Summer 09 going live 14th June 2009

The new release of salesforce.com, Summer 09, seems to be scheduled to roll out between 4am and 10am on Sunday the 14th of June, Sydney time, mark your calendars.


Despite being the start of winter for us here in Australia, Summer 09 looks set to be a nice solid release.

From my readings it appears that there are a lot of Force.com / Platform updates, nothing really earth shattering, but simply making things work as they should. For example:

- Picklist Values for State & Country
- Can now customize Campaign Member, Partner Roles and Contact Role tables
- Better lookup filters
- Better support and auditing for Visualforce code
- Better mobile support, for iPhone and Blackberry Storm for example
- Can now merge Partner & Contact records who have portal accounts (I've been waiting for this!)

There are also some nice enhancements to the reporting engine, and one of my favourites, a nice Graphical Editor for Approval Workflow.

See the list of new features at:
http://ideas.salesforce.com/popular/coming_in_summer_09

If anyone spots the full release notes coming out, let me know, that should reach us soon I beleive.