Development: Create Your Own Salesforce App

Whether you’re using Lightning components, Visualforce, Apex, or our APIs with your favorite programming language, these enhancements help you develop amazing applications, integrations, and packages for resale to other organizations.

Lightning Components: Share CSS Style Rules Among Lightning Web Components, Delete Components from Managed Packages
Create a consistent look and feel by using a common CSS module to style Lightning web components. Delete a Lightning component from a managed package if it’s no longer needed. We also postponed several release updates to give you more time to prepare for them.
Einstein Platform Services: Image Recognition and Natural Language Processing
Not a data scientist or machine-learning expert, but still want to integrate AI into your apps? Use the Einstein Platform Services APIs to easily AI-enable your apps with image recognition and natural language processing. Using the Einstein Vision APIs, you can leverage pre-trained classifiers or train custom classifiers to solve a vast array of image recognition use cases. With the Einstein Language APIs, you can harness the power of natural language processing to analyze text and infer the sentiment or intent behind the text. Make your apps smarter and look like a genius at the same time.
Visualforce: Lightning Message Service (Generally Available), Date Picker Gets A New Look in Android
Communicate across Visualforce, Aura, and Lightning Web Components with Lightning message service. The date picker in the Salesforce mobile app for Android now has the native Android display.
Packaging: Push Upgrades Available for Unlocked and Second-Generation Managed Packages (Beta), Try Org-Dependent Unlocked Packages (Beta)
We extended the push upgrade API to enable you to schedule and push upgrades to unlocked and second-generation managed packages. Use org-dependent unlocked packages when untangling your org’s metadata is difficult. Explore an early preview of first-generation managed package conversion.
Apex
The new @JsonAccess annotation controls how to serialize and deserialize Apex types. The new ConcurLongRunApexErrEvent standard platform event for Real-Time Event Monitoring detects concurrent long-running Apex errors. The release update “Enable Improved Caching of Org Schema” now has its auto-activation date advanced to August 12, 2020 from August 9, 2021. Two release updates require that users have the “View Setup and Configuration” permission to access AsyncApexJob, ApexTestResult and several other objects. The Transaction Finalizers feature (introduced in Spring ’20) is enhanced with the FinalizerContext.getRequestId() method, which returns the request ID of the Finalizer execution.
API
In API version 49.0, use Bulk API 2.0 to query the dependency relationships between metadata components in your Salesforce org. The concurrent API request limit for sandboxes has been fixed to match the documentation.
Custom Metadata Types: Use CLI for Custom Metadata Types and Create Relationships to Elements of a Field
Use Salesforce CLI commands to create and manage custom metadata types. Declaratively define a custom metadata type relationship field that references an entity particle.
Scratch Orgs: New Features
A scratch org is a dedicated and configurable Salesforce environment that you can quickly spin up for many different purposes. It can be your own personal development environment, or you can create a headless scratch org for automated tests. You can create scratch orgs if you turned on Dev Hub in your production org or a Developer Edition org, or have a Dev Hub trial org. We continually add support for new features.
Sandboxes: Powerful New Ways to Secure your Data using Data Mask and Automatically Track Changes in Your Local Workspace (Beta)
Use new tools to secure personally identifiable information and other sensitive data in a sandbox. Enable source tracking for Developer and Developer Pro sandboxes (Beta). Salesforce CLI commands for sandbox operations are now generally available.
Lightning Design System: Mobile and Touch Support Grows Along with Other Component Enhancements
The Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) includes the resources to create user interfaces consistent with the Salesforce Lightning principles, design language, and best practices. In this release, we focused on expanding the user experience for mobile and touch devices.
AppExchange Partners: AppExchange App Analytics for Lightning Apps and Pages
Learn how subscribers use your Lightning apps and pages by exploring AppExchange App Analytics data.
Change Data Capture: Event Enrichment (Beta) and Other Changes
Enrich your change event messages with fields, such as external ID fields, and take advantage of other enhancements.
Platform Events: Publish Status Events (Pilot)
Get notified of the status of platform event publish operations through Publish Status Events.
New and Changed Items for Developers
Here is where you can find new and changed objects, calls, classes, components, commands, and more that help you customize Salesforce features.
Develop Solutions for Workplace Command Center for Work.com
Workplace Command Center helps you monitor return-to-work readiness and decide when to safely bring people back to the workplace. As employees return, keep everyone safe by monitoring employee health and location readiness. Workplace Command Center includes Employee Wellness Check components, Operations Feed, and Global COVID-19 Tracker.

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