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The 2025 release wave 1 plan covers new functionalities that the product team plans to deliver to the market from April 2025 through September 2025. For Dynamics 365 Human Resources, see the product overview and the new and planned features.
Overview
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources is a comprehensive HR solution that helps organizations manage the entire hire-to-retire lifecycle for employees. With 2025 release wave 1, Dynamics 365 Human Resources enhances capabilities that optimize core HR operations. The release covers personnel management, compensation, benefits, and performance management. These improvements help HR teams streamline administrative tasks, improve the employee experience, and foster greater alignment with organizational goals.
This release also introduces new innovations in Copilot and AI. With these advancements, HR professionals can use AI to get actionable insights, automate repetitive tasks, and support more strategic decision-making. From automating administrative workflows to giving employees self-service options for common HR requests, Copilot and AI innovations redefine productivity and engagement across HR functions.
Key investment areas for 2025 release wave 1
Optimize human resource operations: Enhancements across personnel, compensation, benefits, and performance management bring a seamless, connected approach to the hire-to-retire lifecycle. With these enhancements, organizations can efficiently manage and support employees throughout their tenure.
Copilot and AI innovation: By embedding AI-driven capabilities, Dynamics 365 Human Resources offers a proactive approach to HR that delivers data-driven insights and automates routine tasks. With these innovations, HR teams can focus on strategic priorities while enhancing the employee experience with intuitive, intelligent tools.
With Dynamics 365 Human Resources, organizations can build a modern, resilient workforce by enabling HR to be more efficient, responsive, and aligned with the evolving needs of their people and business.
Updates to Dynamics 365 Human Resources 2025 release wave 1
Investment areas
Optimize human resource operations
Each new release wave of the Dynamics 365 Human Resource application brings enhancements that help corporations and organizations optimize their human resource operations. These enhancements cover personnel management, compensation, benefits, and performance management. Improvements in recruiting operations, skills and competency management, and succession management bring efficiencies to the hire-to-retire lifecycle. Investments in core employee experiences around leave and absence, learning, and training management bring enhancements to core HR data and processes to meet employees where they are.
To learn more about the capabilities we're delivering in this release wave, see the release plan for Dynamics 365 Human Resources:
Application administrators
User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
Application administrators review user-impacting features. This review process helps manage release changes and supports onboarding new capabilities. For the complete list, see all features tagged Users, automatically in the release plan.
Features that application administrators enable
Application administrators, makers, or business analysts enable or configure these features. To make these features available to users, administrators enable or configure them. For the complete list, see all features tagged Users by admins, makers, or analysts in the release plan.
Get the most out of Human Resources
| Helpful links | Description |
|---|---|
| Release plan | See all capabilities included in the release. |
| Licensing | Learn how to license Human Resources. |
| Product documentation | Find documentation for Human Resources. |
| User community | Connect with Human Resources experts and peers in the community. |
| Upcoming events | Find and register for in-person and online events. |
| Product trials | Get started with Human Resources. |