Find Your Salesforce Edition and API Version

21 Apr 2022

These are technical notes I compiled while studying using Trailhead, Salesforce's free self-learning portal.

Summarized from information located here.

Setup > Quick Find > “Company” > Company Information
- Reference the “Organization Edition” field. Possible editions:
  - Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, Developer
  - Descriptions of the editions available here.

Method 1 (for Production orgs)

Summarized from information located here.

Setup > Quick Find > “Company” > Company Information
- Reference the “Instance” field. For example: NA211
- Add the value of that field at the end of the URL: https://status.salesforce.com/instances/<YourInstanceHere>
  - For example: https://status.salesforce.com/instances/na211/
  - The top right will have the version the instance is currently running. See example below.

Method 2 (for orgs you can create Apex classes in directly, like Sandbox orgs)

Setup > Quick Find > “Apex” > “Apex Classes” > Apex Classes
- Then, click “New” button
- Then, click over to “Version Settings” tab
- Reference the “Version” drop down for the API Version number, for example 54.
- Different versions correspond to different seasons and years:
  - API Version 49.0 = Summer ‘20
  - API Version 48.0 = Spring ‘20
  - API Version 47.0 = Winter ‘20
  - API Version 46.0 = Summer ‘19
  - API Version 45.0 = Spring ‘19
  - API Version 44.0 = Winter ‘19
  - API Version 43.0 = Summer ‘18
To find your API Version (Ex: 54) and how to match it to your “release” (Ex: “Spring ‘22’"), you can find lists online. But in general:
- Three major releases (API numbers) per year, that correspond to three seasons, (Winter, Spring, then Summer)
- Winter ‘22 -> API Version 53
- StackExchange has a partially complete list of past Salesforce Release Notes