What's new and planned for Power Automate
This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2024 through March 2025. 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.
For a list of the previous wave's release plans, go to 2024 release wave 1 plan.
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.
Cloud flows
Quickly automate across a variety of systems through advanced AI and extensive connectivity.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create Power Automate flows in Excel | Users, automatically | - | - | Dec 2024 |
| Use workflows on calendar events in Teams and Outlook | Users, automatically | - | - | Dec 2024 |
| Monitor performance for cloud and desktop flow activities in Automation Center | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jun 5, 2024 |
- | Jan 2025 |
| Use undo and redo while you build cloud flows in the designer | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Nov 2024 |
| Use a simplified OData editor in actions like Get items and Get files | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Feb 2025 |
| Connect to environments from the Dataverse connector | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 12, 2023 |
- |
Nov 3, 2024 |
| Receive intelligent license recommendations for admins | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2025 | - | - |
| Recommendations to reassign orphaned cloud flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jan 2025 | - | - |
| Use your own key to encrypt data at-rest for environments | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | - |
Nov 15, 2024 |
| Create generative actions in cloud flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 11, 2024 |
- | Apr 2025 |
| Create and edit expressions with Copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jan 2025 | - | May 2025 |
| Be more productive with Power Automate and Excel desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jan 2025 |
| Cloud flows are automatically defined in Dataverse solutions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 21, 2023 |
- | Nov 2024 |
| Updated Browse connectors pane in cloud flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jan 2025 |
Copilot for Power Automate
Let Copilot help you create automations using natural language.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use Copilot to analyze automation activity | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 6, 2023 |
- | Jan 2025 |
| Transform scripting using AI-driven natural language | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 12, 2023 |
- | Mar 2025 |
| Maximize your productivity with generative answers | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 12, 2023 |
- | Mar 2025 |
| Streamline workflow creation with the next best action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jan 29, 2024 |
- | Mar 2025 |
| Generate flow description using AI | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Apr 25, 2024 |
- | Mar 2025 |
| Use natural language to create a flow in Teams | Users, automatically | - | - |
Oct 13, 2024 |
| Regenerate a variation of a flow in Copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jan 2025 |
| Get increased accuracy in responses from Copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jan 2025 |
| Copilot provides more accurate answers to questions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jan 2025 |
| Troubleshooting Copilot in cloud flows designer | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Feb 2025 | - | Jun 2025 |
Desktop flows
Use the new desktop flows features to automate tasks on your Windows PC.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-heal UI and browser automation actions at execution with AI | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 12, 2024 |
- | Apr 2025 |
| View progressive logging for desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jan 2025 | - | - |
| Integrate Power Fx with Power Automate for desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 18, 2023 |
- |
Nov 12, 2024 |
| Use CyberArk credentials in desktop flow connections | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jul 10, 2024 |
- |
Oct 22, 2024 |
| Integrate cloud connectors into desktop flows via the Assets library | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 22, 2024 |
- |
Nov 12, 2024 |
| Enhance sharing for desktop flows with connection references | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 11, 2024 |
- | Jan 2025 |
| Use machine to credential mapping in desktop flow connections | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jan 2025 | - | Jun 2025 |
| Enable dark mode in Power Automate for desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 12, 2024 |
- | Mar 2025 |
| Connect your own virtual network with hosted machine group | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 15, 2024 |
- | Jan 2025 |
| Monitor, manage your automations and related assets | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 21, 2024 |
- | Dec 2024 |
| Analyze cloud flow runs with Copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 21, 2024 |
- | Dec 2024 |
| Describe flow actions with Copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Dec 2024 | - | - |
| Configure and manage SLA with work queues | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2025 | - | Jun 2025 |
| Capture a VM image on a hosted machine to use as a template | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Mar 2025 | - | Jun 2025 |
| Configure Entra hybrid join for hosted machine groups | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Feb 2025 | - | May 2025 |
| Use your voice to interact with Copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Dec 2024 | - | - |
| Use certificate-based authentication in desktop flow connections | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 27, 2024 |
- | Mar 2025 |
| Analyze desktop flow runs with Copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 21, 2024 |
- | Jan 2025 |
| Analyze work queue data with Copilot | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 21, 2024 |
- | Jan 2025 |
| Ask Copilot Power Automate Questions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
May 21, 2024 |
- | Jan 2025 |
| Secure credential retrieval in Power Automate for Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 12, 2024 |
- | - |
| Run two desktop flows in parallel on the same machine | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jan 2025 |
Process mining
Optimize operations and uncover opportunities for automation with process mining and task mining for Power Automate.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scale faster with Process Mining thin client app | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Dec 2024 | - | Mar 2025 |
| Process mining process simulations | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 22, 2024 |
- | Jan 2025 |
- You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on August 12, 2024, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.
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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