What's new and planned for Power Automate
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, see Microsoft Power Platform product documentation. For the latest release plans, see Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.
This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2020 through March 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.
- For a list of the previous wave's release plans, go to 2020 release wave 1 plan.
- For a list of the next wave's release plans, go to 2021 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.
Integration with Microsoft Teams
Create and use Power Automate flows within Microsoft Teams.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Templatizing and distributing common business process scenarios | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 
Nov 12, 2020 |
New desktop flow (RPA) capabilities
Increase scale and app compatibility with these new robotics process automation (RPA) capabilities.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Set priorities for desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 9, 2020 |
- | - |
| Microsoft account users can now access Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 2, 2021 |
- | - |
| Users with a work or school account can access Power Automate Desktop without a license | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 2, 2021 |
- | - |
| Add WinAutomation actions to desktop flows v1 | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jun 23, 2020 |
- |
Oct 5, 2020 |
| Desktop flows V1 allows users to customize the retry and timeout settings for each action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jun 23, 2020 |
- |
Oct 5, 2020 |
| Add delay actions to desktop flows V1 | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 21, 2020 |
- |
Oct 5, 2020 |
| Add support to pass arguments to the launch application step in desktop flows v1 | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 21, 2020 |
- |
Oct 5, 2020 |
| Desktop flows V1 adds support for copy and paste | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Aug 21, 2020 |
Oct 5, 2020 |
| Desktop flows V1 supports do until loops | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 16, 2020 |
- |
Oct 5, 2020 |
| Deep analytics for desktop flows to administer, govern, and nurture RPA through the CoE starter toolkit | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 21, 2020 |
- |
Oct 5, 2020 |
| Easier setup, creation, and runtime configuration of desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Oct 19, 2020 |
| Administrators can use out-of-the-box reports to monitor and govern the use of RPA | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 12, 2020 |
- |
Nov 12, 2020 |
| New and improved management and monitoring for desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 9, 2020 |
| Automation lifecycle management for Robotic Process Automation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 10, 2020 |
| Sovereign cloud support for RPA | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 10, 2020 |
| Use sensitive text inputs with desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 10, 2020 |
| Direct sensitive input and variables or expressions can be used interchangeably in some action fields | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 11, 2020 |
| More conditional operators are available in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 11, 2020 |
| New PDF actions are available | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 11, 2020 |
| Power Automate Desktop to send logs to Microsoft Dataverse | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 11, 2020 |
| Start or extend trials from Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 11, 2020 |
| Support for IMEs in Power Automate Desktop and web recorders | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 11, 2020 |
| Second level of error handling in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Nov 13, 2020 |
- |
Dec 11, 2020 |
| Further democratize RPA through new authoring experiences with Microsoft Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Sep 20, 2020 |
- |
Dec 30, 2020 |
| Role-based sharing experience for automations | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Jan 25, 2021 |
| View the value of variables in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Jan 26, 2021 |
| Run from here functionality | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Feb 9, 2021 |
| Enhanced capabilities in the interaction of Desktop Recorder and Windows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 2, 2021 |
| Power Automate Desktop governance | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 2, 2021 |
| New Microsoft Power Automate Desktop settings panel | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 14, 2021 |
| Use of variables within the desktop and web recorder as input and output parameters | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 14, 2021 |
| View shared desktop flows from Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 14, 2021 |
| Real-time view of Robotic Process Automation runs, errors, and queues available | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 10, 2020 |
- |
Mar 14, 2021 |
| Actions parameters parity with WinAutomation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 15, 2021 |
| Provision a Microsoft Dataverse database from Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 15, 2021 |
World-class business process capabilities
Power Automate provides world-class business process capabilities for its users that span endpoints and experiences.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat bot assistant to help build flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 30, 2020 |
- | |
| Contextual help for Power Automate makers | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 30, 2020 |
- | |
| Diagnose trigger issues using flow checker | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Dec 30, 2020 |
- | |
| Document Automation for Power Automate | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jan 15, 2021 |
- | - |
| Makers can filter SharePoint rows without OData queries | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 14, 2021 |
- | |
| Actionable error messages will be available in Power Automate | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 28, 2021 |
- | |
| See raw inputs and outputs in the run history | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 30, 2020 |
* Some features are available to opt-in to some features as part of early access on August 3, 2020, 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.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.