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198198 |August 2026|**Migration Assistant to SQL database**|The Migration Assistant for SQL database simplifies moving SQL Server on-premises workloads into Fabric. Designed for SQL developers, it imports schema via DACPACs, identifies compatibility issues, and provides clear, actionable guidance before migration. For more information, see [Fabric Migration Assistant for SQL database](../database/sql/migration-assistant.md).|

199199 |August 2026|**Warehouse IDENTITY columns (Generally available)**|IDENTITY columns automatically produce unique values for each new row, eliminating the need for manual key assignments and eliminating the risk of key duplication and key integrity issues. For more information and to get started, see [IDENTITY columns](../data-warehouse/identity.md) and [Use IDENTITY columns to create surrogate keys](../data-warehouse/tutorial-identity.md). You can also learn how to [Migrate to IDENTITY columns in Fabric Data Warehouse](../data-warehouse/migrate-identity-columns.md).|

200200 |August 2026|**Real-Time Dashboard KPI visualization (Generally Available)**|[The KPI visualization in Real-Time Dashboards is now generally available](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Monitor-key-metrics-at-a-glance-with-the-new-KPI-visualization/ba-p/5360033), providing at-a-glance metrics with goals, status indicators, trends, and conditional formatting. For more information, see [Customize Real-Time Dashboard visuals](../real-time-intelligence/dashboard-visuals-customize.md) and [Apply conditional formatting in Real-Time Dashboards](../real-time-intelligence/dashboard-conditional-formatting.md).|

201 −|August 2026|**PowerTable billing personas (Generally Available)**|[Billing personas for PowerTable in Fabric Planning are generally available](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Billing-personas-for-PowerTable-within-Planning-in-Fabric-IQ/ba-p/5360168), with role-based billing for Planners, Stakeholders, and Viewers. For more information, see [Billing and usage for Fabric Planning](../iq/plan/resources/billing-fabric-plan.md).|

201 +|August 2026|**PowerTable billing personas (Generally Available)**|[Billing personas for PowerTable in Fabric Planning are generally available](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Billing-personas-for-PowerTable-within-Planning-in-Fabric-IQ/ba-p/5360168), with role-based billing for Planners, Stakeholders, and Viewers. For more information, see [Billing and usage for planning in Fabric](../iq/plan/resources/billing-fabric-plan.md).|

202202 |August 2026|**Workspace customer-managed key APIs (Generally Available)**|[Workspace customer-managed key APIs are generally available](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Customer-Managed-Key-CMK-APIs-for-Microsoft-Fabric-Workspaces/ba-p/5360035), so administrators can automate workspace encryption-key assignment and removal. For more information, see [Customer-managed keys for Fabric workspaces](../security/workspace-customer-managed-keys.md) and [Assign workspace encryption](/rest/api/fabric/core/workspaces/assign-workspace-encryption).|

203203 |August 2026|**Data source routing in Fabric data agents (Generally Available)**|[Data source routing in Fabric data agents](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/blog/fbc_fabricupdatesblogs/data-source-routing-in-microsoft-fabric-data-agents-generally-available/5358696) selects the most relevant lakehouse, warehouse, semantic model, or KQL database for each question by using schema metadata, source descriptions, example queries, and routing rules. For more information, see [Configure a Fabric data agent](../data-science/data-agent-configurations.md) and [Provide example queries](../data-science/data-agent-example-queries.md).|

204204 |August 2026|**Capacity Overview Events in Real-Time Hub (Generally Available)**|[Capacity Overview Events in Real-Time Hub (Generally Available)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Capacity-Overview-Events-in-Real-Time-Hub-Generally-Available/ba-p/5356729) stream capacity summary and state signals so you can monitor utilization and health, detect throttling or lifecycle changes, and trigger alerts or automated actions. For more information, see [Introduction to Azure and Fabric events](https://aka.ms/tutorial-capacity-overview-events) and [Explore Fabric capacity overview events](https://aka.ms/explore-capacity-overview-events).|

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216216 |July 2026|**Lakehouse Query Explorer (Generally Available)**|[Lakehouse Query Explorer](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Explore-validate-and-iterate-faster-with-the-new-Lakehouse-Query/ba-p/5309466) lets you run Spark SQL in the Lakehouse explorer to inspect data, test joins, create views, and iterate before you move logic to notebooks or SQL analytics endpoints. For more information, see [Query data with the Lakehouse query explorer](../data-engineering/lakehouse-query-explorer.md).|

217217 |July 2026|**OneLake item-size reporting (Generally Available)**|[OneLake item-size reporting](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Understand-your-data-with-the-OneLake-storage-report-Generally/ba-p/5295144) gives you a workspace storage report that breaks down item data, system data, soft-deleted data, and billing status in the Fabric portal. For more information, see [Get the size of OneLake items](../onelake/how-to-get-item-size.md).|

218218 |July 2026|**OneLake storage tiers and lifecycle management (Generally Available)**|[OneLake storage tiers and lifecycle management](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Controlling-storage-costs-with-OneLake-lifecycle-management/ba-p/5295135) let you keep active data in the hot tier and move less-used data to cool or cold tiers with lifecycle policies. For more information, see [Get the size of OneLake items](../onelake/how-to-get-item-size.md) and [OneLake diagnostics](../onelake/onelake-diagnostics-overview.md).|

219 −| July 2026 | **Plan (Generally Available)** | [Plan in Fabric IQ (Generally Available)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Bring-Enterprise-planning-to-the-AI-Era-with-Planning-in/ba-p/5326315) is a unified no-code platform for collaborative planning, reporting, analytics, data integration, and management. For more information, see [What is plan?](../iq/plan/overview.md) |

219 +| July 2026 | **Planning (Generally Available)** | [Planning in Fabric IQ (Generally Available)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Bring-Enterprise-planning-to-the-AI-Era-with-Planning-in/ba-p/5326315) is a unified no-code platform for collaborative planning, reporting, analytics, data integration, and management. For more information, see [What is planning in Fabric?](../iq/plan/overview.md) |

220220 |June 2026|**Item Recovery (Generally Available)**|[Item Recovery in Microsoft Fabric (Generally Available)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Item-Recovery-in-Microsoft-Fabric-Generally-Available/ba-p/5240675) lets authorized users restore deleted items across supported workloads through the Workspace Recycle bin or REST API within a configurable retention window of up to 90 days, and admins configure tenant-wide recovery policies from the Fabric admin portal. For more information, see [Retention and recovery in Fabric](../admin/retention-recovery.md).|

221221 |June 2026|**Operations agent (Generally Available)**|[Operations agent (Generally Available)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Advancing-autonomous-action-with-operations-agent-Generally/ba-p/5192046) is an autonomous agent that monitors your data with Real-Time Intelligence, reasons over your Fabric IQ ontology, and, with your approval, runs pipelines, notebooks, user data functions, and Power Automate flows, with Teams notifications, full tracing and audit, and Microsoft Agent 365 and Microsoft Entra ID governance. For more information, see [Create and configure operations agents](../real-time-intelligence/operations-agent.md).|

222222 |June 2026|**Diagnose Lakehouse table health with T-SQL (Generally Available)**|[Lakehouse table health diagnostics (Generally Available)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Know-before-you-optimize-Diagnose-Lakehouse-table-health-with-a/ba-p/5228076) add the built-in `sys.sp_get_table_health_metrics` stored procedure to the SQL analytics endpoint, returning anomaly indicators and storage metrics such as small-file counts, deleted-row counts, and checkpoint versions so you can run `OPTIMIZE` only when needed. For more information, see [Optimize Lakehouse tables based on health checks](../data-warehouse/tutorial-conditional-lakehouse-optimization.md).|

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583 −|August 2026|**PowerTable billing personas (Generally Available)**|[Billing personas for PowerTable in Fabric Planning are generally available](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Billing-personas-for-PowerTable-within-Planning-in-Fabric-IQ/ba-p/5360168), with role-based billing for Planners, Stakeholders, and Viewers. For more information, see [Billing and usage for Fabric Planning](../iq/plan/resources/billing-fabric-plan.md).|

583 +|August 2026|**PowerTable billing personas (Generally Available)**|[Billing personas for PowerTable in Fabric Planning are generally available](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Billing-personas-for-PowerTable-within-Planning-in-Fabric-IQ/ba-p/5360168), with role-based billing for Planners, Stakeholders, and Viewers. For more information, see [Billing and usage for planning in Fabric](../iq/plan/resources/billing-fabric-plan.md).|

584584 |July 2026|**Fabric IQ conversational analytics**|[Fabric IQ conversational analytics](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/The-future-of-conversational-analytics-in-Fabric/ba-p/5302562) lets you ask questions over governed Power BI semantic models in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Copilot Cowork, and use data agents for specialized analysis. For more information, see [What is Fabric IQ?](../iq/overview.md) and [Fabric IQ in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat](../iq/connectors/microsoft-365-copilot-overview.md).|

585 −| July 2026 | **Plan (Generally Available)** | [Plan in Fabric IQ (Generally Available)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Bring-Enterprise-planning-to-the-AI-Era-with-Planning-in/ba-p/5326315) is a unified no-code platform for collaborative planning, reporting, analytics, data integration, and management. For more information, see [What is plan?](../iq/plan/overview.md) |

585 +| July 2026 | **Planning (Generally Available)** | [Planning in Fabric IQ (Generally Available)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Bring-Enterprise-planning-to-the-AI-Era-with-Planning-in/ba-p/5326315) is a unified no-code platform for collaborative planning, reporting, analytics, data integration, and management. For more information, see [What is planning in Fabric?](../iq/plan/overview.md) |

586586 |July 2026|**Fabric data agent public API**|[The Fabric data agent public API](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Fabric-data-agent-API-is-now-public-Build-Fabric-data-agents/ba-p/5230588) lets you manage data sources and data agents programmatically from local development, CI/CD pipelines, internal portals, containers, Azure Functions, and backend services. For more information, see [Fabric data agent concepts](../data-science/concept-data-agent.md) and [Fabric data agent SDK](https://aka.ms/fabric/data-agent/sdk/docs).|

587587 |June 2026|**Operations agent (Generally Available)**|[Operations agent (Generally Available)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Advancing-autonomous-action-with-operations-agent-Generally/ba-p/5192046) is an autonomous agent that monitors your data with Real-Time Intelligence, reasons over your Fabric IQ ontology, and, with your approval, runs pipelines, notebooks, user data functions, and Power Automate flows, with Teams notifications, full tracing and audit, and Microsoft Agent 365 and Microsoft Entra ID governance. For more information, see [Create and configure operations agents](../real-time-intelligence/operations-agent.md).|

588 −|June 2026|**Billing for Fabric Planning (Preview)**|[Billing for Fabric Planning (Preview)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Billing-for-Microsoft-Fabric-Planning-Preview/ba-p/5207643) uses a hybrid model that combines role-based and session-based pricing for Planners, Stakeholders, and Viewers with job-based pricing for automated operations such as data sync and Planning sheet updates. A session ties a user, role, and capacity to a 30-day window, and all usage meters against the unified Fabric capacity-unit (CU) model.|

588 +|June 2026|**Billing for Planning in Fabric (Preview)**|[Billing for Planning in Fabric (Preview)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Billing-for-Microsoft-Fabric-Planning-Preview/ba-p/5207643) uses a hybrid model that combines role-based and session-based pricing for Planners, Stakeholders, and Viewers with job-based pricing for automated operations such as data sync and planning sheet updates. A session ties a user, role, and capacity to a 30-day window, and all usage meters against the unified Fabric capacity-unit (CU) model.|

589589 |June 2026|**Data agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Generally Available)**|[Fabric Data Agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot (Generally Available)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Fabric-June-2026-Feature-Summary/ba-p/5190690#toc-hId-1475309270) lets business users discover and chat with governed Fabric data sources directly inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, with admin-managed publishing and Entra ID-enforced data permissions. For more information, see [Fabric data agent concepts](../data-science/concept-data-agent.md).|

590590 |June 2026|**Observability for Fabric Data Agent in Microsoft Foundry (Preview)**|[Observability for Fabric Data Agent in Microsoft Foundry (Preview)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Fabric-June-2026-Feature-Summary/ba-p/5190690#toc-hId--1012203563) surfaces telemetry for every call to a Fabric Data Agent used as a tool inside a Foundry agent, including latency, status, and error details, so agent builders can debug and monitor production agents. For more information, see [Fabric data agent concepts](../data-science/concept-data-agent.md).|

591591 |June 2026|**Build Agent with AI (Preview)**|The [Build agent with AI (Preview)](https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Build-agent-with-AI-for-Data-Agent-Preview/ba-p/5351116) feature is an AI-assisted creation experience that generates and refines Fabric Data Agent configurations through an interactive workflow, replacing manual setup with schema- and conversation-aware recommendations for agent instructions, data source guidance, and example queries; the preview focuses on SQL and Eventhouse scenarios. For more information, see [Fabric data agent concepts](../data-science/concept-data-agent.md).|

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