Update 26.0 for Business Central 2025 release wave 1

This article provides an overview of the new and updated features and general information about update 26.0, which starts the 2025 release wave 1.

Highlights

Sales Order Agent

APPLIES TO: Business Central online

Sales Order Agent is available as a production-ready preview in more countries and regions, including Australia (AU), Canada (CA), Great Britain (GB), New Zealand (NZ), and the United States (US).

The Sales Order Agent automates sales order processing from customer emails using AI. It identifies customers, clarifies details via email, checks item availability, creates quotes and orders, and generates PDF documents. All interactions are tracked in Business Central, keeping users informed and enabling involvement when necessary. Watch a short video on YouTube at Get started with the Sales Order Agent for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

This update introduces billing for the agent. Charges are based on Microsoft Copilot Studio messages used for AI interactions and tasks. Learn more in Manage consumption-based billing for agent capabilities.

Learn how to set up and use Sales Order agent in Sales Order Agent overview or follow its release plan at Use Sales Order Agent to automate sales order-taking.

Autofill fields

APPLIES TO: Business Central online

Autofill with Copilot suggests values for editable fields on card and document pages based on your Business Central data, like frequently used values, recently used values, or AI-generated options. You can choose to keep or discard these suggestions. Learn more in Autofill fields with Copilot.

Summarize records

APPLIES TO: Business Central online

Summarize with Copilot generates a concise summary of a record, such as a customer, item, or sales order, directly in the page's FactBox pane. Summaries are tailored to your role in Business Central, providing insight into data on the page and related pages and drawing attention to important information. Learn more in Summarize records with Copilot.

Sustainability Scope 3 value chain tracking

Scope 3 value chain processing automation is embedded in standard ERP processes. This feature calculates the carbon dioxide equivalent for finished goods, giving you the figures you need to report indirect emissions data across your upstream and downstream value chain. Learn more in Sustainability value chain overview.

New features

This table lists the features in public preview or general availability for version 26.0. For a comprehensive feature list and details, refer to Plan and prepare for Dynamics 365 Business Central in 2025 release wave 1.

Changes to optional features in Feature Management

This section outlines changes to feature and feature updates controlled by Feature management in version 26.0.

Features now mandatory and removed from feature management

• Feature Update: Enable use of new extensible exchange rate adjustment, including posting review
• Feature Update: Enable use of new extensible invoice posting engine
• Feature Update: Replace the existing EU 3-Party Trade Purchase functionality with the new EU 3-Party Trade Purchase extension
• Feature: Enable legacy locking scheme in AL
• Feature: Enable using bulk operations for Shopify connector

Features delayed from becoming mandatory in update 26.0

• Feature: Enable using SAF-T Audit Files Exports
• Feature Update Auto-save as you work

New features enabled by default

• Feature: Disable SOAP web services on Microsoft UI pages
• Feature: Enable server certificate validation for HTTP requests

New features disabled by default

• Feature Update: Enable multiple users to post item ledger entries and value entries at the same time
• Feature Update: Enable multiple users to post job (now called project) ledger entries at the same time
• Feature Update: Enable multiple users to post resource ledger entries at the same time
• Feature: Calculate only visible FlowFields
• Feature: Enables advanced navigation (not data) search capabilities by utilizing semantic similarity search on application metadata
• Feature: Optimize screen estate usage for web
• Feature Update: Convert the manufacturing flushing method 'Manual', so that it no longer requires picking.

Deprecated and removed features

• Deprecated or removed features in the platform
• Deprecated or removed in the base app
• Deleted objects

Other notable changes

• Copilot & AI capabilities page renamed to Copilot & agent capabilities
• Chat with Copilot can ask about specific record fields.
• SetAutoCalcFields method is available on the RecordRef data type.

On-premises download packages

Select and download the package for the appropriate country or region version from Microsoft Support.

Upgrade to 26.0 for online customers

New customers get Business Central version 26.0 automatically. With the 26.0 release, the Manage environment updates more flexibly feature is generally available for environments using version 25.5 or higher. This feature lets you reschedule the major update to any date within the 5-month update period, which ends on August 31, 2025, for version 26.0. The option to set the target version for an environment's next update in the admin center is available by the end of April 2025.

Learn more in Major updates and minor updates for Business Central online.

Good to know

Business Central Launch Event

The Business Central Launch Event for the Business Central 2025 release wave 1 is on April 1, 2025. Learn more at aka.ms/BCLE.

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