July release unstable? Anyone else having issues?

[ThomasDay]

Hello fellow PowerBi'ers,

I have a large model that has been great...it has 600+ measures and many millions of rows.

The new release, where the measures are now in sorted order in the tables view, seems very flakey.  I have found that adding measures takes a long time of "working on it" and then the measures input area goes dark and I just got a frown!!!!

Yikes!!  Anyone else having this problem?  Is it possible to roll back to the prior release?

Tom

[Anonymous]

Mine has already had trouble, freezing constantly.  I have also noticed a lot of Microsoft.Mashup.Container.NETFX40.exe instances popping up in the background using a lot of resources. 

[ThomasDay]

@Anonymous Do you have access to July 2nd version?  The new version had a lot of query and connection changes, but not much on the front facing things so reverting may not be an issue for you.

[Ramanirajesh]

When try editing the queries , the tool is not working, hanged !! had to close and restart the tool, and still no luck in editing the query.

[lalthan]

Same issue here on editing the queries. The pane just hangs and I have to press Alt + F4 to close it.  Uninstalled and reverted back to the old PBI Desktop but issue still persists as I have already used the new features available in the latest version (table style etc etc).

[ThomasDay]

@lalthan I've had visuals stop working in the past when their features were updated (it happens remotely and without notification).  In that situation, I deleted the visual and set it up again.  I'm sure it's a pain, but that would be a seemingly promising approach if the fix isn't in sight for the July release.

Has anyone heard what's happening from the Powerbi development group?

Tom

[Ramanirajesh]

When try editing the queries , the tool is not working, hanged !! had to close and restart the tool, and still no luck in editing the query.

[Ramanirajesh]

When try editing the queries , the tool is not working, hanged !! had to close and restart the tool, and still no luck in editing the query.

[Anonymous]

Same issue here. Rolled back to previous version and all is well...

[Anonymous]

I agree, I am wondering the same if anyone else is having issues with the July release. I am trying to connect to SQL server and each time I attempt to connect, the desktop freezes. 

[ThomasDay]

Do you know how to roll back to a prior version?  And will newly created (as in with the July release) models open if I do that or is it looking for current only.  Crikey, seems like a mess.

[bhknobloch]

Yes, it's unstable. If it's possible to roll back to the previous version I'd like to know how as well.

[Seth_C_Bauer · Accepted solution]

@bhknobloch@ThomasDay@Anonymous You can roll back as long as you didn't delete the download from your local machine. Just look for the PBIDesktop_x64.msi file (may be different file extension for 32bit. And the modified date (download date) and run the installer again and you will revert to whatever previous version you want.

[bhknobloch]

Thank you @Seth_C_Bauer. Just uninstalled and reinstalled the previous version. Looks like it took care of the issue.

[KGrice]

There's a community idea to make previous versions available to install from MS. You can vote on it here, and it also includes a link to find previous versions from a third party. I haven't vetted it (and can't right now), so use at your own risk!

[ThomasDay]

Mine is BAAAACCCCCKKKK as well.  Whew!  And the model I built over the last 2 days is fine as well as it didn't use any new features.