If you are an architect looking to expore winter 26 features, here is my blog which is focused on Winter 26 focused on well architected( easy, adaptable and trusted) and features which will help you to do more and prevent problems.
Trusted
How is this beneficial to you: If you are working with your compliance teams or audit, one of the key requirements is to ensure field history tracking is turned on and have audit capability. With winter 26, there is a new UI which will help to review fields which have field history tracked on . There is also a new feature to configure retention policies per field which is available in Shield- Field audit trail feature which will help your compliance team.
Prevent problems
Action: Need to upgrade all your enterprise API login to get the latest version. This has potential impacts to your integration using Soap API and so please make sure you upgrade your API versions and test for potential impacts.
Ease of use
How is this beneficial to you? You can see all actions in one place, which helps you decide on the adoption of actions and make informed decisions accordingly.
Do More
How is this beneficial to you: This will be a great lift for architects who were constrained by call outs and integrations due to time-out issues. Now, with the ability to configure new transaction contexts, you can easily perform call-outs and update objects, allowing for more time to track responses and update errors with integrations.
Governance
You can manage WhatsApp data storage based on the country of choice, which will meet compliance needs.
public sector
This feature will be highly beneficial, as it allows admins and devs to notify business users when business rules engine changes are completed, based on CSV uploads and refresh. This can also prevent problems if we do a transformation in Salesforce on business rules.
Manufacturing cloud
How is this beneficial to you: This is a feature that manufacturers have to look at and reevaluate the use case for the manufacturing cloud. This will make it easy to do account-level forecasting using Manufacturing Cloud.
public sector
How is this beneficial to you? Public sector agencies often have multiple documents required for benefit applications. Agentforce can help by leveraging this use case, enabling agents to assist constituents in obtaining the necessary documents for benefits.
As always, you are welcome to reach out to me for any questions. Please feel free to email me directly at buyan@eigenx.com to discuss further.