Release notes — what we've been building on the Almanac. Newest first; open any entry for the detail. Versions are derived from these notes: a milestone bumps the major, a feature the minor, everything else the patch.
Featurev1.10.0
Calendar: 20 more communities, and pick-your-own calendarsThe Calendar is out of beta and now follows twenty more UK communities — Power BI and Fabric groups, data platform groups and Microsoft 365 and Copilot groups — with ready-made calendars so you can subscribe to just the parts you want.
New user groups from Meetup, refreshed nightly: London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle, Belfast and Devon and Cornwall Power BI and Fabric groups; data platform groups in Oxford, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Nottingham and London; M365 North, Microsoft Cloud South Coast, M365 Security & Compliance, M365UK and the Microsoft Cloud User Group; and Power Platform Ireland in Dublin.
Scottish Summit 2026 (2–3 October, Murrayfield, Edinburgh) is on the Calendar.
A new Power BI & Fabric product filter, and Copilot now covers Microsoft 365 groups too.
More calendars to subscribe to: everything, or just user groups, community calls, conferences, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Power BI & Fabric, or Copilot & Microsoft 365. Every group card also has a Subscribe link for a calendar of that group alone.
When a data platform group reposts Microsoft's Fabric Community Call, it now appears once, in the Regular community calls list.
Calendar has moved up the top bar next to News, with the beta badge removed.
Improvementv1.9.1
Calendar filters and communitiesThe Calendar is easier to scan: filter by type, format, product and region, see the next seven days first, and find the recurring community calls folded into one short list.
Filter chips for event type (user groups, community calls, conferences), in person or online, product area (Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot) and region. Each chip shows how many events it would leave, and a filtered view has its own link you can share.
Weekly and monthly community calls now sit in one Regular community calls list, one line per call with its cadence and next date, instead of repeating down the page.
A Communities section introduces the user groups behind the dates, with where they meet, their chapters and when they next meet.
The Add to your calendar buttons follow your filters, so you can subscribe to just conferences, or just what is on in your region.
Featurev1.9.0
Subscribe to the CalendarThe Calendar now publishes a calendar feed, so its user groups, community calls and conferences can sit in Outlook, Google or Apple Calendar and stay up to date.
Add to your calendar buttons on the Calendar page for Outlook (work or school), Outlook.com, Google Calendar and Apple Calendar, plus the plain feed link for any other app.
It is a subscription, not a one-off import: the feed refreshes nightly with the rest of the Calendar, and your calendar app re-reads it on its own schedule.
Times arrive in your own time zone. Cancelled events stay in the feed marked as cancelled rather than silently disappearing, and the last 60 days are kept so recent meetups do not vanish from your diary.
Contentv1.8.1
Five new Dynamics 365 knowledge basesAdded Dynamics 365 Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Customer Insights – Journeys, and Customer Insights – Data — bringing the total to eleven product knowledge bases.
D365 Sales covers pipeline management, forecasting, sequences, the sales accelerator, Copilot in Sales, LinkedIn Sales Navigator integration, and licensing. Paired with the MB-210 certification track.
D365 Customer Service covers case management, the knowledge base, SLAs and entitlements, unified routing, the Customer Service workspace, supervisor analytics, and Copilot for Service. Added to the MB-230 certification track alongside Contact Center.
D365 Field Service covers work orders and lifecycle, the schedule board and RSO, the mobile app, asset management, IoT / Connected Field Service, and Copilot on mobile. Paired with the MB-240 certification track.
D365 Customer Insights – Journeys covers real-time journey builder, segments and consent, email and SMS, event management, lead scoring, and Copilot-assisted journey creation. Paired with the MB-220 certification track.
D365 Customer Insights – Data covers data unification, unified customer profiles, segments, measures, AI predictions (churn, CLV, product recommendation), Dataverse integration, and Copilot-assisted insights. Paired with the MB-260 certification track.
Each product has its corpus folder, KB monitor configuration, and source health tracking wired up. All five share the Dynamics 365 blog feed; product-specific GitHub docs repos are configured for each.
Featurev1.8.0
Beyond Microsoft Learn — material that isn't a Learn moduleEach certification track can now list courses, books, practice assessments and community writing that Microsoft's own catalogue doesn't cover, in its own clearly separated block.
Every track has a Beyond Microsoft Learn block. It sits apart from the exam objectives and looks different on purpose — the objectives above it are Microsoft's own published outline, and this is curated judgement.
It never touches the coverage percentage. That figure still means 'Microsoft teaches this', which is the only reason it's worth quoting. A separate count sits alongside it instead.
Launches with the free Microsoft practice assessment for six exams and the official instructor-led course for six, all links checked. Anything marked 'Used it' is a first-hand opinion; everything else is a listing, not a recommendation.
No affiliate links and no paid placement, stated on every track page. Exam dumps and 'real exam questions' sites are deliberately absent — using them breaches Microsoft's exam policy and can cost you a certification you already hold.
Material carries the exam outline version it was written against, so anything predating a re-cut is flagged rather than quietly wrong.
Featurev1.7.0
Training — certification paths, weighted the way the exam isA new Training section: every Microsoft certification that covers these products, broken into stages in the order and weighting the exam itself uses, with the modules and reference docs for each objective.
Training is now a top-level area alongside Knowledge, News and Commercials. Each certification becomes a path, and each product has a Training tab listing the certifications that cover it.
The stages and their weightings are not our opinion — they come from Microsoft's own published exam outline, so a path shows you where the marks actually are. Eight tracks are live, from MB-230 to the brand-new AB-250 Contact Center AI Engineer exam, which is still in beta with Microsoft.
Every exam objective is paired with the Microsoft module that teaches it and the Almanac doc that says what happens when you configure it. Where nothing teaches an objective, it says so rather than filling the gap with something vaguely related.
Two things you can't get from Microsoft Learn: objectives whose training still covers a feature that's on a Deprecations page, and objectives where the feature shipped months ago and no training exists yet. Both are checked every night.
Ships in beta. The objective-to-module matching is generated rather than hand-checked, and the page says so — verify against the study guide before planning study time around it.
Also added: a Buy me a coffee link in the top bar. The Almanac is free and carries no advertising.
Behind the scenesv1.6.3
The daily check now acts on what it findsMaintenance that used to wait for someone now happens on its own — with a visible mark on anything that hasn't been confirmed by a person.
Prices are checked against Microsoft's own pricing pages every day. When one still matches, the check quietly records that it was verified. When Microsoft has moved one, the new figure is picked up automatically and the calculator shows a clear 'changed, not yet confirmed' warning naming the affected item until someone verifies it.
Currency conversion rates refresh themselves, but only when two independent sources agree — and they only ever affect figures already marked as conversions, never a real list price.
A well-established news source that covers a product better than what's configured is now adopted automatically. Sources that merely duplicate an existing feed are still rejected.
Articles about features Microsoft withdrew long ago are retired on their own, after their source link has been dead for two months. Nothing is thrown away — every retired article is archived first and can be put back.
Improvementv1.6.2
Power BI news, and a way to find sources that workPower BI's news feed had been empty since launch. It now has one, found by a new check that scores candidate sources on whether they actually publish.
Power BI now follows the Power BI product blog directly, rather than relying on feeds that rarely mention it. Its news page is live for the first time.
The Microsoft Fabric feed was repointed to the blog's current home; the old address had stopped publishing in June.
Copilot picked up the Microsoft 365 developer blog, which covers the extensibility and agent material the other feeds skip.
A new weekly check scores candidate sources on how recently and how regularly they publish, and how much of what they publish is actually about the product — and rejects anything that just mirrors a feed already in use.
Maintenancev1.6.1
Source checks that remember what they foundThe daily source checks now keep a record of their own decisions, so a link that has already been investigated stops being investigated again, and a source that has quietly stopped publishing gets noticed.
Every document's source link is now tracked in a ledger with a strike count and a status. A link confirmed dead but with no replacement to be found is parked with a recheck date and the reasoning behind it, rather than being re-searched every morning.
Link checks now use a normal browser identity and confirm any failure with a second attempt, which removed a long-standing crop of phantom 404s from Microsoft Learn.
Documents that deliberately have no Microsoft page are recorded as such once, instead of reporting an error daily.
Sources are now checked for whether they are still producing, not just whether they answer. One Microsoft docs repository had gone four months without a commit while passing every check.
A new check looks at what actually reaches each product's pages — knowledge base, news, roadmap and deprecations — and flags a section that has sources configured but nothing arriving.
Featurev1.6.0
Deprecations — what's going awayA new Deprecations tab on every product: the features Microsoft has announced are being retired, grouped by the area they affect. The mirror of the roadmap.
Each product now has a Deprecations page in its sub-nav, grouping retirements by the same categories as its knowledge base.
Every entry shows whether it's already retired or still to take effect, the date it happens with a countdown, what to move to instead, and a link to Microsoft's notice.
Launches with Dynamics 365 Contact Center, Power Apps and Power Automate retirements already tracked — from the Apple Messages for Business channel closing on 30 September 2026 to Unified Service Desk going away in April 2026.
Ships in beta; products with nothing announced show an empty state rather than a fabricated list.
Featurev1.5.0
Commercials for Copilot, and a home of its ownCommercials is now a top-level area alongside Knowledge and News, with a second product added: cost calculators for the whole Microsoft Copilot estate.
Commercials moved out of the knowledge base into its own section, with a product picker — Knowledge, News and Commercials are now three peers.
Added Copilot: Microsoft 365 Copilot seat sizing, Copilot Studio credit consumption, and Security Copilot compute-unit costs, in USD and GBP.
GitHub Copilot is priced in USD only, so no GBP figure is shown rather than a converted guess. Microsoft 365 Copilot Business is on promotional pricing until 30 September 2026 — the list price that renews is shown alongside it.
The calculators are now driven by each product's own cost model, so a product only shows the calculators that apply to it.
A 'What's new' page was added, and the top navigation became icon buttons with a clearer active state.
Improvementv1.4.1
Voice costing you can actually trustThe voice calculator now understands how your telephony is connected, and uses Microsoft's live per-country rate card.
Choose your connectivity model — Microsoft Calling Plan, Direct Routing, or Teams Phone Extensibility with Operator Connect or a Calling Plan — and the cost breakdown changes to match, splitting what Microsoft bills from what your carrier or operator bills.
Carrier, operator, Calling Plan and phone-number rates are editable, so you can drop in a real quote instead of an illustrative figure.
Per-minute rates now come from Microsoft's published rate card covering 174 countries, picked by destination country and type. This matters: a UK landline is far cheaper than a UK non-geographic number, and a single blended rate hid that.
Every line now shows the rate behind it, and each calculator has technical notes and links to the underlying Microsoft sources.
A daily check watches for licensing-guide editions, stale rates and rate-card movement, and flags them for review rather than changing prices silently.
Featurev1.4.0
Commercials — cost & licensing calculatorsA new Commercials area with cost and licensing calculators for Dynamics 365 Contact Center — model seats, Copilot credits, and voice, in USD and GBP.
Commercials is now a top-level area alongside Knowledge and News, with its own product picker.
Three calculators: seat sizing and bundle comparison, Copilot credit consumption, and voice / Azure Communication Services cost.
Prices are verified against Microsoft's own pricing pages. GBP uses real UK list prices (ex-VAT), not currency conversions — FX is only a clearly flagged fallback for the USD-billed Azure meters.
Ships in beta, with a daily source-drift check that flags when Microsoft changes a price rather than letting the numbers quietly go stale.
Behind the scenesv1.3.1
Update monitoring made self-healingThe nightly job that keeps each knowledge base current now runs reliably on its own and raises an alert if anything is wrong.
The daily monitor self-bootstraps from the server instead of depending on a connected folder, so scheduled runs no longer fail silently.
Added a failure alert that fires even when the server itself is the problem.
Featurev1.3.0
Home dashboard and release roadmapA new Almanac home page: a live dashboard with a release heatmap, what's coming next, the latest news, and recently updated docs.
The landing page went from two static tiles to a dashboard — headline stats, product cards, a contributions-style release heatmap (each product across the months of the year), a 'Coming next' list, latest news, and recently-updated docs.
Added a release roadmap parsed from Microsoft's official release plans, with planned / preview / GA worked out from the dates.
Added health checks on the underlying sources so a dead feed is caught instead of a topic quietly going stale.
Contentv1.2.1
Six knowledge basesAdded Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse, and Power BI — six product knowledge bases in total.
Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse, and Power BI joined Dynamics 365 Contact Center and Copilot.
Each is organised into categories ending in human-authored decision guides, and every doc follows the same house structure with a verified link back to its Microsoft source.
Featurev1.2.0
Introducing the Almanac — plus NewsThe knowledge base became the Almanac: an umbrella for the KB plus a News feed on the same topics.
Renamed and restructured so the knowledge base lives under /almanac/kb and a new News feed under /almanac/news.
News polls each product's feeds, triages and summarises anything genuinely relevant in the house voice, and links each item back to the reference docs it relates to.
Contentv1.1.1
Copilot coverage widened, site hardenedThe Copilot knowledge base grew to cover the whole Microsoft Copilot estate, and the site was locked down behind Cloudflare.
Added coverage for Security Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Power Platform, Fabric / Power BI, Azure, and Windows Copilot, plus cross-product decision guides.
The product index became a responsive card grid, and unknown paths now return a clean 404.
The origin server was placed behind Cloudflare with a firewall restricting inbound traffic to Cloudflare only.
Featurev1.1.0
Public relaunch with search, history and moreRelaunched as a public site with semantic search, version history, related docs, a review queue, reader feedback, and analytics.
Semantic search using local embeddings — no external API needed — with keyword search as a fallback.
A per-doc metadata strip, append-only version history with line-by-line diffs, and related-doc suggestions.
Cross-product search, a review queue that surfaces stale or draft docs, reader feedback, and usage analytics.
Daily source-drift monitoring that flags when a doc's Microsoft source page changes.
The Copilot knowledge base was expanded, and the update monitor was generalised to cover any product.
Milestonev1.0.0
Knowledge base launchedThe multi-product knowledge base went live, starting with Dynamics 365 Contact Center.
A new app where each product is defined as data — its categories and sources — and its docs are authored by an agent into a database with full version history.
Dynamics 365 Contact Center was migrated in from the original markdown repository, over 200 docs.