What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central
This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2024 through March 2025. 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 previous wave's release plans, go to 2024 release wave 1 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 Power Platform
We're continuously investing in a seamless experience for customers who use Business Central together with Power Apps, Power Automate or Power BI.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto-apply templates when you synchronize data with Dataverse | Users, automatically | - |
Oct 4, 2024 |
Application
Core application functionality is a key investment area for us. We listen to our partners and customers to make sure we deliver what they need to be even more productive with every release.
Copilot and AI
This wave expands on our first Copilot capability, marketing text suggestions, boosting productivity for a broader set of SMB roles.
Country and regional
We've made Business Central available in more countries and regions in this release wave.
Development
Our focus is on making Business Central AL developers more productive, and empowering consultants, citizen developers, and users to do more while lowering the cost of changes.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Set up easier in-client performance profiling with schedules | Users, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Use the ternary operator when coding in the AL language | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Pull extension source from GitHub when opening Visual Studio Code from web client | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Remove friction when working with external app dependencies | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Use the 'this' keyword for codeunit self reference | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Run page scripts in pipelines for automated testing | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Specify and use full-text search indexes on table fields | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Restore extensions if publishing from Visual Studio Code fails | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Use improved features for document reports | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Package resources in extensions and access from AL | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| Run code action for 'with' for file, project, or workspace | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Type testing and casting operators for interfaces | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Extend AL interfaces | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Extend and customize profiles from other extensions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Governance and administration
We're adding new tools and improving existing tools for administrators to manage environments, apps, and data migrations.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manage environment updates more flexibly | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Mar 2025 |
| Migrate record links and notes with cloud migration tooling | Users, automatically | - | Jan 2025 |
| Manage per-tenant extensions in admin center | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Feb 2025 |
| View app compatibility with future versions in admin center | Users, automatically | - | Feb 2025 |
| Encrypt data at-rest with customer-managed encryption key | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jan 2025 |
| Get external notifications when job queue entries fail | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Oct 1, 2024 |
Nov 1, 2024 |
| Control partner access per environment | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Oct 31, 2024 |
| Get in-product notifications about issues with job queue background processing | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Get list of manageable environments for Microsoft Entra apps | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Dec 2024 |
| Support IPv6 for enhanced security and scalability | Users, automatically | - | Feb 2025 |
Legislation
This Business Central release wave delivers a set of legislative capabilities that can act as a foundation for more specific requirements in local versions.
Reporting and data analysis
Access to the right reports and data analysis capabilities is essential for companies wanting to be in control of the business and identify new growth opportunities.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use built-in named formulas in Excel layouts | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Do ad hoc analysis on fixed assets, projects, and services | Users, automatically | - |
Dec 1, 2024 |
| Use embedded Power BI reports out of the box | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Nov 15, 2024 |
| Use advanced settings in the Power BI connector | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Oct 1, 2024 |
User experiences
Great user experiences help users enter, update, and fix mistakes in their data in an intuitive way.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experience access keys with key tips in more languages | Users, automatically | - |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Use drag and drop on file upload dialog to attach multiple files | Users, automatically | - |
Oct 4, 2024 |
| Resize columns even when personalization isn't enabled | Users, automatically | - |
Oct 1, 2024 |
| Change the data search method in lists | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 2, 2024 |
Nov 4, 2024 |
You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on August 12, 2024, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.
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.