Business Integration Solutions Documentation

What's new in BIS for Business Central Cloud

This page shows what's new with each BIS release for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Cloud

See here for the updates for the On Premise releases. See Feature Matrix to compare the SaaS and OnPremise features

2025 April release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2, update 25.5
  2. New Features
    1. Notification Mgt: Blanket Sales Order Template updated. Blanket Sales Order
    2. Notification Mgt: Sales Return Receipt Template updated Sales Return Receipt
    3. Notification Mgt: Sales Return Order Template updated Sales Return Order
    4. Notification Mgt: Sales Shipment Template updated Sales Shipment
    5. Notification Mgt: Sales Invoice Template updated Sales Invoice
    6. Notification Mgt: Credit Limit Change Template updated Credit Limit Change
    7. The role Business Integration Solution changed to BIS-Administrator
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2025 March release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2, update 25.4
  2. New Features
    1. SetEncoding activity to set a specific encoding on the message.Encoding
    2. Notification Mgt: Sales Order Template updated.Sales Order
    3. Notification Mgt: Purchase Order Template updatedPurchase Order
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2025 February release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2, update 25.3
  2. New Features
    1. Retention policies enabled for Message history
    2. Notification Mgt: Sales Quote Template updated
    3. Notification Mgt: Sales Credit Memo Template updated
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2025 January release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2, update 25.2
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2024 December release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2, update 25.1
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2024 November release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 2, update 25.0
  2. New Features
    1. Encoding support has been added to the following elements:
      1. XML to XML Translator
      2. JSON to XML Translator
      3. XML to JSON Translator
      4. Webservice Endpoint
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2024 October release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1, update 24.5
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2024 September release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1, update 24.4
  2. New Features
    1. JSON to XML Translator New matchstart Policy
    2. XML Generator Added "Parse Data" option
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2024 August release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1, update 24.3
  2. New Features
    1. STAEDEAN rebrand, new publisher STAEDEAN and updated names for our apps
    2. Azure File Writer locks the files during processing
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2024 July release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1, update 24.2
  2. New Features
    1. New XmlToJson Translator text encoding option available
    2. New Security Profiles authorization options available
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2024 June release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1, update 24.1
  2. New Features
    1. New JsonToXml Translator skip node policy available
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2024 May release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1, update 24.0
  2. New Features
    1. Table relations evaluated independent of document nodes Recordgenerator Activity
    2. Emailwriter setup import and configuration checks EmailWriter Activity
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2024 April release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2, update 23.5
  2. New Features
    1. RecordChange Event
      1. XRec monitoring made optional on Modify actions
      2. Job Queue Setup for RecordChange Event stored in package
    2. Namespaces generated by Mapper are now optional Mapper Activity
    3. Job Queue Setup for Timer Event stored in package Timer Event
    4. Job Queue Setup for Azure FileReader Endpoint stored in package AZFileReader Endpoint
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2024 March release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2, update 23.4
  2. New Features
    1. Basic Auth
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2024 February release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2, update 23.3
  2. New Features
    1. Azure endpoints https actions
    2. Two new BIS functions added:
      1. XStringReplace
      2. XStringReplaceAndEscape
    3. Email Writer body encoding
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)
    1. Enable Queuelockhandler

2024 January release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2, update 23.2
  2. New Features
    1. Xml Generator partial document action
    2. Security profiles
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2023 December release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2, update 23.1
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)
    1. Recordchange Event: Optional features
    2. ParseDate function in expression functions
    3. Additional policy for JSONTOXML Activity

2023 November release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 2, update 23.0
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2023 October release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1, update 22.4
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2023 September release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1, update 22.4
  2. New Features
    1. Xml Generator empty document action
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2023 August release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1, update 22.3
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2023 July release notifications

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1, update 22.2
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2023 June release notifications

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1, update 22.0
  2. New feature
    1. Code Event
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2023 May release notifications

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2023 Wave 1, update 22.0
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2023 April release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2, update 21.5
  2. New Features
    1. Templates are no longer company specific
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2023 March release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2, update 21.4
  2. New Features
    1. Webservice Endpoint: Configurable HTTP response actions
    2. XML2Json Translator: Promoted Node
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2023 February release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2, update 21.3
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2023 January release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2, update 21.2
  2. New Features
    1. The RunObject Activity is now available
    2. A new XMLTOXMLTRANSLATOR template is available: ReportParameters
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2022 December release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2, update 21.1
  2. New Features
    1. Enum conversion functions in expression functions
    2. Conversion tables are available
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2022 November release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 2, update 21.0
  2. New Features
    1. New pipeline element available:
      1. AsyncWebService (Trigger the continuation of a pipeline by a Microsoft Dynamics BC Web Service)
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2022 October release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1, update 20.5
  2. New Features
    1. New pipeline elements available:
      1. AsyncAzFileReader (Waits and reads a specific file from the Azure File Storage)
      2. AsyncWebService (Trigger the continuation of a pipeline by a Microsoft Dynamics BC Web Service)
      3. XmlMinifier (Clean an xml document of empty nodes/blocks that are not mandatory)
      4. Scheduler (Schedules the current message in the Job Queue when it's not already in it.)
    2. The JsonToXml and XmlToJson activities logic has been expanded
    3. The WebService endpoint supports dynamic mapping
    4. The Webservice Event has been ported to SaaS
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2022 September release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1, update 20.4
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2022 August release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1, update 20.2
  2. New Features
    1. Configuration packages are preloaded as templates
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2022 July release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1, update 20.2
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2022 June release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1, update 20.1
  2. New Features
    1. Metadata access in mapping expressions
    2. Template interface
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2022 May release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2022 Wave 1, update 20.0
  2. New Features
    1. XML Generator now supports mandatory relations.
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2022 April release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2, update 19.5
  2. New Features
    1. Email Writer endpoint has been introduced as an alternative for SMTP Writer
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2022 March release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2, update 19.4
  2. New Features
    1. Replication management is available in the cloud
    2. Support for media type fields has been introduced
    3. Telemetry has been added to all cloud products
  3. Bugfixes (Release notes)

2022 Februari release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2, update 19.2
  2. New Features
    1. Added XIF to standard set of expression functions
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)
    1. Change log filter for the Record Change Event has been introduced

2022 January release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2, update 19.1

At this point 19.2 works, but has not been officially released for all platforms 2. New Features

  1. Apps have been renamed
    • Publisher has been updated for all apps
    • Library apps are no longer prefixed with _Exclude_
  2. Parallell processing via Job queue category code has been introduced for
    • Filereader element
    • AZFilereader element
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2021 December release notification

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 2, update 19.1
  2. New Features
    1. New Element WebServiceEndpoint.
    2. XMLSchemaValidator element from OnPremise now available on SaaS
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)

2021 October release notification

Changes compared to the previous versions of BIS

  1. EDI Studio available on AppSource
  2. New Features: for an overview see Feature Matrix
    1. XML to Json Translator activity
    2. Json to XML Translator activity
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)
  4. Change in version numbering

18.4 Release Notification

Changes compared to the previous versions of BIS

  1. New products available on AppSource
    1. Connectivity Studio
    2. Anywhere Mobility Studio
  2. New Features: for an overview see Feature Matrix
    1. Rewritten Custom Expressions
      1. A new interface for custom functions is available.
    2. Reinstated XML2HTMLTRANSLATOR Activity
    3. Record Handler
    4. Attachment Handler
  3. Bug fixes (Release notes)
  4. Version aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central version 18.4

18.3 Release Notification~~

Changes compared to the previous versions of BIS

  1. New Features: for an overview see Feature Matrix
    1. Reinstated mapping: Expressions support for the MAPPER activity
    2. Rewritten Custom Expressions
      1. A new interface for custom functions is available.
    3. Reinstated XML2HTMLTRANSLATOR Activity
    4. Record Handler
    5. Attachment Handler
  2. Bug fixes (Release notes)
  3. Version aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central version 18.3

BC 17 Release Notifications

Changes compared to the previous versions of BIS

  1. Aligned with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2020 Release Wave 2, update 17.0 CLOUD version
  2. BIS has been aligned with version Build 17.0....
  3. Connectivity Studio for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central App is available on AppSource
  4. New Endpoints: AZFILEREADER & AZFILEWRITER (Cloud only) A method to write files to an Azure File Storage is added in the list of BIS elements. An Azure Storage Account is required. These endpoints are added due to cloud version not supporting FILEWRITER & FILEREADER as endpoints. This is due to complications on writing a file directly to a network shared folder from a cloud-based version.
  5. New Permissions sets: see here

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