Power BI Desktop November Update: Optimized Ribbon and Theme Colors

At the end of each month, Microsoft introduces the many changes made to its Power BI desktop variant during that month. In this November edition, the tech giant introduced a new color UI, an optimized ribbon to make the process of creating reports easier for users, and much more.

The Power BI team changed the color to teal in consideration of its effectiveness in improving contrast and increasing visibility throughout the application, making it more accessible to visually impaired users. In addition to this, there are a number of other new updates around various modules including reporting, modeling, data connectivity, visualization, and more.

The full changelog can be viewed below:

• eporting
  • Unshared and unsynchronized axes for small multiples charts
  • Controlling and customizing labels on Azure Maps
  • Create dynamic slicers using field parameters
  • Composite models over Power BI datasets and Analysis Services
• Modeling
  • Streamline your report authoring experience with the Optimize ribbon
  • New DAX function: EVALUATEANDLOG
  • New DAX functions: TOCSV and TOJSON
• Data connectivity and preparation
  • Azure Databricks, Databricks
  • Dremio Cloud
  • Kognitwin
  • Spigit, Projectplace, Planview Enterprise One – PRM, Planview Enterprise One – CTM
  • SumTotal
• Service
  • New way to upload Power BI and Excel files
  • Subscribe to a report with filters applied
  • Linked metrics
  • Information protection update
• Paginated Reports
  • Formatted Table authoring experience
• Visualizations
  • New visuals in AppSource
  • accoPLANNING by Accobat
  • ADWISE RoadMap / Gantt v2.5
  • Control Chart XmR by Nova Silva
  • Zebra BI Cards 1.3
  • ZoomCharts Drill Down Graph PRO

It is worth noting that the infrastructure update to WebView2 for Data Analytics Services is also moving closer to GA. Since the plan is to eventually make the switch to WebView2 mandatory for all customers, users who do not currently have WebView2 installed will be shown an installation prompt each time they launch their desktop application. You can get the latest updates to the Power BI desktop here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58494