Hi, Readers.
Early morning in Japan time today, the 2024 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform has been released! More details: 2024 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform now available and Release plans for Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Cloud for Industry
As before, this includes 2024 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot for business functions: 2024 release wave 2 plan
- Microsoft Power Platform: 2024 release wave 2 plan
New Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release planner have also been updated. Please try it out now. I think you will like it too.😀
More details: Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform Release planner (Tracking new and upcoming functionality)
This of course includes Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Business Central in 2024 release wave 2
What’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Important
The 2024 release wave 2 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2024 through March 2025.
Highlights from Dynamics 365 Business Central:
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is focused on maintaining service reliability performance and security standards. We’ll continue enhancing productivity by optimizing core processes with Copilot, expanding to cover more than 170 countries, and offering enhanced reporting with more than 80 Microsoft Power BI reports. Additionally, integration with Field Service will be expanded, along with new financial management features. We will also enhance development tools and governance, along with improved data privacy and compliance management.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-365/blog/business-leader/2024/07/16/2024-release-wave-2-plans-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-and-microsoft-power-platform-now-available/
In Youtube: 2024 Release Wave 2 Highlights
Key dates for the 2024 release wave 2:
| Milestone | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Release plans available | July 16, 2024 | Learn about the new capabilities coming in the 2024 release wave 2 (October 2024 – March 2025) across Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Microsoft Cloud for Industry. |
| Early access available | July 29, 2024 | Test and validate new features and capabilities that will be part of 2024 release wave 2, coming in October, before they are enabled automatically for your users. You can view the Dynamics 365 2024 release wave 2 early access features now. |
| Release plans available in additional languages | August 2, 2024 | The Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Cloud for Industry release plans are published in 11 additional languages: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, and Swedish. |
| General availability | October 1, 2024 | Production deployment for the 2024 release wave 2 begins. Regional deployments will start on October 1, 2024. |
The following is extracted from the Microsoft documentation at the 2024/09/21, Microsoft may add or modify some of the features, please follow the MS Learn (Docs) above.
Adapt faster with Power Platform
We’re continuously investing in a seamless experience for customers who use Business Central together with Power Apps, Power Automate or Power BI.Expand table
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auto-apply templates when you synchronize data with Dataverse | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
Application
Core application functionality is a key investment area for us. We listen to our partners and customers to make sure we deliver what they need to be even more productive with every release.Expand table
Sep 2, 2024Copilot and AI innovation
This wave expands on our first Copilot capability, marketing text suggestions, boosting productivity for a broader set of SMB roles.Expand table
Country and regional
We’ve made Business Central available in more countries and regions around the world in this release wave.Expand table
Development
Our focus is on making Business Central AL developers more productive, and empowering consultants, citizen developers, and users to do more while lowering the cost of changes.Expand table
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Set up easier in-client performance profiling with rules | Users, automatically | Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Use the ternary operator when coding in the AL language | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Pull extension source from GitHub when opening Visual Studio Code from web client | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Remove friction when working with external app dependencies | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Use the ‘this’ keyword for codeunit self reference | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Specify and use full-text search indexes on table fields | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Restore extensions if publishing from Visual Studio Code fails | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Use improved features for document reports | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | Oct 2024 |
| Package resources in extensions and access from AL | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| Run code action for ‘with’ for file, project, or workspace | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Type testing and casting operators for interfaces | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Extend AL interfaces | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Extend and customize profiles from other extensions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
Governance and administration
We’re adding new tools and improving existing tools for administrators to manage environments, apps, and data migrations.Expand table
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manage environment updates more flexibly | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 2024 | Mar 2025 |
| Migrate record links and notes with cloud migration tooling | Users, automatically | – | Nov 2024 |
| Manage per-tenant extensions in admin center | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Dec 2024 |
| View app compatibility with future versions in admin center | Users, automatically | – | Dec 2024 |
| Encrypt data at-rest with customer-managed encryption key | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | Oct 2024 |
| Get external notifications when job queue entries fail | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Oct 2024 | – |
| Get in-product notifications about issues with job queue background processing | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | Oct 2024 |
| Get list of manageable environments for Microsoft Entra apps | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Dec 2024 |
| Support IPv6 for enhanced security and scalability | Users, automatically | – | Feb 2025 |
Legislation
This Business Central release wave delivers a set of legislative capabilities that can act as a foundation for more specific requirements in local versions.Expand table
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use e-documents with Power Automate | Users, automatically | – | Dec 2024 |
| Use multiple VAT numbers for a customer | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Achieve sustainability scorecards and goals | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Navigate the sustainability manager role center with ease | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Add attachments when you send electronic documents | Users, automatically | Oct 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| Record greenhouse gas emissions using purchase invoices | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Report sustainability entries with financial reports | Users, automatically | Oct 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| Use multiple subcategories for one sustainability account | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Use new service providers in the e-documents framework | Users, automatically | Nov 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| Purchase carbon credits | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Track sustainability certificates for items and vendors | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Enable internal carbon fee calculation in Sustainability | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
Reporting and data analysis
Access to the right reports and data analysis capabilities is essential for companies wanting to be in control of the business and identify new growth opportunities.Expand table
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use built-in named formulas in Excel layouts | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Do ad hoc analysis on fixed assets, projects, and services | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Use embedded Power BI reports out of the box | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | Oct 2024 |
| Use advanced settings in the Power BI connector | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | Oct 2024 |
User experiences
Great user experiences help users enter, update, and fix mistakes in their data in an intuitive way.Expand table
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experience access keys with key tips in more languages | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Use drag and drop on file upload dialog to attach multiple files | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Resize columns even when personalization isn’t enabled | Users, automatically | – | Oct 2024 |
| Change the data search method in lists | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 2024 | Nov 2024 |
You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on August 12, 2024, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.
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.
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