What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central
This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2022 through March 2023. 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 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 2022 release wave 2, we deliver updates based on the most popular requests for improvement. We'll invest in better reporting, and several improvements to the finance and supply chain areas.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adjust exchange rates easily, replace built-in batch job | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Oct 2022 |
| Better bank reconciliation for checks | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Edit price lists in Excel | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Extended text functionality for VAT clauses | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Financial reporting replaces account schedules | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| New VAT Date field on documents and entries | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Reverse payment reconciliation journal entries | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Use different G/L accounts for payables, receivables | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Use multiple remit-to addresses for vendors | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Set up data exchange more easily | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
Country and regional
More countries are added to bring Business Central to availability in more than half of all countries and regions globally.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Configurable and redesigned Intrastat solution | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Albania | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Georgia | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Israel | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Jordan | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Kuwait | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Monaco | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Mongolia | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Montenegro | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - North Macedonia | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Oman | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Pakistan | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| Service declarations F01DGS for Belgium and Intrastat for Italy and France | Users, automatically | Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
Development
This release continues investments in improving AL developer productivity in Visual Studio Code.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extend general ledger posting aggregations | Users, automatically |
Oct 1, 2021 |
Oct 2022 |
| Launch in a specific company from Visual Studio Code | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Enable NoImplicitWith feature by default | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Exclude temporary records when debugging record writes | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Exclude Try functions when debugging errors | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Field ApplicationArea defaults to page value | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Record tooltip has new primary key indicator | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Promoted action groups and action references | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Resource exposure policies for apps are on by default | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| See the primary key for table fields in IntelliSense | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Specify completion in IntelliSense with a character | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Use option access syntax in formulas | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| View size of text, code fields in page inspection | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Visualize code lines executed in snapshot capture | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Access database row version from AL code | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Developers can use ByRef, XmlPort parameters in OData | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Developers can write faster upgrade code | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
Governance and administration
Business Central 2022 release wave 2 delivers a set of admin and governance capabilities to help admins and IT pros set up, secure, manage, govern, and monitor customer environments.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get more visibility into outages | Users, automatically | - | Oct 2022 |
| Get more, better communications as admin | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Oct 2022 |
| Use service-to-service authentication with admin API | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| View prerequisite features in Feature Management | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Restore deleted environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Nov 2022 |
Microsoft Power Platform
In 2022 release wave 2, we continue to improve the way Business Central integrates with Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, and Dataverse. We also continue improving the integration with Power BI.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add media/image support for Business Central connectors | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Personalize and design the Automate action group in the web client | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Power Apps and Power Automate support for document attachments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Rely on personalization to show or hide Power BI parts on lists | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Try Power BI apps with dimensions | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
Onboarding
Onboarding is a key focus in every release wave. Better onboarding experiences allow customers to get started with Business Central in minimal time, with minimal friction. In this release wave, we focus on connectivity to third-party operational productivity services.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easily access setup pages for new apps | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Easily find apps to connect to core services | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Easily install and set up new apps | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| New field descriptions improve clarity | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
Productive with Microsoft 365
Empower SMBs to work smarter with collaborative experiences, tools, and insights within the flow of work.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Configure OneDrive integration | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Delegated admins can edit in Excel | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
Reporting
In this release wave, we continue the work we introduced in the previous release wave for Excel layouts.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use new Excel report datasets | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Choose the report layout on request page | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Users can run and send reports to the report inbox from the request page | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
Service and platform
No matter the type of industry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get Power BI reports on telemetry | Users, automatically |
Jul 4, 2022 |
Oct 2022 |
| Compile against installed AppSource apps | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
User experiences
Improvements across the portfolio of clients for desktop and mobile devices.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy list views are hidden | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Oct 2022 | - |
| Experience new UI design elements | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Switch companies across environments | Users, automatically | Sep 2022 | Oct 2022 |
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.