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Updates - How to find the dates and details of upcoming Power Apps feature releases and updates

June 2. 2022

For planning purposes, it's very useful to know the dates and details of upcoming Power Apps updates. The new Release Planner portal makes this task easy.

The traditional way to discover the roadmap for updates and upcoming releases is to study the release wave documents.

The release wave documentation comes in a PDF file and covers a lot of detail, so to more easily find the dates and details of planned updates, we can visit the new 'Dynamics and Microsoft Power Platform release planner' by clicking the link beneath.

https://experience.dynamics.com/releaseplans/?app=Power+Apps

The screenshot beneath illustrates the planner.

From the left-hand panel, we can select the Power Platform > Power Apps node to display a list of planned feature updates and dates. At the time of writing, these include the following

Solution checker enforcement improvements
Conditional access policies for individual Power Apps
Co-presence in records
Data prefetch and cache control to eliminate manual cache management
Easy record sharing
Organize business logic in your app with components
Owner field has improved online presence indicator and contact card
Power Fx named formulas to ease development and improve performance
Use Lobe models in your apps and flows

If there are any interesting updates/features that we want to monitor, we can log into the portal and add the details into 'My release plans' for easy future access.

In summary, the 'Dynamics and Microsoft Power Platform release planner' makes it much easier to understand the details of planned updates and I would recommend that you add a link to the planner in your bookmarks.