Microsoft previews SharePoint tools update due in mid-April

Microsoft has released a preview of SharePoint Framework version 1.23, the toolkit developers use to build custom extensions for SharePoint lists and sites.New features include grouping options for list view command sets, a preview of an updated command-line tool, and open-sourced project templates. The preview also fixes long-standing security issues flagged by npm audits.General availability comes on April 15, after a beta on April 1 and release candidate on April 8. This marks a slight delay but kicks off a quarterly release cycle for more predictable updates.

Before, SPFx updates arrived without a fixed rhythm, forcing developers to chase fixes for npm vulnerabilities while hacking together custom list interfaces from scratch.Quarterly releases now give a reliable schedule to plan extensions around, and fixes plus templates cut setup time for secure, AI-ready tools that integrate across Microsoft 365. Hackathon entries already show these building blocks turning SharePoint into task automators that pull in Copilot data.