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PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 3

May 18, 2020 May 18, 2020 05/18/20
Sydney Smith
PowerShellGet 3.0 preview 3 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. The focus of this release is the  parameter for  which now allows for json, hashtable, or .json files as input. For a full list of the issues addressed by this release please refer to this GitHub project. Note: For background information on PowerShellGet 3.0 please ...

PowerShell 7 Video Series

May 11, 2020 May 11, 2020 05/11/20
Sydney Smith
As a part of our PowerShell 7 release, the PowerShell Team put together a series of videos explaining and demoing aspects of the release. The intent of these videos was for User Groups to host events celebrating and discussing PowerShell 7, however, in light of the current guidance against group gatherings, we have decided to make these videos...

PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) 1.19.0 has been released

May 4, 2020 May 4, 2020 05/4/20
Jim Truher
TL;DR; (Too Long; Didn't Read) This new minor version brings 5 new rules, the formatter is much faster and other enhancements and fixes. You can get it from the PSGallery here. At the same time the PowerShell extension for VS Code has released a new preview version. This ships with this new version of PSSA so that you can also take advantage...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 2

April 30, 2020 Apr 30, 2020 04/30/20
Sydney Smith
PowerShellGet 3.0 preview 2 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. The focus of this release is the Install-PSResource parameter, error messages, and warnings. For a full list of the issues addressed by this release please refer to this GitHub project. Note: For background information on PowerShellGet 3.0 please refer to the blog...

PowerShell Gallery TLS Support

April 9, 2020 Apr 9, 2020 04/9/20
Sydney Smith
Summary To provide the best-in-class encryption to our customers, the PowerShell Gallery has deprecated Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 and 1.1 as of April 2020. The Microsoft TLS 1.0 implementation has no known security vulnerabilities. But because of the potential for future protocol downgrade attacks and other TLS ...

Depending on the right PowerShell NuGet package in your .NET project

April 7, 2020 Apr 7, 2020 04/7/20
Robert Holt
Alongside the executable packages published with each PowerShell release, the PowerShell team also maintain several NuGet packages that are available on NuGet to allow targeting PowerShell as an API platform in .NET. As a .NET application that both provides APIs and expects to load .NET libraries implementing its own (binary modules), ...

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 ...