What's new and planned for Dynamics 365 Business Central

This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2025 through September 2025. 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 2024 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

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.

Copilot and AI

This wave expands on our first Copilot capability, marketing text suggestions, boosting productivity for a broader set of SMB roles.

Country and regional

We've made Business Central available in more countries and regions in this release wave.

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.

E-commerce

Broaden your customer reach and handle business-to-business transactions seamlessly with Business Central and Shopify.

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.

Financial Management

Accelerate financial close, improve forecasting, and get real-time performance metrics while fostering compliance and security across subsidiaries.

Governance and administration

We're adding new tools and improving existing tools for administrators to manage environments, apps, and data migrations.

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.

Service and platform

We're continuing to invest in the fundamentals of our service, with focus on performance, stability, resource governance, security, and compliance.

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.

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.

User experiences

Great user experiences help users enter, update, and fix mistakes in their data in an intuitive way.

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.

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.