Difference between revisions of "Release Waves"

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New features come to Power Platform and Dynamics 365 in what is called Release Waves.

You can read in MS Docs about releases here.

Release Plans

The documentation of what is about to be rolled out in a certain Release Wave is called Release Plan. There is a dedicated wiki pages for Release Plans where it is described how the documentation is built up.

Understanding the timeline

There are two Release Waves each year. One from April to September and one from October to March. There is an Early Access period two months in prior to the start of the wave. You then have the option to do an early opt-in, which means turn on the Release Wave in a certain environment and be able to try out the upcoming features. In prior to the Early Access period Release Plans are made official, i.e. documentation about the upcoming features.

Early Opt-in and Early Access

Opt-in early for a certain wave and you will be able to try out Early Access features before the roll out.

Feature lifecycle

Features have a lifecycle.

Preview
General Availability
Deprecation

Read more about it here: MS Larsen about the feature lifecycle].

Also see the Wiki pages Public Preview where preview features are gathered and Deprecations which describe what Deprecation means.

Release Waves

There are dedicated wiki pages for the two latest Release Waves.

Community Resources

About Release Waves by Carina M. Claesson
Explaining “One Version” – Dynamics 365 MDA by Benedikt Bergmann

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+Read more about it here: [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/describe-service-life-cycle-microsoft-365/2-private-public-general-availability MS Larsen about the feature lifecycle]].
+Also see the Wiki pages [[Public Preview]] where preview features are gathered and [[Deprecations]] which describe what Deprecation means.
 == Release Waves ==