Microsoft Power Platform: 2024 release wave 1 plan
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The Microsoft Power Platform release plan for the 2024 release wave 1 announces the latest updates to customers as features are prepared for release. You can browse the release plan here online (updated throughout the month), view it in the Release planner, or download the document as a PDF file, which is updated with every publish. The plan for 2024 release wave 1 covers new features for Power Platform releasing from April 2024 through September 2024.
Download the 2024 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 2024 release wave 1 have been summarized in a separate release plan and a downloadable PDF.
The Microsoft Cloud for Industry features coming in the 2024 release wave 1 have been summarized in a separate release plan as well as a downloadable PDF.
2024 release wave 1 overview
Microsoft Power Platform enables users and organizations to analyze, act on, and automate the data to digitally transform their businesses. Microsoft Power Platform today comprises five products: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, and Microsoft Copilot Studio. It also includes the AI Builder add-in. The 2024 release wave 1 release contains hundreds of new features across Power Platform applications, including Power BI, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and AI Builder, as well as Microsoft Dataverse and Power Platform capabilities for governance and administration.
Power BI and data integration have moved to Microsoft Fabric. With this transition, you can view how Power BI will work to empower all levels of an organization to make confident decisions at any scale by enhancing copilot experiences and continuing to invest in meeting customer demands. Data integration, now Data Factory, will focus on broadening connectivity options and enrich its library of transformations, enabling real-time data replication for analytics in the data lake.
Power Apps
Power Apps is focusing on integrating Copilot to accelerate app development with AI and natural language, enhancing user reasoning and data insights in custom apps. The team is also simplifying the creation of modern apps through contemporary controls, responsive layouts, and collaboration features. Additionally, they're facilitating enterprise-scale development, enabling makers and admins to expand apps across the organization with improved guardrails and quality assurance tools.
Power Pages
Power Pages interactive Copilot now supports every step of site building to create intelligent websites - design, page layouts, content editing, data binding, learning, chatbot, accessibility checking and securing the site. Connect to data anywhere with the OOB control library and secure the website with more insights at your fingertips.
Power Automate
Power Automate is bringing Copilot capabilities across cloud flows, desktop flows and process mining. This will allow customers to use natural language to discover optimization opportunities, build automations, quickly troubleshoot any issues, and provide a delightful experience in managing the automation estate. For enterprise-scale solutions, maintenance is made easier with improved notifications on product capabilities.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft Copilot Studio brings native capabilities for extending Microsoft Copilots, General Availability for Generative Actions, and geo-expansions to UAE, Germany, Norway, Korea, South America, and South Africa. We are also introducing rich capabilities to integrate with OpenAI GPT's, along with new channels such as WhatsApp and software lifecycle capabilities such as topic level import/export and RBAC.
AI Builder
AI Builder invests in three key areas: Prompt Builder for GPT prompts, Intelligent Document Processing with new features and models, and AI Governance improvements, including enhanced capacity management and data policies. These initiatives aim to empower users with advanced Generative AI, streamline document processing, and strengthen governance across AI models within Power Apps.
Microsoft Dataverse
Microsoft Dataverse continues to make investments focusing on enhancing maker experience by improving app building productivity infused with Copilot experiences, seamless connectivity to external data sources and AI-powered Enterprise Copilot in Microsoft 365.
Governance and administration and pro development
Governance and administration continues to provide more tools and insights for Admins to get the most from the Power Platform. In this wave we are introducing new capabilities to help customers manage their low code assets at scale and introducing several new security capabilities to help govern a highly secure platform.
Pro development offers a rich spectrum of extensibility points and tooling capabilities that provide code-first developers with great experiences for Power Platform application development. These experiences enable enterprises to iterate faster and establish fusion development as a new standard where low-code and code-first developers can collaborate and build without limits.
Key dates for the 2024 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 (go to Microsoft policy).
Here are the key dates for the 2024 release wave 1.
| Milestone | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Release plans available | January 25, 2024 | Learn about the new capabilities coming in the 2024 release wave 1 (April 2024 – September 2024) across Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Cloud for Industry. |
| Early access available | February 5, 2024 | Test and validate new features and capabilities that will be a part of the 2024 release wave 1, coming in April, before they get enabled automatically for your users. You can view the Microsoft Power Platform 2024 release wave 1 early access features now. |
| Release plans available in 11 additional languages | February 19, 2024 | The Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Cloud for Industry release plans are published in 11 additional languages: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, and Swedish. |
| General availability | April 1, 2024 | Production deployment for the 2024 release wave 1 begins. Regional deployments will start on April 1, 2024. |
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 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 into the 2024 release wave 1.
Let us know your thoughts. Share your feedback in the Microsoft Power Platform community forum. We'll use your feedback to make improvements.