Announcement

We are changing how we release new features in LS Central. Until now, we have included new features in our monthly releases. The monthly releases therefore included new events, hotfixes as well as new functionality.

Based on the feedback from our partners and customers, we are scaling this back a bit. We have decided to align our product development with the release timeline used by Microsoft for Business Central. This means that we will release new features for LS Central in two major release waves every year – scheduled for April and October, coinciding with the general availability of Business Central Release Wave 1 & 2. Our partners will be granted access to a feature-complete release candidate a 5-6 weeks ahead of time.

We will continue to release new events and hotfixes on a weekly basis and cumulative updates on a monthly basis, but new features will be focused on the April and October updates.

We will have a release candidate ready 5-6 weeks before the major release from Microsoft. This means that the release candidate for version 23.0 will be made available by the end of August.

This is what our release plan looks like after these changes:

• Version 22.3 is scheduled for August 23^rd
• Version 22.4 is scheduled for September 20^th. This version will only include hotfixes
• Versions 23.0 is scheduled for the first week of October, depending on the availability of the 2023 Wave 2 update from Microsoft
• After this, minor versions will be made available on a monthly basis, depending on the availability of the minor update from Microsoft.
  
  

We expect to follow the same process for the 2024 wave 1 version, with a release candidate scheduled to be made available late February 2024 and an official release coinciding with the release of Business Central 2024 wave 1 from Microsoft.