Why is the 2026.1 software update so slow?
The recent 2026.1 update introduced severe performance bottlenecks that cause routines, sales order lookups, and saved searches to take up to 30 seconds or time out entirely. These system-wide slowdowns and script lockups prevent teams from completing basic daily tasks efficiently, leaving users stranded with broken workflows.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Filing support tickets with vendor
- 2Checking Application Performance Management (APM) dashboards to inspect server time
- 3Disabling user event scripts and workflows in a sandbox environment to test performance
- 4Modifying saved search criteria or removing joined fields and formula columns
- 5Changing dashboard reminders to scheduled emails
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Has anyone experienced significant slowing since 2026.1?”source ↗
“To be fair, our account felt really slow beforehand, but the update made things worse.”source ↗
“Yes, today was horrible. It was taking 30 seconds to view a sales order.”source ↗
“We had to file a defect on routines that ran fine prior to 2026.1 but have failed or got locked up for hours (MR script)”source ↗
“We noticed in one of our sandboxes after it was upgraded to 2026.1 that saved searches with certain criteria were suddenly either really slow or timing out.”source ↗
“Yes, it is making me so sad and I don’t know what to do.”source ↗
Where this came up
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