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Announcing PowerShell 7.6 (LTS) GA Release
We're excited to announce the General Availability of PowerShell 7.6, the next Long Term Support (LTS) release of PowerShell. PowerShell 7.6 is built on .NET 10 (LTS), continuing the alignment between PowerShell and the modern .NET platform. PowerShell 7.6 includes reliability improvements across the engine, modules, and interactive shell experience. Preview releases focused on improving consistency, fixing long-standing issues, and refining behavior across platforms. Notable areas of improvement include: As an LTS release, PowerShell 7.6 becomes the recommended version for ...
PowerShell, OpenSSH, and DSC team investments for 2026
Planned team investments for 2026 for PowerShell, OpenSSH, DSC, and related tooling.
Introducing MCP Support in AI Shell Preview 6
We're excited to share the latest preview release of AI Shell that includes new features and improvements based on your feedback.
Announcing Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0, a tool to build PowerShell help files.
Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.1.0
This post announces the release of Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.1.0. We discuss the features and benefits of DSC and how it differs from PowerShell DSC.
AI Shell Preview 4 Release!
We're excited to share the latest preview release of AI Shell that includes new features and improvements based on your feedback.
PowerShell, OpenSSH, and DSC team investments for 2025
Planned team investments for 2025 for PowerShell, OpenSSH, DSC, and related tooling.
Authoring Enhancements in Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0
This is the third post in a multi-part series about the new release of DSC. Microsoft Desired State Configuration (DSC) v3.0.0 provides powerful feature that enhance the authoring experience. DSC command completer The completer command returns a shell script that, when executed, registers completions for the given shell. DSC can generate completion scripts for the following shells: To learn more, see the command reference documentation. Enhanced Authoring with Schemas Working with DSC platform involves writing configuration documents and resource manifests. D...
Get started with Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0
This post show you how to install DSC v3.0.0 and get started using the **dsc** command.
Announcing Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0
This post announces the release of Microsoft Desired State Configuration v3.0.0. We discuss the features and benefits of DSC and how it differs from PowerShell DSC.
Announcing AI Shell Preview 2
We are pleased to share a new preview release of AI Shell!
Microsoft Update changes for PowerShell 7
This blog outlines the expected behavior of MU releases for PowerShell 7.
PowerShell 7.5 GA is now available
We're pleased to announce the release of PowerShell 7.5.0! For this release the focus has been on quality, security and stability of the platform. We greatly appreciate the enormous amount of community contributions in this release along with new cmdlets, experimental features and other quality of life additions. PowerShell 7.5 is built on top of .NET 9 and will be supported for 18 months as a standard support release. Please note that support for PowerShell 7.2 is ended November 8, 2024. PowerShell 7.4 is the current LTS release of PowerShell and is supported until November 2026. How do I get it? PowerShell...
Announcing the Public Preview of AI Shell
We are pleased to announce the public preview of AI Shell.
PowerShell 7.5 RC-1 is now available
Availability of PowerShell 7.5 RC1
Announcing Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0-Preview1
We are pleased to announce the release of Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0-Preview1, a tool to build PowerShell help files.
PSResourceGet support for Azure Container Registry (ACR) is in Preview
PSResourceGet 1.1 preview 1 is available
PowerShell and OpenSSH team investments for 2024
Planned team investments for 2024 for PowerShell, OpenSSH, and related tooling.
PowerShell 7.4 General Availability
PowerShell 7.4 GA has been released.
PowerShell 7.4 Release Candidate 1
Availability of PowerShell 7.4 RC1
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code Fall 2023 Update
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Fall 2023 Update
PSResourceGet is generally available
PSResourceGet is generally available
PSReadLine 2.3.4 GA Release
We are excited to announce the general availability of PSReadLine 2.3.4!
PowerShellGet 3.0.22-beta22 is now available
The latest preview of PowerShellGet is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. In this new preview version of PowerShellGet, PowerShellGet is a compatibility module that allows use of PowerShellGet 2.x (and below) cmdlet syntax with PSResourceGet functionality by making a best effort mapping between the cmdlet interfaces of both versions of the module. This module is a continuation of the CompatPowerShellGet project, but will now be shipping under the PowerShellGet module name. How to install the module To install from PSResourceGet (which is included in PowerShell 7.4 Preview 5) To install from PowerShel...
Announcing PowerShell Crescendo 1.1.0 General Availability (GA)
Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of PowerShell Crescendo 1.1.0, a framework for the
PSResourceGet Release Candidate is Now Available
Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet is a continuation of the PowerShellGet 3.0 project. The release candidate of this module under the new name is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This release contains a number of bug fixes. This release is considered "go live" meaning that it is a fully supported release and expected to be of GA quality. After this release we don't expect to make any changes before we make the module "Generally Available (GA)". Please test out this module and report any issues so that we can resolve any blocking scenarios before this module becomes GA. Once this module becomes GA we will ...
PowerShell Adapter Feedback Provider
This blog outlines the PowerShell Adapter Feedback Provider module
PSResourceGet Preview 24 is Now Available
Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet is a continuation of the PowerShellGet 3.0 project. The latest preview release of this module under the new name is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This release contains improved publish support, new aliases and many bug fixes. This is the last planned preview release before we release a "Release Candidate (RC)" of the module. From there we don't expect to make any changes before we make the module "Generally Available (GA)". How to install the module To install from PSResourceGet previews (which is included in PowerShell 7.4 Preview 4) To install from PowerShell...
Announcing PowerShell Crescendo 1.1.0-RC1
This RC contains several community requested features and fixes including improved support for PSScriptAnalyzer, improvements to error handling, and the addition of `ExcludeAsArgument` property.
Desired State Configuration (DSC) Planning Update
A fun and informative blog post sharing the exciting plans and roadmap for Desired State Configuration (DSC), including plans for compatibility, transparency, cross-platform support, and more.
Microsoft.PowerShell.TextUtility module updates
TextUtility module gets new functionality We have recently released another preview of the TextUtility module. This module is a collection of tools that are meant to help with working with text content. Installing the module You can install this module from the PowerShellGallery with PowerShellGet via: Or you can install it with PSResourceGet via: ConvertFrom-TextTable The most recent pre-release of Microsoft.PowerShell.TextUtility has some new exciting functionality. The new cmdlet allows you to take tabular text and convert it into objects. Also, there is a way to convert some of types of those ...
JSON Adapter Feedback Provider
This blog outlines a new feedback provider developed by the PowerShell Team to inform users of native executables that can output `JSON`.
What are Feedback Providers?
This is an introduction to the concept of feedback providers in PowerShell. What they are, how to use them and why we are implementing them.
PSResourceGet Preview is Now Available
Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet is a continuation of the PowerShellGet 3.0 project. The first preview release of this module under the new name is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This release contains the module rename, and reintroduces support for Azure Artifacts, GitHub packages, and Artifactory and contains a number of bug fixes. How to install the module To install from PowerShellGet 3.0 previews To install from PowerShellGet 2.2.5 Note that once you install this module you will need to re-register your repositories as the repository registration file has moved. What is included in th...
PowerShellGet in PowerShell 7.4 Updates
Version 3 previews of PowerShellGet will begin shipping in PowerShell 7.4 previews in June (preview 5) with the following updates. These changes include important plans to address migration and compatibility, and we would like to request feedback. We would greatly appreciate your thoughtful feedback on these plans while there is still time to consider changes. Please comment on this github issue. Considerations for this decision We appreciate the feedback we have already been given by the community, at PowerShell events, by MVP's, and by our peers. Some of the key fa...
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 21
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 21 Prerequisites Please ensure that you have the latest (non-prerelease) version of PowerShellGet and PackageManagement installed. To check the version you currently have installed run the command The latest version of PowerShellGet is 2.2.5, and the latest version of PackageManagement is 1.4.7. To install the latest versions of these modules run the following: Installing the Preview To install this preview release side-by-side with your exi...
Completion Predictor v0.1.1 Release
We released a new version of the CompletionPredictor! This blog post highlights some of the new functionalities of it.
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code Spring 2023 Update
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Spring 2023 Update
PSReadLine 2.3.1-beta1 Release
We are very excited to annouce the release of PSReadLine 2.3.1-beta1 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! We have added a brand new tool tip feature to help give more descriptions to predictor results.
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 20
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes a major refactor of the module to remove the dependency on the NuGet client APIs for remote repositories. This version of the module, along with the PowerShellGet compatibility module, will be shipping in the next preview of PowerShell 7.4 (preview 3). How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 20 Prerequisites Please ensure that you have the latest (non-prerelease) version of PowerShellGet and PackageManagement installed. To check the version you currently have inst...
PSReadLine 2.3.0-beta0 Release
Announcement of PSReadLine 2.3.0-beta0 release and description of the new features and fixes available.
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code February 2023 Update
We are excited to announce that the February update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. In this update we rewrote all the symbol logic. Classes (and their properties and methods) are now proper symbols. We now have a single visitor that builds a cached dictionary of symbols for each file instead of a dozen similar-yet-different Abstract Symbol Tree (AST) PowerShell script visitors handling different parts of each symbol-related request. This was a massive simplification of the code that also leads to huge performance improvements across all the symbol...
PowerShell/OpenSSH Team Investments for 2023
Team investments for 2023 across PowerShell, PowerShellGallery, OpenSSH, and supporting tools
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code January 2023 Update
We are excited to announce that the January update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. This first stable release for the new year includes a multitude of fixes for the debugger! Expanding variables with properties that are inaccessible no longer causes a short-circuit preventing the rest of the properties from being expanded, variable values whose expansion results in PowerShell code being executed now works as expected, and in general all the correct properties are now present. We look forward to adding the ability to view static and private fields in...
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 18
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as cmdlet. How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 18 Prerequisites Please note that this preview release of PowerShellGet 3.0 does not support PowerShell 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2-preview1. This is a temporary issue due to a dependency and should be resolved in future releases. This release does support Windows PowerShell 5.1, PowerShell 7.2 and 7.3. Please ensure that you have the latest (non-prerelease) version of PowerShellGet and Package...
Announcing PowerShell Crescendo 1.1.0-preview01
**PowerShell Crescendo 1.1.0-preview01**. This preview includes a new schema, support for argument value transformation, the ability to bypass the output handler, and improved error handling.
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code October 2022 Update
We are excited to announce that the October update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. This October stable release incorporates a number of bugfixes throughout September and early October, though is not based on the latest preview, v2022.10.1-preview, as the refactors involved in enabling TypeScript's strict type checking and ESLint's strict linting will need more testing. However, based on the success of the PowerShell Script Analyzer's v1.21.0 release we wanted to get this to you sooner! Updates in the October Release Note that these update...
PowerShell 7.3 General Availability
General availability of PowerShell 7.3
PSScriptAnalyzer (PSSA) 1.21.0 has been released
Announcing the release of PSScriptAnalyzer 1.21
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 17
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as support for specifying the temporary path used during installation of PSResources. How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 17 Prerequisites Please note that this preview release of PowerShellGet 3.0 does not support PowerShell 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2-preview1. This is a temporary issue due to a dependency and should be resolved in future releases. This release does support Windows PowerShell 5.1, PowerShell 7.2 and 7.3-previews. Please en...
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code August 2022 Update
We are excited to announce that the August update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. This release adds a walkthrough experience for getting started with PowerShell in VS Code, more regression tests, a major LSP client library update, and includes a number of bug fixes! Updates in the August Release Note that these updates all shipped in our PowerShell Preview Extension for VS Code before shipping in our stable channel. Some highlights of August releases: For the full ...
Archive Module 2.0 Preview 2
We are excited to announce that the second preview of a rewrite of Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive, the module that lets you create and extract archives, is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This release is the second preview release of a rewrite of the module and is not feature complete. Please note that this release is only compatible with PowerShell 7.3.0-preview5 and up. For more information on what is proposed in this rewrite, or to give feedback on the design please refer to the RFC. Installing the module Please note that this release will only work with PowerShell 7.3.0-preview5 and up. Find and i...
Announcing the release of Get-WhatsNew
Get the latest PowerShell feature information in your terminal with Get-WhatsNew
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code July 2022 Update
We are excited to announce that the July update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. This release renames the "PowerShell Integrated Console" to the "PowerShell Extension Terminal" to align with VS Code's verbiage, adds many regression tests, and includes a number of bug fixes! Updates in the July release Note that these updates all shipped in our PowerShell Preview Extension for VS Code before shipping in our stable channel. Some highlights of July release: For the full list of changes please refer to our changelog. Improvem...
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 16
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes ScriptFileInfo cmdlets, support, and an AuthenticodeCheck for Install. How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 16 Prerequisites Please note that this preview release of PowerShellGet 3.0 does not support PowerShell 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2-preview1. This is a temporary issue due to a dependency and should be resolved in future releases. This release does support Windows PowerShell 5.1, PowerShell 7.2 and 7.3-previews. Please ensure that you have the latest (non-prereleas...
Archive Module 2.0 Preview 1
We are excited to announce that the first preview of a rewrite of Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive, the module that lets you create and extract archives, is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This release is the first preview release of a rewrite of the module and is not feature complete. Please note that this release only contains the cmdlet and is only compatible with PowerShell 7.3.0-preview5 and up. For more information on what is proposed in this rewrite, or to give feedback on the design please refer to the RFC. Goals of the 2.0 release The goal for the Archive module is to build a high-performing a...
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code June 2022 Update
We are excited to announce that an update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. This release fixes a number of issues related to IntelliSense and enables updates to PowerShell Editor Services (the engine of the VS Code extension) for other clients, such as Emacs and Vim with LSP plug-ins. Updates from the June releases Some highlights of June releases: For the full list of changes please refer to our changelog. IntelliSense improvements In this release we have made a number of improvements t...
Hosting PowerShell in a Python script
How to use Python to call the PowerShell engine without running the PowerShell executable
PSReadLine 2.2.6 enables Predictive Intellisense by default
Announcing Predictive Intellisense has been proven to be a productivity booster and so we are enabling it by default starting with PSReadLine 2.2.6!
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 14
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes support for PSResourceRepository credential persistence, as well as support for RequiredResourceFiles for Install. How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 14 Prerequisites Please ensure that you have the latest (non-prerelease) version of PowerShellGet and PackageManagement installed. To check the version you currently have installed run the command The latest version of PowerShellGet is 2.2.5, and the latest version of PackageManagement is 1.4.7. To install the ...
Major update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code
An updated version of our PowerShell extension is now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This update represents a complete overhaul of the core PowerShell engine of PowerShell Editor Services, intending to create a more reliable and stable user experience. This release represents nearly two years' work, tracked in PSES #1295 and implemented in PSES #1459. It is our response to many issues opened by users over the last several years. Thank you to all of the community members who opened issues which helped motivate this major update. These major updates have also been tested over the last 6 months,...
Announcing PowerShell Crescendo General Availability (GA)
Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of PowerShell Crescendo, a framework for the
PowerShell and OpenSSH team investments for 2022
Planned team investments for 2022 for PowerShell and OpenSSH.
PSReadLine 2.2 GA
Announcing the general availability (GA) release for PSReadLine 2.2. This release addresses community suggestions and feedback. Be sure to checkout new features Predictive IntelliSense and Dynamic Help.
PSReadLine 2.2 RC
This is the release candidate (RC) for PowerShell PSReadLine 2.2. We look forward to community validation and feedback prior to the general release (GA). This release candidate includes several community fixes and suggested features.
When PowerShellGet v1 fails to install the NuGet Provider
How to resolve errors in PowerShellGet v1 when attempting to install the NuGet package provider.
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 12 Release
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes more parameters, additional pipeline support, more wildcard support and a number of other features detailed below. How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 12 Prerequisites Please ensure that you have the latest (non-prerelease) version of PowerShellGet and PackageManagement installed. To check the version you currently have installed run the command: The latest version of PowerShellGet is 2.2.5, and the latest version of PackageManagement is 1.4.7. To install th...
Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Release Candidate (RC)
This is the release candidate (RC) for PowerShell Crescendo. We look forward to community validation and feedback prior to the general release (GA). This release adds a versioned schema to support future updates and several community suggested features.
New release of PowerShell Preview for Visual Studio Code!
An updated version of our PowerShell Preview extension is now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This update represents a complete overhaul of the core PowerShell engine of PowerShell Editor services, with the intention of create a more reliable and stable user experience. This release represents over a year's work, tracked in PSES #1295 and implemented in PSES #1459, and is our response to many issues opened by users over the last few years. Thank you to all of the community members who opened issues which helped motivate this major update. For information on getting started with the PowerShell e...
General Availability of PowerShell 7.2
Announcing general availability of PowerShell 7.2
Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.4
This is the last planned preview before the release candidate (RC). This preview adds support for a globally available schema, several community suggestions, and an experimental help parsing feature to improve complex native command maintenance.
PSArm Experiment Update
We are annoucing that the PSArm experimental module is no longer under active development.
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 11 Release
We are excited to announce that an important update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This preview release marks the completion of a complete refactor of this module and is a major step towards being feature complete for PowerShellGet 3.0. PowerShellGet 3.0 is a complete re-write of PowerShellGet with the following goals: This means that PowerShellGet 3.0 does not take a dependency on PackageManagement, NuGet or any other package provider, simplifying the codebase. Using the lessons learned from previous versions of the module, along with...
PowerShell for Visual Studio Code August 2021 Update
We are excited to announce that an update to our PowerShell extension is now available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in this release as well as what you can expect from extension updates in the coming months. What's new in the PowerShell Extension release This release includes the near-completion of the CI/CD Infrastructure Project. While our release cadence already doubled over the past six months, the final major piece of this effort is complete: with PRs #3461 and #1528 (among others) the release process has been fully automated. This means that we can now relea...
Announcing SecretManagement 1.1 GA
SecretManagement 1.1 is now generally available
Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.3
Improving the development and distribution of Crescendo modules, this preview adds support for multiple command definitions per JSON file, and multiple output handlers to wrap native command output into objects.
Preview updating PowerShell 7.2 with Microsoft Update
We are going to begin previewing our updates to PowerShell 7 with Microsoft Update.
PowerShell for Visual Studio Code May 2021 Update
We are excited to announce that an update to our PowerShell extension is now available on the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in this release as well as what you can expect from the extension in the coming months. What's new in the PowerShell Extension release This incremental release incorporates a major update to OmniSharp, the Language Server Protocol library we use (like many other VSCode extensions). Behind the scenes there has also been a concerted effort to improve our build and release processes, with the intention of accelerating our release cadence. Some h...
SecretManagement Module v1.1.0 preview update
Potential breaking change in the latest preview of SecretManagement 1.1 module release
Announcing PSDesiredStateConfiguration on PowerShell Gallery
We are pleased to announce the release of PSDesiredStateConfiguration 2.0.5 for DSC as a separate module on PowerShell Gallery.
Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.2
Many native commands require elevated privileges to perform the expected operations. PowerShell Crescendo Preview 2 now supports cross platform elevation for your Crescendo wrapped native commands.
Optimizing your $Profile
Learn how to measure and improve startup time of your $Profile
Announcing the preview of PSArm
We are pleased to announce the preview of PSArm, providing a domain-specific language embedded in PowerShell for Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.
SecretManagement and SecretStore are Generally Available
We are excited to announce two modules are now generally available on the PowerShell Gallery: To install the modules, open any PowerShell console and run: Introducing SecretManagement The SecretManagement module helps users manage secrets by providing a common set of cmdlets to interface with secrets across vaults. SecretManagement utilizes an extensible model where local and remote vaults can be registered and unregistered for use in accessing and retrieving secrets. The module provides the following cmdlets for accessing secrets and managing SecretVaults: Reference documentation for ...
SecretStore Release Candidate 3
The SecretStore release candidate 3 (RC3) module is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This contains an exciting new feature which allows users to non-interactively create, and configure a SecretStore. This feature was added to support CI systems and other automated scenarios. SecretStore is an extension vault module, for PowerShell SecretManagement, which works over all supported PowerShell platforms on Windows, Linux, and macOS. For more context on this module and the SecretManagement module refer to the previous blog posts: For more context on these modules check out these previous blog posts: ...
Updating help for the PSReadLine module in Windows PowerShell 5.1
Describes how to workaround the error when you try to update help for PSReadline in Windows PowerShell 5.1.
Announcing PSReadLine 2.2-beta.2 with Dynamic help
We are pleased to announce Dynamic Help, providing just-in-time help at the command line. Receive the help you need in the terminal without losing your place typing on the pipeline.
SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidate 2
The SecretManagement and SecretStore release candidate 2 (RC2) modules are now available on the PowerShell Gallery. These releases contain an exciting new feature which allows users to provide non-sensitive metadata for secrets (note: this feature may not be available for all extension vaults). For more context on these modules check out these previous blog posts: Before installing this module, please uninstall the current preview versions of the module and restart your PowerShell session. To install these updates run the following commands: SecretManagement Updates In addition to b...
PowerShell Team 2021 Investments
Details of the work the PowerShell team has planned for PowerShell 7.2, OpenSSH, and related tooling.
PowerShell for Visual Studio Code Updates – February 2021
We are excited to announce that updates to our PowerShell extension and PowerShell Preview extension are now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in these releases as well as what you can expect from the extension in the coming months. What's new in the PowerShell Extension release This incremental release incorporates changes from four preview releases! Some highlights of the release include: For the full list of updates please refer to the changelog. Further goals of this release are well discussed on GitHub. What's new in PowerS...
Announcing PowerShell Community Blog
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SecretManagement and SecretStore Release Candidates
The SecretManagement and SecretStore release candidate (RC) modules are now available on the PowerShell Gallery. The SecretManagement module helps users manage secrets by providing a common set of cmdlets to interface with secrets across vaults. This module supports an extensible model where local and remote vaults can be registered and unregistered for use in accessing and retrieving secrets. SecretStore is a cross-platform local extension vault for use with SecretManagement. We designed this vault as a best attempt at creating a vault that is available where PowerShell is, usable in popular PowerShell scenario...
PowerShell 7.2 Preview 2 release
Important changes included in the PowerShell 7.2 Preview 2 release
Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.1
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Incident Report – PowerShell Gallery Downtime October 30, 2020
The PowerShell gallery experienced downtime on October 30th 2020. This report will give context as to what caused the downtime, what actions were taken to mitigate the issue, and what steps we are taking to improve the PowerShell gallery experience moving forward. Downtime Impact The downtime was declared at 2020-10-30 03:29 PDT, and was mitigated about 12 hours later at 2020-10-30 15:39 PDT. During this time packages were not available from the gallery, and the web interface was not accessible. Root Cause of the Downtime The downtime was a result of an attempt to fix ongoing statistics errors with ...
You’ve got Help!
Announcing the new pipeline for publishing updateable help
SecretManagement preview 6 and SecretStore preview 4
Two updated preview releases are now available on the PowerShell Gallery: For more information on these modules check out these previous blog posts: Before installing these modules, please uninstall the current preview versions of the modules and restart your PowerShell session. To install these updates run the following commands: SecretManagement preview 6 updates This update to SecretManagement improves the compatibility of the module with Windows PowerShell, and improved the usability of the module by providing more ways to unregister vaults and by setting the first registe...
Announcing PowerShell 7.1
We're proud to announce the release of PowerShell 7.1, the latest major update to PowerShell 7. This release includes a number of improvements and fixes that build on top of the PowerShell 7.0 release in March and the recent GA release of .NET 5. Since then, the PowerShell Team (and many of you, our community contributors, thank you!) have been hard at work addressing some of the community's top bug reports and feature requests. What's new in PowerShell 7.1? For PowerShell 7.1, we decided to build on the foundation established in PowerShell 7.0 with a strong focus on community issues, especially where we co...
Announcing PSReadLine 2.1+ with Predictive IntelliSense
Tab completion has accelerated the success of new and experienced PowerShell users for over a decade. New users get the benefit of discovery, seeing available cmdlets and parameters as options while interactively typing. Experienced users receive the benefit of acceleration, typing less while using the Tab key to quickly complete a command. As the scale and complexity of cloud deployments and IT environments grow, cmdlet surface area is continually being updated with new cmdlets and additional parameter sets. For example, If you're beginning your journey with Azure, the Azure PowerShell module can...
SecretManagement and SecretStore Updates
Two updated preview releases are now available on the PowerShell Gallery: Before installing these modules please uninstall the current preview versions of the modules and restart your PowerShell session. To install these updates run the following commands: SecretManagement Preview 5 Updates This update to SecretManagement improves the usability of the module by adding name completers, and adding functionality to for vault extension authors as well a a few other changes. Read the full list of changes below: SecretStore Preview 3 Updates This update to Secr...
PowerShell Working Groups
Since we open sourced PowerShell in 2016, PowerShell has been an immensely popular project on GitHub. Every year, 700-1000 PRs and 1300-1500 issues are submitted to the PowerShell repo, with roughly half of the PRs and 90% of the issues filed from the community. We realize that some of these issues and PRs have been piling up and, as the project has grown in popularity and community activity, we sometimes struggle with the sheer volume of them. Those of us on the PowerShell Committee have been discussing some ways that we think we might be able to improve the efficiency of our decision-making process,...
SecretManagement and SecretStore Updates
Two updated preview releases are now available on the PowerShell Gallery: Please note that these preview releases contain breaking changes. This version of SecretStore is incompatible with previous versions because the configuration format has changed. The previous file store cannot be read by the new version and you will need to reset the store Reset-SecretStore after installing the new version. Be sure to save your current stored secrets before upgrading so they can be re-added after you Reset your SecretStore. To install these updates run the following commands: If you see an error indicating ...
PowerShell+Azure Sentinel notebooks to supercharge your threat hunting and investigations!
For those interested in security and security analytics, we recently published an article on how you can now enable PowerShell Jupyter notebooks via .Net Interactive Public Preview for use with Azure Sentinel: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sentinel/what-s-new-powershell-azure-sentinel-notebooks-to-supercharge/ba-p/1695969 Happy threat hunting and investigation with PowerShell+Notebooks!
SecretManagement Module Preview Design Changes
Design changes to SecretManagement module preview
SecretManagement Preview 3
We are excited to announce two modules are now available on the PowerShell Gallery: To install the modules and register the SecretStore vault, open any PowerShell console and run: NOTE: This version of the module has a major breaking changing, if you have used past preview versions of the SecretManagement module, secrets previously stored will not be accessible in this version. Please migrate your secrets before updating. Your old secrets will not be removed after updating so they can be accessed by explicitly importing an earlier version of the module. If you see an error indicating the a depe...
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 10 Release
In this blog post we are excited to share: PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview Updates PowerShellGet 3.0 preview 10 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This blog post will cover all of the feature updates since we last published a blog post ( preview 6). These versions include completed functionality for updating PSResources, input-object support for installing PSResources as well as several bug fixes. To install the latest version of the module, open any console any run: Install-Module PowerShellGet -AllowPrerelease -Force -Repository PSGallery -SkipPublisherCheck What's new in the prev...
PowerShell 7.1 Preview 6
Update on PowerShell 7.1 release
Semantic Highlighting in the PowerShell Preview extension for Visual Studio Code
Semantic Highlighting now supported in VS Code for PowerShell scripts