What’s new in Power Platform: July/August 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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Building modern apps

Generally available: the data grid modern control — a fluent UI grid with search, sorting, selection, and rich column types

The data grid modern control is now generally available for canvas apps. Built on fluent UI, data grid gives makers a high-performance, data-dense view of tabular data with a built-in search experience. Columns are generated automatically when you connect a data source, and each column can be unlocked for per-column customization with Power Fx formulas. GA rounds out the core interaction model: sortable columns, single and multi-row selection (with an optional selection column), column resizing, and a rich set of column types — text, number, phone, email, hyperlink, and button columns — plus formula-driven cell content for lookups, images, and complex fields. The control ships with built-in accessibility (keyboard navigation and screen-reader support) and fluent theming that stays consistent with the rest of your app, and it now works across a broader range of data sources than the preview. A wave of reliability and authoring fixes (selection stability, sorting, column ordering, and data-grid-in-gallery/component scenarios) landed as part of the GA push.

Data grid is the fluent-based successor to the classic table/data table experience, and a table → data grid update path helps makers move existing apps forward rather than rebuilding. It’s a distinct new control, not a forced replacement.

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Modern toggle and checkbox get improvements with consistent properties, tooltips, and true read-only view mode

The modern toggle and checkbox controls have been improved as part of modern controls. Both now follow the same cross-control naming conventions as the rest of the modern set — FontColor → Color, FontSize → Size, and the FontItalic/Underline/Strikethrough renames — and FontWeight now uses typed enum values (FontWeight.Bold, etc.) for IntelliSense and compile-time validation. Toggle’s LabelPosition is also now a typed enum (LabelPosition.Before / LabelPosition.After). Both controls gain a new tooltip property, and DisplayMode.View now renders a genuinely read-only state that shows the value without allowing interaction — consistent with the other updated modern controls. They also expose far more output properties than the previous versions, so you can reference their state in formulas across your app. Checkbox behavior inside galleries (Checked/OnCheck reliability) is improved.

If your app uses a previous version, you’ll see an update notification on the control in Power Apps studio; the migration guide lists each property rename so you can update formula references.

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The modern form control gets modern data cards plus binding, formula, and reset fixes for more reliable form building

The modern form experience received a round of functional improvements. Improved data cards are now enabled, so forms built on modern controls render their fields through the updated data-card infrastructure. Alongside that, we fixed data-card binding and formula behavior, so field values, defaults, and Power Fx inside cards evaluate correctly. This makes modern forms behave predictably for real data-entry scenarios.

We also corrected ResetForm and date picker reset behavior: resetting a form now reliably clears and restores field values, including date fields, which is core to edit/new-record form lifecycles. Together these changes make the modern form a dependable foundation for form-driven canvas apps, working end to end with the other updated modern controls.

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New fluent 2 app templates give makers a polished, modern-controls starting point for canvas apps

Makers now have new fluent 2-based templates that provide a ready-to-use, professionally designed starting point for canvas apps — built on modern controls and fluent patterns instead of a blank screen. New screen templates include a hub landing page, a feature landing page, and a list page, and the existing modern gallery templates were refreshed to use modern controls throughout.

Because the templates are assembled from the modern control set, apps you start from them inherit consistent fluent theming, built-in accessibility, and the ongoing quality investment in modern controls — so makers get a good-looking, maintainable app faster.

New and improved modern controls: a rating control, richer text styling for card, and an expanded 180-icon library

The modern controls catalog also grew and got richer. A brand-new rating modern control (built on fluent UI v9) lets users give star-based ratings with half-star precision, custom icons (not just stars), and full color customization defaulting to your app’s brand color. It’s a new control — classic rating keeps working unchanged.

The card control gained text-customization properties — fill, plus TitleColor / SubtitleColor / DescriptionColor and TitleSize / SubtitleSize / DescriptionSize.

The modern icon control’s library was expanded from ~56 to ~180 icons, reaching parity with the classic icon set. Classic icon.* values are automatically mapped to their fluent equivalents, so existing usage lights up with the broader set.

Deprecating older fluent UI (hero) controls in custom pages and Teams apps and their upgrade path to the modern controls

Makers who built with the earlier fluent UI (“hero”) controls in custom pages and Teams apps now have a documented upgrade path to the modern controls. The guidance explains how the upgrade works, which properties carry over, and where behavior differs, so you can move to the actively-invested modern control set with confidence. Because some hero properties don’t have a one-to-one equivalent on the modern controls (for example certain color/theming settings), the guidance is explicit about what transfers and what to check after upgrading — reducing surprises and protecting maker trust during migration.

Modern controls are the forward path for canvas and custom-page authoring, while classic controls remain supported for organizations with their own design systems.

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Power Automate

Share process license capacity across multiple flows with flow groups

Flow groups are now available in Power Automate. They let you share the capacity of one process license, or 250,000 actions per day, across up to 25 solution-aware cloud flows, helping you make better use of capacity across flows with moderate, predictable usage.

Go to more > flow groups to create a group, add flows, and monitor shared capacity. A flow group uses one process license. When a flow needs more capacity, you can assign process licenses directly to that flow for dedicated capacity.

Share process license capacity with flow groups

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Build and manage cloud flows from your AI coding agent with the Power Automate plugin

The Power Automate plugin is now available in the Power Platform skills marketplace for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code. It brings common Power Automate tasks into your terminal, so you can create, edit, run, and debug cloud flows through a natural language conversation.

Ask the plugin to build a flow from a description, update an existing flow, investigate a failed run, or help select a working environment and manage connections. Review and test generated definitions and changes before you enable or publish a flow.

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Power Pages

Public preview: secure your Power Pages sites with the new security agent

Security agent (preview) is a new AI-powered assistant built into the Power Pages security workspace that helps makers review, configure, and strengthen site security using natural language. Whether you’re reviewing your site’s security posture, configuring authentication and authorization, managing application security settings, or troubleshooting sign-in issues, security agent provides site-specific guidance based on your current configuration. The agent explains findings in plain language, recommends remediation steps, and always requests your approval before making configuration changes, helping you secure your sites faster while staying in control.

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Learning updates

Training paths and labs

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Power Apps maker

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Power Apps user and mobile

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Power Automate

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Power Pages

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AI Builder

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Power Platform connectors

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Power Platform administration

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Power Platform developer

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