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What’s new in Power Platform: September 2026 feature update


Summary Welcome to the Power Platform monthly feature update! We will use this blog to share news in Power Platform from the last month, so you can find a summary of product, community, and learning updates from Power Platform in one easy place. Now, let’s dive into what’s new in Power Platform:

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Power Platform

Build hands-on Power Platform and AI expertise with Power Series

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Developed by the Power CAT team, Power Series is now available with 20 hands-on labs that help customers, partners, and field teams build practical Power Platform and AI skills at their own pace. Drawing on the team’s experience delivering enterprise customer workshops, Power Series brings that expertise into a reusable, self-service learning experience.

Learners gain hands-on experience choosing the right capabilities, building working solutions, and making design decisions based on their business needs and solution complexity. The outcome: practical skills and greater confidence to apply Power Platform and AI to real projects, from modernizing applications and automating processes to governing solutions.

Power Apps

Build polished canvas apps faster with fluent screen templates

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Start new canvas app experiences faster with six additional ready-to-use screen templates based on fluent 2 patterns along with recently shipped 3 fluent templates. These templates give makers responsive layouts, editable controls, and practical starting points for common app scenarios. Add one from the new screen experience, connect your data, and customize the design instead of building every screen from scratch.

These templates are a replacement of previous out of box templates built on classic controls.

Additional improvements to modern controls and update from classic to modern controls

Update controls faster. Makers can now update eligible controls in bulk from the control-update surface instead of repeating the process one control at a time. Update all works on the current screen, can enable the required modern-control settings, and preserves the familiar Studio undo and redo experience. Review affected formulas after updating because property names, enum values, and behaviors may change.

More modern controls and quality improvements. The newly released progress bar supports determinate and indeterminate experiences, Power Fx-driven values, semantic colors, theme-aware styling, and accessible progress semantics. The modern avatar and spinner are also available, with improved interaction and upgrade behavior. Continued quality work makes date picker interactions and reset behavior more reliable and preserves formulas that reference checkbox, rating, and toggle.

Agentic apps

Generally available: refreshed model-driven apps UI, plus display density in public preview

Model apps UI modernization: Header and navigation refresh reaches general availability, with Display density arriving in preview

The next wave of UI modernization for model-driven apps arrives with version 2609.1. The header and navigation refresh feature reaches general availability, and the new display density feature enters preview. Together they deliver a cleaner, more efficient layout across the app shell, forms, and views, increasing your working area, reducing the time you spend navigating pages, and aligning the experience with modern Microsoft 365 design patterns.

Header and navigation refresh brings a modern app header with simplified layout and improved spacing, a streamlined sitemap that’s easier to scan, and noticeably more working space on forms. The command bar is now the only element fixed at the top of the page, with the summary area and form header scrolling alongside the rest of the form. Once the form header scrolls out of view, a condensed sticky header attached to the bottom of the command bar is shown. At GA, the experience remains opt-in so makers control adoption. Apps that already have the feature enabled get these enhancements automatically.

Display density (preview) answers a longstanding customer request to fit more content into model-driven app pages. Three levels are available — comfortable (the default), cozy, and compact — so users can tighten the interface to match how they work. An app setting lets customers set the default level for their users or turn the feature off entirely, and users can adjust their own density through personal settings. Display density requires the header and navigation refresh feature and is enabled by default once that feature is on.

AI powered development

Generally available: canvas authoring agent plugin for AI-assisted app building

The canvas authoring agent plugin is now generally available, giving makers and developers a new way to work with Power Apps canvas apps using agent-assisted development workflows. With the authoring agent plugin, makers can more easily create, inspect, and update canvas apps through agent-driven interactions with their favorite coding agent, helping accelerate common app-building tasks while keeping makers in control. Learn more about the agent here.

This update is part of our continued investment in making canvas app creation faster, easier, and more approachable. By bringing agentic authoring and MCP support to canvas apps, makers can use modern AI development patterns to move from idea to working app more quickly, iterate on app structure and controls, and streamline parts of the authoring process that previously required more manual effort.

Generally available: vibe code entire model-driven apps with the app-builder skill

Vibe code entire model-driven apps with the new app-builder skill (preview)

Generative pages gave makers an AI-assisted way to build individual pages in model-driven apps. The new model app-builder skill extends that approach to the whole application, and it’s now generally available. Used with an AI code generation tool such as GitHub Copilot CLI or Claude Code, it builds and edits model-driven apps from natural-language requirements.

You start by describing the business process or app you need. The skill turns your requirements into an application plan that you review before it makes any changes. It starts with user personas and the jobs they need to accomplish, and then extends to cover a growing list of model-driven app artifacts including:

  • Tables, columns, relationships, and sample data
  • Forms, views, and charts
  • Generative pages for experiences that go beyond standard forms and views
  • A sitemap with custom icons for each table
  • JavaScript validation rules on forms
  • Security roles based on the planned personas and data access needs
  • Business process flows (recently added)
  • Business rules (recently added)

No app artifacts are created until you approve the build plan. The skill also works on editing your existing apps. Everything it produces is a standard Power Apps and Dataverse artifact, so you can keep iterating with the skill or switch to the Power Apps studio designers whenever you prefer.

Embed a generative page directly inside a model-driven app form

Embed a generative page directly inside a model-driven app form

Generative pages are no longer limited to standalone pages in your app’s navigation. You can now add a generative page to a model-driven app form so that it appears within a section or tab, letting an AI-generated experience sit right alongside the standard fields on a record.

Build the generative page to accept the recordId input parameter, and when a user opens a record, the form automatically passes the current record ID to the generative page for you. The page knows which record it’s on from the moment it loads. This unlocks the mixed layouts makers have been asking for, keeping the out-of-box form for structured data entry and dropping in a purpose-built generative page for the part of the record that needs a richer, more tailored view.

Public preview: generative pages can now use data from Power Platform connectors

Public preview: generative pages can now use data from Power Platform connectors

To date, generative pages have been built on Dataverse tables, but now they can reach further. Connector support (preview) lets a generative page use data outside of Dataverse through the Power Platform connector ecosystem. If the data your scenario needs already lives in SharePoint, SQL, or any other connected service, you can build a page against it directly.

Connector support works in both authoring experiences by targeting existing connection references in the environment. In the generative page designer, configured connectors are available through add data > connectors, where you select the connection reference and choose the data the page should use. With AI code generation tools, describe the data you want, and the agent walks you through selecting the right connector and adding the binding so it deploys with the page.

Power Automate

Quick start cards make it easier to begin automating from the Power Automate home page

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New quick start cards on the Power Automate home page provide clear, actionable entry points for common automation scenarios. Users can move directly into creating a flow without first navigating menus or searching through the template gallery. By bringing relevant starting points to the home page, this experience helps new users discover what they can automate while giving experienced users a faster path from idea to flow.

Server-side search helps users find flows faster

Searching in My Flows is now faster and more reliable with server-side search. Instead of filtering only the flows already loaded in the browser, Power Automate sends the search request to the service and returns matching flows from the complete list of available flows in the current environment. This improvement is especially helpful for users who manage large numbers of flows. It provides more complete results while reducing the time and effort required to locate a specific flow.

Learning updates

Training paths and labs

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Power Apps maker

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Power Automate

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Power Pages

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Power Platform administration

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Power Platform developer

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AI Builder

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Power Platform connectors

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