What’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central

This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2024 through September 2024. 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 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.

We’re continuously investing in a seamless experience for customers who use Business Central together with Power Apps, Power Automate or Power BI.

Core application functionality is a key investment area for us. It’s what helps companies optimize their business processes. We listen to our partners and customers to make sure we deliver what they need to be even more productive with every release.

This wave expands on our first Copilot capability, marketing text suggestions, boosting productivity for a broader set of SMB roles.

We’ve made Business Central available in more countries and regions around the world in this release wave.

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.

We’re adding new tools and improving existing tools for administrators to manage environments, apps, and data migrations.

This Business Central release wave delivers a set of legislative capabilities that can act as a foundation for more specific requirements in local versions.

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.

Great user experiences help users enter, update, and fix mistakes in their data in an intuitive way.

• You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on February 5, 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.