Thank you to Cesar Cabrera for his help with the research for this roundup of Spring ‘26 release items - especially for nonprofit System Administrators. As always, please see the full release notes for all the details. 

1) List Views: blank values were treated as lowest value (so at the top of an ascending list), now treated as highest value (so at bottom of ascending list) Yay!

2) Reports & Dashboards: When adding a table to a dashboard, optionally choose to “Use table settings from report”

3) Salesforce for Outlook (legacy desktop tool that auto-synced Contacts, Tasks, & Calendar) retiring Dec 2027. Has been replaced by “Outlook Integration and Sync.” 

4) Salesforce continues to make changes to make the UI more accessible & compliant w/the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2. 

5) Flow 

a) Flow Orchestrations to coordinate multi-step processes, w/autolaunched flows for background automation & screen 

flows for human interaction. Previously a paid add-on, standard Flow Type since 2024, new features. How might you use this?

b) Flow Approval Processes - lots of additions keep coming.

c) Collapse &expand elements like Decision, Wait, Loop. Collapse/expand all w/the icon at bottom left.

d) Check boxes per column in data table allow users to sort &/or edit columns.

e) Customize styles of screen flows, incl. background/border/text color, border weight, border radius, buttons, & more.

f) Message screen component to add a11y-compliant messages to screens.

g) Kanban in Flow. (Beta)

h) File Preview screen component (Previously download File was required.)

i) Create silo’ed test data for tests of record-triggered & autolaunched flows.

j) Compare Versions of screen flows

6) NPSP - no updates 

7) Setup with Agentforce (Beta) - this may be free to explore during beta.  

8) Agentforce for Nonprofits (formerly Nonprofit Cloud/NPC; Agentforce is an additional cost; this is not NPSP) 

a. Customize Gift Entry Grid w/templates, adjusting columns, & custom LWCs 

b. Up to 50 designations to a single gift, backdate transactions for gift commitments in Gift Entry Grid 

c. Track in-kind donations & add multiple designations 

d. Use dynamic Flexcards for gift planning 

e. Self-service Donor Support Agent (Beta) 

f. Participants browse programs as guest users on Experience Cloud site 

g. Real-time eligibility checks 

h. Mobile attendance tracking 

i. Updated data kits for Data 360 

i. Configure grant application intake process using Application Form object 

d. On-Demand Record Rollup 

e. Agent for Volunteer Shift Capacity/Coverage 

f. Path, Kanban, Calendar available for more objects.