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 2023 through September 2023. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.
For a list of the next wave's release plans, go to 2023 release wave 2 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 date of release.
This check mark (
) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access, and general availability.
Adapt faster with Microsoft Power Platform
The 2023 release wave 1 improves Business Central integration with Power Platform to increase productivity.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get started with more sample Power Automate templates and Power Apps | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
May 15, 2023 |
- |
| Use business events to notify and trigger external systems | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Jun 1, 2023 |
- |
| Select a Dataverse environment used for actions based on Power Automate flows | Users, automatically |
Mar 2, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Use Power Automate to post adaptive card or link to Business Central record | Users, automatically |
Mar 15, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| New approval workflow experience with Power Automate templates | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Apr 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Turn off event-based sync for specific integration table mappings | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Apr 4, 2023 |
May 1, 2023 |
| Connect to Dataverse despite different currencies | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Jun 2, 2023 |
Application
Application features are added to increase productivity, create better overviews, and enable compliant accounting and reporting.
Copilot and AI innovation
Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central empowers workers with AI tools to get more done with less effort.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drive sales with AI-generated product descriptions | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Apr 3, 2023 |
Country and regional
We added more countries in 2023 release wave 1, so Business Central is available in more countries and regions globally.
Development
Tooling, product capabilities, and enhancements for Business Central are added in the 2023 release wave 1 to help developers be more productive.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL Explorer and AL Home in Visual Studio Code AL extension | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Better InStream support | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Code action for removing ApplicationArea on fields when same as page level | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Code navigability on event subscribers | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Control database locking behavior | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Define regional settings per report using a region property | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Developers can write faster install code | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Folder paths for control add-in resources | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Go to implementation for interfaces | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Improved compiler resource handling and faster code analyzers | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| IntelliSense indicator for temporary tables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| IntelliSense suggestion for enum ordinal value | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Iterating with foreach on Text variables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| New rule to enforce pragma warning specifying a disabled rule | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| New telemetry events from validating uploaded PTEs | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Provide Title and custom actions to Error dialogs | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Publishers can use existing custom licensing while moving to AppSource transactability | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Support for multiple .al package cache paths for symbols | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Support for overriding the PublicWebBaseURL server setting on-premises | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| URLs in includeRuleSets | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Deploy hotfixes for older AppSource apps | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 13, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| AL-Go for GitHub modern DevOps for partners | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 3, 2023 |
| Attach AL debugger to active session or next session | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 4, 2023 |
Apr 4, 2023 |
Governance and administration
See the new tools for Business Central admins and partners to manage environments and apps in the 2023 release wave 1.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature Management updates for 2023 release wave 1 | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Delegated admin’s job queue entries are run by user | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Get an improved cloud migration status overview | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Manage user permissions using security groups | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Get telemetry on cloud migration setup and replication runs | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
May 1, 2023 |
| Migrate more companies per replication run | Users, automatically | - |
May 1, 2023 |
Legislation
Business Central 2023 release wave 1 delivers a set of legislative capabilities to help organizations meet the regulations set by government agencies.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audit file export eases SAF-T compliance | Users, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Non-deductible, partly deductible VAT expands functionality | Users, automatically |
May 1, 2023 |
May 1, 2023 |
Onboarding
Onboarding to a new business solution is important for business productivity. We're continuing to focus on making it easier to adopt Business Central, and empowering partners to create better onboarding experiences for the business domains they serve.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create engaging partner-specific trial and onboarding experiences | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
Productive with Microsoft 365
Further productivity improvement helping users working with Business Central and Microsoft 365 apps and services such as Outlook, Excel, Word, OneDrive, and Teams.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experience enhanced adaptive cards in Teams | Users, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Configure security controls for Teams cards | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 3, 2023 |
| Easily set up access with Microsoft 365 licenses | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 3, 2023 |
Reporting and data analysis
In 2023 release wave 1, users and data analysts can now easily access all data on lists directly in Business Central without the need for a developer or consultant.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analyze, group, and pivot data on list pages using multiple tabs | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Apr 1, 2023 |
Service and platform
In 2023 release wave 1, users will have fewer interruptions, the UI will feel generally faster, and web services and certain scenarios in the application will be faster.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allow application and tenant databases to differ in collation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Business Central server runs on .NET 6 | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Control max time a task can run on the service | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| New telemetry events and data | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Performance - OData calls are now faster | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Performance - Opening pages is faster | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
User experiences
The 2023 release wave 1 brings improvements to our user experiences that will help users enter, update, and analyze data across Dynamics 365.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search in company data | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2023 |
- |
| Drag and drop files onto the file upload dialog | Users, automatically |
Jan 19, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Access actions and navigation menu efficiently with keyboard | Users, automatically |
Feb 10, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Get more productivity out of an optimized Action Bar on all app pages | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Tailor the action bar to fit your needs on document lines | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2023 |
Apr 1, 2023 |
| Improved alignment of headers in statistics pages | Users, automatically |
Feb 1, 2023 |
Apr 3, 2023 |
| Fix errors yourself with actionable error messages | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2023 |
Jul 7, 2023 |
Description of Enabled for column values:
Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
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 users.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.