What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Important
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This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2022 through September 2022. 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 2021 release wave 2 plan.
- For a list of the next wave's release plans, go to 2022 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.
Application
In 2022 release wave 1, we deliver updates based on the most popular requests for improvement. We'll invest in better reporting, and several improvements to the supply chain area.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blocking deletion of G/L accounts | Users, automatically |
Jan 4, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Auto-accept transactions for intercompany journals | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Feb 4, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Payment reconciliation journal - Preview Posting enabled | Users, automatically |
Feb 15, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Allow the sell-to and bill-to customers to be different for jobs | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Bank Account Statement report | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Block VAT and General Posting Setups | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Change default company bank account on sales and service documents | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Check amounts for proposed payments and settlements (CZ) | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Check documents and journals in while you work | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Consolidate customer and vendor balances | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Finding documents and entries efficiently | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Fixed Quantity in product bills of materials | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Introducing Finance Charge Interest Rate - Czechia | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Log emails using a shared mailbox and Graph API | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Mail account scenarios for CZ Advance Payments (Czechia) | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Map to Dataverse option sets such as payment terms, freight terms, and shipping agents without code | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| More control over deferrals posting | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| New Accountant profile (Czechia) | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| New UI for entering demand forecasts to add support for variant code and other improvements | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Report selection for projects | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Set default dimensions on locations | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Support inventory pick and warehouse pick operations for jobs | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Create bank deposits | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 7, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Standardizing the bank reconciliation process in North American versions | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 7, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Two-digit year evaluates to 1950-2049 range | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Shopify connector | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
May 11, 2022 |
| Release and reopen multiple documents | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Jul 7, 2022 |
Better with Microsoft 365
In 2022 release wave 1, we invest in a stronger reporting story, including better integration with Excel. We also improve the support for collaborative business processes in Teams so you can bring Business Central pages into a Teams channel.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enhancements to Microsoft Teams integration | Users, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Outlook add-in – add email attachments to Business Central records | Users, automatically |
Feb 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Share a file through OneDrive | Users, automatically |
Mar 7, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Outlook add-in popout window enhancements | Users, automatically |
Mar 9, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| A single tile to go to Business Central | Users, automatically | - |
Aug 1, 2022 |
Country and regional
More countries are added, making Business Central available in over 70 countries and regions.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| CFDI Carte de Porte complement in Mexico | Users, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Update the Bill of Lading report in Russia | Users, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Fraud prevention headers for clients in the UK | Users, automatically | - |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Angola | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Bahrain | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Bosnia and Herzegovina | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Botswana | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Costa Rica | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Cyprus | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Dominican Republic | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Ecuador | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - El Salvador | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Guatemala | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Honduras | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Jamaica | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Maldives | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Mauritius | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Nicaragua | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Panama | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Paraguay | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Trinidad and Tobago | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Uruguay | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Country/regional expansion - Zimbabwe | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
Development
We continue to invest in a rich spectrum of extensibility tooling capabilities for developers, including making the AL language even stronger, providing developers with a great experience.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demo tool and demo data for manufacturing scenarios | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Isolated events | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| New isolated event OnCompanyOpenCompleted | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| New reporting events | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| In-client performance profiler | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Multiple layouts of the same type in reports and report extensions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Telemetry - monitor health and uptake of features | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Ability to elevate permissions in AL code | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| AL-Go for GitHub - modern DevOps for partners | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Deploy dependent projects in workspace | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Telemetry - company name as a custom dimension in AL LogMessage | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Telemetry - votes on whether error messages are useful | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Users can export report datasets to XML | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Get warned by AppSourceCop if your code validates against an obsolete version | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jun 1, 2022 |
Jun 1, 2022 |
Governance and administration
Business Central 2022 release wave 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Security administrators can define default permission set assignments when users sign up | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Set user email policies to control who can read email sent from Business Central | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Support for granular delegated admin privileges (GDAP) | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Telemetry for environment lifecycle events | Users, automatically |
Apr 30, 2022 |
Apr 30, 2022 |
| Telemetry for permission error dialogs | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 1, 2022 |
| Improved settings for managing updates | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
May 15, 2022 |
| Send email as current user using SMTP connector | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jul 11, 2022 |
Aug 5, 2022 |
Microsoft Power Platform
In 2022 release wave 1, we improved the integration with Microsoft Dataverse and Microsoft Power Platform.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dataverse data change events | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 2, 2022 |
- |
| Action group to run chosen instant Power Automate flow | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 16, 2022 |
| Improvements to the Power Automate and Power Apps connector | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
May 16, 2022 |
| Business Central connector enabled in Power BI Dataflows | Users, automatically |
Jun 16, 2022 |
Jul 11, 2022 |
Modern clients
In 2022 release wave 1, we make improvements to our extensive portfolio of clients with the focus on better usability, accessibility, performance, and stability.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copy link from Share menu | Users, automatically |
Feb 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Control add-in resiliency | Users, automatically |
Mar 9, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Usability improvements to the web client | Users, automatically |
Mar 9, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| New desktop app delivering full web client experience on desktop is listed in the Microsoft Store | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 3, 2022 |
Onboarding
Onboarding is a key focus in every release wave. The aim is to make the onboarding of new customers faster, but also the onboarding of new users.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context-aware links in the Help pane from Microsoft and partners | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Guided tour that helps users find settings and personalization tools | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Support for rich text in teaching tips and tours | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Tour of the Role Explorer and how to filter it | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Telemetry - user checklist status changes are logged to telemetry | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Reporting
Reporting is top-of-mind for many business users, as a way to get insight into new growth opportunities and also as a way to share data as a foundation for business planning discussions.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| New capabilities for financial reporting with account schedules | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| New pages for report layout administration | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Use Excel to design layouts for reports | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Service and platform
No matter the industry type 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance-related insights into missing indexes | Users, automatically |
Mar 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Performance - partners can get insights into database wait statistics | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Telemetry - error dialogs are logged to telemetry | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Telemetry - stopping a session is logged to telemetry | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Telemetry - support engineers can now see user IDs in telemetry | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Telemetry - the action of enabling detailed telemetry is logged to telemetry | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Telemetry - when a database deadlock occurs, it is logged to telemetry | Users, automatically |
Apr 1, 2022 |
Apr 1, 2022 |
| Get telemetry on dependency cycles in permission sets | Users, automatically |
May 2, 2022 |
May 2, 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.