What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Important
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This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2020 through September 2020. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released (see Microsoft policy).
- For a list of previous wave release plans, see the 2019 release wave 2 release plan.
- For a list of next wave release plans, see the 2020 release wave 2 release plan.
In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the day of release.
This check mark (
) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for general availability.
Application enhancements
The aka.ms/bcideas site is a constant source for making improvements to the application. For this release, we updated minor features based on the feedback in the ideas site and made several improvements to the bank reconciliation functionality.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extend ListPlus pages previously based on the Date virtual table | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 1, 2020 |
| Extend price calculation | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Apr 1, 2020 |
| QR-Bill management for Switzerland | End users, automatically | - | Apr 1, 2020 |
| Auto-insert recurring sales and purchase lines | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Enhanced customer and vendor document layout | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Manage direct-debit collections in Service Management | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Multiple languages | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Notify requester about all changes for an approval request | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Print to attachment | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Productivity improvements in permissions management | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Receive more items than ordered | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Register capacity in units of seconds | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Revert Qty. to Invoice when canceling order | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Advanced planning parameters included in the Essentials experience | End users, automatically | Feb 19, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Use resources in purchase documents | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Use modern authentication to connect to Common Data Service and Dynamics 365 Sales | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jun 5, 2020 |
| Improved user experience to keep things from going wrong | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jun 19, 2020 |
| Use modern authentication to set up email logging | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jul 3, 2020 |
| Bank reconciliation improvements | End users, automatically | - | Sep 30, 2020 |
Application lifecycle management
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start immediate environment updates in the administration center | End users, automatically | - | Apr 1, 2020 |
| Sandbox environment picker | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 23, 2020 |
| Installing AppSource apps updates in the Business Central administration center | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 1, 2020 |
Jun 26, 2020 |
Country and regional availability
Availability of Dynamics 365 Business Central is expanding regularly; here we describe the plans for expansion going forward.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expanded country and regional availability | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
Microsoft Power Platform
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Central integration with Common Data Service | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 2, 2020 |
Migrations to Business Central online
Moving from an on-premises solution to Business Central online is a major area of focus for our partners and customers. With the 2020 release wave 1, we further enhance the scenarios for migrating data from Dynamics GP, Dynamics SL, and Business Central (on-premises) to Business Central online.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enhanced Dynamics GP Chart of Accounts migration | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Migrate all or only active customer master records from Dynamics GP | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Migrate all or only active vendor master records from Dynamics GP | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Enhanced Dynamics GP inventory data migration | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Apr 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Migrate data from Business Central 14.x on-premises to Business Central 15.x online | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jun 1, 2020 |
Jun 1, 2020 |
Modern clients
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collapse and expand document lines | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Disable export of data to Excel | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Enable non-interactive printing in the cloud | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Enhanced mobile accessibility related to device orientation | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Enter data more easily | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Import profiles and UI customizations | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Improvements to filter expressions | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Navigate trees more easily | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Optimized use of space on a page | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Pages open faster | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Resiliency of UI customizations | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Sharing links to records | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Show and go to related records from a list | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Unhide parts on a page | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Use the Find function on the Role Explorer | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Long-running operations can be canceled from the legacy web client | End users, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 2, 2020 |
| New URL parameter hides web client header | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Apr 17, 2020 |
Jun 10, 2020 |
Modern developer tools
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application version for aliasing base application | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Camera/location AL API available in the browser | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Multiple variable declarations of the same type in the same line | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Ability to refactor a field from a table to a table extension | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| AL interfaces | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 2, 2020 |
| Look up events and insert event subscriber in code | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 2, 2020 |
| Obsolete tag property | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 1, 2020 |
Apr 2, 2020 |
Onboarding
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Improved onboarding experience | End users, automatically | Feb 2, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
Partner acceleration
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design for extensibility | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 7, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| API for continuous delivery of the Business Central apps via Azure DevOps services | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 1, 2020 |
Jul 14, 2020 |
Service fundamentals
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enable features ahead of time | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 1, 2020 |
| Ability to see current database locks | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Ability to see table sizes | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Ability to view a list of sessions and cancel one or more of them | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Performance of web service requests and reports added to Application Insights telemetry for partners | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Apr 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Read scale-out | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Resource limits for reports and web service calls | End users, automatically | Apr 1, 2020 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Database lock timeout telemetry in Application Insights for partners | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | May 1, 2020 |
May 1, 2020 |
| Company lifecycle telemetry in Application Insights for partners | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jun 1, 2020 |
Jun 1, 2020 |
| Signal from web service requests includes HTTP headers and HTTP status code | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jul 1, 2020 |
| Client pageview telemetry in Application Insights for partners | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jul 1, 2020 |
Jul 1, 2020 |
| Extension lifecycle telemetry in Application Insights for partners | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jul 1, 2020 |
Jul 1, 2020 |
| Update error telemetry in Application Insights for partners | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jul 1, 2020 |
Jul 1, 2020 |
Description of Enabled for column values:
End users, automatically: These features include change(s) to the user experience for end users and are enabled automatically.
Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
End users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their end users.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, see the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and data centers (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform availability page.