Steve Lee

PowerShell 7 Preview 6

November 21st, 2019

Today we shipped PowerShell 7 Preview.6! This release contains a number of new features and many bug fixes from both the community as well as the PowerShell team. See the Release Notes for all the details of what is included in this release.This will be the last preview release as we head towards a Release Candidate in December. For ...

PowerShell 7 Preview 5

October 23rd, 2019

Today we shipped PowerShell 7 Preview5! This release contains a number of new features and many bug fixes from both the community as well as the PowerShell team. See the Release Notes for all the details of what is included in this release.We are still on track to have one more preview release next month in November. Then, barring any ...

PowerShell 7 Preview 4

September 19th, 2019

We continue to make progress towards our PowerShell 7 release which currently is targeting December 2019 for a Release Candidate and January 2020 for General Availability and will be our first LTS (Long Term Servicing) release!Please see the previous blog post on Preview 3 for more details about LTS and also Windows PowerShell ...

PowerShell 7 Preview 3

August 20th, 2019

PowerShell 7 Preview 3In May, we published our PowerShell 7 Roadmap. We have been making progress on our roadmap and are currently on track to have a Generally Available (GA) release by end of this calendar year.Long Term ServicingPowerShell 7 GA will also be our first Long Term Servicing (LTS) release which is a change from our ...

PowerShell 7 Roadmap

May 30th, 2019

Last month we announced that PowerShell 7 will be the next release of PowerShell.Here I will provide more details of areas we'll be investing in for the PowerShell 7 release.When will I get it?!Today, we're releasing our first preview of PowerShell 7. Keeping with our monthly cadence, expect new preview releases approximately every...

The Next Release of PowerShell – PowerShell 7

April 5th, 2019

Recently, the PowerShell Team shipped the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell Core 6.2. Since that release, we've already begun work on the next iteration!We're calling the next release PowerShell 7, the reasons for which will be explained in this blog post.Why 7 and not 6.3?PowerShell Core usage has grown significantly ...

General Availability of PowerShell Core 6.2

March 28th, 2019

We're proud to announce that the latest version of PowerShell has been released!This is the third minor supported release of PowerShell Core, the open-source edition of PowerShell that works on Linux, macOS, and Windows!Thanks to everyone that made this release possible, including our contributors, users, and anyone who filed ...

Invoke-Sqlcmd is Now Available Supporting Cross-Platform

March 11th, 2019

The official SqlServer module now includes a version of the Invoke-Sqlcmd cmdlet that runs in PSCore 6.2 and above. The version of the SqlServer module which contains this cmdlet is 21.1.18095-preview and is available in the PowerShell Gallery. In order to install this preview version of the module, you must run Install-Module (or Update-...

Parsing Text with PowerShell (3/3)

January 28th, 2019

This is the third and final post in a three-part series. In the previous posts, we looked at the different operators what are available to us in PowerShell.When analyzing crashes at DICE, I noticed that some of the C++ runtime binaries where missing debug symbols. They should be ...

Parsing Text with PowerShell (2/3)

January 24th, 2019

This is the second post in a three-part series. The -split operatorThe -split operator splits one or more strings into substrings.The first example is a name-value pattern, which is a common parsing task. Note the usage of the Max-substrings parameter to the -split operator.We want ...