What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central
This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2025 through September 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 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.
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.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Integrate Field Service with service management | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| View item availability in Field Service work orders | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Apr 2025 |
| Analyze subscription billing data with Power BI reports | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Post foreign currency adjustments to unrealized gain and loss accounts | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
Copilot and AI
This wave expands on our first Copilot capability, marketing text suggestions, boosting productivity for a broader set of SMB roles.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat with Copilot to learn how to use installed add-on apps | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | - |
| Summarize with Copilot | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | - |
| Use Sales Order Agent to automate sales order-taking | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Feb 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Suggest gas emissions in sustainability journals with Copilot | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | - |
| Enhance purchase order line matching with Copilot | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | - |
Country and regional
We've made Business Central available in more countries and regions in this release wave.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use Peppol A-NZ format in e-docs in Australia, New Zealand | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Define allowed languages per environment | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Apr 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Move tables and fields with data across extensions as part of refactoring | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Troubleshoot clients, apps, and add-ins with telemetry | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Mock outbound HttpClient web service calls during testing | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| View build metadata in Extension Management page | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Embed Power BI content in web client with new page type | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
E-commerce
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add support for MultiSubnetFailover | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| View app compatibility with future versions in admin center | Users, automatically | - | May 2025 |
| Update sandbox environments to preview versions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Sep 2025 |
| Automate environment management with Power Platform connector | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Jun 2025 |
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 enhanced analytics for manufacturing | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Access report and request metadata in Word layouts | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Use enhanced Financial Reporting capabilities | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
Supply chain management
Business Central has rich supply management functionality from sales, purchase, invoice, inventory and warehouse management, project management, service order management, and manufacturing. In each release we expand the capabilities in these areas to help users be more productive.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use enhanced customer document layout for service management | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Add more columns to various pages to gain more insight | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Block items or variants from production output | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Avoid document number errors when you post project journals | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Handle production output with warehouse put-aways | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Apr 2025 |
| Use streamlined product design tools in manufacturing | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Manage document attachments in manufacturing | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
Sustainability management
Sustainability in Business Central enables customers to drive positive environmental and social impact, enhance operational efficiency, meet regulatory requirements, and contribute to a more sustainable future.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generate a CSRD preparation report | Users, automatically | - | May 2025 |
| Specify default sustainability values for various entities | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Enable taxonomy elements for ESRS and other standards | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| Capture sustainability data with general journals | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Use water and waste management with sustainability | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Enable sustainability Scope 3 value chain for assembly and transfers | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| Provide carbon equivalent data for sales based on Scope 3 automation | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| Use ESG Reporting integrated with Business Central | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Start value chain in purchase process for Scope 3 in sustainability | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| Use sustainability Scope 3 value chain in manufacturing | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | Oct 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preview PDF attachments directly in web client | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
| Optimize screen estate usage on the web | Users, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on February 3, 2025, 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.