On October 1 Microsoft has released the new perpetual version of Access as part of Office 2024. This brings new features and a new support guarantee to the purchase version. The acquisition of Access was made even more restricted with this version.
New Features
According to Microsoft, Access 2024 has the following new features (compared to Access 2021):
Dataverse connector
Edge browser control
Large Address Aware
Code signing
Open queries in SQL view
Don't show the linked tables warning
Open more tables and connections
In the AFo Features section you can find articles on each of these features.
The perpetual versions of Office products are decoupled from Office 365 development a few months before their release and (generally speaking) contain those features that were already included in the 365 product at that time.
This is why Access 2024 does not have the new chart types that have been released for Access 365 a few days ago. It will (most likely) also not include the new Monaco editor for SQL that is currently in beta state.
However, this feature-cutting principle is not always strictly adhered to by Microsoft, e.g.