It is often important to know what is the current release and the API version of the Salesforce, so you can plan your development and release activities. Administrators, developers, and other Salesforce professionals on the team need this information to understand if a certain feature is available in the current release or API version and how it can affect their deployments during major release windows.
Salesforce Release Cadence and Naming
Salesforce major releases happen three times a year and are named after the seasons; for example, Summer ’25. Note that the naming does not actually reflect the actual season in which the release goes live but rather the season that follows. For example, a Winter release usually happens around September/October, Spring happens around January/February, and the Summer release in May/June.
Also, it is worth noting that the Winter release carries the year number of the upcoming year. For example, Winter ’25 release went live in September/October of 2024.
The API version increases with each major release, so Spring ’25
API release will be API version 63.0, Summer ’25 will be API version 64.0 and so on.
Salesforce Release Upgrade Guidelines
When it comes to Salesforce release upgrade, most of it will happen in the background without affecting your users. However, as an Salesforce admin or a developer, you should be interested in what the each upcoming release upgrade brings, so you can plan ahead and do some prep-work if needed.
Here are some guidelines that should keep you on track:
- Plan ahead. Salesforce publishes major release dates on their Trust platform about a year in advance. Keep a calendar with important release dates for all your orgs.
- Review the Release Notes. Identify which products and features your company uses and what updates they will receive. Also, check the Release Updates to find the most critical changes being enforced or automatically enabled in your org.
- Review the Release Notes Admin video. Just before the release, Salesforce usually publishes a short feature highlights video on the release notes page, showing the most important updates for admins.
- Follow the Release Readiness Trailblazer community for timely updates on each new release.
- Review Release Updates page in the Setup page of your org. It provides a list of updates you should review. Some release updates provide a test run option so you can enable an test the update before it gets enforced with a future release.
- Test! Major releases are first available in preview sandbox orgs approximately 4–6 weeks before going live. Read Salesforce Sandbox Preview Instructions for more info.
- Use Sandbox Preview Guide to determine if each of your sandboxes is on a preview or non-preview instance.
- Spin up a pre-release org. The pre-release sing-up URL depends on release name, but goes something like this: https://www.salesforce.com/form/signup/prerelease-winter25/
Once you have a pre-release org, keep the credentials. The org will be upgraded for the next pre-release as well! - Follow the Salesforce Admins blog to find latest info about the upcoming release.
Salesforce Release Name vs API Version List
It is often challenging to quickly find out what the current, previous, or the next API release is. This is why we’ve put this info here:
| Release Name | API Version |
|---|---|
| Spring ’26 | API version 66.0 |
| Winter ’26 | API version 65.0 |
| Summer ’25 | API version 64.0 |
| Spring ’25 | API version 63.0 |
| Winter ’25 | API version 62.0 |
| Summer ’24 | API version 61.0 |
| Spring ’24 | API version 60.0 |
| Winter ’24 | API version 59.0 |
| Summer ’23 | API version 58.0 |
| Spring ’23 | API version 57.0 |
| Winter ’23 | API version 56.0 |
| Summer ’22 | API version 55.0 |
| Spring ’22 | API version 54.0 |
| Winter ’22 | API version 53.0 |
| Summer ’21 | API version 52.0 |
| Spring ’21 | API version 51.0 |
| Winter ’21 | API version 50.0 |
| Summer ’20 | API version 49.0 |
| Spring ’20 | API version 48.0 |
| Winter ’20 | API version 47.0 |
| Summer ’19 | API version 46.0 |
| Spring ’19 | API version 45.0 |
| Winter ’19 | API version 44.0 |
| Summer ’18 | API version 43.0 |
| Spring ’18 | API version 42.0 |
| Winter ’18 | API version 41.0 |
| Summer ’17 | API version 40.0 |
| Spring ’17 | API version 39.0 |
| Winter ’17 | API version 38.0 |
| Summer ’16 | API version 37.0 |
| Spring ’16 | API version 36.0 |
| Winter ’16 | API version 35.0 |
| Summer ’15 | API version 34.0 |
| Spring ’15 | API version 33.0 |
| Winter ’15 | API version 32.0 |
| Summer ’14 | API version 31.0 |
| Spring ’14 | API version 30.0 |
Note: API Versions up until 30 were deprecated with Summer ’25 release.
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