Summary of what's new in Finance and Operations

Important

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This topic lists the features that are planned for release in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations between October 2018 and March 2019. These release notes describe functionality that might not have been released yet. Delivery timelines might change, and projected functionality might change or might not be released (see Microsoft policy).

When a month is used in the Date column, the feature will be delivered sometime within that month. The delivery date can be any day within that month, not just on the first day of the month.

For a list of the regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, see the International availability guide.

Note

Finance and Operations can be deployed in the cloud or on-premises. The following tables indicate whether a feature can be used in cloud environments, on-premises environments, or both. Keep in mind that the cloud and on-premises releases of a specific version of Finance and Operations may not be available at the same time. The on-premises release of a specific version is most often available shortly after the cloud release of the same version.

Financial management

Feature Release type Cloud or on-premises Date
Dual currency General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
View settlement transactions General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Vendor and customer approvals for specific fields General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Data entry dimension values General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Consistent validation actions General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Change cash discounts General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Reporting currency in financial reporting General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Public sector enhancements General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Operating unit user-defined values General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Settle remainder General Availability Both January 2019
Global number sequences for customers and vendors General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
IBAN number validation General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Global customer and vendor transactions list pages General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Collection letters General Availability Both January 2019

Service industries

Feature Release type Cloud or on-premises Date
Mobile project timesheets General Availability Both April 8, 2019

Supply chain management

Feature Release type Cloud or on-premises Date
Warehouse enhancements General Availability Both Undetermined
Master planning performance improvements General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Consolidation of planned orders during parallel firming General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Unit of measure General Availability Both Undetermined (may release after March 2019)
On-hand inventory report performance General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Customize number of decimals for prices, quantities, and weight General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Resume master planning General Availability Both December 14, 2018

Globalization

Feature Release type Cloud or on-premises Date
Russian localization General Availability Both Functionality - October 1, 2018
Cloud / on-premise deployment options-December 14, 2018
Globalization – enhanced configurability General Availability Both October 1, 2018
Regulatory Services, Configuration service General Availability Cloud October 1, 2018

Platform

Feature Release type Cloud or on-premises Date
Export up to 1 million rows to Excel General Availability Both January 18, 2019
Improved behavior of non-replacing lookups General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Improved usability of the navigation pane General Availability Both December 14, 2018
Legal entity filtering using grid column headers General Availability Both January 2019
Optimized "is one of" filtering experience General Availability Both December 14, 2018
Paste lists from Excel into filter fields with the "is one of" operator General Availability Both December 14, 2018
Personalization improvements General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Restyled personalization toolbar General Availability Both December 14, 2018
Sticky default actions in grids General Availability Both November 16, 2018
Suppressing hyperlinks General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Test automation support General Availability Cloud October 1, 2018
Troubleshooting for the document routing agent General Availability Cloud January 2019
Upgrade automation General Availability Cloud December 10, 2018
On-premises deployment General Availability On-premises November 6, 2018
Manage batch jobs General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Data entity regression testing using data task automation General Availability Cloud October 1, 2018
Platform extensibility General Availability Cloud
On-premises
October 1, 2018
November 6, 2018
Platform extensibility wave 2 General Availability Both November 16, 2018
Platform extensibility wave 3 General Availability Both December 14, 2018
Platform extensibility wave 4 General Availability Both January 18, 2019

Integration

Feature Release type Cloud or on-premises Date
Integration with Field Service: Inventory and Projects General Availability Cloud December 2018
Extend analytical workspaces by mashing up external data with Power BI Public preview Cloud April 2019

Analytics

Feature Release type Cloud or on-premises Date
Bring your own database Public preview Cloud March 2019
Edit analytical workspaces Public preview Cloud March 2019
Pin Power BI dashboards to workspaces General Availability Cloud October 1, 2018
Real-time embedded Power BI Reports Public preview Cloud March 2019
Expense management Power BI General Availability Cloud October 1, 2018

Lifecycle Services

Feature Release type Cloud or on-premises Date
Dynamics Translation Service support for multi-language translation requests General Availability Both December 10, 2018
Dynamics Translation Service usage metrics General Availability Both Undetermined