What's new and planned for Power BI
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to What's new in Power BI?. 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 October 2021 through March 2022. 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.
For a list of the next wave's release plans, go to 2022 release wave 1 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 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.
Power BI Embedded
Quickly and easily embed fully interactive reports and visuals into your applications by using Power BI analytics as your own.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embed Power BI in Jupyter notebook | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | 
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Power BI Embedded Gen2 | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 9, 2021 |
Oct 4, 2021 |
| Export Power BI report to PDF/PPTX/PNG - API | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Apr 1, 2020 |
Jan 31, 2022 |
| Easier and unlimited deployment of Power BI Embedded multitenant solution | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Mar 21, 2022 |
Power BI Premium
New Power BI Premium features help organizations accelerate the delivery of insights at scale, meeting the most demanding needs of an enterprise.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hybrid tables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 15, 2021 |
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| Data protection enhancements - Centralized Power BI DLP policies | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Dec 31, 2021 |
- |
| Deployment pipelines - multiple pipelines working together | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jan 19, 2022 |
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| Web authoring for paginated reports in Power BI | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 31, 2022 |
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| Deployment pipelines - Assign a workspace to all pipeline stages | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Dec 1, 2021 |
| Deployment pipelines - Dataflows support | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jun 15, 2021 |
Jan 19, 2022 |
| Set detailed, goal-level permissions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 1, 2021 |
To be announced |
| Set triggers and actions on goals with Power Automate | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 1, 2021 |
To be announced |
Power BI Pro
Power BI is evolving to help everyone discover and collaborate on insights, and make it easier than ever to work with data.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power BI datasets hub enhancements | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 31, 2021 |
- |
| Sparklines for table and matrix visuals | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 31, 2021 |
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| Format visuals for mobile-optimized reports | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 17, 2022 |
- |
| Improved Power BI administration and operations | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 28, 2022 |
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| Power BI catalog integration with Azure Purview | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 31, 2020 |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Export to Excel improvements for table and matrix visuals | Users, automatically |
Oct 31, 2021 |
Nov 30, 2021 |
| Power BI as a core capability in Microsoft Teams | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Oct 31, 2021 |
Nov 30, 2021 |
| Enhanced validation for dataflows | Users, automatically | - |
Mar 22, 2022 |
| Quick create on Microsoft Dataverse | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Oct 31, 2021 |
To be announced |
| Admin APIs to help with assessing oversharing risks | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 28, 2022 |
To be announced |
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.