What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central. For the latest release plans, go to Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.
This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2021 through March 2022. 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 2022 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.
Application
In 2021 release wave 2, we deliver updates based on the most popular requests for improvement, such as the finance and supply chain areas.
Better with Microsoft 365
In 2021 release wave 2, we invest in better integration with Excel. We also improve the support for collaborative business processes in Teams so you can bring Business Central pages into a Teams channel.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enhancements to Microsoft Teams integration | Users, automatically | - |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Centralized Deployment of Office add-ins | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Enhancements to the Outlook add-in | Users, automatically |
Aug 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Enhancements to working with Microsoft Excel | Users, automatically |
Aug 10, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| AL access to viewing and sharing files in OneDrive | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Sep 6, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Share a record link to Microsoft Teams | Users, automatically |
Sep 6, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Country and regional
We increase the global availability to cover more countries and regions so that small and midsized businesses across the world can achieve more.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country and regional expansion – Argentina | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Nov 15, 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Bulgaria | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Nov 15, 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Chile | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Nov 15, 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Puerto Rico | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Nov 15, 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Slovakia | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Nov 15, 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Ukraine | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Nov 15, 2021 |
Development
We continue to invest in a rich spectrum of extensibility tooling capabilities for developers, including making the AL language even stronger, providing developers with a great experience.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extend general ledger posting aggregations (Invoice Post. Buffer refactoring) | Users, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
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| Generated documentation for AL language | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Profiling AL performance with snapshot debugger | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Transactional installation and sync of extensions on-premises | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Richer access control for extension source in cloud environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Componentization of Image module | Users, automatically |
Sep 2, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Module to integrate Azure Blob service REST API | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 2, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Change publisher or extension name | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Collectable errors in AL | Users, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Error dialogs with detailed messages for better troubleshooting | Users, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Force sync of customer-specific extensions in online environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Performance – support for included columns in keys | Users, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Performance – support for non-clustered column store indexes | Users, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Use two-dimensional barcodes in reports (Business Central online) | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Dec 1, 2021 |
| AL compiler diagnostic messages includes URLs | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 7, 2021 |
Dec 7, 2021 |
Governance and administration
The 2021 release wave 2 delivers a set of admin and governance capabilities designed to help admins and IT pros set up, secure, manage, govern, and monitor customer environments.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automatic installation and update of dependencies when updating apps in the Business Central admin center | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Manage access to environments using Azure Active Directory groups | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Admins can handle scheduled tasks after a point-in-time restore | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 2, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Data archive extension and archiving entries before deleting in Date Compress batch jobs | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 2, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Copying environments of different types | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Nov 15, 2021 |
| Operations log enhancements | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Nov 15, 2021 |
| Restart environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Nov 15, 2021 |
| New license file format to support larger licenses | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Nov 16, 2021 |
| Manage access to environments using Azure Active Directory Conditional Access | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Dec 14, 2021 |
| Delegated administrators can run the cloud migration with customer approval | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Feb 20, 2022 |
Microsoft Power Platform
With Business Central 2021 release wave 2, we improve the integration with Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Power Platform.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enhanced security in synchronizing data between Business Central and Dataverse | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Show reports from named and shared Power BI workspaces in Business Central | Users, automatically |
Sep 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Enhance Power Automate and Power Apps connector to support filter and search | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 21, 2021 |
Nov 26, 2021 |
| Use secondary read-only database for Power BI reporting | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Jan 4, 2022 |
Mar 30, 2022 |
Modern clients
In 2021 release wave 2, we make improvements to our extensive portfolio of clients with the focus on better usability, accessibility, performance, and stability.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unhindered data entry across rows | Users, automatically |
Aug 9, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Usability improvements to the Business Central web client | Users, automatically |
Aug 10, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Additional accessibility improvements for mobile and tablet mode | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Decimal separator on numeric keypad matches region setting | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Sep 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Discovering reports and administration areas in Role Explorer | Users, automatically |
Sep 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Introduce updated desktop installable app | Users, automatically |
Sep 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Open a file in OneDrive to view and share reports from Report Inbox and Attachments | Users, automatically |
Sep 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Refreshed peek experience on related records | Users, automatically |
Sep 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Search from the Help pane | Users, automatically |
Sep 6, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Share a Business Central report or attachment | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Feb 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Onboarding
In Business Central 2021 release wave 2, we continue to improve the onboarding experience for Business Central.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Expanded coverage of in-app tours to more controls | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Sep 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Service and platform
No matter the industry type of a small or medium-sized business (SMB), business users expect a dependable service and platform that they can run their business on.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| OData callers can specify read-only intent in GET requests | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Job queue entries are more resilient toward failures | Users, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Performance – partial records on list pages | Users, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Performance – partial records on TableRelation lookup pages | Users, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Protect the Business Central Server against excessive background sessions for an environment | Users, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Signal about the usage of read scale-out in reports added to Application Insights telemetry | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Nov 15, 2021 |
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.