Welcome to January 2026 Power BI Report Server feature summary! These updates bring new capabilities and enhancements across Reporting and Visualizations, maintaining our commitment to delivering powerful, flexible, and enterprise-ready reporting solutions.
For more information on how to find your report server product key, refer to the documentation.
Visualizations features
This release includes a variety of new and updated visuals from Microsoft partners and the broader community. These visuals enable richer storytelling, advanced exploration, and more engaging report experiences.
- Activity Gauge by Powerviz
- Decomposition Tree – All Expanding
- Dynamic chart legends in Zebra BI Charts
- Drill Down Bubble PRO by ZoomCharts
- Power Gantt Chart by Nova Silva
- Turn any image into data insights with Synoptic Panel by OKVIZ
- Sankey Chart by Powerviz
- Your Timeline Slicer: Reimagining Date Filtering for Modern Dashboards
- Drill Down Scatter PRO by ZoomCharts
- Multiple Sparklines
- Performance Bar by JTA
- Financial Reporting Matrix v8.2
- ADWISE Advanced Column v 2.0
- Zebra BI Tables: Calculated Reports in One Click and Brand Images
- Word Cloud by Powerviz
- Drill Down Combo Bar PRO by ZoomCharts
- CAGR Arrows Now in Zebra BI Charts
Reporting features
This release also includes several reporting enhancements to improve layout behavior, visual styling, and interaction options to help you build polished, intuitive, and modern reports.
- Automatically expand matrix columns to fill available space
- Card visual (Generally Available)
- Enhancing Image visuals with styling, states, and more
- Button slicer (Generally Available)
- Automatically expand table columns to fill available space
- Performance analyzer available when editing a report in the web
This concludes the feature summary for January 2026. Please follow this blog for updates on upcoming releases. As a reminder, Power BI Report Server releases occur in January, May, and September.
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