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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 ...
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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 ...