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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Improve the reliability of the database export operation for larger databases with more companies | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Improvements for the Delegated Administrators | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Reassign an environment from one Azure Active Directory organization to another (through Microsoft Support) | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 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, collaborative business processes in Microsoft Teams are more efficient, we add support for Universal Print, and we harden the Excel and Outlook add-ins.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Look up Business Central contacts from within Microsoft Teams | Users, automatically | Feb 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Enablement of Word merge in Business Central | Users, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Support cloud printing using Microsoft Universal Print | Users, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 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.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country and regional expansion – Greece | Users, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – India | Users, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Romania | Users, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Country and regional expansion – Turkey | Users, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Moving the tracking of custom declarations (RU) into an extension | Users, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Algeria | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Bangladesh | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Egypt | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Kenya | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Lebanon | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Malta | Users, automatically | May 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Morocco | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Nigeria | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Qatar | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Saudi Arabia | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Sri Lanka | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2021 | Jul 2021 |
| Country/regional expansion – Tunisia | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 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 2021 | - |
| Synchronize item availability from Business Central to Dynamics 365 Sales | Users, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Enable Power BI connector to work with Business Central APIs, instead of with web services only | Users, automatically | Apr 2021 | May 2021 |
Modern clients
The 2021 release wave 1 brings improvements to performance, usability, and printing.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Report API allows passing the layout needed for report execution | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 2021 |
| Reports run in the background | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 2021 |
| Client performance improvements | Users, automatically | Feb 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Usability enhancements for the Business Central web client | Users, automatically | Feb 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Enable cloud printing on mobile app (phone and tablet) and from Microsoft Teams app | Users, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Users can change the assigned printer before printing a report | Users, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partners can add keys (indexes) to base tables and table extension tables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 2021 |
| Use one-dimensional barcodes in reports (Business Central online) | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 2021 |
| Extension validation on upgrade | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Interface – obsolete support | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Report extensibility | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Return record link instead of name when using lookups | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Additional dimensions in Item Tracking as foundation for vertical solutions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Improved extensibility of reservation management | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| New AL objects: Entitlement, PermissionSet, and PermissionSetExtension | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2021 | Apr 2021 |
Onboarding
With 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 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Improved company setup experience | Users, automatically | Feb 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| In-app contextual help improvements | Users, automatically | Feb 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| Improve the experience of getting started with Power BI | Users, automatically | Mar 2021 | Apr 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.