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The latest releases have moved the base application to AL, improved the debugging experience, and delivered significant internal work on stability and how to handle extensions. We also delivered new language capabilities such as interfaces, and we continue investing in developer productivity and asks from the community. This time, we target report extensibility, which is the top-voted idea for Business Central.

The 2021 release wave 1 also brings improvements to performance in VS Code, extension lifecycle telemetry for ISVs, additional interface functionality, and automation and streamlining of the process for submitting apps to AppSource. We make large investments to improve the upgrade process, including validation of per-tenant extensions, reducing unnecessary upgrade failures, and alerting app publishers about extensions that will be impacted by a future upgrade sooner for a more seamless upgrade experience.