Salesforce Summer ’26 release highlights for technical teams
Summer ’26 is generally available. Agentforce is taking most of the attention, but there are platform changes underneath it worth the time of developers, technical architects, solution architects, and administrators. The features below cover security, reporting, and the day-to-day of building.
1. Field access visibility in Object Manager
Working out field-level security used to mean walking Profiles, Permission Sets, and Permission Set Groups one at a time. The new Field Access view in Object Manager gives you a consolidated, read-only picture for a single field, which takes a large bite out of a security audit or an access-troubleshooting session.
You find it at Setup -> Object Manager -> Select Object -> Field Access -> Select Field. It is for visibility and diagnosis only. Changes still have to be made in Profiles, Permission Sets, or Permission Set Groups.
2. Permission dependency tracking
The enhanced profile user interface now surfaces permission dependencies in real time. When you modify user permissions, object permissions, or assigned apps, Salesforce shows you the related permission updates needed to keep things consistent, and prompts you to review and confirm the cascading updates after you save. That is a good deal better than reconstructing what happened afterwards from the Setup Audit Trail.
3. Two row-level formulas per report
Reports now support up to two row-level formulas. More of the calculation can live inside the report instead of in extra formula fields on the object, so admin overhead drops and the insight lands faster. Side-by-side commission rate and time-to-close calculations in one report is the case that comes up most, and it no longer costs you data model clutter.
4. List view sharing and editing control
There is a new toggle for editable shared list views, plus a Manage Shared List Views permission. Admins can let users who hold Create and Customize List Views edit shared list views. Manage Shared List Views also lets someone share a personal list view with specific roles, groups, and territories without handing them the broader Manage Public List Views permission, which grants extensive control over every public list view in the org.
5. The Radio Button Group screen component
Radio Button Group is a compact way to present single-choice options in Screen Flows. It arranges choices horizontally on desktop and vertically on mobile, which saves screen real estate and cuts scrolling.
It suits up to seven choices. Past that, reach for Picklist or standard Radio Buttons. It does not support the Display text input option.
6. Styling hooks for custom flow screen components
You can now expose style configuration from a custom LWC, things like colors, spacing, and dimensions, directly inside Flow Builder. A flow author can then match the component to the application branding without a developer touching code for every adjustment.
Add <stylingHook /> and, optionally, <stylingHookGroup /> inside the <targetConfig targets="lightning__FlowScreen"> section of the component's .js-meta.xml file.
7. New date operators in Flow decision elements
Decision elements pick up Is Today, Is Tomorrow, Is On, Is Anniversary of Today, and Last Number of Days for Date data types. Date logic that used to need a formula workaround is now readable on the canvas, which is most of the maintenance battle with time-sensitive automation.
These apply to Date fields only, not DateTime fields.
8. Redesigned validation panel in Flow Builder
The validation panel is now closed by default when you open a draft flow, so you can build without messages interrupting you. Errors and warnings arrive in cards grouped by element, and clicking a card takes you straight to the property panel where you fix it.
9. Collapsible fault paths in Flow Builder
Fault paths can be collapsed and expanded on demand. In a flow carrying several of them, hiding the fault paths until you need to review or edit them keeps the canvas readable and the primary logic in front of you. The browser remembers the collapsed or expanded state, so the canvas stays how you left it.
10. Expanded dark mode support (beta)
Dark mode is available for SLDS 2 themes in Performance and Unlimited editions, and you can upload dark-mode company logos. Admins configure it under Themes and Branding. This one is in beta and subject to the standard beta terms and conditions.
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