Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1: checking app compatibility with future versions directly in Admin Center.

When an upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central major release is approaching (usually at least a month before so) Microsoft starts doing an automatic check for your installed app compatibility with the upcoming version.

If there are changes to some Dynamics 365 Business Central functionalities (data structure, code etc.) that the installed apps depend on, an incompatibility alert is raised. Until Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 release Wave 2 (v25), only email notification recipients and registered Application Insights resources received messages about incompatibilities of installed apps with a future Business Central update in a particular environment.

In the email notification (like the following) you have the app’s incompatibility problems detailed:

With telemetry and Application Insights, you can discover incompatibility details of your apps with the following KQL query:

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| where customDimensions has "LC0226"
| where customDimensions.eventId == "LC0226"
| where timestamp > ago(30d) // adjust as needed
| project timestamp
, aadTenantId = customDimensions.environmentTenantAAD
, environmentName = customDimensions.environmentName
, environmentType = customDimensions.environmentType
, extensionId = customDimensions.extensionId
, extensionName = customDimensions.extensionName
, extensionPublisher = customDimensions.extensionPublisher
, extensionVersion = customDimensions.extensionVersion
, targetVersion = customDimensions.targetVersion
, failureReason = customDimensions.failureReason

Starting from Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 release (version 26), in order to make it easier to plan for upcoming changes ahead of time and avoid upgrade failures to a new major, you can now view app compatibility reports directly in the tenant’s Admin Center (and you can also avoid to schedule an update to a Business Central version that installed apps are incompatible with).

By selecting a Dynamics 365 Business Central environment, you will be able to access the details of your installed apps (AppSource and PTEs) and see the compatibility status with the upcoming release:

From here you can immediately discover compatibility issues and act accordingly.

With the new 2025 Wave 1 release, you will have an environment-level opt-out for automatic minor scheduling setting that will permit you to skip minor releases (March 2025 is the planned release date for that at the time of writing this post) and also the possibility to create new environments on any supported Business Central version (so for example to create 25.x environments until 25.x grace period starts in September 2025).

Starting with 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝟯𝟲𝟱 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝟮 (𝘃𝟮𝟳) public preview (so around September 2025), it will be also possible to update an existing sandbox environment to the Dynamics 365 Business Central public preview version.
This is a great feature that finally will permit you to do live testing for an upcoming major release with your existing data and your existing apps. This announced version is not available with the upcoming Dynamics 365 Business Central version 26.

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