Release schedule for proactive quality updates

This article provides the release schedule for proactive quality updates (PQUs).

The detailed schedule for each PQU train and its corresponding build app version number is published five days before the start of the PQU train. Five days before the start of release train, Microsoft sends a notification to customers who use the environments that receive the update.

Station 1 is the first release station. It consists of customers who opt in to have their sandbox environments receive the update before all other stations. More details are published after this functionality is made generally available in May 2023.

To determine when your Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Service environment is updated, find the region and the station-to-region mapping. Cross-reference the region and station-to-region mapping information with the upcoming PQU train for a service update. For customers that must plan for a PQU ahead of time, there's a high-level schedule that outlines the train schedule for every service update in 2023.

For information about the maintenance windows for each region, see What are the planned maintenance windows by region?

Station-to-region mapping

Station Regions
Station 1 Only for opted-in environments
Station 2 Canada Central, Canada East, France Central, India Central, Norway East, Switzerland West
Station 3 France South, India South, Norway West, Switzerland North, South Africa North, Australia East, UK South, UAE North, Japan East, Australia South East, South East Asia
Station 4 East Asia, UK West, Japan West, Brazil South, North Europe, East US, UAE Central
Station 5 West Europe, Central US, West US
Station 6 DoD, Government Community Cloud, China

Important

  1. The PQU build for every train is typically published to Lifecycle Services after the change cutoff date that's shown in the following high-level PQU train schedule. In this way, customers can download and self-apply the build as needed, to frontload any testing requirements.
  2. Standard performance test (tier-4) sandbox environments, Premium performance test (tier-5) sandbox environments, and production environments receive PQUs on weekends. If a PQU of production environment, Standard performance test (tier4), or Premium performance test (tier5) sandboxes didn't complete on the scheduled weekend then the operation gets rescheduled to the next weekend.

High-level PQU train schedule

The following table shows the high-level train schedule. It includes a description of the service update that pertains to the train, the cutoff date after which new changes are no longer accepted, and the development duration for the PQU train.

PQU release train Change cutoff date PQU train duration Status
10.0.38 PQU-1 February 7, 2024 February 12, 2024 to March 17, 2024 Completed
10.0.38 PQU-2 March 6, 2024 March 11, 2024 to April 14, 2024 Completed
10.0.38 PQU-3 April 3, 2024 April 8, 2024 to May 12, 2024 Completed
10.0.38 PQU-4 May 1, 2024 May 6, 2024 to June 9, 2024 Completed
10.0.38 PQU-5 May 29, 2024 June 3, 2024 to July 7, 2024 In-Progress
10.0.38 PQU-6 June 26, 2024 July 1, 2024 to August 4, 2024 In-Progress
10.0.38 PQU-7 July 24, 2024 July 29, 2024 to September 1, 2024 Not Started
10.0.38 PQU-8 August 23, 2024 September 2, 2024 to October 6, 2024 Not Started
10.0.39 PQU-1 April 10, 2024 April 15, 2024 to May 19 2024 Completed
10.0.39 PQU-2 May 8, 2024 May 13, 2024 to June 16, 2024 Completed
10.0.39 PQU-3 June 5, 2024 June 10, 2024 to July 14, 2024 In-Progress
10.0.39 PQU-4 July 3, 2024 July 8, 2024 to August 11, 2024 Not Started
10.0.39 PQU-5 July 31, 2024 August 5, 2024 to September 8, 2024 Not Started
10.0.39 PQU-6 August 28, 2024 September 2, 2024 to October 6, 2024 Not Started
10.0.39 PQU-7 September 25, 2024 September 30, 2024 to November 3, 2024 Not Started
10.0.39 PQU-8 October 23, 2024 October 28, 2024 to December 8, 2024 Not Started
10.0.39 PQU-9 November 22, 2024 December 4, 2024 to January 19, 2025 Not Started
10.0.40 PQU-1 July 10, 2024 July 15, 2024 to August 18, 2024 Not Started
10.0.40 PQU-2 August 7, 2024 August 12, 2024 to September 15, 2024 Not Started
10.0.40 PQU-3 September 4, 2024 September 9, 2024 to October 13, 2024 Not Started
10.0.40 PQU-4 October 2, 2024 October 7, 2024 to November 10, 2024 Not Started
10.0.40 PQU-5 October 30, 2024 November 4, 2024 to December 15, 2024 Not Started
10.0.40 PQU-6 December 4, 2024 December 9, 2024 to January 19, 2025 Not Started
10.0.40 PQU-7 January 8, 2025 January 13, 2025 to February 16, 2025 Not Started
10.0.40 PQU-8 February 5, 2025 February 10, 2025 to March 16, 2025 Not Started
10.0.40 PQU-9 February 18, 2025 March 10, 2025 to April 13, 2025 Not Started
10.0.41 PQU-1 October 9, 2024 October 14, 2024 to November 17, 2024 Not Started
10.0.41 PQU-2 November 6, 2024 November 11, 2024 to January 5, 2025 Not Started
10.0.41 PQU-3 December 31, 2024 January 6, 2025 to February 9, 2025 Not Started
10.0.41 PQU-4 January 29, 2025 February 3, 2025 to March 9, 2025 Not Started
10.0.41 PQU-5 February 26, 2025 March 3, 2025 to April 6, 2025 Not Started
10.0.41 PQU-6 March 26, 2025 March 31, 2025 to May 4, 2025 Not Started
10.0.41 PQU-7 April 23, 2025 April 28, 2025 to June 1, 2025 Not Started
10.0.41 PQU-8 May 23, 2025 June 2, 2025 to July 6, 2025 Not Started
10.0.42 PQU-1 February 12, 2025 February 17, 2025 to March 23, 2025 Not Started
10.0.42 PQU-2 March 12, 2025 March 17, 2025 to April 20, 2025 Not Started
10.0.42 PQU-3 April 9, 2025 April 14, 2025 to May 8, 2025 Not Started
10.0.42 PQU-4 May 7, 2025 May 12, 2025 to June 15, 2025 Not Started
10.0.42 PQU-5 June 4, 2025 June 9, 2025 to July 13, 2025 Not Started
10.0.42 PQU-6 July 2, 2025 July 7, 2025 to August 10, 2025 Not Started
10.0.42 PQU-7 July 30, 2025 August 4, 2025 to September 7, 2025 Not Started
10.0.42 PQU-8 August 22, 2025 September 1, 2025 to October 5, 2025 Not Started

Note

Any new finance and operations apps environment that is provisioned after August 17th, 2023 is automatically signed up to receive PQUs per the schedule as applicable.

Proactive quality update upcoming 10.0.38 Release-5 train schedule

App version: 10.0.1777.203

Platform version: 7.0.7120.179

Unified Environment Provisioning Application Version: 10.0.38.8

Stations Upcoming Sandbox Schedule Upcoming production Schedule
Station 1 June 3 to June 6, 2024 NA
Station 2 June 10 to June 13, 2024 June 22 to June 23, 2024
Station 3 June 11 to June 14, 2024 June 22 to June 23, 2024
Station 4 June 17 to June 20, 2024 June 29 to June 30, 2024
Station 5 June 24 to June 27, 2024 July 6 to July 7, 2024
Station 6 June 25 to June 28, 2024 July 6 to July 7, 2024

[NEW] Proactive quality update upcoming 10.0.38 Release-6 train schedule

App version: 10.0.1777.222

Platform version: 7.0.7120.187

Stations Upcoming Sandbox Schedule Upcoming production Schedule
Station 1 July 1 to July 4, 2024 NA
Station 2 July 8 to July 11, 2024 July 20 to July 21, 2024
Station 3 July 9 to July 12, 2024 July 20 to July 21, 2024
Station 4 July 15 to July 18, 2024 July 27 to July 28, 2024
Station 5 July 22 to July 25, 2024 August 3 to August 4, 2024
Station 6 July 23 to July 26, 2024 August 3 to August 4, 2024

Proactive quality update upcoming 10.0.39 Release-3 train schedule

App version: 10.0.1860.134

Platform version: 7.0.7198.153

Unified Environment Provisioning Application Version: 10.0.39.7

Stations Upcoming Sandbox Schedule Upcoming production Schedule
Station 1 June 10 to June 13, 2024 NA
Station 2 June 17 to June 20, 2024 June 29 to June 30, 2024
Station 3 June 18 to June 21, 2024 June 29 to June 30, 2024
Station 4 June 24 to June 27, 2024 July 6 to July 7, 2024
Station 5 July 1 to July 4, 2024 July 13 to July 14, 2024
Station 6 July 2 to July 5, 2024 July 14 to July 14, 2024

Important

At least five days in advance, Microsoft updates the preceding schedule and send a notification for the set of environments that are scheduled to receive these quality updates. The preceding schedule is applicable only to environments that have been notified about an upcoming update. For information on the dark hours for each region, see What are the planned maintenance windows by region?.

For each region group, or station, where a quality update is currently scheduled to be rolled out, the schedule shows a range of four days. Quality updates start with only sandbox environments. Then, as the percentage of successfully deployed sandboxes increases, deployment to production environments begins with advance notifications to customers.

Quality updates always occur in a rolling manner that enables us to target a set of environments per schedule and complete all the sets by the end of the fourth day for a station. However, this doesn't mean that an environment update spans four days. It just means that we can't pre-determine which set of environments is updated on a given day within the four-day range. All updates are done during dark hours, with near-zero downtime. Updates definitively end within the dark-hour window of a given region.

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