Horary! The Power BI desktop for October finally arrived and it is packed with tons of updates. I’m super excited about this month’s release. We rallied the troops and have a ton of MVPs talking about the latest release of Power BI desktop
Click the link to the official Microsoft blog post.
Oct 20, 2026
Fabric deployment plans let you order deployments and run notebooks or pipelines before and after each item lands, which finally gives data a place in the release. Mike Carlo and Tommy Puglia work out which teams should reach for a plan, which should stay in Git and GitHub Actions, and why both would wait for GA.
Oct 15, 2026
The Fabric IQ ontology agent can draft an ontology from a lakehouse, and it still cannot finish the job it just offered to do. Tommy Puglia and Mike Carlo hold the preview out of any workspace a client depends on.
Oct 13, 2026
Microsoft's Fabric Notebook Toolkit lets an agent you already pay for drive notebooks from a CLI. Tommy Puglia and Mike Carlo treat the preview as a tool to learn, not a pattern to hand to every workspace.