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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
Public Preview of Notebook Mode in the PowerShell Preview extension for Visual Studio Code
Opening PowerShell script files (.ps1) in Notebook Mode in the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code
PSScriptAnalyzer 1.19.1
PSScriptAnalyzer 1.19.1 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This minor update fixes a few user-reported bugs and introduces a new rule (which is disabled by default) for avoiding using double quotes for constant strings. To install this version of the module, open any PowerShell console and run: New Rule AvoidUsingDoubleQuotesForConstantString (disabled by default) Severity Level: Information Rule Description When the value of a string is constant (i.e. not being interpolated by injecting variables or expression into such as e.g. ), then single quotes should be used to express the constant nature ...
PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 6 Release
Since our last blog post we have released two preview versions (previews 4 and 6) of the PowerShellGet 3.0 module. These releases have introduced publish functionality, repository wildcard search, and fixed error handling when a repository is not accessible in Find-PSResource. Note that preview 5 was unlisted due to a packaging error discovered post-publish. To install the latest version module, open any PowerShell console and run: Highlights of the releases Preview 4 (3.0.0-beta4) Highlights New Feature Wildcard search for the -Repository parameter in . This allows the user to return results from al...
Native Commands in PowerShell – A New Approach – Part 2
How to wrap native commands to take better advantage of the PowerShell environment