What's new and planned for Power BI
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This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2021 through September 2021. 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.
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.
Power BI Embedded
Quickly and easily embed interactive customer-facing reports, dashboards, and analytics into your applications by using and branding Power BI as your own.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
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| Embed Power BI in Jupyter notebook | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | 
May 25, 2021 |
Power BI Premium
New Power BI Premium features help organizations accelerate the delivery of insights at scale, meeting the most demanding needs of an enterprise.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data protection enhancements | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Apr 30, 2021 |
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| Power BI Goals | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 1, 2021 |
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| Streaming dataflows | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Jun 15, 2021 |
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| Automated insights public preview | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 1, 2021 |
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| Goals automated status rules | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 16, 2021 |
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| Automatic aggregations | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 30, 2021 |
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| Enhanced refresh history | Users, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Azure Data Lake Storage workspace level attach (general availability) | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
May 1, 2021 |
| Power BI Report Server May release | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
May 27, 2021 |
| Advanced network isolation (general availability) | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
May 31, 2021 |
Jun 30, 2021 |
| Dataflows DirectQuery | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Jan 1, 2021 |
Jul 1, 2021 |
| Power BI Report Server September release | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Sep 30, 2021 |
| Add new capabilities to Premium Gen2 | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jan 24, 2021 |
Sep 30, 2021 |
| ODBC connectivity support for paginated reports | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 31, 2021 |
Sep 30, 2021 |
| Deployment pipelines - Automation and Azure DevOps/GitHub integration | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 25, 2021 |
Sep 30, 2021 |
| Deployment pipelines - Dataflows support | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jun 15, 2021 |
To be announced |
| Long-term historical and near real-time performance and usage analytics | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jun 30, 2021 |
To be announced |
Power BI Pro
Power BI Pro allows users to discover and collaborate on insights and makes it easier than ever to work with data.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power BI Microsoft Teams app enhancements | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Apr 1, 2021 |
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| Sharing links for Power BI reports | Users, automatically |
Apr 5, 2021 |
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| Power Automate visual | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Apr 15, 2021 |
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| Data lineage, impact, and API enhancements | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 30, 2021 |
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| Goals in Power BI Mobile | Users by admins, makers, or analysts |
Aug 31, 2021 |
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| Support to read the latest Common Data Model manifest | Users, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| View dataflow entities as a non-owner | Users, automatically | - |
Apr 1, 2021 |
| Split view support for iPad | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Apr 30, 2021 |
| Support for modal dialog boxes for Power BI custom visuals | Users, automatically | - |
May 11, 2021 |
| App centric template app update | Users, automatically | - |
May 31, 2021 |
| Power BI dataset discovery hub | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 15, 2020 |
May 31, 2021 |
| Refresh notifications to non-owners | Users, automatically | - |
Jun 1, 2021 |
| Smart narratives (general availability) | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 22, 2020 |
Jun 1, 2021 |
| Anomaly detection (general availability) | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 16, 2020 |
Jun 1, 2021 |
| Anomaly detection support on Power BI Mobile apps | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 1, 2020 |
Jun 1, 2021 |
| Quick create | Users, automatically |
Dec 31, 2020 |
Sep 30, 2021 |
| Admin APIs to help identify who has access to what | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jul 29, 2021 |
To be announced |
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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