What's new and planned for Power BI
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, see Microsoft Power Platform product documentation. For the latest release plans, see Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.
This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2020 through September 2020. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released (see Microsoft policy).
- For a list of the previous wave's release plans, see the 2019 release wave 2 release plan.
- For a list of the next wave's release plans, see the 2020 release wave 2 release plan.
In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the day of release.
This check mark (
) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for general availability.
Power BI Desktop
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Visual personalization for users | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically |  Apr 20, 2020 |
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| Q&A synonym improvements | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jul 13, 2020 |
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| DirectQuery support for Q&A | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 17, 2020 |
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| Incremental refresh (general availability) | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 1, 2020 |
| Filter pane migration | End users, automatically | Jul 8, 2019 |
Apr 15, 2020 |
| Theme editor global defaults | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 17, 2020 |
| Conditional formatting for totals and subtotals | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | May 6, 2020 |
| Personalized Visualizations pane | End users, automatically | Sep 1, 2019 |
May 19, 2020 |
| Drillthrough buttons | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | May 22, 2020 |
May 22, 2020 |
| DirectQuery support for AI visuals | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jun 1, 2020 |
| Decomposition tree (general availability) | End users, automatically | Feb 3, 2020 |
Jun 1, 2020 |
| Automatic page refresh (general availability) | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Jun 10, 2020 |
| Mobile report grid resolution | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Jun 10, 2020 |
| Mobile report layout authoring enhancements | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Jun 10, 2020 |
| Hierarchy slicer | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Jun 15, 2020 |
| Office ribbon in Power BI Desktop (general availability) | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Jun 18, 2020 |
Power BI Embedded
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embed Power BI paginated reports into an application for your customers | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Nov 5, 2019 |
May 5, 2020 |
| Extended developer tools and samples to support additional development platforms | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | May 30, 2020 |
| Embedded AI - decomposition trees | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Nov 30, 2019 |
Jun 30, 2020 |
Power BI Mobile
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| HoloLens v2 support | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 30, 2020 |
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| Bookmarks in Windows presentation mode | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jun 10, 2020 |
| Dark mode | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Jun 10, 2020 |
Power BI Service
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dataflows DirectQuery | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Apr 1, 2020 |
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| Overload alerts | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 30, 2020 |
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| Capacity metrics app | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | May 1, 2020 |
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| Dataset refresh overview | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | May 1, 2020 |
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| Collaboration on Power BI in Microsoft Teams | End users, automatically | Jul 31, 2020 |
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| New look | End users, automatically | Sep 17, 2020 |
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| Power BI dataflows and Azure Data Lake Storage integration at workspace level | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Sep 30, 2020 |
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| Migration tooling for paginated reports | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 1, 2020 |
| In-place app update | End users, automatically | Oct 1, 2019 |
Apr 1, 2020 |
| Copy and paste visuals into other applications | End users, automatically | - | Apr 15, 2020 |
| Data lineage | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | Oct 1, 2019 |
Apr 15, 2020 |
| Improved RDL feature parity for paginated reports in Power BI | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | May 1, 2020 |
| Shared and certified datasets (general availability) | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | May 21, 2020 |
| Data protection | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Oct 31, 2019 |
May 31, 2020 |
| Recommended template apps | End users, automatically | Aug 30, 2020 |
Aug 30, 2020 |
| New Power BI geos - Germany, China, Switzerland | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Aug 31, 2020 |
| Deployment pipeline - develop, test, and deploy workspace content | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | May 5, 2020 |
Aug 31, 2020 |
| Organizational visuals as out-of-the-box visuals | Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically | - | Sep 30, 2020 |
| Managing Microsoft AppSource visuals | End users by admins, makers, or analysts | Aug 27, 2020 |
To be announced |
Description of Enabled for column values:
End users, automatically: These features include change(s) to the user experience for end 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.
End 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 end users.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, see the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and data centers (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.