As we roll into the final quarter of the year, I’m thrilled to share what our team at JSBC Labs has been building toward: the Winter ’26 release. This is one of our most refined, user-centric updates yet—less about grand new features, and more about sculpting every interaction to be faster, cleaner, and more intuitive for our clients and their users.

In this post, I want to pull back the curtain and show you what excites me most about Winter ’26—what I believe will elevate how you work, how we consult, and how our solutions deliver real value day after day.

What Winter ’26 Means for You

When we talk about “releases” in the world of Salesforce and enterprise software, it’s easy to get caught up in flashy announcements. At JSBC Labs, our philosophy is simple: we measure success by how little friction remains in your processes. Winter ’26 is a “do more, click less” release—one that doesn’t reinvent everything, but significantly smooths the ride. (As we’ve noted in our own review, “the debug overhaul pays dividends immediately, version diffing elevates governance, and the Data Table upgrade removes a chronic workaround.”)

Here are the areas I’m especially proud of and most excited about:

Key Highlights I’m Proud Of

1. A Debug Experience Tailored for Flow Builders

Flow is the backbone of automation in so many orgs. Winter ’26 brings a revamped Debug experience for Screen Flows, placing the debug panel on the left so you can see your flow logic and debug output side by side—no awkward toggling or losing context.This small realignment of UI is deceptively powerful: it speeds troubleshooting and reduces mental overhead.

2. Version Diffing for Smarter Governance

We’ve long advocated for better control in environments with multiple developers and automation builders. With version diffing in Winter ’26, you can compare changes between versions more cleanly, flag regressions, and track what changed—making rollbacks safer and governance tighter.

3. Upgraded Data Table Handling

One of the quirks many of our clients have wrestled with is the difficulty of working with tables in Flow or component contexts. Winter ’26 introduces enhancements to Data Tables that eliminate some of those workarounds we’ve built in custom solutions over time. These improvements may seem modest, but they free up time and reduce brittle hacks in your logic.

4. Smarter Admin & Developer Enhancements

Beyond Flow, there’s a slew of smaller but meaningful changes across admin and dev areas:

• Automatic cleanup of permission set licenses: When you unassign a permission set, its license is cleaned up, reducing orphaned licenses.
• Safer report exports (Beta): Preventing formula-like strings from being misinterpreted in Excel exports.
• Dashboard tables retain report settings: No more redoing groupings or formats when embedding reports as tables.
• Multi-language support in dashboards/reports: Allowing names, descriptions, widget titles to be translated.
• Improved list view filtering & setup: Typing the first character of a field name jumps you to it, for faster configuration.

These may look like “small things,” but in scale, they matter a lot. When every click and workaround is streamlined, the cumulative gain is meaningful.

5. Enhanced Mobile & Access Flexibility

We’re witnessing more usage of Salesforce on mobile devices and from remote/field staff. Winter ’26 reflects that: QR code login in the mobile app, customizable mobile home pages, and better previews of how screen flows will render on different themes.

Why This Release Matters for JSBC Labs & Our Clients

From my vantage point, Winter ’26 is a milestone for a few strategic reasons:

• Maturity over novelty: We want to protect the trust clients place in us—not by chasing bells and whistles, but by hardening core functionality, improving reliability, and enabling everyday excellence.
• Less “band-aid” and more foundational polish: Many of our custom solutions over time incorporate workarounds for limitations. With these upgrades, we get to retire or simplify many of those, freeing up time to invest in innovation.
• A differentiation point in consulting: As partners, we can now lean into our deep understanding of these release enhancements and guide clients faster through adoption, best practices, and more robust architectures.
• Future-readiness: Winter ’26 lays groundwork for upcoming AI, data, and integration features from Salesforce itself. (Salesforce markets this release as “packed with innovations designed to help businesses work smarter, move faster, and connect more deeply with their customers.”)
• Operational confidence: For you, our clients and internal teams, smaller friction means fewer surprises. Governance, debugging, deployment—all become more stable.

How We’re Rolling It Out at JSBC Labs

To make sure we walk the talk, here’s how we’re approaching adoption internally and for clients:

1. Internal pilot & shadowing
   Our solution engineers, dev leads, and architects are actively testing Winter ’26 features in real client sandbox environments. We’re identifying edge cases early.
2. Guides, playbooks & templates
   We’re curating internal playbooks that map which legacy patterns clients are likely using (based on past delivery) and how to incrementally incorporate the new capabilities of Winter ’26.
3. Client readiness audits
   For clients with heavy automation footprints, we’re offering a “Winter ’26 readiness check” to identify where the new features will unlock value—or where they may introduce change.
4. Trainings & knowledge sessions
   Over the coming weeks, we’ll host deep dive sessions—both internal and client-facing—to walk through use cases, caveats, and patterns for adoption.

Looking Ahead & Invitation to Engage

As MD, my goal is that each release is not just a stepping stone, but a visible elevation in what our clients can achieve with confidence. Winter ’26 is one of those releases. It doesn’t headline with grand new modules, but it strengthens the very foundations on which everything else is built.

I invite you—our clients, partners, and the broader JSBC Labs community—to explore the release, challenge assumptions, and reach out if you’d like to workshop how these innovations can be mapped against your roadmap. Our team is ready to guide, consult, migrate, or just brainstorm with you.

Thank you for trusting JSBC Labs. The best is ahead.