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Enable the customer to fetch data from the server when using an offline-first model-driven app.

Feature Details

You can now use a toggle to make an offline-enabled model-driven app go online for querying specific data from the server. With this feature, users will now be able to search or look up server data and find the required details that aren't available in the offline mode.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Sep 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

Creating offline profiles for Canvas mobile apps will be easier as makers will not need to toggle between Power Apps Studio and Power Platform admin center. All latest updates to control sync and improve user experience will be available for all app types.

Feature Details

Makers will no longer need to go to the Power Platform admin center to create offline profiles for Canvas mobile apps. This feature will enable easy offline profile creation in the app development flow via the app's settings menu. All new features to control sync and improve user experience will be available to both model-driven and Canvas apps with this change.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jun 2025
General Availability : Sep 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

You can now select the columns of tables that are downloaded on mobile devices for offline use for Model driven apps (MDA). This feature is for anyone using MDA that need to work without internet connectivity. The fewer columns you select, the faster the app downloads the data on the device, saving you time.

Feature Details

In the settings of your offline-enabled app in the maker portal, you can customize the offline profile for an optimized data loading experience for your users. For each table, you can select the columns that are required in the app:

  • Use the suggested columns computed by the system.
  • Manually select the columns.

On the main page for the offline profile, you can view the number of columns selected for download for each table.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
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Public preview date moved to Jul 2024 Jun 03, 2024
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Jun 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Makers can clean up their list of data sources and consolidate all of them into one. The new Manage feature for stored procedure data sources allows authors to add or removed stored procedures and keep the same data source name. So, all stored procedures are consolidated under one data source name.

Feature Details

Re-editing data sources with stored procedures will provide faster and cleaner development. When a maker creates data sources for an application, each editing session that selects stored procedures creates a new data source. This can make it difficult to keep track of which stored procedures are in each data source if multiple editing sessions create several data sources. This feature allows the author to simply "re-edit' an existing data source with stored procedures to add or remove stored procedures. As a result, all stored procedures can be managed under a single data source.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

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General availability date moved to Jul 2025 May 01, 2025
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Jul 2025
Last updated: May 01, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

Canvas app users on mobile devices will have more control over their offline and sync experience.

Feature Details

Power Apps canvas mobile app users will get a new setting on the Device Status page to choose whether their data syncs on cellular networks and Wi-Fi connections, or only when connected to a Wi-Fi network.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jun 2025
General Availability : Sep 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Device-optimized screens increase the performance and reliability of your canvas apps on iOS and Android devices. Some controls also offer improved gesture support and a user experience that matches closer to the design language of the operating system.

Feature Details

Some customers have decided against using the Power Apps mobile app because of low user interface (UI) performance. Scrolling, transitions, visual glitches, and occasional UI failures are symptoms of a UI that isn’t built for the native operating system.

This feature automatically converts canvas apps from web-based technology to React Native, while keeping all the same business logic in place. As a result, canvas apps feel more responsive, are of higher quality, use modern UI conventions such as swipe-to-delete, and have better scrolling capabilities.

Note: We will incrementally use the most popular UI controls with native equivalents on mobile devices. The top ten controls account for more than 50% of all app screens. The result is less complex screens that continue to run in the Webview (a specialized web browser) for some time. However, there are some very compelling scenarios that will run 100% as native UI.

Enabled for:

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This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 12, 2023
General Availability : Sep 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2023 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Makers can streamline their apps and eliminate unnecessary complexity by directly referencing external tenants through the Entra Auth connection for SQL Server.

Feature Details

Large organizations often have multiple tenants for various reasons, such as legal requirements (by country or region) or security needs (data partitioning). Previously, the only way to reference a SQL database in a different tenant was through a gateway. Now, a tenant ID field is available for Entra connections in Power Apps. By default, this tenant ID matches the author's tenant, but the makers can override it to specify a different tenant. End users of the Power App with the SQL Server connection will need authentication credentials for the other tenant.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

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General availability date moved to Jun 2025 Apr 07, 2025
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Jun 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

Admins and authors can enable the use of the Power Apps by using Power Platform guest users to access a Power App that is connected to SQL Server. Credentials allocated to guest users are passed into SQL Server enabling role-based security for those users.

Feature Details

Currently, Power Platform guest users can access Power Apps. However, if the app is connected to SQL Server, they cannot access the data because their credentials are not passed through to SQL Server. This new feature allows Power Platform guest user credentials to be passed through to SQL Server, enabling SQL to manage access based on those credentials. This feature is part of a set of enhancements aimed at the professional and advanced citizen developer community, making it easier and safer to use Power Apps with SQL Server.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : May 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

Authors and administrators can save time in administering enterprise-level apps by using shareable Service Principal Name (SPN) connections. Service principal accounts are a great approach for enterprise applications as they don't rely on the authorization credentials of specific individuals.

Feature Details

Service Principal Name (SPN) authorization now allows authors to use SPN as a shareable connection. Previously, SPN was not shareable, and each user of a Power App had to provide their own SPN credentials, which defeated the purpose of SPN—enterprise-wide authorization. With this new feature, end users can use SPN without needing to know the SPN credentials.

This feature is part of a set of enhancements that are important to professional and advanced citizen developers. It makes using Power Apps over SQL Server easy and secure.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Apr 9, 2025
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

The refreshed header and navigation experience helps teams work efficiently by reducing time spent navigating pages, finding commands, and understanding page layouts. The new application shell minimizes distractions, shortens training time for new users, and accelerates common workflows, resulting in faster task completion and improved productivity across the organization.

Feature Details

The refreshed header and navigation provide a more modern, intuitive, and efficient experience across the app shell, form page, and view page. These updates reduce visual clutter, improve access to important actions, and support a consistent look and feel across devices.

Key updates include:

  • Modernized app header: Simplified app header layout with improved spacing and icons that align with modern design principles with increased brand coherence with Microsoft 365 apps.
  • Streamlined sitemap: Decluttered sitemap with improved structure and readability to help you find what you need faster.
  • Condensed page headers: Form and grid page headers now take up less vertical space, maximizing visible data and reducing the need to scroll.

This feature is automatically applied to all apps generated by the Plan Designer. It is available as an opt-in capability for existing apps.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
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Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jun 2025
General Availability : Oct 2025
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 2
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Makers will be able to use SQL Server datatypes with Decimal. SQL Decimal provides greater accuracy for fractional decimal values, which is crucial for business transactions.

Feature Details

In Power Apps, floating point values are the default data type for internal values. This means that any data flowing into Power Apps is internally represented as a float. However, floating point values can sometimes lead to precision issues, especially when dealing with fractional decimal values.

The new Decimal support in Power Apps addresses this issue by providing greater internal decimal accuracy. This ensures that decimal values are preserved more accurately when getting and putting data into SQL Server. With Decimal support, you can manage business transactions and other scenarios requiring high precision with greater confidence.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : May 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

The Plan Designer defines a high-level architecture to solve a given business problem, suggesting the creation of several objects like apps, flows, and tables. The Solution Agent will now suggest existing apps. Makers can also add existing apps to their plans. This allows makers to leverage the Plan Designer to define the solution architecture for their scenario and lets you reuse existing apps.

Feature Details

The Plan Designer feature offers a high-level architecture to address specific business challenges by recommending the creation of various objects, such as apps, flows, and tables. Plan agents are AI assistants that analyze your business problem and generate a plan for it. These plan agents utilize AI to help build your plan. The Solution Agent now suggests existing apps, enabling makers to incorporate these apps into their plans. This enhancement allows makers to utilize the Plan Designer to define the solution architecture for their scenario while reusing pre-existing apps.

  • The Solution Agent now provides more comprehensive recommendations by suggesting existing apps.
  • Makers can customize their s by adding existing apps and tailoring the architecture to their specific needs.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
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Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: May 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Application user productivity increases when developers bring intelligence into their apps and custom code controls using new Agent Xrm and Power App component framework APIs. These new API make it faster and easier for developers to create custom AI experiences for app users.

Feature Details

New APIs allow the execution of a topic on the Microsoft Copilot Studio custom agent, which powers the model-driven app. These APIs have been incorporated into the Client API and the Power Apps component framework API. These APIs make it easier for developers to seamlessly bring custom AI intelligence into the flow of work for their business users. Developers can use these AI APIs as they build custom code through surfaces like web resources or PCF.

Both Client API and Power Apps component framework API have two new APIs:

  • The executeEvent API uses the event name to call a specific Copilot Studio topic and passes app, page, and record context. This API also accepts additional context.
  • The executePrompt API uses the prompt for Copilot Studio to orchestrate the topic to call. This API also passes the same app, page, and record context.

These APIs leverage the custom agent outlined in Customize Copilot chat using Copilot Studio (preview).

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jun 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Application user productivity increases when makers bring intelligence into their model-driven apps using the new agent response component. This new component enables out-of-box intelligence without creating a custom Power App component framework component.

Feature Details

The new agent response component allows the execution of a topic on the Microsoft Copilot Studio custom agent. This component can be added into a model-driven form and pass an event name to identify the topic.

Form designer components pane has agent response under artificial intelligence section.

The component supports displaying text in a markdown format or adaptive card. Use of an adaptive card enables media like videos and images.

Agent response component showing adaptive card content in a model-driven app form.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jun 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

There can be a lot of legwork involved in detailing solutions to a business problem before you start to create apps, flows, and other objects that will solve your users' needs. Copilot is well versed in common solution architecture patterns and can take advantage of other sources such as images to add to the context of the problem. Copilot can help you create user roles, define role-specific requirements, and suggest data schema, apps, and other objects that would come together as a solution to the proposed business problem. You can collaborate with Copilot, iterating over user roles, requirements, schema, and objects to ensure the final solution is a great start for the business.

Feature Details

Creating solutions to address business needs involves more than just developing an app. Solutions are a collection of objects from across the Power Platform that store data, provide end-user apps, and automate workflows. Regardless of the technology used to solve a business problem, the first step to success is defining your solution architecture to support various user roles and their requirements. This ensures you can build a solution that benefits your business. Copilot can now assist with detailing the scenario and requirement definitions, such as user roles, user requirements, data schemas to support data, and creating an overall solution architecture through proposed objects.

  • Scenario and requirement definition: Begin with a description of your business problem and provide additional context like process diagrams, data models, or even screenshots of legacy apps. Copilot will use this input to draft user roles and requirements for the solution.
  • Data modeling: Once aligned on requirements, Power Apps will propose a data model to support the solution and allow the maker to explore and make updates through a visual entity relationship diagram.
  • Solution architecture: Copilot will recommend the types of apps and automation that will fit the requirements. In the initial release of this functionality, the recommendations will include canvas and model-driven apps, as well as cloud flows in Power Automate.

During the early phase of the public preview, these Copilot skills are off by default. To access these features, simply turn on the Try the new Power Apps experience toggle on the Power Apps home page. This will allow you to create and manage your plans.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
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General availability date moved to May 2025 Mar 14, 2025
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 15, 2024
General Availability : May 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

A Copilot Studio Agent can significantly enhance business operations by streamlining workflows and boosting productivity. By leveraging advanced AI capabilities, these agents can automate routine tasks, allowing employees to focus on more strategic activities. For instance, a Copilot Studio Agent can manage scheduling, handle data entry, and provide real-time insights, reducing the time spent on administrative duties.

Feature Details

A Copilot Studio Agent created using Plan Designer is designed to streamline workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and answer customer questions. Once the agent is created in Plan Designer, you will be redirected to Microsoft Copilot Studio to review and make any necessary changes before publishing. The agent generated by Plan Designer comes prefilled with the following details:

  • Name: The name of the agent.
  • Description: A detailed explanation of the agent's purpose.
  • Instructions: A set of tasks the agent will perform.
  • Knowledge: A list of data sources the agent will use to complete tasks, including all data tables created by the plan.

It is recommended to review the agent's instructions, make any desired changes, and test the agent before publishing.

Enabled for:

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This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : May 2025
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

As a maker, you can now create a plan from your existing solution. Plan Designer provides a detailed plan describing your solution and solution objects. The plan includes a business problem, user requirements including user roles and stories, data model, and technology stack including apps and flows. This feature saves time previously spent analyzing an existing solution and empowers makers to improve on an existing solution.

Feature Details

As a maker, you can now fully leverage the capabilities of the Plan Designer by creating a plan from your existing solution. The Plan Designer uses AI to extract information from your solution, generating the business problem and user requirements. Once the plan is saved, you can edit the user requirements and generate additional apps, tables, and other components for your solution. To generate a plan, your solution must include at least one app and one associated table, and the apps must be published.

Go to the Solutions menu in Power Apps to create a plan from a solution.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : May 2025
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

In-app AI agents remove the manual effort and cognitive load of preparing for the day by analyzing business records assigned to a user and determining the next best action, streamlining business processes.

Feature Details

In-app agents act as a reasoning engine to automate "cognitive" processes like routing, orchestration, and decision-making–removing manual effort from business processes. By directing business users to the next highest value task, these agents enable users to focus their time and energy on the biggest impact things their desired business outcomes, instead of the drudgery of digging through all their data.

Makers configure the in-app agents with the types of actions possible for different tables. Then, the agent processes the rows assigned to a specific user to understand the most valuable next action and recommends it.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: May 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

When building out a business plan, makers often find themselves wanting to reuse existing tables. Leveraging these existing assets encourages the continuation and extension of current objects, fosters collaboration with other makers, saves time, and promotes better Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices.

With this new feature, makers will not only be able to edit new tables as part of their plan's data model but also existing tables. This ensures a seamless integration between the Plan Designer and the data workspace, making the Plan Designer a one-stop shop for all data modeling activities related to their plan.

Feature Details

To build a successful business plan, being able to reuse existing assets, such as existing tables in your solution, is crucial. Today, makers can leverage existing tables in the standalone data workspace experience, but not when they are working with a plan. With this new feature, makers will not only be able to edit new tables as part of their plan's data model but also existing tables. To further boost maker productivity, Copilot will help suggest the right existing table based on the business requirements.

Makers can begin with a description of their business problem and provide additional context like process diagrams, data models, or even screenshots of legacy apps. Copilot will use this input to draft user roles and requirements for the solution. Then, Copilot suggest a multi-table data model according to the user requirements for makers to approve and continue to iterate on. Makers will be able to manually select and edit the existing tables of their plan through the data workspace, as well as chat with Copilot to include the existing tables based on their requirements.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.
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Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: May 5, 2025
General Availability : May 2025
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

With Copilot, you can find, filter, and sort data more efficiently using natural language in views for model-driven apps, significantly reducing the time previously spent on advanced filtering and enhancing productivity.

Feature Details

You can easily find, filter, and sort your data using natural language grid filtering, which eliminates the need for complex, advanced filters by allowing you to describe what you're looking for.

For example, if you ask for cases that are high priority with an overdue follow-up by date, this filters your view to only show those relevant cases. Using natural language saves time as you no longer need to use column filters or advanced filters.

Supported features:

  • Filtering of records
  • Sorting
  • Text search

Please note that this feature is currently in preview. It will be enhanced with each weekly release and can be turned on through the admin setting 'Natural Language Grid and View Search'.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
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General availability date moved to Jun 2025 Apr 14, 2025
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Nov 15, 2024
General Availability : Jun 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Administrators are responsible for managing numerous resources within their organizations. It can be challenging for them to make informed decisions about these resources without a thorough understanding of their functions. By creating AI-generated descriptions for apps, we help administrators provide the necessary information to scale up and make informed decisions on a larger scale. This feature is enabled for all apps within Managed Environments.

Feature Details

In app designer for model-driven apps, you can use AI to help you generate descriptions for your apps. You will have the option to generate an app description in the Publish dialog or in the App Settings panel. This will create a description that you can review and then save as part of the app. The AI-generated app description is also available to app users during the web player experience by hovering over the app name in the header.

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

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General availability date moved to Feb 2025 Dec 04, 2024
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Aug 22, 2023
General Availability : May 2025
Last updated: May 07, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2023 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

The Plan Designer creates objects such as apps, flows, and tables in a solution. The objects view is the detailed view of the total solution, while the plan view is the high-level architecture. Makers will be able to see all objects in the solution from within the Plan Designer, allowing easy access to advanced configurations. This saves makers time and extra clicks by eliminating the need to switch between multiple tabs with solutions and plans open separately.

Feature Details

The Solution Explorer is being integrated into the Plan Designer. Makers using Plan Designer will be able to quickly switch back and forth between the high-level Plan view and the detailed-level Objects view showing Solution Explorer. The key benefits are reduced context switching—the maker doesn't have to use multiple tabs to check that the plan and underlying solution components in sync. This is especially helpful as makers manage their solutions for ALM.

How to access the Objects view

  1. Create and save a plan.
  2. Once the plan is saved, then Objects will be enabled in the left navigation menu.
  3. Selecting Objects will bring the user to the embedded Solution Explorer view.

Makers with the roles of System Administrator or System Customizer in their environments will be able to use the Plan Designer.

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Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: May 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Enable business users to oversee and manage AI agents to handle escalations and exceptions. As business users gain access to the actions performed by AI agents, customers will use AI agents more, saving them time as they automate more repetitive tasks with AI agents.

Feature Details

Makers will be able to associate Microsoft Copilot Studio agents with model-driven apps in the modern app designer, enabling business users to oversee and manage those agents within those apps.

Business users will see the associated AI agents' data in a new left-side pane in their apps that allows them to see what the agents have done on their behalf while simultaneously completing their workflows based on the exceptions the agents might have.

For example, in an app for managing employee reimbursement claims with an AI agent automating the approval and rejection of said claims, a business user can oversee the agent and handle any exceptions or escalations. This includes handling non-standard claims or resolving errors the agent encounters during the approval or rejection process.

With humans-in-the-loop, AI agents can significantly streamline business processes by automating the mundane repetitive tasks.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Sep 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

When generating a custom autonomous Microsoft Copilot Studio agent from an app, agent builder now adds knowledge and triggers, saving makers time and energy when creating specialized agents to automate repetitive tasks.

Feature Details

Agent builder for Power Apps empowers makers to create specialized custom autonomous agents that automate repetitive business processes. By understanding the app and business process, Agent builder adds knowledge and triggers to the agent, making it easier than ever to streamline operations with autonomous AI agents.

Makers can effortlessly create agents that automate processes within their existing canvas apps. Agent builder leverages the app's metadata and the desired agent goal to generate a comprehensive step-by-step process. This process is then combined with extracted skills from the app, resulting in a fully equipped copilot that provides detailed instructions and actions.

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Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability : ---
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Sometimes there are existing apps that would solve for user roles and requirements identified in the plan. Makers will have the opportunity to pick from existing assets to reuse them instead of creating new assets every time.

Feature Details

The Plan Designer will recommend a set of solutions tailored to address your business problem based on your organization's needs. Some of these solutions may already exist in your environment. Instead of creating new apps, you can replace a suggested app with an existing one or simply add an existing app to the set of solutions directly within the Plan Designer.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: May 2025
General Availability : May 2025
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

By supporting existing tables when visualizing a complex data model, the entity relationship diagram (ERD) data experience will unblock makers to build actual meaningful business solutions on top of their existing data assets. With Copilot assistance, makers can easily find existing tables relevant to their data modeling requirements and build more robust business applications. With the ERD visualization of tables and relationships, makers can review new and existing tables side-by-side and define meaningful connections between them with a simple drag and drop interaction.

Feature Details

Are you tired of creating new tables, only to discover that they duplicate existing ones in your environment? Say hello to a smarter way of designing data models using the Copilot-assisted ERD designer. Now, instead of starting from scratch, you can leverage your existing tables to build more robust data models. Here’s how it works: Simply type out your requirements in natural language, and Copilot will craft a multi-table data model that incorporates both new and existing tables. Need to find relevant tables quickly? Copilot’s recommendations have you covered and will locate the right tables in seconds. Once you’ve assembled your tables, switch to the ERD view. There, you can review your new and existing tables side-by-side. While editing existing tables in the ERD view isn't fully supported yet, you can create lookups into the existing tables in a simple drag-and-drop interaction to define meaningful connections between tables.

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Change history


Public preview date moved to Jan 2025
General availability date moved to Mar 2025
Oct 31, 2024
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jan 5, 2025
General Availability : Jun 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

With this feature, you can view the underlying code to understand app functionality and manage source control. It’s perfect for developers who need to align with healthy and robust Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices. By using this feature, you streamline your development process, improve code quality, and support your app’s growth.

Feature Details

You can now export a canvas app as a binary file with the extension .msapp. You can use Power Platform CLI to convert a .msapp file into source code files. With this feature, you no longer need to use the Power Platform CLI to convert the .msapp files. You can view the source code for the canvas app in an updated, human readable YAML format. Each screen has a separate file.

View the source code of your canvas app directly in Power Apps Studio or use external code editors.

This new capability helps you to:

  • Store the files in a code repository.
  • Automate generation of a canvas app.
  • Improve the generative canvas app models.
  • Refactor canvas apps without using the designer.
  • Integrate natively with Git for Power Platform.

Enabled for:

Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
This feature is meant to be used by administrators, makers, or business analysts and is enabled automatically.

Change history


Public preview date moved to Aug 2024
General availability date moved to Aug 2024
Aug 01, 2024
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Apr 22, 2025
General Availability : Jun 2025
Last updated: Apr 28, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically

Business Value

Customers that use custom schema names in the same database to partition their database for dev, test, and prod can now use environment variables to save time when deploying their application from dev to test and to prod. Rather than manually dropping and re-adding data sources between dev, test, and prod, authors can use environment variables to speed up the transfer between these environments.

Feature Details

Many customers use schemas for DEV, TEST, and PROD to manage Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). To access a table, you must specify the schema explicitly, as the default "DBO" schema cannot be assumed. This requires a four-part reference: server, database, schema, and table.

For example:

<myserver>/<mydatabase>/<DEV>/<mytable>

versus

<myserver>/<mydatabase>/<PROD>/<mytable>

Current SQL environment variables only support server and database, assuming separate databases for DEV and PROD, making four-part references impossible. This feature allows specifying the schema as an environment variable. Power Apps binds to specific table names, which must remain consistent across environments, though schemas may vary. This feature enables customers using schemas for DEV, TEST, and PROD to utilize SQL environment variables in their applications.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.
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Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Jul 2025
Last updated: May 19, 2025

Included in:
2025 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users, automatically