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Early morning in Japan time today, the 2025 release wave 1 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform has been released! More details: 2025 release wave 1 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Role-based Copilot offerings and Release plans for Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Cloud for Industry
As before, this includes 2025 release wave 1 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform. And this time, Microsoft Cloud for Industry and Role-based Copilot offerings were added.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 2025 release wave 1 plan | Microsoft Learn
- Microsoft Power Platform 2025 release wave 1 plan overview | Microsoft Learn
- Microsoft Cloud for Industry 2025 release wave 1 plan overview | Microsoft Learn
- Role-based Copilot offerings 2025 release wave 1 plan | Microsoft Learn
New Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release planner has not been updated yet, you can save the link first.
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 2025 release wave 1
What’s new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central
Important
The 2025 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2025 to September 2025.
Highlights from Dynamics 365 Business Central:
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central introduces intelligent AI agents to enhance efficiency and automation for small or medium sized businesses (SMBs). These agents seamlessly integrate to execute complex tasks, generate reports, automate processes, and optimize order creation using natural language processing. This release focuses on manufacturing, sustainability, and electronic document capabilities, along with enhanced Shopify and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service integrations.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-365/blog/business-leader/2025/01/23/2025-release-wave-1-plans-for-microsoft-dynamics-365-microsoft-power-platform-and-role-based-copilot-offerings/
In Youtube: 2025 Release Wave 1 Highlights
Key dates for the 2025 release wave 1:
| Milestone | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Release plans available | January 23, 2025 | Learn about the new capabilities coming in the 2025 release wave 1 (April 2025 – September 2025) across Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, role-based Copilot offerings, and Microsoft Cloud for Industry. |
| Early access available | February 3, 2025 | Test and validate new features and capabilities that will be part of 2025 release wave 1, coming in April, before they are enabled automatically for your users. You can view the Dynamics 365 2025 release wave 1 early access features now. |
| Release plans available in additional languages | February 7, 2025 | The Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, role-based Copilot offerings, 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 | April 1, 2025 | Production deployment for the 2025 release wave 1 begins. Regional deployments will start on April 1, 2025. |
The following is extracted from the Microsoft documentation at the 2025/03/14, Microsoft may add or modify some of the features, please follow the MS Learn (Docs) above.
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
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Integrate Field Service with service management | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| View item availability in Field Service work orders | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | Apr 2025 |
| Use improved troubleshooting options for cost adjustments | Users, automatically | Mar 2025 | Apr 2025 |
Copilot and AI
This wave expands on our first Copilot capability, marketing text suggestions, boosting productivity for a broader set of SMB roles.Expand table
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat with Copilot to learn how to use installed add-on apps | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jun 2025 | – |
| Summarize with Copilot | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | – |
| Use Sales Order Agent to automate sales order-taking | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Suggest gas emissions in sustainability journals with Copilot | Users, automatically | May 2025 | – |
| Enhance purchase order line matching with Copilot | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | – |
| Autofill fields with Copilot | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | – |
| Automate payables processes with the Payables Agent | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 2025 | – |
Country and regional
We’ve made Business Central available in more countries and regions 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overloaded JsonObject data type GetValue method | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Move tables and fields with data across extensions as part of refactoring | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Extend CardPageId on list and listpart pages | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Use the new continue keyword for AL loops | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Read and write YAML in AL using JsonObject | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Select extensions to open in Visual Studio Code from the web client | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Troubleshoot clients, apps, and add-ins with telemetry | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Mock outbound HttpClient web service calls during testing | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Search, navigate and use app symbols as context for GitHub Copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| View build metadata in Extension Management page | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Validate certificates on external web service endpoints called from AL HttpClient | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Work with multiline strings in AL | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Use new properties on a report layout | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Self-service App Key Vault onboarding for AppSource apps | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Use new IncStr parameter to change integers by more than 1 in string variables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Embed Power BI content in web client with new page type | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Convert simple type values to text using new ToText method | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Create lists and dictionaries of interfaces in AL | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Generate launch json file from the web client | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Running objects in actions defaults to UI descriptors on target object | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
E-commerce
Broaden your customer reach and handle business-to-business transactions seamlessly with Business Central and Shopify.Expand table
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Import and export more data for Shopify B2B companies and company locations | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Activate sales channels in Shopify Connector | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | Apr 2025 |
| Import and export more data using Shopify metafields | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Troubleshoot export issues on Shopify Skipped Records page | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Use the latest update for the Shopify connector | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | Apr 2025 |
E-Documents
E-Documents in Business Central streamlines document exchange processes, enhances data accuracy and security, and leads to significant time and cost savings to ultimately improve operational efficiency.Expand table
Financial Management
Accelerate financial close, improve forecasting, and get real-time performance metrics while fostering compliance and security across subsidiaries.Expand table
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analyze subscription billing data with Power BI reports | Users, automatically | – | May 2025 |
| Require Intrastat classifications on documents | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | Apr 2025 |
| Check total purchase amounts on documents | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | – | Apr 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add support for MultiSubnetFailover | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Migrate record links and notes with cloud migration tooling | Users, automatically | – | May 2025 |
| View app compatibility with future versions in admin center | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Jun 2025 |
| Support IPv6 for enhanced security and scalability | Users, automatically | – | May 2025 |
| Update sandbox environments to preview versions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Sep 2025 |
| Link to Power Platform to use Copilot Studio messages | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Mar 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Automate environment management with Power Platform connector | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | – | Jun 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enhance reports with PDF post-processing capabilities | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Validate report layouts for errors as an admin | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Add fields from related tables in analysis mode | Users, automatically | Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Use enhanced analytics for manufacturing | Users, automatically | – | May 2025 |
| Access report and request metadata in Word layouts | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Use enhanced Financial Reporting capabilities | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Use new templates for financial reporting | Users, automatically | – | Jul 2025 |
Service and platform
We’re continuing to invest in the fundamentals of our service, with focus on performance, stability, resource governance, security, and compliance.Expand table
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calculate values only for visible FlowFields | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
Supply chain management
Business Central has rich supply management functionality from sales, purchase, invoice, inventory and warehouse management, project management, service order management, and manufacturing. In each release, we expand the capabilities in these areas to help users be more productive.Expand table
Sustainability Management
Sustainability in Business Central enables customers to drive positive environmental and social impact, enhance operational efficiency, meet regulatory requirements, and contribute to a more sustainable future.Expand table
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preview PDF attachments directly in web client | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Optimize screen estate usage on the web | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Adjust the FactBox pane width | Users, automatically | – | Apr 2025 |
| Use user interface enhancements for better experience | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on February 3, 2025, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.
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