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The Microsoft Power Platform release plan for the 2026 release wave 1 announces the latest updates to customers as features are prepared for release. You can browse the release plan here online (updated weekly), view it in the Release planner, or download the document as a PDF file, which is updated with every publish. The plan for 2026 release wave 1 covers new features for Power Platform releasing from April 2026 through September 2026.
Download the 2026 release wave 1 PDF for Power Platform or select the option at the bottom of the table of contents.
The Dynamics 365 features coming in the 2026 release wave 1 have been summarized in a separate release plan and a downloadable PDF.
The role-based Copilot offerings features coming in the 2026 release wave 1 have been summarized in a separate release plan as well as a downloadable PDF.
2026 release wave 1 overview
Microsoft Power Platform enables users and organizations to analyze, act on, and automate data to digitally transform their businesses. The 2026 release wave 1 contains hundreds of new features across Power Platform applications, including Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, and Microsoft Copilot Studio, as well as Microsoft Dataverse and Power Platform capabilities for governance and administration.
Power Apps
Power Apps continues to modernize app experiences with a refreshed model-driven UI, improved mobile and offline capabilities, faster search, and expanded AI features. This release brings standardized modern theming to everyone, real-time Dataverse access for offline-first Canvas apps, enhanced search in grids and lookups, and broader availability and extensibility of generative pages to help teams build and scale intelligent apps faster.
Power Pages
Power Pages will further empower pro-developers and low-code makers to build intelligent business portals for your employees, customers, citizens and partners through better integration with market leading AI tools. Additionally, enhanced security agent features will further support low code makers, pro developers, and admins with actionable insights and abilities for securing their websites.
Power Automate
Power Automate is Microsoft's comprehensive automation platform for cloud flows, desktop flows, and process mining. This release introduces AI agent authoring, optimization, and self-healing capabilities for desktop flows, Copilot Studio-powered actions in cloud flows, enhanced maker and collaboration tools across both, general availability of object-centric process mining, and consolidated governance reporting.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft Copilot Studio continues its journey to make agent and agentic workflows even easier to build and more powerful. Now you can further customize agents built with Agent Builder in M365 Copilot, and power your automation with high value AI actions. Deeper governance, multi-agent orchestration and evaluations enable further scaling. With deeper integration with Microsoft Foundry and Work IQ, your agents can use the latest AI technology in coordination with your most organizational data.
Microsoft Dataverse
Microsoft Dataverse continues to invest in enterprise-ready agentic and low-code data platform capabilities. The spotlight is on Work IQ and M365 Copilot integration, delivering organization-specific decisions with adaptive learning and full auditability. We're also enhancing agent programmability with Dataverse APIs, MCP servers, and Python SDK, plus new storage management tools for enterprise-grade compliance at scale.
Governance and administration
Microsoft Power Platform governance and administration introduces admin controls for agent security, real-time risk assessment in Copilot Studio, and AI-powered governance agents that automate tenant monitoring and remediation in this release. Enhanced visibility into usage patterns, granular Copilot credit consumption with PAYG caps, and connector dependencies helps you optimize costs, demonstrate ROI, and maintain compliance. GitHub integration and deploy from Git mature your ALM practices with full audit trails.
Key dates for the 2026 release wave 1
These release plans describe functionality that may not have been released yet. Delivery timelines and projected functionality may change or may not ship (see Microsoft policy).
Here are the key dates for the 2026 release wave 1.
| Milestone | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Release plans available | March 18, 2026 | Learn about the new capabilities coming in the 2026 release wave 1 (April 2026 - September 2026) across Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and role-based Copilot offerings. |
| General availability | April 1, 2026 | Production deployment for the 2026 release wave 1 begins. Regional deployments will start on April 1, 2026. |
| Release plans available in additional languages | April 3, 2026 | The Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and role-based Copilot offerings release plans are published in 11 additional languages: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, and Swedish. |
Just like the previous release waves, we continue to call out how each feature will be enabled in your environment:
- Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience for users and are enabled automatically.
- Admins, makers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, 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.
You can get ready with confidence knowing which features will be enabled automatically.
We’ve done this work to help you—our partners, customers, and users—drive the digital transformation of your business on your terms. We’re looking forward to engaging with you as you put these new services and capabilities to work, and we’re eager to hear your feedback as you dig in to the 2026 release wave 1 plans.
Let us know your thoughts. Share your feedback in the Microsoft Power Platform community forum. We'll use your feedback to make improvements.