Microsoft has released its October 2026 Power BI feature summary, introducing new capabilities across Copilot and AI, reporting, and semantic models. The latest updates aim to simplify report creation, improve data visualisation, and enhance capacity management for more efficient analytics.

Here’s What You Need to Know:

Copilot and AI: Simplify Report Creation with Custom Visuals
The Power BI Report Authoring skill now supports custom visuals, allowing you to create and customise reports using natural-language prompts. Connect visuals to report data, apply formatting, and validate visualisations with less manual configuration.
Reporting: Make Filtering Easier with the New Dropdown Slicer
The new list slicer dropdown makes long filter lists easier to navigate, with selected values displayed at the top for quick access. Customisable formatting, removable selection pills, and clearer filter indicators help you manage filters and improve the report experience.
Semantic Models: Strengthen Capacity Management with Smarter Surge Protection
Power BI semantic models now report capacity unit (CU) usage continuously during long-running background operations, helping surge protection respond more accurately to actual consumption. This improvement enables earlier capacity interventions, increasing proactive rejections while reducing late-stage Fabric throttling rejections without requiring configuration changes.

See the full list of Power BI’s October 2026 update.

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