What's new and planned for Power Apps
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to Microsoft Power Apps documentation. For the latest release plans, go to Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Cloud for Industry release plans.
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 next wave's release plans, go to 2024 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.
Building modern apps
Build responsive apps that use modern controls and have offline capabilities.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern screen templates for canvas apps | Users, automatically | - | - |
Sep 22, 2024 |
| Use the Power Platform Environment Settings app | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 20, 2024 |
- | Jan 2025 |
| Display AI-generated app descriptions in model-driven apps | Users, automatically | - | - |
Jun 2, 2024 |
| Understand canvas apps functionality through code view | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jun 2, 2024 |
- | Oct 2024 |
| Modernize maker experience security settings | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 28, 2024 |
- |
Jul 14, 2024 |
| Work together in real time to create canvas apps | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Jun 23, 2024 |
- | Dec 2024 |
| Quickly start an app when launching Power Apps mobile | Users, automatically | - |
Mar 18, 2024 |
May 19, 2024 |
| Import .msapp files in Power Apps | Users, automatically | - | - |
Sep 8, 2024 |
Copilot for Power Apps makers and users
Makers and users can leverage AI to build apps and bring natural language to their own apps to make users more productive.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Explain this Power Fx | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Apr 14, 2024 |
| Use environment routing for Copilot | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | - |
Aug 18, 2024 |
| Provide welcome content for Copilot Studio | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | - |
Aug 18, 2024 |
| Get help filling forms in model-driven apps | Users, automatically | - | - |
Apr 1, 2024 |
| Visualize and work with complex data using copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jun 23, 2024 |
- |
Sep 24, 2024 |
| Manage Copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 28, 2024 |
- | - |
| Review column suggestions from Copilot in model-driven apps | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 11, 2024 |
- | Oct 2024 |
| Bring your custom copilots into Power Apps canvas apps | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Jul 15, 2024 |
- | - |
| Get field suggestions with Copilot in Power Apps | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Jun 2, 2024 |
Enable enterprise scale
These features improve Power Apps Studio with capabilities that allow building large enterprise scale and complex apps.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Set up and create pipelines in Power Apps seamlessly | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 17, 2024 |
- |
Apr 30, 2024 |
| Direct new makers to their own developer environments | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Aug 22, 2023 |
- |
Apr 24, 2024 |
| Make direct calls to SQL Server stored procedures | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Mar 10, 2024 |
- |
Jul 28, 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.