Microsoft retires Release Planner and moves Dynamics 365 updates to AI at Work

Microsoft has retired Release Planner, the public tool that tracked planned features for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. When AI Ping opened the old address on November 15, it redirected to Microsoft’s AI at Work roadmap. Microsoft first announced the transition in its Dynamics 365 blog in August and reiterated the November 15 deadline in a September notice to partners.

Teams following new Dynamics 365, Power Platform and Dataverse features can now find them alongside Microsoft 365 and Copilot releases on the same public roadmap. Personalized views saved in the old planner do not transfer. The destination lets users narrow the list by product, share a link to the results or download filtered results as a CSV file.

The two sites used to cover different sets of products. Release Planner tracked business applications, while the Microsoft 365 roadmap followed collaboration tools and Copilot features. Microsoft renamed the latter AI at Work and added business application plans. A support organization that uses Dynamics 365 for customer records and Copilot Studio for an agent, for example, can see planned changes to both in one place.

Feature announcements move to a rolling schedule

Microsoft began posting new entries for the three business product groups in September. It published the entries individually as plans were ready and dropped the separate calendar announcement for the second half of 2026. The company set June 1, 2026 as the cutoff for older items to move over, based on the scheduled date of either public preview or general availability.

Entries can be looked up by feature ID or product. They show whether a capability is in development, rolling out or launched, and users can filter for products and cloud environments that apply to them. Microsoft describes dates as estimates. Its rollout start date marks when a change begins reaching customers. Where Microsoft offers an early rollout to selected customers, the date reflects the start of that phase.

Individual product versions still have their own release records. Microsoft Learn, for example, lists Business Central update 29.0 under the product label ‘2026 release wave 2’. That version’s notes list Copilot chat as a public preview and an improvement to purchase-order matching as generally available, with a separate roadmap entry for each. The planner retirement ends the combined twice-yearly announcement of plans for the three product groups. Microsoft’s Message Center remains the source of change notifications for a specific organization’s tenant. For a team scheduling tests around a public estimate, that notice is where Microsoft identifies changes that apply to its environment.

Country and language availability has its own reports

A planned release on the roadmap and an availability listing for a particular market answer different questions. Microsoft’s separate availability page for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform links to reports on products available by geography and supported languages. A team working across cloud regions or languages can use those reports to see which deployments a release applies to.

Microsoft said it would keep historical release plans on its Learn site. The public landing page now marks the release plans as retired and points readers to the new roadmap. Items from before the June 1 cutoff remain in the historical plans. The current roadmap also says entries may drop off once a feature reaches general availability, is cancelled or is postponed.

The new roadmap can also be followed outside the website. It offers subscriptions through RSS. Microsoft separately provides public roadmap data through its Release Communications MCP server, which lets compatible AI tools look up a feature or search by product. According to Microsoft’s documentation, no sign-in is required. A lookup by feature ID can return the applicable products and availability dates. The underlying public release information refreshes daily.