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Salesforce rolled out several updates in 2025 that genuinely make day-to-day work easier for admins, developers, and sales teams. While not every release is a major breakthrough, many feel surprisingly useful once you start using them.
At Codleo, we’ve spent hours digging into these releases. Here are the 2025 features that really stood out. Here are the Salesforce features released in 2025 that really stood out and are worth paying attention to.
Agentforce Builder
Agentforce Builder received one of its biggest upgrades in 2025, and it shows. The experience feels cleaner, smarter, and far more intuitive than before. It has evolved into a true command center for building AI-powered agents.
You can now simply describe what you want in plain language, such as “Create an onboarding assistant that tracks new hire tasks and sends reminders,” and Agentforce Builder turns that idea into a working agent.
The workspace offers three flexible ways to build:
- A document-style editor for writing in plain English
- A low-code canvas for visual design
- A script view for developers who want full control
Switching between these views is seamless, which makes collaboration between admins, developers, and architects much easier.
The standout feature here is real-time simulation. You can watch how your agent thinks, step by step, test outcomes instantly, and make changes on the fly. Salesforce calls this vibe building, and it’s a great example of how conversational design speeds up iteration.
Agentforce Vibes
Agentforce Vibes brings AI-assisted development to a whole new level. It’s a contextual coding assistant that can generate Lightning Web Components or Apex code directly from natural language prompts.
What really sets Vibes apart is that it understands your Salesforce org. By reading existing metadata, it creates code that follows your naming conventions, reuses existing components, and checks dependencies before you deploy. That means less cleanup and fewer surprises later.
Developers can quickly generate components, refactor logic, switch into script mode for fine-tuning, and test everything instantly using one-click simulation. With 50 daily calls to the premium model before switching to an open model, most teams have plenty of room to experiment.
Dynamic Highlights Panel
The Dynamic Highlights Panel finally gives admins the flexibility they’ve been asking for at the top of Lightning record pages. Instead of being limited to compact layouts, you can now display up to twelve fields that change dynamically based on rules you define.
Every panel includes a required Primary Field, usually the record name, but everything else is configurable. You can tailor fields for different users, apply filters, and optimize layouts for mobile. For anyone responsible for page layouts, this is a very welcome improvement.
Conditional Formatting for Fields
Dynamic Forms keeps getting better, and conditional formatting is one of the most enjoyable updates this year. You can now apply colors and icons to fields based on their values or even rules that reference multiple fields.
For example, a Lead Relationship field with values like Hot, Warm, and Cold can instantly show visual indicators that make status clear at a glance. It improves usability and adds a bit of creativity—just be sure to test changes properly before pushing them live.
Account Plans
Account Plans help sales teams take a more structured and strategic approach to account growth. Instead of reacting to opportunities as they appear, teams can plan ahead and focus on long-term success.
Sales users can review opportunities, create SWOT analyses, document customer needs, track market conditions, and set measurable goals. Relationship maps help visualize key stakeholders, keeping everything in one place for better account planning.
Multi-Column Sorting for List Views
List views now support sorting by up to five columns at the same time. This small but powerful enhancement makes it much easier for users to organize data in a way that fits how they actually work.
While these sorts can’t be saved as defaults, switching back to single-column sorting is quick and intuitive. It’s a simple improvement that delivers real usability gains.
Multi-Column Sorting for Related Lists
Related lists received the same multi-column sorting capability. Previously, being limited to just one column often reduced their usefulness. Now, you can sort by up to five fields, making related data much easier to scan and analyze—at least for your current session.
Consumption Forecasting
Consumption Forecasting introduces a usage-based approach to forecasting, designed for businesses that bill or track revenue based on consumption rather than traditional deals.
This feature brings together historical usage data, updates forecasts in real time, supports quota tracking, and allows for both bulk and individual adjustments. For subscription-based and consumption-driven businesses, this provides much clearer insight into revenue trends.
Flow Progress Bar for Screen Flows
After a long wait, Salesforce finally added a built-in progress bar for Screen Flows. Admins can choose between two styles:
- Simple, which uses dots and shows stage names on hover
- Path, which displays stage names throughout the flow
Both options make multi-step flows easier to follow and more user-friendly.
Visual Picker Component in Screen Flows
The new Visual Picker component makes Screen Flows feel more modern and engaging. Instead of traditional picklists or radio buttons, users select options using icon-based buttons.
You can configure these in small, medium, or large sizes and arrange them in flexible layouts. It’s a small change, but it noticeably improves the overall flow experience.
Send Email in Flow
Send Email in Flow received some much-needed improvements in 2025. While the action existed before, it often felt limited and awkward to configure.
Support for attachments was added earlier in the year, followed by a redesigned Properties panel. Managing multiple recipients is now much easier, making this feature far more practical for real-world automation.
Flow Approval Processes
Salesforce continues to move away from Classic Approval Processes in favor of Flow-based approvals. You’ll now see prompts in Setup encouraging this transition, reinforcing Salesforce’s Flow-first approach.
Flow Approval Orchestration introduces two new flow types:
- Autolaunched Approval Orchestration (No Trigger), which can be launched from other automations or custom buttons
- Record-triggered Approval Orchestration, which runs when a record is created or updated
These options offer greater flexibility and control compared to legacy approval processes.
SLDS Linter and SLDS 2
Salesforce’s update to SLDS 2 (also known as Cosmos) is a big visual leap forward, but it can feel a bit daunting for teams worried about their old code breaking. To make that transition a lot less stressful, Salesforce rolled out the SLDS Linter in 2025.
Think of it as a smart "spellcheck" for your design code. It’s a command-line tool that scans your Lightning Web Components and Aura files to find any HTML or CSS that might clash with the new look. Instead of you having to hunt down every tiny styling error manually, the Linter flags the problems and can even bulk-fix many of them for you in one go.
Whether you’re a partner building apps for the AppExchange or a developer keeping an internal org healthy, this tool is basically your "easy button" for future-proofing your UI.
Final Thoughts
Salesforce’s 2025 updates delivered practical improvements that make building, automating, and using Salesforce more enjoyable. These changes may not completely transform the platform overnight, but they do make a real difference in everyday work.
At Codleo, we help businesses adopt these features in a way that aligns with their goals and delivers measurable results.
Which Salesforce feature released in 2025 is your favorite? Let us know in the comments—we’d love to hear your thoughts.
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