Salesforce Spring ‘26 includes important changes across development, automation, AI configuration, and security. Some are straightforward productivity wins. Others signal that teams should start cleaning up technical debt, tightening governance, and planning a few key migrations sooner rather than later.
In this Aquiva Key, we save you time by breaking down the Spring ‘26 updates that stood out most to us and what they mean in practice. The goal is not to recap every release note. It is to focus on the changes most likely to affect how teams deploy, automate, secure and govern their Salesforce environments, and where organizations should be thinking ahead now.
Watch the full video below for our key highlights and practical take:
A few updates are especially worth a closer look:
1. Apex deployments could get much faster
One of the most practical Spring ‘26 updates is the ability to define which Apex unit tests run during production deployment:
- This could materially reduce deployment time for teams carrying a lot of legacy code.
- In the video, we also connect this to a bigger point: cleaner, more modular code helps not just release speed, but AI readiness too.
2. Flow Orchestration becoming standard is a meaningful shift
Salesforce has moved Flow Orchestration from a paid add-on to a standard feature.
- This opens the door to handling more complex, multi-user logic through smaller, more manageable flows.
- Our take in this video is that this is useful, but it also raises an important question about where declarative automation still makes the most sense as complexity grows.
3. AI updates are beneficial, but they need guardrails
Spring ‘26 introduces new AI-driven capabilities, including Setup with Agentforce and Agent Scripts.
- Our recommendation is to treat AI-generated setup changes as draft work, not direct production shortcuts.
- We talk through how full-copy sandbox use, metadata review, release discipline, better field descriptions, and cleaner metadata all help make AI-driven changes safer and more reliable. We also touch on why Agent Scripts stand out as a more structured way to build predictable, process-based AI behavior.
4. The security changes need near-term planning
Two security-related updates stood out in particular: the removal of Session ID support in outbound messages and the shift away from new Connected Apps.
- These are not just release note details. They are planning signals.
- In this video, we explain the right migration path and safer alternatives.
The broader message from Spring ’26 is that platform modernization and governance now go hand in hand. Faster deployments, better orchestration, safer AI-assisted setup, and stronger security patterns all reward teams that invest in cleaner architecture and more disciplined release processes. That is the lens we bring to this Aquiva Key, and why this video is worth watching.
If you want help assessing how these Spring ’26 changes affect your Salesforce org, let’s talk.
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