Microsoft Power Platform: 2023 release wave 1 plan

The Microsoft Power Platform release plan for the 2023 release wave 1 announces the latest updates to customers as features are prepared for release. You can browse the release plan here online, view it in the Release planner, or download the document as a PDF file, which is updated with every publish. The plan for 2023 release wave 1 covers new features for Power Platform releasing from April 2023 through September 2023.

Download the 2023 release wave 1 PDF for Power Platform or select the option at the bottom of the table of contents.

The Dynamics 365, Viva Sales, and Supply Chain Platform features coming in the 2023 release wave 1 have been summarized in a separate release plan and a downloadable PDF.

The Microsoft Cloud for Industry features coming in the 2023 release wave 1 have been summarized in a separate release plan as well as a downloadable PDF.

2023 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 five products: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents. It also includes the AI Builder add-in. The 2023 release wave 1 release contains hundreds of new features across Power Platform applications, including Power BI, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and AI Builder, as well as Microsoft Dataverse, Power Platform capabilities for governance and administration, pro development, ISV experiences, and data integration.

Power BI

Power BI continues to invest in empowering every individual, team, and organization to drive a data culture. For individuals, we're enhancing the creation experience, bringing more parity on the web and adding the Power Query diagram view into Power BI. For teams, we're bringing enhancements to meetings and multitasking to help users seamlessly work with their data wherever they work.

Power Apps

Power Apps is focusing on reducing risk for organizations with advanced governance capabilities, ensuring easy onboarding and leveraging low code capabilities in a manageable way for the organization to scale. Makers and developers of all skill levels will be more productive with modern experiences to build apps, manage data, and logic. Users will benefit from the modernization of web and mobile experiences, ensuring modern and fast experiences across apps.

Power Pages

Power Pages continues to invest in bringing more out-of-the-box capabilities to support both low and no code development as well as professional developers. New features in this release will allow makers to have additional capabilities and solution templates in the Design Studio. Professional developers will be able to perform additional actions and work with code productively using Power Platform CLI tools and Visual Studio Code, and administrators will be enabled to better manage and govern their Power Pages sites.

Power Automate

Power Automate is releasing new capabilities to simplify creating new flows by describing them in natural language. This, with other experience improvements for creating and authoring flows, means it'll be easier than ever for new users to get started. These improvements include introducing work queues where automatable tasks can be viewed and managed together as well as providing simpler connectivity to a machine for desktop flows, eliminating the need for additional installs and managing password management.

Power Virtual Agents

Power Virtual Agents offers a new unified authoring canvas that is Microsoft’s single conversational AI studio for all bot building needs. With the continuing integration with Bot Framework capabilities and Azure Cognitive Services, bot creators – from subject matter experts to developers – are empowered to begin building today with the public preview. The advanced authoring canvas will be generally available this wave.

Microsoft Dataverse

Microsoft Dataverse continues to make investments focusing on enhancing makers’ experiences by improving app building productivity, seamless connectivity to external data sources, and easier data stewardship with low code tools like Power Fx.

AI Builder

AI Builder will bring document processing improvements that will include more pre-built model capabilities like contract processing, the ability to identify personal information, and the possibility to extract field types from documents. We're also focusing on facilitating model governance and licensing by improving our admin interfaces to make it easier to govern how AI Builder credits are used across environments, apps, and flows.

Governance and administration, pro development, and ISV experiences

Governance and administration continues to provide more tools and insights for admins to get the most from the Power Platform. We're adding more features supporting pay-as-you-go metered billing and will continue to improve the manageability of environments with the ability to auto assign licenses of Power Platform products. Additionally, a new settings experience will be deployed that will modernize and improve the discovery of an array of settings.

Pro development will continue our investments in our Visual Studio Code extension, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps build tools to support building and deploying custom connectors and provide deeper integration with Microsoft Azure. We'll also enable new capabilities for code-first developers and low-code makers alike, to publish to a central catalog for a much simpler and scalable experience across environments making it much simpler to maintain components used across multiple apps and automations.

ISV experiences is enabling ISVs to iterate and sell faster with pay-as-you-go licensing through Azure subscription and automated application updates. These enhancements will allow more focus on building great applications and shipping at scale that will eliminate the manual overhead of coordinating license procurement between Microsoft, customers, and manual software updates.

Data integration

Data integration will continue to enhance Power Query experiences with several new capabilities across Get Data and the Data Transformation experiences in the Power Query Editor, enhance on-premises and VNet data gateways capabilities, and release improvements to offer a new generation of Dataflows to Microsoft Data Cloud, supporting Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and beyond. In addition, we'll also deliver various big data performance and high scale improvements to connectivity scenarios from Azure Synapse, Dataverse, Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift as well as many other Power Query connectors.

Key dates for the 2023 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 2023 release wave 1.

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 2023 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.