What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central

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09/08/2022

Important

This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, see Microsoft Dynamics 365 product documentation. For the latest release plans, see Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.

This topic lists features that are planned to release between April and September 2019. Previews for some features will start in February 2019.

These release notes describe functionality that may not have been released yet. Delivery timelines and projected functionality may change or may not ship (see Microsoft policy).

When a month is used in the Date column, the feature will be delivered sometime within that month. The delivery date can be any day within that month, not just on the first day of the month.

For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, see the International availability guide.

Application enhancements

Feature	Release type	Online vs on-premises	Date
Write longer names and descriptions	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Use physical inventory orders to better structure your physical inventory counting	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Select multiple items to add to a sales or purchase document	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Use a sales quote validity policy to control when sales quotes expire	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Control item creation from lookups on documents	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Copy customer dimensions to jobs created for the customer	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Copy templates used to create customers, vendors, and items	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Merge duplicate customers, vendors, or contacts	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Dynamically set shortcut dimension columns in lists, documents, and journal lines	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Bulk import item pictures	General Availability	Both	April 2019
View payment information on customer and vendor statistics FactBoxes	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Look up SWIFT codes	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Ensure that approval users are set up to run approval workflows	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Configure reports for warehouse documents	General Availability	Both	April 2019
View vendor invoice number on purchase invoice and credit memo lists	General Availability	Both	April 2019
View time information on registers	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Reference external document numbers on posted sales documents	General Availability	Both	April 2019
View item description, customer name, and vendor name in ledger entries	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Find G/L account setup fields in base, local, and custom features	General Availability	Both	April 2019
View document attachments on customer and vendor ledger entries and during payment application	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Set up default ship-to addresses	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Schedule background jobs with a date formula	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Check for total amount credited when creating a corrective credit memo for a posted sales invoice	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Change descriptions on G/L entries	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Add ISO codes as attributes for countries and currencies	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Review and export errors in RapidStart configuration packages	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Review data imported from Excel to a configuration package	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Preview prepayment posting	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Email and resend remittance advice from the payment journal and vendor ledger entries	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Show all G/L accounts on posting setup pages and in G/L account lookups	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Use more Role Center activity groups	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Personalize the UI to skip over the Address field on documents	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Include shortcut dimension as columns in configuration package exports	General Availability	Both	May 2019
Fill transfer orders with purchase receipt lines	General Availability	Both	May 2019
Copy items	General Availability	Both	May 2019
Use items blocked from sales and purchasing in return documents	General Availability	Both	May 2019
Expand and configure item quantity rounding	General Availability	Both	May 2019

Productivity enhancements for business users

Feature	Release type	Online vs on-premises	Date
Save and personalize list views	General Availability	Both	After April 2019
Notes and links	General Availability	Both	After April 2019
Focus mode on document pages	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Work date indicator	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Context or system indicator	General Availability	Both	After April 2019
Quick Entry	General Availability	Both	April 2019
New keyboard shortcuts	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Autosave indicator	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Improvements to scrolling in lists	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Improved contextual search experience	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Improved all-product navigation	General Availability	Both	After April 2019
Personalization enhancements	General Availability	Both	April 2019

Self-help and support

Feature	Release type	Online vs on-premises	Date
Simplified Help and Support experience	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Page inspection (formerly 'About This Page')	General Availability	Both	April 2019

Productivity enhancements for administrators

Feature	Release type	Online vs on-premises	Date
Hardening the integration between Business Central and Dynamics 365 for Sales	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Customize the theme for your organization	General Availability	Cloud	April 2019
Enhancements for application lifecycle management	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Enhancements to the intelligent cloud for Dynamics SMB and Dynamics 365 Business Central	General Availability	Both	April 2019

Powerful features for developers

Feature	Release type	Online vs on-premises	Date
Designer enhancements for developers	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Visual Studio Code and AL	General Availability	Both	April 2019
New list views API	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Application as an app	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Standard Web API	General Availability	Both	April 2019

Performance improvements

Feature	Release type	Online vs on-premises	Date
Support for SQL Server data compression	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Configuring query hints for optimizing SQL Server performance	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Removed unnecessary companion table joins	General Availability	Both	April 2019
OData performance improvements	General Availability	Both	April 2019
RDLC Report performance improvements on sandboxes	General Availability	Cloud	April 2019
Event runtime optimization	General Availability	Both	April 2019
RapidStart optimization	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Power BI report improvements	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Application performance improvements	General Availability	Both	April 2019

Server improvements

Feature	Release type	Online vs on-premises	Date
Multiple unique keys	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Relaxed requirement on 8 KB row size	General Availability	Both	April 2019
Increased maximum length of text and code fields, variables, and text constants	General Availability	Both	April 2019