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March 2020 - PowerShell Team

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 1

March 30, 2020 Mar 30, 2020 03/30/20
Sydney Smith
We are excited to announce that our first preview release of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This is a major update to PowerShell's experience for discovering, installing, updating and publishing PowerShell resources like modules, DSC resources, role capabilities and scripts. This was first proposed in RFC PR...

PowerShell 7.1 Team Investments and Preview.1 Release

March 26, 2020 Mar 26, 2020 03/26/20
Steve Lee
The PowerShell 7 release marks a huge milestone for PowerShell, the community, and the team! Today we released the first preview for PowerShell 7.1! This release includes a number of changes that did not make it in time for the 7.0 release. It also includes .NET 5 preview 1! The PowerShell team is not resting on our laurels and are ...

Secret Management Preview 2 Release

March 19, 2020 Mar 19, 2020 03/19/20
Sydney Smith
Note this blog post is the third in a series on the releases of this module: We are excited to release a second preview of the Secret Management Module. Thanks to the tremendous feedback we received from the first preview release of this module, you will notice a number of breaking changes to the module. This release is still a ...

Visual Studio Code for PowerShell 7

March 5, 2020 Mar 5, 2020 03/5/20
Sydney Smith
We are excited to announce that we have released a major update to the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code. This release contains months of architectural work that first shipped in our PowerShell Preview extension in November of 2019, along with incremental bug fixes in the intervening months. If you are new to Visual Studio Code ...

Announcing PowerShell 7.0

March 4, 2020 Mar 4, 2020 03/4/20
Joey Aiello
Today, we're happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before anything else, we'd like to thank our many, many open-source contributors for making this release possible by submitting code, tests, documentation, and issue feedback. PowerShell 7 would not have been possible without your help. What is ...