You may have noticed the usual monthly Power BI Desktop updates have come out a little late. This is because they were delayed, in order to be announced at the virtual Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) instead, which was held on Wednesday, 6 May. If you missed it, you can check out some of the highlights here.

Anyway, there were the usual multitude of updates, including a new visual personalisation feature to allow end-users to explore and customise visuals all within the consumption view of a report. But that wasn’t all: if you’re interested in fast refresh scenarios, these were accommodated too.

Here’s the full list of updates:

Reporting

• Personalize visuals (Preview)
• Change detection for page refresh (Preview)
• Relative time filter (Preview)
• Rectangular lasso select across visuals
• Conditional formatting for totals and subtotals in table and matrix
• Customize theme dialog is now Generally Available
• Improved discoverability for conditional formatting

Analytics

• Direct Query support for AI visuals
• Decomposition tree now supports ToolTips
• Q&A updates

Visualisations

• Radar/Polar chart by xViz
• Comicgen by Gramener
• Pareto by sio2Graphs
• Growth Rate Combo Chart by Djeeni
• Smart Filter Pro by OKViz
• New Visualization icons

Template Applications

• Power Platform Center of Excellence StartKit
• Azure Cognitive Search: analyze logs and metrics
• COVID-19 Apps

Data Preparation

• Enhancements to Query Diagnostics

Data Connectivity

• CDM Folder view for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Other

• New instructor-led training.

As always, we'll be detailing these updates in our June newsletter. Please remember we have virtual / online training in Power BI which you can find out more about here. If you are not already a subscriber, why not sign up at the bottom of any SumProduct web page? And don't forget to download the latest version of Power BI Desktop here too.