March update for Power BI desktop app is rolling out (2.44.4675.521) and hands over several highly-requested features including textbox font color, several visual improvements, and previews of three highly requested features: report theming, a new matrix visual with major experience updates, and a numeric range slicer.
Here’s the complete list of March updates:
- Report theming preview
- New matrix visual preview
- Textbox font color
- Numeric range slicer preview
- Percent of total on pie and donut chart data labels
- Cross-highlight using multiple series
- New Connector: Azure Analysis Services
- Azure Data Lake Store connector is now generally available
- DB2 connector: option to specify package collection
- Combine binaries: ability to specify sample file to use
For a summary of the major updates, you can watch the following video:
