configuration data, and batch Apex moved from limited release to general availability. The platform and Service Cloud carry most of the 107 notes. Change sets entered beta with deployment connections for moving metadata between orgs, the Apex scheduler was in limited release and lookup filters were in beta. A critical update changed how campaign members are created.

Biggest new capability
Salesforce Knowledge
Developer highlight
Bulk API for fast data loading
Out of limited release
Batch Apex now generally available
Beta worth watching
Change sets between connected orgs
Unusually experimental
22 of 107 notes are beta or pilot

By capability

  • Developer23
  • Service17
  • Customization12
  • APIs & Integration11
  • Collaboration10
  • Security & Identity10
  • Analytics8
  • UX & Mobile5
  • Automation5
  • Marketing & Commerce3
  • Infrastructure & Ops2
  • Data1

By product

  • Platform40
  • Service Cloud18
  • Chatter & Collaboration10
  • Experience Cloud8
  • Integration & APIs8
  • Mobile8
  • Analytics6
  • Sales Cloud6
  • Security & Identity3

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

Every note in Winter ’10

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

Sales Cloud6
Service Cloud18
Experience Cloud8
Chatter & Collaboration10
Mobile8
Analytics6
Platform40
Integration & APIs8
Security & Identity3