Microsoft Power Platform: 2024 release wave 2 plan
The Microsoft Power Platform release plan for the 2024 release wave 2 announces the latest updates to customers as features are prepared for release. You can browse the release plan here online (updated throughout the month), view it in the Release planner, or download the document as a PDF file, which is updated with every publish. The plan for 2024 release wave 2 covers new features for Power Platform releasing from October 2024 through March 2025.
Download the 2024 release wave 2 PDF for Power Platform or select the option at the bottom of the table of contents.
The Dynamics 365 features coming in the 2024 release wave 2 have been summarized in a separate release plan and a downloadable PDF.
The Microsoft Cloud for Industry features coming in the 2024 release wave 2 have been summarized in a separate release plan as well as a downloadable PDF.
2024 release wave 2 overview
Microsoft Power Platform enables users and organizations to analyze, act on, and automate the data to digitally transform their businesses. Microsoft Power Platform today comprises five products: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. It also includes the AI Builder add-in. The 2024 release wave 2 contains hundreds of new features across Power Platform applications, including Power BI, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and AI Builder, as well as Microsoft Dataverse and Power Platform capabilities for governance and administration.
Power BI and data integration have moved to Microsoft Fabric. With this transition, you can view how Power BI will work to empower all levels of an organization to make confident decisions at any scale by enhancing copilot experiences and continuing to invest in meeting customer demands. Data integration, now Data Factory, will focus on broadening connectivity options and enrich its library of transformations, enabling real-time data replication for analytics in the data lake.
Power Apps
Power Apps will continue to transform app experiences with infused intelligence, enabling users to be more productive; leveraging Copilot to work with data, get insights and improve their apps. Makers will continue to benefit from AI assisted development, enabling rich and complex applications to be built with monitoring, control, and unmatched governance for admins ensuring organizations can adopt low code and AI transformation at scale.
Power Pages
Power Pages will expedite site building for a low-code maker or pro developer to build intelligent sites that reimagine the way you interact with your employees, customers, and partners.
Power Automate
Power Automate will continue to make it easier to build flows by using natural language and multi-modal generative AI capabilities across cloud flows and desktop flows, troubleshooting runs, and manage your automation estate with an end-to-end view. This, along with improvements in process mining to jumpstart creation of automation through Microsoft 365 integration and ongoing improvements to scaling, means it'll be easier than ever for new users to get started and scale.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft Copilot Studio is advancing Copilot capabilities and IVR support with Dynamics Customer Service and will expand geographically to the UAE and Germany. Additionally, the team is improving software lifecycle management capabilities with topic-level import/export and RBAC, as well as enhancing governance and administration functionalities.
AI Builder
AI Builder is investing in Prompt Builder for creating and deploying GPT prompts with enterprise data to enhance flows, apps, data tables, and Copilots. We are also enhancing Intelligent Document Processing with a new validation station in Power Automate, ALM support, and pre-built AI models for translation, classification, and PII detection. Lastly, we’ll improve AI Governance through capacity management, data policies, and including AI Builder capacity in the Power Apps developer plan.
Microsoft Dataverse
Microsoft Dataverse is enhancing the maker experience by boosting app building productivity with Copilot, ensuring seamless connectivity to external data and knowledge sources, and integrating AI-powered Enterprise Copilot in Microsoft 365. These investments aim to streamline development and leverage AI for more efficient and intelligent solutions.
Governance and administration
Governance and administration continues to advance through tools and insights that empower Power Platform admins to easily get their job done. This wave focuses on governing Copilot adoption and easily securing low code assets, helping enterprises boost adoption of Power Platform solutions in their organization while keeping their digital environment safe.
Key dates for the 2024 release wave 2
These release plans describe functionality that may not have been released yet. Delivery timelines and projected functionality may change or may not ship (go to Microsoft policy).
Here are the key dates for the 2024 release wave 2.
| Milestone | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Release plans available | July 16, 2024 | Learn about the new capabilities coming in the 2024 release wave 2 (October 2024 – March 2025) across Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Cloud for Industry. |
| Early access available | August 12, 2024 | Test and validate new features and capabilities that will be a part of the 2024 release wave 2, coming in October, before they get enabled automatically for your users. You can view the Microsoft Power Platform 2024 release wave 2 early access features now. |
| Release plans available in 11 additional languages | August 2, 2024 | The Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Cloud for Industry release plans are published in 11 additional languages: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, and Swedish. |
| General availability | October 1, 2024 | Production deployment for the 2024 release wave 2 begins. Regional deployments will start on October 1, 2024. |
Just like the previous release waves, we continue to call out how each feature will be enabled in your environment:
- Users, automatically – These features include changes to the experience for users and are enabled automatically.
- Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically – These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
- Users by admins, makers, or analysts – These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
You can get ready with confidence knowing which features will be enabled automatically.
We've done this work to help you—our partners, customers, and users—drive the digital transformation of your business on your terms. We're looking forward to engaging with you as you put these new services and capabilities to work, and we're eager to hear your feedback as you dig into the 2024 release wave 2.
Let us know your thoughts. Share your feedback in the Microsoft Power Platform community forum. We'll use your feedback to make improvements.