Planning Optimization release process and release history

Microsoft updates Planning Optimization on a monthly basis. However, based on business requirements, we occasionally release additional updates between the scheduled releases.

Each release is published to the individual regions where Planning Optimization is available. The process typically takes three days.

While Planning Optimization is being updated, master planning might run a bit more slowly than usual.

Environments that use Planning Optimization automatically receive the latest release. No user action is required: the service is automatically updated. However, no breaking-change functionality is ever automatically pushed to environments. By default, any changes that are considered breaking are turned off and must be explicitly turned on by using feature management. Therefore, those changes won't appear in environments until you choose to enable them.

Because notifications aren't shown when Planning Optimization is updated in your environment, you can review the release notes in the following table to determine when changes were released and what functionality they introduced. This table shows the changes that were released for Planning Optimization, whether those changes are associated with a feature from feature management, and the date of the release.

Changes	Feature management details	Release dates
General performance, quality, and stability improvements. Planning Optimization centralized calendar maintenance Planning Optimization suggestions to optimize existing supply Planning Optimization support for subcontracting	No feature management is required.	March 7-11, 2022
Added planning priority support for production orders.	Available with version 10.0.25 as part of the feature named Priority driven MRP support for Planning Optimization.	November 12-18, 2021
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management is required.	November 12-18, 2021
Added support for process time calculation formulas, production route with overlap, and production operation number on requirement transactions. Enhanced error messages for production scheduling related to timeout, capacity could not be found, and cyclic route. Improved consistency when calculating receipt dates and issue dates on both planned orders and firmed orders. General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	Feature name: Infinite capacity scheduling for Planning Optimization	October 22-27, 2021
Added support for considering scrap percentage in processing time calculation. Added support for operation number and materials usage during scheduling.	Feature name: Infinite capacity scheduling for Planning Optimization	October 5-7, 2021
Added support for production route job types: Queue before, Queue after, and Transport time. General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	Feature name: Infinite capacity scheduling for Planning Optimization	September 25-30, 2021
Added support for master plans with Scheduling method set to Operations scheduling. On the Route groups page, respect settings for the Activation, Working time, and Capacity check boxes for rows with a Route/job type of Setup or Process. General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	Operations scheduling is available in feature management as of version 10.0.20. Feature name: Infinite capacity scheduling for Planning Optimization	September 9–17, 2021
General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management is required.	August 25–30, 2021
Added Lead time field to planned orders. General performance, quality, and stability improvements.	No feature management is required.	August 12–17, 2021
Added resource type requirements for infinite capacity scheduling. Improved resource efficiency and calendar efficiency for infinite capacity scheduling. For more information, see Scheduling with infinite capacity.	Available in feature management as of version 10.0.20. Feature name: Infinite capacity scheduling for Planning Optimization	July 6–12, 2021
General quality improvements.	No feature management is required.	July 6–12, 2021

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