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Update process

Important

Starting February 2026, new customers can't create projects in Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations. New customers should use the Power Platform admin center instead. For more information, see Lifecycle Services project creation freeze.

Important

For more information about the update process, see Process for moving to the latest update of finance and operations. For more information about hotfixes, see Download updates from Lifecycle Services (LCS).

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources is a true software as a service (SaaS) that provides continuous, touchless service updates. These updates contain both application and platform changes that often provide critical improvements to the service, including regulatory updates.

Update policy

Updates are released on a regular cadence to all environments. Human Resources is supported according to the Microsoft Lifecycle policy, which provides consistent and predictable guidelines for the availability of support.

Release cadence

Human Resources updates are applied to all environments automatically. Human Resources provides two types of releases:

  • Service updates: Service updates include applicable platform updates when they're released. In addition to exception-based updates, regular service updates occur following the General Availability (GA) of Dynamics 365 Finance platform updates. For more information about platform releases, see What's new or changed in Platform updates. Updates have a staged global rollout across regions. For more information about updates, see What's new or changed in Dynamics 365 Human Resources.

  • Dataverse solution updates: These updates occur approximately every six weeks, as needed. They include new entities and changes to existing entities in Dataverse. These updates are released to the same regions as the biweekly updates, and they take about six weeks to replicate through all data centers. Solution updates might not align with biweekly service updates.

Note

Solution updates are available on all data centers once they're released. If you don't want to wait for the updates to replicate automatically, you can manually apply these updates on any environment in any data center.

When needed, Human Resources provides the following types of fixes:

  • Revision (hotfix): Bug fixes that can occur either with or apart from a biweekly service update release

  • Emergency fix: Proactive and reactive hotfixes that are standalone in nature, can include configuration-only or code changes to resolve live site issues, and can occur apart from a biweekly service update release

Releases are reviewed, tested, and validated on an internal environment. After builds are signed off, they're deployed to production.

Communications

To learn about what's in development for Human Resources and what Microsoft has released, see the following resources:

Preview features in a sandbox environment

You can validate preview features in a sandbox environment before enabling them in your production environment. For more information about enabling features, see Feature management overview.

All new features remain in preview for at least 30 days, and typically 30-60 days. Major features are generally available in October and April of each year following the preview period. As soon as you see new capabilities in the Feature management workspace, you can turn them on. Some features might be on by default.

At times, an integral feature is on by default and can't be turned off (for example, the Feature management workspace).

When a feature is generally available, you can turn it on or off in production environments. The Feature management workspace indicates when a preview feature becomes mandatory. This date is usually on October 1 or April 1 to align with the semiannual release plans. You can't turn off mandatory features. Until a feature becomes mandatory, you can turn it on and off in all environments.

We highly recommend previewing features in a sandbox or trial environment. It's best to create a copy of your current production environment or database into a sandbox environment so you can get the complete experience of the new features with your data.

For more information about provisioning a sandbox environment, see Provision a Human Resources project. To remove a test environment, see Remove an instance.

Report bugs

While testing preview features or trying new capabilities, you might find items that don't work as expected. Report any bugs through Microsoft Dynamics 365 support.

See also

Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Release Plans
What's new or changed in Dynamics 365 Human Resource
Software lifecycle policy

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