PowerShell Team

Announcing the PowerShell 7.0 Release Candidate

December 16, 2019 Dec 16, 2019 12/16/19

Joey Aiello

After 6 previews, we're happy to announce the release of the PowerShell 7 Release Candidate (RC). Whether you've been running PowerShell Core since our first alpha releases or you've been clinging to Windows PowerShell for backwards compatibility, 7.0 delivers a host of improvements to make your life better. This is a "go live" release...

Improvements in Windows PowerShell Container Images

December 9, 2019 Dec 9, 2019 12/9/19

Joey Aiello

Beginning with Windows Server 20H1 Insider builds, Windows Server Core Insider images have been reduced in size from ~2.1 GBs to ~1.1 GBs. How did the Server Core images get over 40% smaller? Traditionally, Windows 10 and Windows Server have always included a set of .NET native binaries that were pre-compiled using the Native Image ...