What's new and planned for Power Virtual Agents
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to Power Virtual Agents overview. 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.
Bot configuration
Configure bots to suit the individual needs of an organization and to provide further extensibility with other services and features.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share bots with colleagues using security groups | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - | 
Oct 15, 2021 |
| Connect bots to phone call interactions with Dynamics 365 Customer Service | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | - |
Nov 1, 2021 |
| Mention and interact with bots directly in a team’s channel in Microsoft Teams | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Jan 11, 2022 |
| Use Power Virtual Agents bots as skills with Bot Framework | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Jan 11, 2022 |
Core authoring
Use the Power Virtual Agents conversational editor to construct your dialogs with rich content, variables, and powerful entity types.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notify Microsoft Teams users about updates to their queries | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 26, 2021 |
- |
| Use regular expressions (regex) in your bots | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Oct 1, 2021 |
| Pass and return variables to subtopics | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - |
Oct 28, 2021 |
| Add comments to enable better collaboration | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically |
Oct 31, 2021 |
Feb 16, 2022 |
| Refresh Power Automate flows in topics without needing to remove them | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | Mar 2022 |
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.