Connectors and driver changes For the following connectors, Power BI/Fabric will move away from the current embedded ODBC drivers and toward the replacement drivers (primarily ADBC). Databricks: Simba Spark ODBC Driver → Databricks ADBC Driver Dremio: Simba Drill ODBC Driver → FlightSQL ADBC Driver Google BigQuery: Simba Google BigQuery ODBC Driver → BigQuery ADBC Driver Hive: Simba Hive ODBC Driver → Deprecated Impala: Simba Impala ODBC Driver → HiveServer2 ADBC Driver Snowflake: Simba Snowflake ODBC Driver → Snowflake ADBC Driver Spark: Simba Spark ODBC Driver → HiveServer2 ADBC Driver Who’s impacted You are impacted if you use any of the connectors in the previous list and meet one of the following conditions: You haven’t explicitly specified an implementation for the connection Your organization wants centralized control over whether ADBC or ODBC is used by default. This default behavior is intended to apply anywhere a connection is created (e.g., semantic model...
This month, we’re continuing to focus on making every day work a little easier—whether that’s building reports, modeling data, or just getting answers faster. You’ll see progress across Copilot and newer AI-driven experiences, along with a set of practical updates to reporting that help reduce repetitive work. As always, there’s a mix of preview and generally available features. Hopefully you find a few things here that make your day-to-day just a bit smoother. Contents Events and Announcements Could you be the next Power BI Dataviz World Champion? Join Us at FabCon Europe in Barcelona Copilot and AI Fabric Apps for Semantic Models (Preview) Copilot in Web Modeling (Preview) AI-Powered Power BI reporting: From design to deployment with agent skills (Preview) Data answering available in Fabric Skills, Cowork & M365 Chat (Frontier) Reporting Shape map (Generally Available) Date picker for slicers (Preview) Auto-expand options for matrix row and column headers (Generally ...