What's new and planned for Power Automate

Important

This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to What's new in Power Automate?. For the latest release plans, go to Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.

This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2021 through September 2021. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.

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 date of release.

This check mark ( ) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access, and general availability.

Cloud flows

As part of our Digital Process Automation offering, there are several new capabilities for users of cloud flows.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	Early access*	General availability
Search records in Microsoft Dataverse with relevance search	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	Apr 11, 2021	-
Trigger flows when a Microsoft Dataverse action is called	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Apr 25, 2021	-	-
Contextual automation in Power BI	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Apr 12, 2021
Governance capabilities to prevent data loss	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Apr 12, 2021
Use environment variables to simplify application lifecycle management	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Apr 12, 2021
Development as a team sport - Copresence in Power Automate	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Aug 29, 2021

Desktop flows

As part of our Robotic Process Automation offering, there are several new capabilities for users of desktop flows.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	Early access*	General availability
Desktop recorder now supports image-based recording	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Apr 13, 2021
Enhanced copy and paste feature	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Apr 13, 2021
New save as functionality in Power Automate Desktop	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Apr 13, 2021
Refresh the list of flows from the Power Automate Desktop console	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Apr 13, 2021
Support for Java apps and Java applets	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Apr 13, 2021
Add timeout parameter in launch browser actions	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	May 19, 2021
Extra options in the help section of console and designer	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	May 19, 2021
Power Automate Desktop update notifications	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	May 19, 2021
Enhance Dynamics 365 apps with robotic process automation	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Mar 31, 2021	-	May 26, 2021
Support for unattended RPA trials for non-admins	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Jun 14, 2021
Desktop recorder automatically switches to image recording when it detects Remote Desktop or Citrix windows	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Jun 15, 2021
Improvements in configuration of Windows-related actions	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Jun 15, 2021
New action to take screenshots of a UI element	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Jul 22, 2021
Power Automate Desktop detects proxy settings	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Jul 22, 2021
Remove unused UI elements and images from repositories	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Jul 22, 2021
The convert datetime to text action shows a sample of the selected format	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Jul 22, 2021
The set variable action supports multiline text	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Jul 22, 2021
Run desktop flow ability to call desktop flows from other desktop flows	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Jun 15, 2021	-	Jul 22, 2021
Actionable connectivity error messages in Power Automate Desktop	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Aug 12, 2021
New Excel actions in Power Automate Desktop	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Aug 12, 2021
Option to select screen resolution	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Aug 12, 2021
Invoke SOAP web service action	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Sep 13, 2021
New getting started experience in Power Automate Desktop	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	Sep 13, 2021
Power Automate can start desktop automation without using the on-premises data gateway	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Mar 15, 2021	-	Sep 13, 2021
Support for RPA machine clusters with automatic load balancing	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Mar 15, 2021	-	Sep 13, 2021

Document automation

Intelligent document processing provides an end-to-end experience combining the best of AI Builder and Power Automate.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	Early access*	General availability
Additional capabilities for document automation	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	May 20, 2021	-

Process advisor

Process advisor is a capability that reveals insights into how people work and provides visualizations for users to identify processes suited for automation.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	Early access*	General availability
Process advisor is now generally available	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	-	May 18, 2021
Edit and annotate process recordings	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Dec 10, 2020	-	May 18, 2021
Invite colleagues to process recordings	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Dec 10, 2020	-	May 18, 2021
Record repetitive, manual processes with Power Automate Desktop	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Dec 10, 2020	-	May 18, 2021
View process maps and analytics for your processes	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Dec 10, 2020	-	May 18, 2021
Process advisor March 2021 updates	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Apr 11, 2021	-	May 18, 2021
Import and export processes from process advisor	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Apr 1, 2021	-	May 19, 2021
Application insights for process advisor	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	May 18, 2021	-	To be announced
Automation recommendations in process advisor	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	May 19, 2021	-	To be announced

* You are able to opt in to some features as part of early access on February 1, 2021, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.

Description of Enabled for column values:

• Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.

• Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, 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.

For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.