What's new and planned for Power Automate
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.
Cloud flows
Quickly automate across a variety of systems through advanced AI and extensive connectivity.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create Power Automate flows in Excel | Users, automatically | - | - | Jun 2024 |
| Monitor performance for cloud and desktop flow activities | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2024 | - | - |
| View two action properties panes simultaneously | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | May 2024 |
| Use undo and redo while you build cloud flows in the designer | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jun 2024 |
| Use copy-paste for container actions like Scope, Condition, and Apply to each | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | May 2024 |
| Use a simplified OData editor in actions like Get items and Get files | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jun 2024 |
| Manage unpublished solution-aware cloud flows using admin APIs | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Apr 2024 |
| Connect to other environments from the Microsoft Dataverse connector | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 12, 2023 |
- | May 2024 |
| Cancel all flow runs for a version of a flow | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | May 2024 |
| Receive intelligent license recommendations for admins | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jul 2024 | - | - |
| Push cloud flow execution data into Application Insights | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Aug 22, 2023 |
- | May 2024 |
| Use your own encryption key for encrypting data at-rest for existing environments | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Sep 2024 |
| Create a flow on a file in Teams | Users, automatically | - | - | May 2024 |
| Cloud flows are automatically defined in Dataverse solutions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 21, 2023 |
- | Jun 2024 |
| View a Power Automate visual in a Power BI report | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | May 2024 |
Copilot for Power Automate
Let copilot help you create automations using natural language.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troubleshoot with Copilot for cloud flows execution | Users, automatically | - | - | Apr 2024 |
| Automate with ease using the AI Recorder | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jun 2024 | - | - |
| Enter into a conversation-first Copilot experience to build flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | May 2024 |
| Transform scripting using AI-driven natural language | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 12, 2023 |
- | Sep 2024 |
| Maximize your productivity with generative answers | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 12, 2023 |
- | Sep 2024 |
| Streamline workflow creation with the next best action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jan 29, 2024 |
- | Sep 2024 |
| Generate flow description using AI | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2024 | - | To be announced |
| Use natural language to create a flow in Teams | Users, automatically | - | - | Apr 2024 |
| Leverage desktop automation with the Power Automate Plugin for Windows Copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2024 | - | - |
Desktop flows
Use the new desktop flows features to automate tasks on your Windows PC.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-heal UI and browser automation actions at execution with AI | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jun 2024 | - | Sep 2024 |
| Set up fallback UI automation mechanism | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jun 2024 |
| Power Fx integration with Power Automate for desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 18, 2023 |
- | Sep 2024 |
| Use CyberArk credentials in desktop flow connections | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jun 2024 | - | To be announced |
| Use the Run Power Fx expression | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Sep 2024 |
| Use Python v3 in Power Automate for desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Apr 2024 |
| Use machine to credential mapping in desktop flow connections | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jul 2024 | - | - |
| ​Create desktop flows using natural language with copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jun 2024 | - | - |
| Use Azure Key Vault credentials in flow connections | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 31, 2023 |
- | Jun 2024 |
| Create a reusable collection of UI elements | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Apr 2024 | - | Jul 2024 |
| Use customer-managed encryption key for Hosted RPA | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Jun 2024 | - | - |
| Connect your own virtual network with hosted machine group | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2024 | - | Jul 2024 |
| Automation center to monitor and manage all your automations and related assets | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2024 | - | Sep 2024 |
| View attended desktop flow runs using picture-in-picture execution mode | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jan 29, 2024 |
- | May 2024 |
Process Mining
Optimize operations and uncover opportunities for automation with process mining and task mining for Power Automate.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingest process data from customers' data lakes | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Apr 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.
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