Summer '25 Release Highlights for Developers

Posted on June 30, 2025  (Last modified on July 1, 2025) • 3 min read • 462 words

LWCs, Apex upgrades, API enhancements , and more!

The Summer ’25 Release is packed with new tools and capabilities for Salesforce developers! Whether you’re working with Lightning Web Components, building on Apex, or integrating with Salesforce via APIs—this release brings something useful to your stack.

This post highlights the most impactful updates across three major areas: UI Components, Apex, and APIs.

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New & Changed Lightning Web Components  

🔗 Full LWC Update Details →

Key changes:

• lightning-accordion

  • allow-multiple-sections-open: Collapsing now supported for single-section accordions.

• lightning-datatable

  • New methods: focus(), scrollToTop()
  • New property: imgSrc for custom icons

• lightning-input

  • Better error visibility
  • Localized sample dates in error messages for date fields

• lightning-input-address

  • New attributes: hide-province, country-lookup-filter

• lightning-menu-item

  • New attribute: icon-type with options standard and color

• lightning-tree-grid

  • Supports custom data types
  • New attributes and events: column-widths-mode, sortable, sort

🔗 Changed LWC Modules →
🔗 New LWC Targets →

Aura Components Still Getting Updates  

Aura’s not done yet—several new and changed Aura components are part of this release as well.

🔗 Aura Component Updates →

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Apex: New Classes, Namespaces & Health Cloud Additions  

The Apex enhancements in Summer ’25 span new namespaces, rate limit changes, and fresh functionality—especially in Health Cloud and Connect in Apex.

🔗 All Apex Changes →

Auth Namespace  

🔗 Auth Namespace Changes →

• New and updated classes for authentication workflows and identity handling

Connect in Apex  

🔗 Connect in Apex Overview →

• New rate limits: Moving away from per-user limits to org-level limits
  🔗 Details on Rate Limit Changes →

• New classes and enums
  🔗 New Classes →
  🔗 Changed Input Classes →
  🔗 Changed Output Classes →
  🔗 Changed Enums →

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API v64.0: New Objects, Events & Expanded Access  

With API version 64.0, Salesforce expands access to more objects, metadata types, and introduces improvements across multiple APIs.

🔗 API Release Summary →

New & Changed Objects  

🔗 Full Object List →

• UserLicense Object: UsedLicenses field is no longer filterable via SOQL WHERE clauses.
• New Sales Forecast Objects:
  • FrcstCustmzAdjustment
  • FrcstCustmzOwnerAdjustment
• Email Insight Objects:
  • EmailInsight, EmailInsightAction, plus new Source field on EmailMessage

Flow API Enhancements  

• New ActvtyObjectMtchNoTrg value on FlowRecord.FlowType
• New IdentityUserRegistrationFlow value on ProcessType fields in FlowDefinitionView and FlowVersionView

Platform Events  

🔗 Platform Events Updates →

• More real-time event channels are now supported

Other API Enhancements  

• 🔗 Connect REST API Updates
• 🔗 CRM Analytics API Updates
• 🔗 Metadata API Updates
• 🔗 Tooling API Enhancements
• 🔗 User Interface API Updates

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Wrap-Up  

The Summer ’25 Release is a developer’s playground. From building better UI components to working with richer data via API and Apex, there’s no shortage of powerful tools to explore and implement.

And it’s live now, so feel free to get in there and try out the new improvements!

Keep working hard, smart, and happy. We’ll see you in the cloud!