What's new and planned for Power Automate
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to What's new in Power Automate?. For the latest release plans, go to Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.
This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2021 through March 2022. 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 next wave's release plans, go to 2022 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
Cloud flows are automations that run in the cloud and can be triggered automatically, instantly, or with a schedule.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connection references panel on the flow details page shows unfilled references | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 
Aug 2, 2021 |
- |
Nov 29, 2021 |
| Default connection reference names will be unique | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Aug 2, 2021 |
- |
Dec 12, 2021 |
| Owners and admins can now change the owner of flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Feb 6, 2022 |
| Integrations with team management in Microsoft Teams | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 17, 2022 |
Desktop flows
Power Automate Desktop and desktop flows enable you to automate repetitive processes in desktop or web applications.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power Automate availability in Windows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 15, 2021 |
- |
Oct 4, 2021 |
| Save an Excel workbook as XML data | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Oct 25, 2021 |
| Sensitive variables in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Oct 25, 2021 |
| Clear last error in the Get last error action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 13, 2021 |
| Create a copy of a desktop flow from the Power Automate for desktop console | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 13, 2021 |
| Display message windows are now scrollable | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 13, 2021 |
| Import window element as a parameter in the Send keys action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 13, 2021 |
| On block error action offers more options for unhandled errors | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 13, 2021 |
| Save an Excel workbook as an XLSB file | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 13, 2021 |
| Support Windows OCR engine in the OCR actions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 13, 2021 |
| Syntax highlighting within the script editor in Power Automate for desktop designer | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 13, 2021 |
| The recognize entities in text action is available in desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 13, 2021 |
| Web recorder and desktop recorder are now unified | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Dec 13, 2021 |
| Convert Base64 encoded text to and from file | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Jan 7, 2022 |
| Monitor desktop flows in Power BI through DirectQuery | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Jan 7, 2022 |
| Restructure of Excel instance functionality to support multiple macros | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Jan 23, 2022 |
| Scale unattended desktop flows with the Azure Virtual Desktop starter kit | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 25, 2021 |
- |
Jan 23, 2022 |
| Monitoring notification window for attended desktop flow runs | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Feb 20, 2022 |
| New action to extract tables from PDF | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Feb 20, 2022 |
| Option to include headers during table extraction | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Feb 21, 2022 |
| Extract data from web - support extraction of large data tables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 30, 2022 |
| Inform user when trying to interact with an app running with elevated rights | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 30, 2022 |
| Physical mouse interaction in Click link in web page action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 30, 2022 |
| Power Automate for desktop supports IE mode in Edge browser | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Mar 30, 2022 |
| Custom dialog action in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Feb 21, 2022 |
- | To be announced |
| Data loss prevention policies for desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 24, 2021 |
- | To be announced |
Document automation
Document automation is an end-to-end solution allowing users to receive documents in emails, extract data from documents, and review and approve that data.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document automation solution | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - |
Oct 8, 2021 |
Process advisor
Process advisor quickly captures detailed steps for each process in your organization to help you better understand places to streamline workflows.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Process advisor support for custom attribute filtering | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 24, 2021 |
- | - |
| Process advisor support for process mining using event log data | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 24, 2021 |
- | - |
| Customize filters in process advisor | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 31, 2021 |
- | - |
| Process advisor task mining support for the auto-grouping of recordings | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Jan 22, 2022 |
- | - |
| Share process mining analysis reports with others in process advisor | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Mar 29, 2022 |
- | - |
* You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on August 2, 2021, 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.