The Office 365 for business public roadmap lists updates that are currently planned. It provides details of new features, enhancements, and major updates happening in the next 30-90 days. In certain instances, Microsoft may show updates farther in advance than a few months, such as new services like Codename “Oslo” and the Office Graph. Microsoft will show updates that are in development, in the process of being rolled out as well as updates which have been launched and are available.

You can visit the Office 365 roadmap at http://office.com/roadmap
 

 

Office 365 first-release program

In addition to the public roadmap, Microsoft has also announced a new program called First Release. Opting in to First Release gives users a small selection of significant enhancements to the Office 365 user experience, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online first (Lync Online, Exchange Online Protection and Offie ProPlus are not included in first release at the current time). Once opted-in, tenants will receive qualifying new feature updates first, a minimum of two weeks before the standard release group. This is great news for Microsoft Partners who previously have sometimes received updates to their own Office 365 tenant after their customers.

If your organisation is interested in opting into the release group, an Office 365 administrator can log into http://portal.microsoftnline.com and select “First Release” from Service Settings -> Updates.