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.
Analysis
Download the SPFx 1.23 preview CLI from the Microsoft dev blog and run it to generate a sample list view command set in five minutes.
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