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.
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 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 compatibility.
PowerShell 7 Preview 3
In 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 Servicing
PowerShell 7 GA will also be our first Long Term Servicing (LTS) release which is a change from our current Modern Lifecycle support for PowerShell Core 6.
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.
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.
If you were thinking about attending a PowerShell talk at LISA (Large Installation System Administration conference), the answer is NO. Someone suggested that the attendee’s of this conference would love a PowerShell talk so I submitted my Monad Manifesto as a draft with the thinking was that I would bring that paper up to date,
That got your attention didn’t it?
The guys over at PowerGadgets have introduced a PowerGadgets MVP Program. It sounds like it is modeled a bit after the Microsoft MVP program where if you are influential within the community, you get treated really nice (read free software).
Sebastien posted a cool simple script HERE which effectively does a reverse lookup on aliases. Here is the code:
function Get-AliasShortcut([string]$CommandName) {
ls Alias: | ?{ $_.Definition -eq $CommandName }
}
Set-Alias gas Get-AliasShortcut
Notice that he used –EQ. Whenever you find yourself using –EQ,
JAMS (Job Access & Management System) is a commercial software product that provides job scheduling for Windows, OpenVMS, UNIX and Linux systems. It now provides full PowerShell support. What does that mean? They say that they support PowerShell in three ways:
JAMS-specific PowerShell host to tightly control scripts under JAMs.
