Lifecycle Policy

Description

In practice, this applies only to On-Prem installations, as Business Central Online is updated automatically every six months.

What the active lifecycle means✅

• New features and bug fixes are released

• Product documentation is maintained

What it means to be out of the lifecycle ❌

• Features and bug fixes are no longer released

• Our documentation is maintained for the latest release only, and some described features may not be available in older versions

• The old releases can still be installed on old BC versions

Policy rules

Microsoft releases a major version every 6 months, in April and October. See Version numbers in Business Central.

Microsoft End Date policy

• 6 months full support plus 12 months only bug fixes, for a total of 18 months

Tasklet End Date policy

• We extend Microsoft End Date by 6 months for a total of 2 years support for each major version

Current end dates