Salesforce Overall: Release Notes on Salesforce Help, Multi-Factor Authentication, Einstein Search Personalization, and Salesforce Anywhere (Beta)

Starting Wednesday, November 4, 2020, find the Salesforce Release Notes on Salesforce Help, the same place you go for help as well as the release notes for Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Customer 360. Use the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Assistant to help roll MFA out to your users. Get personalized search results based on your activity, location, and other factors, with Einstein Search. Experience the future of CRM with Salesforce Anywhere’s real-time alerts, chat, and Lightning Flow invocable actions (Beta). Also, read through our Customer 360 guides and solution kits to help solve complex business cases, add custom themes to in-app guidance, display specific survey pages to participants based on data, and more.

Enjoy New Features and a Better User Experience with Release Notes on Salesforce Help
The main Salesforce Release Notes moved to Salesforce Help where they now live in harmony with our help and other technical content plus the release notes for Commerce Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Customer 360.
Download Release Notes PDFs for Salesforce Releases Before Winter ’16
Looking for release notes for Salesforce releases before Winter ‘16? Click these links to download them in PDF.
Multi-Factor Authentication: Safeguard Account Access
The changes and challenges we face this year make it more important than ever to implement strong security measures that safeguard your business and customers. Amid the increasing complexity of today’s security landscape, user credentials alone are no longer adequate to guard against unauthorized account access. To add extra protection from threats like phishing attacks and credential stuffing, we strongly recommend turning on multi-factor authentication (MFA). We’re here to help you make the transition with the new Multi-Factor Authentication Assistant.
Search: Find Information Faster and Get the Most Relevant Results
Amp up your productivity using Search. Find the records you want more easily and take action right from the search results page.
Salesforce Anywhere: Plan and Accelerate Your Business in Real Time (Beta)
Salesforce Anywhere is the future experience of CRM — making Salesforce real time. Get alerts about changes to the Salesforce data you care about. Update your Salesforce data in just a few taps with suggested actions. Collaborate in context with chat. Search and view your Salesforce data. And integrate Salesforce Anywhere chat and alerts into your business processes with Lightning Flow and Process Builder.
Cross-Cloud Integrations: Customer 360 Guides, Solution Kits
Explore the Salesforce cross-cloud architecture and identify and solve complex business use cases.
Lightning Experience Engagement: In-App Guidance and Help Menu
Add in-app guidance to more places in your apps. Use custom theme colors to make your in-app guidance stand out. Easily share direct links to in-app guidance. And show more custom resources in the Help Menu. Users can search for Trailhead modules right inside the Help Menu.
Salesforce Surveys: Enhanced Participant Experience, Survey Templates, and More
Enhance the participant experience by using merge fields within survey invitation emails. Use variables to decide which pages your participants view based on your Salesforce org's data. Participants can now read and respond to surveys in right to left languages. Participants who opt out of emails don't receive survey invitations by email. As a survey designer, you can now create template surveys. When you copy a translated survey, the translations get carried over to the new survey. Easily reorder questions on a survey page.
Lightning Scheduler: Controlled and Direct Interaction with External Calendars, Embedded Flows, Greater Scheduling Flexibility, and More
Use the provided developer resources to write appointments directly and securely to, and read events from, external calendars. Schedule appointments in a whole new way by embedding Lightning Scheduler flows into record pages. And enjoy greater scheduling flexibility by associating custom scheduling policies with Lightning Scheduler flows with the new SchedulingPolicyName flow variable.
Prepare for the Microsoft Edge Changes in SameSite Cookie Behavior That Can Break Salesforce Integrations
Microsoft Edge is changing the default cross-domain (SameSite) behavior of cookies. The SameSite changes are happening in the Chromium project, on which Microsoft Edge is based. This change enhances security and privacy, but requires customers and partners to test custom Salesforce integrations that rely on cookies. We support the ongoing effort to improve privacy and security across the web. We updated the SameSite attribute on cookies set by Salesforce. The fixes are in Winter ’21 and they apply to Microsoft Edge 86 and later.
Prepare for Firefox Changes in SameSite Cookie Behavior That Can Break Salesforce Integrations
Firefox is changing the default cross-domain (SameSite) behavior of cookies. This change enhances security and privacy but requires customers and partners to test custom Salesforce integrations that rely on cookies. We support the ongoing effort to improve privacy and security across the web. We updated the SameSite attribute on cookies set by Salesforce. The fixes are in Winter ’21 and are ready for whenever Firefox rolls out the SameSite changes.
Do More with the Optimizer App
The Optimizer App now has even more capabilities to enhance your Salesforce org’s implementation. Use two new features to schedule automatic runs and view org metric history and access seven new metrics to improve security.
See More Record Info in Highlights Panels
Hovering over a lookup relationship field on a record page displays the first seven fields from the compact layout in a highlights panel. Previously, the highlights panel displayed only the first five fields.
UI Changes for Lightning Web Components
To enhance usability and performance, some components were switched from Aura components to Lightning Web Components (LWC). Custom objects, some standard objects, and some UI elements like related lists were updated to LWC. There should be no reductions in functionality, but you might notice some minor UI differences.
UI Changes for Cloning Records
The clone records interface now ensures that the correct record details appear. Previously, the clone records dialog also showed read-only fields relevant only to the original record whose values aren’t actually cloned to the new record. Also, when using console navigation, the clone action now opens in a subtab instead of a dialog.
Recycle Bin Search Capability Is Being Removed
To avoid performance issues, we removed the search functionality from the Recycle Bin.
Access Setup and Visualforce Pages in Apple® Safari
To protect user privacy, the Prevent Cross-Site Tracking privacy setting is enabled by default in Apple Safari version 13.1 and later. This setting prevents some Setup and Visualforce pages from displaying properly. On the affected Setup pages, a new on-screen message and link allow you to access the page’s content by reloading the page in Salesforce Classic. For Visualforce pages, you can change some org metadata so that those pages display properly.
Cisco Webex Is Being Retired
Cisco Webex is scheduled to be retired starting on October 9, 2020, as part of the Winter '21 release.
Skype Is Being Retired
Skype is scheduled to be retired starting on October 9, 2020, as part of the Winter '21 release.
Keep Working with Tab-Focused Dialogs (Update, Postponed)
This update, released in Winter ’20, was scheduled for auto-activation in Winter ’21, but has been postponed to Winter ’22. In Lightning console apps, dialogs no longer stop you from interacting with the rest of the UI. This release update limits the focus of dialogs triggered by a workspace tab or subtab to only the tab that triggered it.
Reopen Business Transparently with Digital Trust Cards
Show your customers how you keep them safe as your business reopens during COVID. Digital Trust Cards are a great way to give customers peace of mind in these uncertain times. Create a trust card for each of your business locations, and publish them on your website. Each trust card displays trust measures or COVID safety protocols that your business follows.

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