After 10 years, support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020. In line with this, Microsoft will stop support for Power BI Desktop on Windows 7 on Jan 31st 2021. After that, Power BI Desktop will only be supported on Windows 8 or later version.
The January 2021 release of Power BI Desktop Optimized for Report Server will be supported in accordance with the Modern Lifecycle Policy i.e. supported until the next release (currently scheduled for May 2021), after which it will only receive security updates until January 2022, after which support will stop.
As always there were many enhancements to Power BI Report Server in the latest monthly update (October 2020)
Reporting
Modern ribbon
Canvas watermarks
Total labels for stacked visuals
Added general visual option to maintain layer order
Gradient legend
Relative time filter
Slicer improvements
New options for expand/collapse icons
Icons now scale with font size
Ability to customize indentation for child items
Ability to further customize slicer header text
Mobile authoring enhancements
New phone emulator
Updated visualization pane
Support for overlaid visuals
Bookmark available in the Mobile layout view
Turn off gridlines and snap to grid
Visualizations
Line chart dot formatting options
Modeling
Enhanced Dataset Metadata
Performance improvements to IF and SWITCH functions
Support for Excel financial functions
Model view enabled for live connect
Updates to Model view
Data preparation
Automatic Table Detection from Excel files
Automatic Table Detection from JSON files
Global option to disable automatic type detection
Other
Export data source to PBIDS in Power BI Desktop
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