Tabular Editor's command-line interface lets you run Best Practice Analyzer checks on your Power BI semantic models without opening the GUI. You point it at your .SemanticModel folder, it analyzes your model against BPA rules, and outputs results in TRX format.
On November 17, 2025, Microsoft announced that PBIR becomes the default Power BI report format starting January 2026. Reports as text files, source control, CI/CD, pull requests. This is what we've been waiting for.
But have you actually tried reviewing PBIR changes in GitHub or Azure DevOps?
On November 18th, I presented at the Dublin Fabric User Group on Power BI CI/CD: From Basic Automation to Agentic AI. The session covered why CI/CD matters for Power BI (version control, collaboration, quality control), what the technology stack looks like (PBIP, Git, VS Code), and how AI integration is evolving from chat assistants to agentic tools that can interact directly with your semantic models.
The demo showed how Power BI Projects (PBIP) unlocks AI-assisted development in ways .pbix files never could.