April 2025 Updates for Power BI

This month’s updates saw mobile optimised report layouts, the best way to view data in the general availability of Power BI mobile apps, editing your semantic models with TMDL (Preview) and improved layouts for live editing semantic models.

The full list of updates is as follows:

General

• Backward compatibility is impacted by Q&A setup updates

Copilot and AI

• Ad hoc calculation support for data questions now available in Read mode

Reporting

• File picker enabled on by default in Power BI Desktop
• Mobile layout auto-create now Generally Available

Modelling

• Live edit of semantic models in Direct Lake mode with Power BI Desktop updates (Preview)
• Semantic model changes with TMDL view (Preview)
• Azure Maps auto-zoom now includes reference layers
• Get ready for new Azure Maps tenant settings (coming soon)

Data Connectivity

• Connect to the Vertica database with the user-installed ODBC driver – updates (Preview)
• Use the built-in driver to connect to the Oracle (Preview)
• Snowflake connector update

Visualisations

• Table with custom and grouped headers by JTA: a data scientist’s visualisation tool
• Financial Reporting Matrix now with comments
• Drill Down Graph PRO by ZoomCharts
• TMap 3.0
• Lollipop Chart by Powerviz
• Strip Plot by Nova Silva.

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