Plan and prepare for Power Apps in 2023 release wave 1
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to What's new in Power Apps?. For the latest release plans, go to Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Cloud for Industry release plans.
Important
The 2023 release wave 1 plan covers all new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from April 2023 to September 2023. In this article, you'll find the product overview and what's new and planned for Power Apps.
Overview
Microsoft Power Apps is the industry-leading low-code application development platform that underpins Dynamics 365 extensibility, Microsoft 365 customization, and a standalone custom line of business applications for customers worldwide. Power Apps dramatically lowers the cost, complexity, and time of software development through powerful low-code development tools, a robust and secure data platform in Microsoft Dataverse, and hundreds of connectors to common business data sources.
Power Apps is investing in several areas as part of Microsoft Power Platform 2023 release wave 1:
- Reduce risk with advanced governance of low code to increase visibility and control while supporting low code adoption.
- Accelerate app modernization and reduce costs by doing more with existing systems, connecting Power Apps with existing or legacy sources of data.
- Efficient and productive experiences for makers and users to build higher quality apps, quickly and efficiently.
For official product documentation and training for Power Apps, go to:
Updates to Power Apps 2023 release wave 1
Investment areas
Copilot for makers and users
Copilot allows makers and users to use AI and natural language to accelerate app development and incorporate AI into existing apps for enhanced data analysis. Makers can leverage Copilot to create and modify apps, work with data, and improve overall functionality. Users can use natural language to explore data and navigate apps, significantly improving the user experience.
Efficient maker experiences
Power Apps and Dataverse enable organizations to build apps that use data from multiple sources, including data from Microsoft Dataverse, and third-party sources. In 2023 release wave 1, we'll continue to simplify the experience for makers building apps, working with data and logic to ensure makers are as efficient as possible, while supporting scale to more advanced scenarios.
Modern user experiences
Power Apps will continue to modernize the user experience supporting modern and intuitive controls and experiences for users to work with across apps and Microsoft products in a consistent and productive way.
To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Power Apps below:
For application administrators
User-impacting features to the user experience enabled automatically
User-impacting features should be reviewed by application administrators. This facilitates release change management and enables successful onboarding of new capabilities released to market. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users, automatically" in the release plan.
Features that must be enabled by application administrators
This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged "Users by admins, makers, or analysts" in the release plan.
Get the most out of Power Apps
| Helpful links | Description |
|---|---|
| Release plan | View all capabilities included in the release. |
| Product updates | Stay up to date on latest product updates. |
| Release calendar | Know important release milestones. |
| Licensing | Improve your understanding of how to license Power Apps. |
| Product documentation | Find documentation for Power Apps. |
| User community | Engage with Power Apps experts and peers in the community. |
| Upcoming events | Find and register for in-person and online events. |
| Product trials | Get started with Power Apps. |