Power BI Weekly

Issue #351 - 31st March 2026

A handful of official blogs this week. On the Fabric side (but relevant to Power BI) is the release of Fabric CLI v1.5, including full support for all Power BI REST API operations (and a couple of new capabilities thrown in too!) We've also had a deep-dive article describing how to Chat with Copilot inside a report on the Power BI mobile app (Preview) (announced at FabCon), and we've had an article around Dataflows: Thank you for eight years of Gen1—and why Gen2 is the future, suggesting that a retirement date for Gen1 is imminent, but they will be supported for the "foreseeable future".

Outside of Microsoft this week, Marco Russo has succinctly described the differences between DAX user-defined functions (UDF) vs. calculation groups, Tharun Kumar Ravikrindhi has told us to Stop Writing Format Strings for Every Measure | Use This One DAX UDF Function Instead, and Dániel Patkós has continued his series on Power BI CI/CD in GitHub Actions with the article: Making BPA Results Actionable with Automated PR Comments, a great way to enforce quality gates proactively in a discoverable manner!