Extended language and geo availability

As part of general availability, data workspace is now accessible in 9 different languages worldwide, including English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese. This allows more users around the world to take advantage of the enhanced data experience in their native language. We’ve also ensured that this feature complies with geo availability policies. Thus, it can be accessed reliably across regions, expanding the feature’s global reach.

Latest GPT models for enhanced Copilot assistance

To elevate your experience, we are now using the latest GPT models, GPT 4o mini and GPT 4o, in this GA release. These models bring enhanced AI-driven interactions, enabling more precise data model generation, improved natural language processing, and greater overall performance in Copilot’s ability to understand and act on your requests.

Access data workspace from within your solution

One of the major new features in this GA release is the ability to access the data workspace directly from within your solutions. This improvement streamlines how tables and apps are created and managed. It ensures they adhere to your solution-specific standards and governance from the very beginning. When you access the workspace from your custom solution, any tables and apps created using the data workspace will automatically apply the correct solution prefixes. They will also reside directly within your solution, removing the need for time-consuming adjustments and manual alignment.

Data workspace is ready to create model-driven apps

In addition to its data modeling capabilities, data workspace now enables you to create not only modern canvas apps but also model-driven apps directly from the workspace, all based on the data model you build.

• Canvas apps offer a highly customizable, design-first experience where you have full control over the app’s layout, appearance, and functionality. You can use drag-and-drop controls to build your apps. You can then configure them with Power Fx, making it easier to tailor apps exactly to your business needs.
• Model-driven apps, on the other hand, provide a more structured approach to app development. The data model itself determines most of the layout and user interface. With the new functionality in the workspace, you can now create model-driven apps directly from the data model you’ve designed. Once your data relationships and entities are in place, you can automatically generate a model-driven app. The app will reflect the structure and complexity of your data, without needing to be configured from scratch.

These new capabilities streamline the app-building process significantly. Whether you want the creative freedom of canvas apps or the structured approach of model-driven apps, the workspace now supports both. This makes it easier than ever to create business apps tailored to your data model.

Learn more about data workspace

Looking Ahead: This GA release is just the beginning. We continuously meet Microsoft’s promise for Copilot availability and expand the product’s capabilities based on your needs. Stay tuned for future updates, including more language support, integrations, advanced customization options, and even smarter Copilot interactions.

Try It Now: The new data experience is now live and available to all users. We invite you to try it out, explore the possibilities, and let us know what you think. Access the documentation below to learn more.
Create new tables
Build apps through conversation

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With version 3.24063 we are making changes to how we do this in Canvas apps. We will now have four feature stages:

• New: These are new features that are generally available (GA), fully supported, and documented. These will generally be on by default for new apps, but may take time to deploy everywhere. Enable for existing apps on your own schedule.
• Preview: These features are almost done and will be New soon. But at this stage there still may be some breaking changes made. This is the last opportunity for feedback. These will generally be off by default and will be documented, although some exceptions will be made especially for fast moving AI related features. These features are not GA, should not be used in production, and are covered by our preview terms of service.
• Experimental: An early stage “Preview,” these truly are experiments and may never reach GA. We are assessing the value proposition and design of the feature, and the feature may radically change or be removed completely at any time. These features will be off by default and will generally not be documented. These features are not GA, should not be used in production, and are covered by our preview terms of service.
• Retired: These are GA features but are on their way to being removed from the product. They are still fully supported and document, but we either have a new, better way to do the same thing or usage is low. Disable for existing apps on your own schedule. Generally, these features are off by default.

Why did we add a fourth New category? We needed a new category that clearly indicates that features are GA and the long-term direction of the product, and yet still needed the flexibility of having a switch to control the feature. The switch allows us to slowly deploy the feature and watch for problems, and at the same time gives you control to enable the feature for your production workloads on your own schedule especially when a breaking change is involved.

GA of features moved to New

Practically what this means is that we won’t have features sit in Preview for as long as we have in the past. With this release, we are also announcing the GA of these features that have moved to New:

• Modern controls and themes (this feature set was already GA under General settings but the switch is more appropriate here)
• New analysis engine
• Expanded media support for SaveData on Power Apps mobile
• SQL Server stored procedures

GA of features with disable moved to Retired

The following features are also now officially GA and no longer have switches in Preview:

• Delayed load
• Formula-level error management
• Non-blocking OnStart rule
• Formula-level prefetching
• New data format in Microsoft Excel Online Business connector
• Keeping recently visited screens in memory
• SaveData, LoadData, and ClearData in the web player
• Simplified tab index
• Performance optimization for hidden controls

However, you won’t find switches for these in New. These features have been in the product and on by default for a while and no longer qualify as “new.” To control these features, we have added “Disable” versions of all of the above in Retired, as the old behavior without this feature is now retired and will eventually be removed from the product.

For example, “Delayed load” has been a Preview switch for ages and has now graduated to GA. Since this has been a feature for a long time, instead of New, we added “Disable delayed load” to Retired. Using the new behavior of “Delayed load”, without a switch being toggled, is the way most apps should operate. But until we fully remove the old behavior (without “Delayed load”), there is still a way to get it through the disabled “retired” switch.

These Retired behaviors will one day be removed from the product. The timelines and process for removal will vary based on the feature, usage, and alternatives available and will be well communicated ahead of time if it involves a breaking change.

Summary

A few other notes, the “Enable improved data table control selection and Value property” feature will remain in Preview but will be disabled by default. This long running feature has been superseded by the new modern control “Table (Preview)” and we recommend that new apps use this feature instead. This change does not impact existing use of the old table control; all we have changed is the default for new apps.

As that last example demonstrates, there are still “Preview” tags throughout the product, for which there is not a Settings switch. Despite the lack of a switch, these are still “Preview” features, are not GA, and should not be used in production apps.

Alot of change. But actually, if you didn’t open Settings, the only thing that has changed is that the old table control is now disabled by default for new apps. We have mostly just done some rearranging. No existing apps will change behavior.

It is our hope that these changes will clarify that Preview features are not for production as they will generally be off by default. We will graduate features up to New and GA faster so that they can be on by default for everyone, and old behaviors that should no longer be used but are still GA will be easily identified in Retired.

You can read more about the feature stages at Understand New, Preview, Experimental, and Retired features in Canvas apps. To recap:

• New: Good for all workloads. Generally turned on for new apps; turn on for existing apps as appropriate.
• Preview: Almost ready to ship. Good for feedback, but not for production. Turn off by default except for what is being tested.
• Experimental: An experiment. Good for early adopters and early feedback, but not for production. Keep all off, except for specific features that you are helping us refine.
• Retired: Good for all workloads. But there is probably a better way and the old behavior will eventually be removed. Generally turned off for new apps; turn off for existing apps when you can.

As always, we love your feedback, please leave comments in the community forum.

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In the two months of Public Preview, we saw an amazing response from the hundreds of customers who were using Copilot to make their deployment experiences even more seamless.

One customer told us, “This is a valuable feature for us. Before, we couldn’t see what the solution contained. Giving this ability to the makers and support team, they are now able to see what this solution contains when the deployments occur. How many tables, environment variables, Canvas apps, etc.— they don’t have to go and hunt down this information because AI provides it for them.”

To make this new capability even easier to use, we made it faster, reducing p95 wait time by 10+ seconds. This also enabled us to create a better experience, where we briefly show a sleek new generating animation and automatically fill the deployment notes field with the solution overview. Innovation does not stop there, though. We are continuing to make improvements to the model, which will make Copilot in pipelines even smarter and more accurate in the near future.

We hope that you will continue to leverage Copilot’s power to help everyone in your organization make ALM faster and more accessible!

Learn more about pipelines

• Pipelines overview Microsoft docs
• Set up pipelines. Microsoft docs
• Run a pipeline. Microsoft docs
• Extend pipelines. Microsoft docs
• Use Copilot to generate deployment notes in pipelines. Microsoft docs

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