What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central
This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2021 through September 2021. 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 2020 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.
Administration
The 2021 release wave 1 delivers a set of features that are designed to simplify and improve the way partners administer tenants, and the way administrators manage licensing and permissions.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partner telemetry – signal when a field was added to or removed from field monitoring | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Schedule the installation of per-tenant extensions using the Automation API | Users, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| System requirement for the database relaxed to compatibility mode | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Improve the reliability of the database export operation for larger databases with more companies | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Improvements for the delegated administrators | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Reassign an environment from one Azure Active Directory organization to another (through Microsoft Support) | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
Application
With Business Central 2021 release wave 1, we'll deliver features for some of the most requested areas for improvement, such as banking, payments, and continued improvements to performance.
Better with Microsoft 365
In Business Central 2021 release wave 1, we made collaborative business processes in Microsoft Teams more efficient, we add support for Universal Print, and we harden the Excel and Outlook add-ins.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support cloud printing using Microsoft Universal Print | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Enablement of Word merge in Business Central | Users, automatically |
Mar 10, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Search for customers, vendors, and other contacts from Microsoft Teams | Users, automatically |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 9, 2021 |
| Editing in Excel more reliably | Users, automatically | - |
Apr 22, 2021 |
Country and regional
The 2021 release wave 1 brings Dynamics 365 Business Central to more countries with release in India, Greece, Romania, and Turkey. In this release wave we will also enable Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, and Tunisia.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country and regional expansion – Greece | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – India | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Romania | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Turkey | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Moving the tracking of custom declarations (RU) into an extension | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Algeria | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Bangladesh | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Egypt | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Kenya | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Lebanon | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Luxembourg | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Malta | Users, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Morocco | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Nigeria | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Qatar | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Saudi Arabia | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Sri Lanka | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Tunisia | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
Jul 2021 |
Microsoft Power Platform
With Business Central 2021 release wave 1, we improve integration with Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Power Platform.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virtual tables for Microsoft Dataverse | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2021 |
- |
| Synchronize item availability from Business Central to Dynamics 365 Sales | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Enable Power BI connector to work with Business Central APIs, instead of with web services only | Users, automatically |
Mar 24, 2021 |
Jun 2021 |
Modern clients
The 2021 release wave 1 brings improvements to performance, usability, and printing.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Client performance improvements | Users, automatically |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Usability enhancements for the Business Central web client | Users, automatically |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Enable cloud printing on mobile app (phone and tablet) and from Microsoft Teams app | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Users can change the assigned printer before printing a report | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
Modern development tools
As we have moved entirely to Visual Studio Code, we continue to invest in areas that enhance productivity for developers.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Background sessions now have a timeout | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Barcode Encoder | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Exclude FlowFields and fields outside repeater from ETag (OData) | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Extension publishers can get page view telemetry in Application Insights | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Limit recursion level in AL session creation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Partners can add keys (indexes) to base tables and table extensions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Use one-dimensional barcodes in reports (Business Central online) | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Interface – handling removed enum extension value | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Interface – obsolete support | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Return record link instead of name when using lookups | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Returning complex types | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Additional dimensions in Item Tracking as foundation for vertical solutions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Improved extensibility of reservation management | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| New AL objects – Entitlement, PermissionSet, and PermissionSetExtension | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Report extensibility | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Extension lifecycle telemetry include signal from dependent extensions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
May 1, 2021 |
| Extension validation on upgrade | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Save report dataset to Excel from the request page | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
Onboarding
With the 2021 release wave 1, customers can get to productive usage faster.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting started checklists for guided and faster initial setup | Users, automatically |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Improved company setup experience | Users, automatically |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| In-app contextual help improvements | Users, automatically |
Feb 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Improve the experience of getting started with Power BI | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2021 |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Install and uninstall AppSource apps using the Business Central admin center API | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
May 2, 2021 |
| Support for migrating data from earlier on-premises versions of Business Central to 2021 release wave 1 (v.18) | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
May 10, 2021 |
Seamless service
No matter the industry type of a small or medium-sized business, business users expect a dependable service and platform on which to run their business.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partner telemetry – upgrade tag signal | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Service-to-service authentication | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Jul 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.