Number formatting changes after Power BI Update March 2021

[kellysolutions]

1.  If you want to display a negative value in brackets (parentheses), as most accountants and financial people do, you have two choices.
2.  You can create a format, e.g. £ ##,##0; (£ ##,##0); or you can use the DAX Format command.
3. DAX Format turns the number into text which causes other problems, so we have chosen to create a format.
4. After the March 2021 update, our formats were corrupted and turned into something like \£\#\#\,\# etc.
   
   
5. Does anyone know why this happens and how can I prevent it? Using DAX Format is not an option.
6. Also why doesn't Microsoft just provide the alternative format type?
   
   Thank you,

   Paul

[v-chuncz-msft]

@kellysolutions 

I tried the latest version to create a report and it seems to work fine for me.