Force.com Summer '15 Release Custom Metadata Types

Platform developers commonly use custom settings or custom objects to define configurations and create reusable app components and features. But because these entities’ records are data and not metadata, you can’t package, deploy, upgrade, and customize these types in a manageable way. With custom metadata types, you can build apps defined and driven by your own types of metadata. With custom metadata types, you can: • Speed your development by 25% by writing fewer deployment tools. • Use just a few custom metadata types to accomplish what previously took tens of thousands of lines of code. • Upgrade installed apps up to 50% faster.