Microsoft has published the 2025 Release Wave 1 for Power Platform, detailing new capabilities planned for rollout between April 2025 and September 2025. With an emphasis on AI-driven agents, automations, and integrations to enhance business operations, the Power Platform continues to support Microsoft’s goal to use AI to increase productivity and spark innovation.

Here’s a quick timeline of key milestones:

  • January 23, 2025: Release plans become available.
  • February 3, 2025: Early access for select features.
  • April 1, 2025: General deployment for Release Wave 1 begins.

In this post we’ll highlight a few significant updates across Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, Microsoft Copilot Studio, AI Builder, and Dataverse.

Power Apps

Power Apps receives several enhancements focused on expanding maker capabilities by utilizing AI, increasing efficiency in app creation, and improved management tools.

Highlights:

  • Plan designer will see the collaboration between makers and AI-agents to build comprehensive business apps. Makers provide the idea and business problem they wish to solve and work with agents to build the solution. Plan designer will also assist in creating Pages, Flows, Copilots, and custom agents.
    • Public Preview (PP): Dec 2024 | General Availability (GA): Sept 2025
  • Data visualizations with Copilot let you turn data into a chart with a click of a button and customize it to turn data into business insights without additional analytic services.
    • PP: Mar 2025 | GA: Apr 2025
  • Testing in Power Apps gets upgraded with improved canvas app testing capabilities, model-driven app testing, and stronger authentication options in Test Engine.
    • PP: Mar 2025 | GA: May 2025
  • Source code management for canvas apps allows you to view underlying code which will increase functionality understanding and help you align with ALM practices.
    • PP: May 2025 | GA: June 2025

Power Pages

Power Pages design studio sees a few updates to Copilot capabilities, user experience, and security.

Highlights:

  • Utilize natural language to describe a section that Copilot automatically then creates.
    • PP: Apr 2025
  • Modern list component will support custom JavaScript and other features available in classic list to increase performance, visual refresh, and styling options.
    • GA: Apr 2025
  • Expanded file upload options allow users to drag and drop or upload directly from their camera and increased file size limits for SharePoint storage.
    • GA: Jun 2025
  • Entra External ID setup wizard will be available inside the design studio’s identity providers section to increase efficiency and reducing configuration errors.
    • PP: Apr 2025

Power Automate

Power Automate receives a wealth of features focusing on assisting creators with complex workflows utilizing AI and low-code capabilities.

Highlights:

  • Expression assistance from Copilot will let you use natural language to create, edit, and fix Power Automate expressions.
    • PP: Jan 2025 | GA: May 2025
  • Streamline troubleshooting and simplify log navigation by generating multi-flow automation process maps.
    • PP: Mar 2025 | GA: Sep 2025
  • Use Copilot to troubleshoot your cloud flows and get ideas on how to fix them.
    • PP: Feb 2025 | GA: Jun 2025

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Microsoft Copilot Studio continues on its mission of helping organizations develop custom agents to that meet their unique needs.

Our highlights:

  • Suggested prompts can be added to custom copilots to increase copilot awareness and engagement.
    • GA: May 2025
  • Updated diagnostics in Copilot Studio’s debugging tools gives greater visibility and actionable insights that leads to faster troubleshooting.
    • PP: Mar 2025 | GA: May 2025

AI Builder

AI Builder adds many new features to put advanced AI capabilities into the hands of the broader maker community.

Highlights:

  • Integrate the document processing agent in Copilot Studio to automate data extraction, categorization, and validation, reducing manual entry and errors.
    • PP: May 2025 | GA: Sep 2025
  • Draft with Copilot will help you craft sophisticated prompts to deliver the best results.
    • PP: Feb 2025 | GA: May 2025
  • Use Copilot prompts to process files or generate document templates with the Create text with GPT experience.
    • PP: May 2025 | GA: Sep 2025

Dataverse

Dataverse continues to improve data quality and usability by using AI functions for deeper insights and automation.

Highlights:

  • Improve data quality by leveraging AI functions in Dataverse to summarize, prioritize, extract key details, and generate responses.
    • PP: Mar 2024 | GA: Apr 2025

This post covers a small portion of the Microsoft Power Platform 2025 Release Wave. Explore the resources below to learn more about what Microsoft has in store.

As always, the Compass365 team is here to assist you in transforming your business with the Microsoft 365 platform.

If you have questions about these updates or how you can transform they way your organization works with Power Platform, contact us.