What's new and planned for Power Automate
This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2022 through September 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 previous wave's release plans, go to 2021 release wave 2 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
Use the new cloud flows features to automate tasks across hundreds of connectors.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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Update flows to the latest Microsoft Dataverse connector | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jun 2022 | - | - |
Improved home page experience | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Resubmit multiple failed runs at once | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Undo feature in cloud flow designer | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Simplify how solution-aware flows are shared with Azure AD users | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Updates for instant flows in canvas apps | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Apr 2022 |
Restore deleted flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Users can see solution references from the flow details page | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Solution-aware cloud flows are shown in the my flows list | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Solution checker warns if flows do not meet ALM guidelines | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jun 2022 |
Microsoft Dataverse connector supports user connections | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jun 2022 |
Flow ownership supported for Service Principals | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jun 2022 |
Solutions list shows a warning for connection references | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jun 2022 |
Connect to other environments from the Microsoft Dataverse connector | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jun 2022 |
Environment variable support for all triggers | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jul 2022 |
View trigger output on the run history screen | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jul 2022 |
Inform makers about unmanaged layers | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jul 2022 |
Use environment variables in most triggers | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jul 2022 |
Push environment variable updates into flows asynchronously | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Aug 2022 |
Support for Save As for solution-aware cloud flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Aug 2022 |
Improved Power Automate mobile app for Android | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Sep 2022 |
Remove API request limits through Azure | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2022 | - | To be announced |
Desktop flows
Use the new desktop flows features to automate tasks on the web or desktop.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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Run desktop flows on cloud-hosted machine groups | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Desktop flow machines and runs - status health, analytics, and error reporting improvements | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 2022 | - | - |
Use credentials from CyberArk in desktop flow connections | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 2022 | - | - |
Ready-made Example desktop flows in Power Automate for desktop to get started easily | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Physical keyboard interaction in web automation - populate text field on web page | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
UI automation action - hover mouse over UI element in window | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Maintain the structure of the tabular data at extraction from PDF | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Support all types of clicks in browser automation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Timeout option for Wait for web page in web automation action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Display custom form action in Power Automate for desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Java automation in SWT framework applications | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Make editing of UI elements more user-friendly | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jun 2022 |
More data types for input and output variables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jun 2022 |
Run desktop flows through an external link | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jun 2022 |
Create data table and array dedicated action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jul 2022 |
New option to build flows in Power Automate for desktop recorder | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Aug 2022 |
Desktop flow details in Power Automate for desktop console | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Jul 2022 |
New Excel action for column auto-sizing | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Aug 2022 |
Process advisor
Process advisor quickly captures detailed steps for each process in your organization to help you better understand your options to streamline workflows.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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Improve cloud flows with process insights | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | May 2022 | - | - |
Process advisor improved connector recommendations for automate activities | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jun 2022 | - | - |
* You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on January 31, 2022, 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.
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