What's new and planned for Microsoft Copilot Studio
This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2025 through September 2025. 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 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.
Copilot and AI innovation
Use industry leading generative AI capabilities in Microsoft Copilot Studio to do the work so you and your team don't have to.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add suggested prompts to custom copilots | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | May 2025 |
| Use prebuilt agents as a starting point for Copilot creation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2025 | Apr 2025 |
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 | Mar 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Use a single connector for both knowledge and actions | Users, automatically | Feb 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Enrich agents with third party data using extensions | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Feb 13, 2025 |
May 2025 |
| Publish connector actions to multiple Copilot deployments | Users, automatically | Mar 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Unpublish connector actions for Copilot agents | Users, automatically | Mar 2025 | Apr 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Get enhanced diagnostics to help troubleshoot your agent | Users, automatically | Mar 2025 | May 2025 |
| Test and debug agent actions in Copilot Studio | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Analyze action usage for agents | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2025 | May 2025 |
| Analyze knowledge source usage for custom agents | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jan 13, 2025 |
May 2025 |
| Easily find and use knowledge data sources | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | May 2025 |
| Use Teams chats as knowledge sources | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Apr 2025 |
Service, runtime, and governance
Microsoft Copilot Studio continues to meet strict compliance and governance requirements.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| See security-related views and statuses for agents within Copilot Studio | Users, automatically | Apr 2025 | May 2025 |
Speech and IVR
Craft rich AI powered voice solutions using the Microsoft Copilot Studio advanced authoring canvas and native voice support.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manage business rules for omnichannel agents | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | Apr 2025 |
- You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on February 3, 2025, 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.
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