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tnolan
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9 years ago
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Power BI Desktop Update Monthly

When can we typically expect PowerBI updates? Judging from historical updates it looks like they target one update per month. I guess I am pretty antsy for this months update. Is it safe to assume th...
  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    9 years ago

    Actually, the August update was originally released on August 24th, 2016 as per this blog post:

     

    https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-august-feature-summary/

     

    So, I am guessing that there was enough feedback or some bugs were found that they released an update "bug fix" version of it. I believe that I am still running the original August update, 2.38.4491.282. With the build count only going up in last decimal area, this also seems to indicate that the most recent version is simply bug fixes.

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

Maybe, but I think the "August" update was actually released partway into September so they might be slowing down a little. I wouldn't be surprised if we had to wait until next week or so.

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Sean
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9 years ago

Anonymous's right I'm pretty sure they released it in September as (August 2016)

 

you can of course check the Advanced Download Options here

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45331

 

Also 10 days or so after each month's main release they do an update which you can find at the above

 

So latest version is => 2.38.4491.642 Published on 9/15//2016

 

Are you expecting anything specific in the month's release?

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    Greg_Deckler
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    9 years ago

    Actually, the August update was originally released on August 24th, 2016 as per this blog post:

     

    https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-august-feature-summary/

     

    So, I am guessing that there was enough feedback or some bugs were found that they released an update "bug fix" version of it. I believe that I am still running the original August update, 2.38.4491.282. With the build count only going up in last decimal area, this also seems to indicate that the most recent version is simply bug fixes.