Salesforce Winter ’24 Release Notes — The Funny Summary — Volume VI
3 min readSep 6, 2023
This article is one of many other volumes for the Winter ’24 Release Notes — The Funny-ish Summary. If you want to jump to a specific Topic please use the links at the bottom of this page.
Lightning Components
- Say hello to dynamic components! you can import your LWC dynamically to offer you more flexibility
- Why does Salesforce look more shiny ? new global color styling hooks were introduced (
--slds-g-*)to match color-contrast changes.
- The LWC Workspace API provides methods to manage your workspace tabs and subtabs in a Lightning console app. BETA
- The RefreshView API now works with Lightning Locker (Previously, available only with LWS)
- create custom elements with Lightning Web Security enabled. BETA
- Use Third-Party Web Components in LWC. BETA
- The Custom Component Instrumentation API lets you track and monitor your events or interactions with your LWC components. BETA
- Feeling hungry! You can create Toast Notifications in your LWR Sites. GA
- So Long Old Friend ! Supported browsers have been updated and farewell to our dear IE
- Scanning documents, interacting with NFC tags, access to device’s biometrics is now available using Lightning Web Components
- You shall not pass! Code that’s loaded from static resources now runs with Lightning Web Security (LWS) in LWR sites in Experience Cloud.
Apex
- You shall not pass!!!! You can specify a permission set for
AccessLevel.User_Modeto run DML respecting the permissions in the specified permission set. PREVIEW - Use the
System.AsyncInfoto control the depth chained queueable jobs GA - Developers border control won’t allow duplicate enqueuing of Queueable Jobs thanks to
QueueableDuplicateSignature - Autobots roll out ! Although DataWeave cannot transform into super cars but no other transformer can transform your data like him. DataWeave is now GA
- New Sheriff in town, you can use the
Collatorclass for locale-sensitive comparisons and sorting
API
- You can now use JSON Web Token (JWT)-based access tokens for granting access to REST APIs.
Development Environments
- Hey! Could you please create my sandbox user for me ? 🥺 You can select the users who needs access to a sandbox from a public group
Developer Console
- Full Apex auto-complete in Developer Console is being retired (VSCode users reaction)
Platform Events
- Speed up processing of platform events in an Apex trigger by processing multiple subscriptions simultaneously instead of a single subscription. PILOT
More Volumes?
- Volume I: General Enhancement, Scheduler, Enablement and Hyperforce.
- Volume II: Lightning Reports & Dashboards and CRM Analytics.
- Volume III: Salesforce Flow.
- Volume IV: Permissions, App Builder, Sharing and External Services.
- Volume V: Security Identity & Privacy.
- Volume VI: Development.
- Volume VII: Experience Cloud.
- Volume VIII: Mobile and Salesforce CMS.
- Volume IX: Commerce.
- Volume X: Revenue.
- Volume XI: Industries.
