2025 Release Wave 2: What's new in Microsoft Power Platform

Sep 26, 2025

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From smarter AI agents to streamlined workflows, Microsoft’s 2025 Release Wave 2 brings important updates to the Power Platform. This wave focuses on helping organizations streamline operations, boost productivity, and strengthen governance - whether you're building apps, automating workflows, or managing customer interactions. In this blog, we’ll walk through the most relevant innovations across Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power Pages, and explore what they mean for your teams.

Power Automate

Intelligent Approvals

Add an AI-powered stage to your approval workflows. Instead of routing every request to a human, makers can configure an AI decision step that uses natural language prompts and contextual data (text, documents, images) to approve or reject requests.

Create and edit expressions with Copilot

No more wrestling with complex syntax. Describe your logic in plain language, and Copilot generates or fixes the expression for you.

Debug condition actions more easily

After a flow runs, you can now see detailed results for each condition, including values passed and expression outputs.

👉 What this means for Power Automate users

Building and maintaining flows becomes faster, smarter, and less error-prone. Makers can automate more with less technical effort, troubleshoot quickly, and reduce approval bottlenecks, all while maintaining compliance.

Power Apps

Streamlined header and navigation

A refreshed UI across app shells, form pages, and view pages reduces clutter and improves navigation.

👉 What this means for Power Apps users

End users enjoy a cleaner, more intuitive experience, while admins and makers spend less time on training and support. This update improves productivity and adoption across the board.

Power Pages

Admin trust, security, and compliance agent

A proactive security layer that monitors for threats (phishing, DDoS), content violations, and risky configurations. It delivers automated alerts and policy-driven actions via the Power Platform Admin Center.

👉 What this means for Power Pages users

Organizations gain stronger security and compliance controls without relying on third-party tools, reducing risk and improving governance.

Getting started

The Power Platform is becoming smarter and more accessible. Makers can build and troubleshoot flows faster, admins gain better governance, and end users enjoy a cleaner experience. Combined, these updates help organizations scale automation safely and efficiently. Want to explore these updates in your own environment or need help getting started?