What's new and planned for Power Virtual Agents

Important

This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to Power Virtual Agents overview. 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 2022 through March 2023. 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 2023 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.

Bot configuration

Configure bots to suit the individual needs of an organization and to provide further extensibility with other services and features.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
Trigger bot topics by events Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Nov 15, 2022 -
Use Power Fx expressions in authoring canvas Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Nov 15, 2022 -
Notify Teams users about query updates Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Oct 29, 2021 Mar 27, 2023

Core authoring

Use the Power Virtual Agents conversational editor to construct your dialogs with rich content, variables, and powerful entity types.

Feature Enabled for Public preview General availability
Use Adaptive Cards in Power Virtual Agents Users by admins, makers, or analysts Nov 15, 2022 -
Use list variables and looping in conversations Users by admins, makers, or analysts Nov 15, 2022 -
Use multi-modal response authoring Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Nov 15, 2022 -

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.