What’s new and planned for business intelligence
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This topic lists features that are planned to release between April and September 2019. Previews for some features will start in February 2019.
These release notes describe functionality that may not have been released yet. Delivery timelines and projected functionality may change or may not ship (see Microsoft policy).
When a month is used in the Date column, the feature will be delivered sometime within that month. The delivery date can be any day within that month, not just on the first day of the month.
Note
For information about Power BI features releasing before April 2019, see the October 2018 release notes.
Power BI Desktop
| Feature | Release type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Improved relationship view | General Availability | March 12, 2019 |
| Drill through to another report | Public Preview | April 10, 2019 |
| Expression-based formatting | Public Preview | April 10, 2019 |
| Performance analyzer for reports | General Availability | May 17, 2019 |
| Visual-level filtering in slicers | General Availability | June 10, 2019 |
| New filter experience | General Availability | July 2019 |
| Icon sets | General Availability | July 2019 |
| New default theme | General Availability | September 2019 |
| Theme editor: Global defaults | General Availability | September 2019 |
| Key influencers visualization | General Availability | September 2019 |
| Object grouping | General Availability | September 2019 |
Power BI Service
| Feature | Release type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| End user consumption | ||
| Power BI Home | General Availability | September 2019 |
| App navigation | Public Preview | May 2019 |
| Management, collaboration, and distribution | ||
| New workspace experiences: General availability and migration | General Availability | May 2019 |
| Shared and certified datasets | Public Preview | June 2019 |
| Viewer role | General Availability | July 2019 |
| Upgrade classic workspaces to the new workspace experience | Public Preview | November 2019 |
| Enterprise BI | ||
| Third-party BI tool connectivity for read-only scenarios (XML/A) * | Public Preview | March 2019 |
| Paginated reports feature updates * | Public Preview | April 2019 |
| Enhanced email subscriptions | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Premium metrics * | General Availability | August 2019 |
| Report commenting | General Availability | April 2019 |
| SAP variables | General Availability | August 2019 |
| Additional Power BI geos and regions * | General Availability | September 2019 |
| Help and support settings | Public Preview | March 2019 |
| Report performance metrics | General Availability | August 2019 |
| Managed distribution | General Availability | July 2019 |
| New refresh scenarios | General Availability | June 2019 |
| Power BI Dataflows | ||
| Self-service data prep with dataflows | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Azure integration | Public Preview | April 2019 |
| Computed entities * | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Incremental dataflow refresh * | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Dataflows on Premium capacity * | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Linked entities * | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Large-scale data compute engine * | Public Preview | June 2019 |
| New diagram view to visualize dataflow dependencies | Public Preview | April 2019 |
| Pervasive Artificial Intelligence for BI | ||
| Azure ML Integration | General Availability | June 2019 |
| Automated ML: Binary and multiclass classification models * | Public Preview | April 2019 |
| Cognitive Services Integration (Premium) * | General Availability | June 2019 |
| Insights – Key influencers | General Availability | September 2019 |
* This feature requires Power BI Premium.
Power BI Mobile
| Feature | Release type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| B2B support | General Availability | March 31, 2019 |
| Report commenting | General Availability | May 10, 2019 |
| Portrait orientation in tablet experience | General Availability | March 31, 2019 |
| Siri shortcuts (iOS) | Public Preview | June 2019 |
| Viewing Report Server’s PBIX reports with AD FS and WAP configuration (iOS, Android) | General Availability | September 2019 |
| Barcode scanning (Android) | General Availability | July 31, 2019 |
Power BI Template Apps
| Feature | Release type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Self-service builder experience for template apps | General Availability | June 2019 |
| Self-service creation of a Power BI template app in AppSource | General Availability | June 2019 |
| Power BI tenant admin control (Governance) | General Availability | June 2019 |
| Template app customization and personalization | General Availability | June 2019 |
Power BI Custom Visuals
| Feature | Release type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Custom visual policy in desktop | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Custom visual favorites | General Availability | June 2019 |
| Freemium visuals enabled through AppSource | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Power BI admins can restrict usage to certified visuals only | General Availability | April 2019 |
Power BI Embedded
| Feature | Release type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-geo ** | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Dataset sharing and dynamic binding ** | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Themes API | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Report loading time improvements | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Developer tools | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Export data programmatically | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Embed Q&A with row-level security | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Scheduled refresh API | General Availability | April 2019 |
| Service principal authentication ** | Public Preview | April 2019 |
| Create visuals on the fly | General Availability | July 31, 2019 |
| Embedded AI: Key influences visual | General Availability | May 31, 2019 |
** This feature requires Power BI Premium or Power BI Embedded (A SKU). More information: FAQs for Power BI Embedded
Power BI Report Server
| Feature | Release type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Power BI Report Server May 2019 update | General Availability | May 2019 |
| Power BI Report Server September 2019 update | General Availability | September 2019 |
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