LinkedIn Sales Navigator Updates & Release Notes

Sales Navigator user and admin updates

Salesforce updates to external client app authentication

Effective May 2026, Salesforce is introducing new security requirements for external client apps used by partner integrations. As part of these updates, partners are required to implement:

• Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE)
• Refresh Token Rotation (RTR)

These controls improve the security of OAuth authentication flows and help protect against token misuse.

What’s changing for Sales Navigator admins?

Sales Navigator admins must enable new OAuth security controls:

• PKCE must be enabled and can’t be turned off once activated.
• RTR must be enabled, which changes how refresh tokens are issued and used.

These updates are required for continued compliance. Sales Navigator admins are advised to review the Salesforce communications and complete the recommended next steps.

Salesforce CRM user seat connections and inactivity limits

To improve security and reliability, Salesforce enforces a 30-day inactivity limit on refresh tokens for user seat connections. If a user doesn’t have Salesforce CRM activity for 30 consecutive days, their connection expires. The data is not lost; the connection is just paused. When the user returns and attempts a CRM action, they’ll be prompted to reconnect, after which time, they can sync and access their CRM data.

Get Started guide to help prospect by finding and saving leads

Saving a lead in Sales Navigator lets you track a prospect and receive updates that can help you plan outreach. The Get Started guide can help you start finding leads in Sales Navigator and save leads from your search results to monitor and reach out to leads at the right time.

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• Sales Navigator release notes

This release notes article lists the enhancements and content updates for Sales Navigator users, admins, and partners from January to March 2026.

Sales Navigator updates

As a Sales Navigator user, you can use a combination of search filter refinements to find accounts. You can share account searches with your colleagues directly in Sales Navigator, which can be helpful if you’re collaborating with a team.

Share account searches in Sales Navigator

As a Sales Navigator user, you can use a combination of search filter refinements to find accounts. You can share account searches with your colleagues directly in Sales Navigator, which can be helpful if you’re collaborating with a team.

Sales Navigator admin guide

As a Sales Navigator admin, learn how to activate users faster, manage your account and integrate Sales Navigator with your existing systems, and ensure seller success with Sales Navigator. The guide can help you:

• Assign licenses and manage Sales Navigator access.
• Optimize your account setup.
• Learn admin best practices.
• Help users sell effectively with Sales Navigator.
• Manage billing and payments.
• Contact support.

Learn more about the
Sales Navigator admin guide.

CRM Sync user authentication in Sales Navigator

Learn how to complete your CRM Sync user authentication to access activity writeback, create leads and contacts, and view CRM insights in Sales Navigator. This will ensure that any activity you perform, for example, sending InMail, creating contacts, or updating records, can write back to your CRM (Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, HubSpot, or Oracle Sales) depending on what your admin has enabled.

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Sales Navigator release notes

This release notes elaborates on all features and enhancements that are released in LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the time frame of July to September, 2021.

Sales Navigator User Updates

• Account Buyer Interest Insights Tool
• Enhancements to Account Map
• Lead Recommendations Powered by CRM
• Sharing Lists with Colleagues
• Sales Navigator Community
• Sales Navigator Referral Program
• Additional Updates and Enhancements for Users

Sales Navigator Admin Updates

• Universal Activation Link
• Additional Updates and Enhancements for Admins
• Feature Availability
• Feature Availability Across User Groups

Further Reading

• Additional Resources

This release notes article elaborates on all features and enhancements that are released to at least a portion of our users in LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the time frame of April to June 2022.

Sales Navigator User Updates

Next Generation CRM Data Validation

Continued and Completing Rollout of New Search Experience

Continued Rollout of New Lead Page Experience

New Lead Panel

Sales Navigator Application Platform Gong Integration

Weekly Leads and Accounts Digest List

Mergers and Acquisitions Alerts

Sales Navigator Admin Updates

New version of the Sales Navigator for Salesforce App

Feature Availability

Feature Availability Across User Groups

Further Reading

Additional Resources

This release notes article elaborates on all features and enhancements that are released to at least a portion of our users in LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the time frame of July to September 2022.

Sales Navigator User Updates

• LinkedIn-powered Buyer Intent
• Continued rollout of lead panel
• Enhancements to Search
• New mobile homepage
• New feature and best practices tooltips
• Saving leads from LinkedIn.com

Sales Navigator Admin Updates

• Support for Person accounts for Salesforce
• Account Center Activity Log

Feature Availability

• Feature availability across user groups

Further reading

This release notes article elaborates on all features and enhancements that are released to at least a portion of our users in LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the time frame of October to December 2022.

Sales Navigator User Updates

• New My Current Accounts list
• New relationship intelligence lists
• Enhancements to Search
• Enhancements to Buyer intent
• Continued rollout of Lead Panel
• Enhancements to auto-generated lists in Sales Navigator
• Sales Navigator mobile enhancements
• Sales Preferences no longer available

Sales Navigator Admin Updates

• Connection Request Accepts in Usage Reporting
• Feature Availability
• Feature availability across user groups

Further reading

This release notes article elaborates on all features and enhancements that are released to at least a portion of our users in LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the time frame of January to March 2023.

Sales Navigator User Updates

Relationship Explorer

Personas

Product Category Buyer Intent

New Buyer Intent Activities

Improved CRM Auto-Save Capability

New Search Enhancements

Lead Page Enhancements

Sales Navigator Admin Updates

CRM Custom Ingestion Changes

Feature Availability

Feature availability across user groups

Further reading

This release notes article elaborates on all features and enhancements that are released to at least a portion of our users in LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the time frame of April 2023 to June 2023.

Sales Navigator User Updates

Introducing Account Hub

Product Category Intent enhancements

Buyer Intent enhancements

New Search enhancements

Add accounts to My Current Accounts List

New location for Account maps

Mobile alerts and alert filters

Deprecating Accounts Expressing Buyer Intent auto-generated account list

Feature Availability

Feature availability across user groups

Further reading

This release notes article elaborates on all features and enhancements that are released to at least a portion of our users in LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the time frame of July 2023 to September 2023.

Sales Navigator user updates

Search enhancements

Alert filtering by lists

Lead Page and Lead panel enhancements

Account Page enhancements

Sales Navigator admin updates

Introducing LinkedIn Admin Center

Introducing People Management

Introducing support for System for Cross Domain Identify Management

Feature availability

Feature availability across user groups

Further reading

Additional resources

This release notes article elaborates on all features and enhancements that are released to at least a portion of our users in LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the time frame of October 2023 to December 2023.

Sales Navigator user updates

• Introducing Account IQ
• Introducing Relationship Map
• Introducing CRM bulk actions in Relationship Maps
• Search enhancements
• Account Hub enhancements
• Lead Page enhancements
• CRM auto-generated list enhancements
• Feature availability
• Feature availability across user groups
• Further reading
• Additional resources

This release notes article elaborates on all features and enhancements that are released to at least a portion of our users in LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the time frame of April to June 2024.

Sales Navigator User Updates

• Introducing CRM Embedded Experiences - Relationship Map
• Introducing CRM Embedded Experiences - Account IQ
• Introducing CRM integration support for HubSpot
• Introducing placeholder cards in Relationship Maps
• Introducing Account IQ on Sales Navigator mobile app
• Introducing redesigned Homepage on Sales Navigator mobile app
• Introducing a Notification panel
• Search enhancements
• Enhancements to Next Generation Data Validation

Sales Navigator Admin Updates

• Enhancements to Usage Reporting
• Changes to CRM-related Admin Settings

Feature Availability

Feature availability across user groups

Further Reading

• Additional resources