generated: '2026-08-29'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/fundamentals/whats-new,
  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/fundamentals/desktop-change-log,
  https://support.fabric.microsoft.com/
provider: Power Query
providerId: power-query
description: >-
  Versioning, deprecation, status and support posture for Power Query and the
  Fabric Dataflow REST API that exposes it programmatically.
versioning:
  style: uri-path
  current: v1
  base: https://api.fabric.microsoft.com/v1
  policy_url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/fabric/articles/
  note: >-
    No formal API version-support/sunset policy document was located for the
    Fabric REST APIs. Preview status is marked per-operation in the reference
    docs rather than by a version segment.
deprecation:
  policy: true
  policy_url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/fundamentals/desktop-change-log
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  rfc8594: false
  note: >-
    Microsoft announces Power Query / Power BI deprecations through the Power BI
    blog and the Power BI Desktop change log, with named removal dates, rather
    than through RFC 8594 Deprecation/Sunset response headers. No operation in
    the published Dataflow Swagger carries `deprecated: true`.
  observed_announcements:
    - item: Dataflows Gen1
      note: >-
        Microsoft published "Dataflows: Thank you for eight years of Gen1 - and
        why Gen2 is the future" (2026-04-02), signalling the Gen1 to Gen2
        migration path. Captured in blogs/2026-04-02-dataflows-thank-you-for-eight-years-of-gen1and-why-gen2-is-t.md
    - item: Old Excel and CSV import experience
      note: >-
        Deprecation announced 2026-02-10. Captured in
        blogs/2026-02-10-deprecation-of-old-excel-and-csv-import-experience-in-power.md
    - item: Embedded ODBC drivers
      note: >-
        Migration from embedded ODBC drivers to ADBC in Power BI announced
        2026-06-18. Captured in blogs/.
deprecated_operations: []
deprecated_operations_note: >-
  Derived from openapi/power-query-fabric-dataflow-swagger.json — no operation is
  flagged deprecated.
status_page:
  url: https://support.fabric.microsoft.com/
  status: 200
  name: Microsoft Fabric Support and Status
  machine_readable: false
  note: >-
    Fabric publishes service health and known issues here. No status JSON/RSS
    feed of the statuspage.io kind was found; incident history is rendered as
    HTML.
  known_issues: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/known-issues/
sla:
  published: true
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/docs/view/Service-Level-Agreements-SLA-for-Online-Services
  note: >-
    Covered by the Microsoft Online Services SLA rather than a Power Query-specific
    SLA document. Power BI free / Fabric trial capacity carry no SLA.
support:
  channels:
    - name: Fabric Support
      url: https://support.fabric.microsoft.com/
    - name: Power BI Support
      url: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/support/
    - name: Fabric Community
      url: https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/
      status: 403
      status_note: Cloudflare bot challenge for non-browser clients; the community demonstrably exists.
    - name: Stack Overflow (powerquery)
      url: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/powerquery
    - name: GitHub Issues (DataConnectors)
      url: https://github.com/Microsoft/DataConnectors/issues
release_cadence:
  power_bi_desktop: monthly feature summary
  fabric: rolling, announced via /fabric/fundamentals/whats-new
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com