What's new and planned for Microsoft Copilot Studio

This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2024 through September 2024. 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 previous wave's release plans, go to 2023 release wave 2 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.

Copilot and AI innovation

Industry-leading generative AI capabilities in Microsoft Copilot Studio do the work so you and your team don't have to.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Use generative AI insights and other analytics enhancements to improve your copilots	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Jun 2024	-
Create custom copilots conversationally	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	May 21, 2024	-
Use Azure OpenAI on your data for generative answers	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	-	Aug 2024
Build custom copilots easily with an updated look and feel	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	May 21, 2024
Employ user authentication and parameters in plugins	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Jul 2024	-
Use generative actions	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	-	Jun 2024
Use generative answers in all supported languages	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Feb 3, 2024	Apr 30, 2024
Add copilots to Teams meetings	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Aug 2024	-
Create Microsoft Copilot extensions with Copilot Studio	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Jun 2024	-
Connect to the range of knowledge sources in Copilot Studio	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	May 21, 2024
Configure enterprise-level security for Copilot Studio	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	May 21, 2024

Copilot configuration

Copilot configuration customizes and configures how your organization or business uses Microsoft Copilot Studio copilots.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Use customer managed encryption keys to protect your data	Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Sep 2024	-
Deploy copilots to WhatsApp, Azure Communication Services Chat and SMS channels	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2024	-

Core authoring

Use the Microsoft Copilot Studio conversational editor to construct your dialogs with rich content, variables, and powerful entity types.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Import and export topics across copilots and environments	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	Sep 2024	-

Service, runtime, and governance

Microsoft Copilot Studio continues to meet strict compliance and governance requirements.

Feature	Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
View billing and usage in the admin center	Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically	-	Jul 2024

• You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on February 5, 2024, 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.