Configuring release channel for your model-driven app
The previous article about the Comparison of the Monthly Channel and Semi-Annual Channel for your model-driven app: https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/comparison-monthly-channel-semi-annual-your-app-jakub-homola-kl3se/
Official Microsoft documentation: Changing release channels for model-driven apps - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn
Today, there are up to 4 levels where you can apply this setting:
The release channel is primarily managed on the environment or the Model-driven app. The user level is an override, which can be used for gradual rollout or to revert specific users.
The browser level overrides everything listed and is used for one-time functionality checks.
Changing the environment channel
The environment channel can be set using the Power Platform admin center.
Changing the app channel
Change app channel in app designer:
The settings for a specific Model-driven application override the settings within the environment.
The application set as "Semi-annual":
The application set as "Monthly":
Changing the user channel
The user channel can be used to override both the environment channel and the app channel using the Power Platform admin center.
Changing the browser session channel
This setting overrides everything.
A single browser session can be changed by adding the URL parameter &channel=<channelname> as a temporary override.
The following article on this topic: https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/validating-comparing-features-across-channels-releases-jakub-homola-t3xke/