The release plan for Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 release wave 2 (BC21) is available now!!!

Hi, Readers.
Early morning in Japan time today, the 2022 release wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform has been released! More details: 2022 release wave 2 plans for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform now available 

As before, this includes 2022 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform.
Dynamics 365 and industry clouds: 2022 release wave 2 plan
Microsoft Power Platform: 2022 release wave 2 plan

This of course includes Dynamics 365 Business Central.
What’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central

Important
The 2022 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2022 to March 2023. In this article, you’ll find the product overview and what’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

And this time Microsoft has also prepared a great new release planning portal (in preview) for us. Please try it out now. I think you will like it too.😀
Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release planner

The following is extracted from the Microsoft documentation at the 2022/08/24, Microsoft may add or modify some of the features, please follow the MS Docs above.

Application

In 2022 release wave 2, we deliver updates based on the most popular requests for improvement. We’ll invest in better reporting, and several improvements to the finance and supply chain areas.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Better bank reconciliation for checks and improved reporting	Users, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Extended text functionality for VAT clauses	Users, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Financial reporting replaces account schedules	Users, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Make entry of variant codes required	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Track items that are used in projects, including picks	Users, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
New VAT Date field on documents and entries	Users, automatically	Oct 2022	Oct 2022
Set up data exchange more easily	Users, automatically	Oct 2022	Oct 2022
Reverse payment reconciliation journal entries	Users, automatically	Oct 2022	Nov 2022
Use multiple remit-to addresses for vendors	Users, automatically	Dec 2022	Jan 2023
Adjust exchange rates easily, replace built-in batch job	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Mar 1, 2022	Mar 2023
Use different G/L accounts for payables, receivables	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Sep 2022	Mar 2023

Country and regional

More countries are added to bring Business Central to availability in more than half of all countries and regions globally.

Development

This release continues investments in improving AL developer productivity in Visual Studio Code.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Override entitlements with inherent permissions	Users, automatically	–	Oct 2022
ApplicationArea on fields defaults to page value	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Enable NoImplicitWith feature by default	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Exclude temporary records when debugging record writes	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Exclude Try functions when debugging errors	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Launch in a specific company from Visual Studio Code	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
New command to generate or update AL permission set	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Promoted action groups and action references	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Record tooltip has new primary key indicator	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Resource exposure policies for apps are on by default	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
See the primary key for table fields in IntelliSense	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Specify completion in IntelliSense with a character	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Use option access syntax in formulas	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
View size of text, code fields in page inspection	Users, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Visualize code lines executed in snapshot capture	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022
Access database row version from AL code	Users, automatically	Oct 2022	Oct 2022
Developers can write faster upgrade code	Users, automatically	Oct 2022	Oct 2022
Use ByRef, XmlPort parameters in OData	Users, automatically	Oct 2022	Oct 2022
Extend general ledger posting aggregations	Users, automatically	Oct 1, 2021	Mar 2023

Governance and administration

Business Central 2022 release wave 2 delivers a set of admin and governance capabilities to help admins and IT pros set up, secure, manage, govern, and monitor customer environments.

Microsoft Power Platform

In 2022 release wave 2, we continue to improve the way Business Central integrates with Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, and Dataverse. We also continue improving the integration with Power BI.

Onboarding

Onboarding is a key focus in every release wave. Better onboarding experiences allow customers to get started with Business Central in minimal time, with minimal friction. In this release wave, we focus on connectivity to third-party operational productivity services.

Productive with Microsoft 365

Empower SMBs to work smarter with collaborative experiences, tools, and insights within the flow of work.

Reporting

In this release wave, we continue the work we introduced in the previous release wave for Excel layouts.

Service and platform

No matter the type of industry 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 – faster data stack	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	–	Oct 2022
Get Power BI reports on telemetry	Users, automatically	Jul 4, 2022	Oct 2022
Compile against installed AppSource apps	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2022	Oct 2022

User experiences

Improvements across the portfolio of clients for desktop and mobile devices.

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Hope this will help.

Thanks for reading.

ZHU