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id: digest/2026-W42
type: digest
title: "BC Observatory weekly: 2026-W42"
summary: "Business Central, week 2026-W42 (2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18): 0 videos, 0 community posts, 8 Learn pages changed, 0 roadmap features added and 0 changed, 42 pull requests merged into the code (0 changing behaviour); 1225 obsolete elements in BC29, 1055 with their cleanup due."
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    - https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/admin-set-up-data-sync
    - https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/bank-create-bank-deposits
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    - https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/intercompany-how-work-documents-journals
    - https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/production-how-to-create-routings
    - https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/receivables-how-reconcile-customer-payments-list-unpaid-sales-documents
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week: 2026-W42
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  end: "2026-10-18"
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# BC Observatory weekly: 2026-W42

> Business Central, week 2026-W42 (2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18): 0 videos, 0 community posts, 8 Learn pages changed, 0 roadmap features added and 0 changed, 42 pull requests merged into the code (0 changing behaviour); 1225 obsolete elements in BC29, 1055 with their cleanup due.

2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18 · machine-generated from the knowledge base · RSS: ../../rss.xml

## Roadmap

No roadmap changes this week.

## Videos

No new videos with a page this week.

## Community posts

No new posts with a page this week.

## Learn pages changed

8 pages had commits this week:

- [Enabling Upcoming Features Ahead of Time](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/feature-management)
- [Update cycles](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/update-rollout-timeline)
- [Set up companies to synchronize master data](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/admin-set-up-data-sync)
- [Create bank deposits](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/bank-create-bank-deposits)
- [Acquire fixed assets](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/fa-how-acquire)
- [Post intercompany documents and journals](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/intercompany-how-work-documents-journals)
- [Create routings](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/production-how-to-create-routings)
- [Apply payments to unpaid sales documents](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/receivables-how-reconcile-customer-payments-list-unpaid-sales-documents)

## Code

- BC23: w1-23 at 68219edf, 8376 W1 objects
- BC24: w1-24 at f8cdd476, 8516 W1 objects
- BC25: w1-25 at 56e71c5f, 8871 W1 objects
- BC26: w1-26 at b6152d7e, 8948 W1 objects
- BC27: w1-27 at 99202eba, 9193 W1 objects
- BC28: w1-28 at d6dc01d0, 9416 W1 objects
- BC29: releases/29.x at ea08af5e, 9469 W1 objects
- BC30: main at f18567dc, 9494 W1 objects
- BC23 to BC24: 3043 objects differ (258 fields, 809 events, 1362 procedures added)
- BC24 to BC25: 1562 objects differ (83 fields, 1292 events, 1749 procedures added)
- BC25 to BC26: 1561 objects differ (128 fields, 768 events, 1176 procedures added)
- BC26 to BC27: 1378 objects differ (112 fields, 852 events, 1167 procedures added)
- BC27 to BC28: 2027 objects differ (118 fields, 481 events, 847 procedures added)
- BC28 to BC29: 1061 objects differ (57 fields, 117 events, 445 procedures added)
- BC29 to BC30: 185 objects differ (18 fields, 18 events, 112 procedures added)

## Code changes

42 pull requests merged, 0 of them touch AL source and have a page:

- microsoft/AL-Go: main: 1 merged (0 bots, 0 backports)
- microsoft/BCApps: main: 31 merged (7 bots, 0 backports)
- microsoft/BCApps: releases/29.x: 10 merged (3 bots, 6 backports)

## Deprecation radar

1225 obsolete or CLEAN-guarded elements in W1 of BC29. Newest tags:

| Tag | Elements |
|---|---|
| 29.1 | 2 |
| 29.0 | 71 |
| 28.0 | 144 |
| 27.2 | 1 |
| 27.0 | 465 |
| 26.0 | 46 |
| 25.2 | 2 |
| 25.0 | 162 |

Cleanup due: 1055 elements are guarded by a CLEAN symbol at or below BC29 and still in the code. Most affected objects:

- codeunit/22 "Item Jnl.-Post Line": 127
- codeunit/99000813 "Carry Out Action": 99
- codeunit/7000 "Sales Price Calc. Mgt.": 51
- codeunit/99000809 "Planning Line Management": 42
- codeunit/5870 "Calculate BOM Tree": 40
- codeunit/7313 "Create Put-away": 28
- codeunit/5520 "Get Unplanned Demand": 19
- codeunit/7321 "Create Inventory Put-away": 19
- codeunit/99000815 "Reservation-Check Date Confl.": 18
- table/9500 "Email Item": 14
- codeunit/99000854 "Inventory Profile Offsetting": 13
- codeunit/7322 "Create Inventory Pick/Movement": 12
- codeunit/104062 "Mfg. Upgrade BaseApp": 12
- table/5079 "Marketing Setup": 12
- codeunit/7324 "Whse.-Activity-Post": 11
