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v-pranithab

Add native Dev/Test/UAT/Prod semantic model comparison + formal change log in Power BI/Fabric.

Submitted by Microsoft Employee on ‎02-11-2026 04:47 AM
Today, semantic model version history helps restore snapshots for a single semantic model, but it doesn’t provide an environment‑to‑environment diff or reconciliation report.
Customers need an automated compare/diff view (tables/measures/relationships/RLS) across environments to safely replicate PROD changes into UAT and audit “who changed what”.
Request: extend/version history & deployment experience to include cross‑environment change tracking and comparisons (not just per‑model snapshots).
Status: New
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andyclap
Advocate IV
Advocate IV
‎02-12-2026 02:56 AM

The semantic model schema (TMDL) is actually pretty good for text diffing.

We maintain ours in git with an appropriate branch structure.

 

You can use various tools to extract/upload to the service (I use pbi-tools https://pbi.tools/ )

 

It would be helpful to guide people into decent dev practices if powerbi could present a UI to integrate git for its intended purposes - branch/diff/merge - rather than just being a glorified backup.

 

We live in hope for the report layout schema to ever be useful ... !