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Release 35 of 68 · October 2015 · API 35.0

Salesforce Winter ’16 release notes

Lightning Experience arrives on the desktop

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
470
129 more than Summer ’15
AI-related
1
0% of the release
In beta or pilot
33
Retirements
12

What it brought

Lightning Experience ships as a real desktop interface beside Salesforce Classic, with its own setup page, rollout guidance and a long list of features that don't carry over yet. Lightning components now require My Domain to be enabled. Communities gets the Lightning template upgrade plus Insights and moderation rules, Omni-Channel routing is generally available, and Apex developers get Platform Cache for caching session and org data. Transaction Security Policies let admins act on risky events in real time. Behaviour changes make up an unusually large share of the notes: 79 of 475.

Marquee change
Lightning Experience desktop UI
Developer highlight
Platform Cache in Apex
Promoted to GA
Omni-Channel routing
New prerequisite
My Domain required for Lightning components
Now retired
Connect for Outlook

By capability

  • Collaboration94
  • UX & Mobile75
  • Developer63
  • Analytics41
  • APIs & Integration37
  • Service35
  • Security & Identity30
  • Customization26
  • Sales21
  • Automation19
  • Infrastructure & Ops12
  • Data11
  • Marketing & Commerce6

By product

  • Platform184
  • Sales Cloud50
  • Experience Cloud50
  • Service Cloud46
  • Chatter & Collaboration35
  • Analytics32
  • Mobile32
  • Security & Identity22
  • Salesforce Overall13
  • Data Cloud / Data 3605
  • Marketing Cloud1

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 ’16

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

Sales Cloud50
Service Cloud46
Marketing Cloud1
Experience Cloud50
Chatter & Collaboration35
Mobile32
Analytics32
Data Cloud / Data 3605
Platform184
Security & Identity22
Salesforce Overall13