Thursday, 1 October 2026

Business Central 2026 Release Wave 2 (v29.0) Is Generally Available

 

Version 29.0 of Business Central is now generally available. If you create a new online environment today, 29.0 is what you get by default.


Spinning up a 29.0 sandbox

The quickest way to see this for yourself is the admin center. Go to Environments, choose New, and look at the Version dropdown. 29.0 is now sitting there as a selectable option rather than a preview build.


If you have been testing on a preview sandbox, read this

The preview sandboxes you created in September are on borrowed time. Microsoft deletes them automatically about 30 days after GA, which puts the cutoff somewhere in early November 2026. You also cannot update a preview environment to a different version, so there is no path from a preview sandbox to a supported one.

If you have test data, custom extensions, or configuration sitting in one of those, move it now. Export what you need and recreate the environment on the GA build of 29.0.


Links worth keeping

What

Where

What's new and changed in 29.0

Microsoft Learn

AI at Work Roadmap, filtered to Business Central

microsoft.com

Release Communications MCP Server setup

Microsoft Learn

What's new videos

aka.ms/BCLE

Partner PowerPoint deck for customer conversations

aka.ms/BCDeck

Office Hours calls

aka.ms/BCOfficeHours