This month sees updates for Q&A, shapes and automatic aggregations for DirectQuery, amongst other inclusions. The full list reads as follows:

Reporting

• Customise shape formatting
• x-axis constant line improvements
• Default sensitivity label policy in Power BI Desktop (Preview)

Analytics

• Sharing Q&A synonyms

Modelling

• New way of expressing Date and DateTime values
• Evaluation configuration settings

Data Connectivity and Preparation

• One Dataflow connector (connector update)
• Automy Data Analytics (new connector)
• Azure Databricks (connector update)
• Dremio (connector update)
• Google BigQuery (connector update)
• Quickbase (connector update)

Service

• Sensitivity labels for paginated reports (Preview)
• Leverage automatic aggregations to enhance performance over DirectQuery datasets
• Power BI REST API support for DAX Queries (Preview)
• Detailed historical activity information for Premium datasets (Preview)

Mobile

• New mobile report footer

Visualisations

• New Power BI visuals store experience
• New visuals
• Timeline by Queryon
• Drill Down Graph PRO by ZoomCharts
• BIpm custom visual by ProcessM.

As always, we'll be detailing these updates in our September 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.