226: Winter ’25 Release Highlights with Mohith Shrivastava

In this episode, we welcome back Mohith Shrivastava to delve into the groundbreaking features of the Salesforce Winter '25 release. We discuss Agentforce, Salesforce's innovative AI agentic solution that leverages tools like Flows, Apex, and Prompt Builder to autonomously execute tasks. The episode also highlights advancements in Agent Builder (fka Copilot Builder) for creating assistive and autonomous agents, and the introduction of Agentforce for Developers.

Further, we explore significant updates in Salesforce Data Cloud, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities, vector search, and the much-anticipated beta release of Data Cloud sandboxes. Finally, we touch on the new local development feature for Lightning Web Components (LWC) that provide real-time previews and rapid iterations. 

Tune in to learn how these Winter '25 updates can elevate your Salesforce development and data management capabilities.

Show Highlights:

• Enhancements to Copilot Builder with new topic-based action categorization for assistive and autonomous agents.
• A chat agent for Salesforce developers to explain code, write test cases, and generate documentation.
• Upcoming features like Data Cloud sandboxes for secure testing and new dependencies between Data Cloud and Salesforce platform packages for ISVs.
• Lightning Web Components (LWC) advancements, including local development for real-time previews and rapid iterations.
• New Apex feature preventing collection modification during iteration to enhance code stability and consistency.

Links:

• The Salesforce Developer’s Guide to the Winter ’25 Release - https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2024/09/winter25-developers