Microsoft Power Platform: 2025 release wave 1 plan
The Microsoft Power Platform release plan for the 2025 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 2025 release wave 1 covers new features for Power Platform releasing from April 2025 through September 2025.
Download the 2025 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 2025 release wave 1 have been summarized in a separate release plan and a downloadable PDF.
The Role-based Copilot offering features coming in the 2025 release wave 1 have been summarized in a separate release plan as well as a downloadable PDF.
The Microsoft Cloud for Industry features coming in the 2025 release wave 1 have been summarized in a separate release plan as well as a downloadable PDF.
2025 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 of: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and AI Builder. The 2025 release wave 1 contains hundreds of new features across Power Platform applications, including 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 changes how software solutions are built with the plan designer where makers can provide a business problem, and a set of agents helps them build a Power Platform software. Power Apps are intelligent, powered by a set of extensible agents that support most common tasks like exploring, entering, and summarizing data. Makers can automate common tasks by creating agents from existing apps and deploying them to take care of work autonomously. With integrated ability for users to understand and monitor agent actions, and easy ability to resolve issues when agents hit roadblocks, Power Apps is accelerating the shift to intelligent AI-powered solutions at scale.
Power Pages
Power Pages, part of Microsoft Power Platform, enables businesses to build secure, data-driven portals effortlessly. Recent updates include AI-powered features like Web Agents for multi-platform engagement (email, Teams, WhatsApp), AI-assisted form filling for improved productivity, dynamic list visualizations for better insights, and enhanced governance policies to strengthen security and streamline site deployments.
Power Automate
Power Automate is transforming how enterprises automate complex business processes; through new human in loop experiences, such as advanced approvals, AI native capabilities such as generative actions and intelligent document processing. To manage complex automations at scale, get a comprehensive suite of governance, observability and security controls coming to Automation Center and Power Platform Admin Center.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft Copilot Studio brings new autonomous agent capabilities, extension of Microsoft 365 Copilot with Custom Agents, new capabilities for the Copilot Studio embedded builder in Microsoft Copilot including support for actions, new enterprise knowledge sources, and the ability to upgrade a declarative agent to Copilot Studio custom agent to access additional capabilities and new conversational channels for custom agents including WhatsApp and SharePoint.
AI Builder
AI Builder’s latest release in Copilot Studio brings the power of advanced automation to routine processes like email handling, document processing, and image management, helping businesses run smarter and more efficiently. AI Builder has multi-modal content processing capability, which allows businesses to handle various data types —including text, document, and images—within a single natural language instruction. Enhanced Prompt builder tools empower makers to customize AI actions with diverse inputs, expanded data sources from Dataverse, and support for generating multiple content types, including documents.
Microsoft Dataverse
Microsoft Dataverse is continuing to extend maker experiences by enriching app and agent building capabilities across the platform. Dataverse ensures seamless connectivity to expanding set of external data sources and convert enterprise data into knowledge to customize and extend agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio and agent builder in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These investments are aimed at grounding AI-powered experiences with enterprise knowledge across Microsoft Power Platform.
Governance and administration
Governance and administration continues to provide enhanced tools and insights for Admins to get the most from the Power Platform. In this wave we are focusing on Security, easing adoption and governance of Copilot and Agents, and helping enterprises boost the adoption of Power Platform at enterprise scale with a modernized admin center experience and a new admin connector for automating admin tasks.
Key dates for the 2025 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 2025 release wave 1.
| Milestone | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Release plans available | January 23, 2025 | Learn about the new capabilities coming in the 2025 release wave 1 (April 2025 - September 2025) across Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Role-based Copilot offerings, and Microsoft Cloud for Industry. |
| Early access available | February 3, 2025 | Test and validate new features and capabilities that will be part of 2025 release wave 1, coming in April, before they are enabled automatically for your users. You can view the Microsoft Power Platform 2025 release wave 1 early access features now. |
| Release plans available in additional languages | February 7, 2025 | The Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Role-based Copilot offerings, 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, 2025 | Production deployment for the 2025 release wave 1 begins. Regional deployments will start on April 1, 2025. |
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 2025 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.