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Business Central major and minor updates
LS Central update availability
How to manage updates in BC admin center?
Maintenance and upgrades
For LS Central new events are released on a weekly basis and cumulative updates at least once between major versions. New features are focused on in the annual April and October updates coinciding with Microsoft's release of Business Central.
An LS Central release candidate is available five to six weeks before the major Business Central release from Microsoft. This means that the release candidate for the wave 1 version is available by the end of February, while the wave 2 version is available by the end of August.
The latest release candidate apps of LS Central are available from the LS Update Service.
The apps are available as packages, ls-central-app and ls-central-system-app, with a pre-release version in the form X.Y.Z-rc.BUILDNUMBER, or for example 20.4.0-rc.250.
For information about hotfix releases see the LS Retail Portal.
Business Central major and minor updates
For an overview of major and minor updates for Business Central, click here.
LS Central update availability
AppSource apps are automatically updated to the latest version during an environment's major update. For more information refer to The lifecycle of apps and extensions for Business Central.
How to manage updates in BC admin center?
For details see Managing updates in the Business Central admin center.
Apps update cadence
We recommend that you always update LS Central to the latest version when you update with Business Central minor updates. Therefore, we recommend that you set the Apps Update Cadence to With major and minor updates in the Admin Center.
Alternatively, administrators who prefer not to receive LS Central minor and hotfix updates between major versions can set the Apps Update Cadence to With major updates. With this setting, LS Central will only be updated when the environment undergoes a major update.
For details see Managing Apps Update Cadence.
How to install hotfixes?
Hotfixes are manually installed from the Admin Center in the Apps section. See further information here: Install an app update - the flow.
For more details on how hotfixes are managed during an environment update, see Managing Apps Update Cadence - Hotfixes.