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Visual Studio Code for PowerShell 7

March 5, 2020 Mar 5, 2020 03/5/20
Sydney Smith
We are excited to announce that we have released a major update to the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code. This release contains months of architectural work that first shipped in our PowerShell Preview extension in November of 2019, along with incremental bug fixes in the intervening months. If you are new to Visual Studio Code ...

Announcing PowerShell 7.0

March 4, 2020 Mar 4, 2020 03/4/20
Joey Aiello
Today, we're happy to announce the Generally Available (GA) release of PowerShell 7.0! Before anything else, we'd like to thank our many, many open-source contributors for making this release possible by submitting code, tests, documentation, and issue feedback. PowerShell 7 would not have been possible without your help. What is ...

Secrets Management Module Vault Extensions

February 6, 2020 Feb 6, 2020 02/6/20
Paul Higinbotham
Secrets Management Module Vault Extensions A new PowerShell Secrets Management module has been published on PowerShell Gallery. It is currently in a pre-release state and still in active development. Even though the module is not complete, we have released it to gather early community feedback. Most of the functionality is implemented, but...

Public Preview of PowerShell Support in Jupyter Notebooks

February 6, 2020 Feb 6, 2020 02/6/20
Tyler Leonhardt
Public Preview of PowerShell Support in Jupyter Notebooks Today, the .NET team shipped an exciting new preview of .NET Interactive. If you're unfamiliar, .NET Interactive (within a Jupyter environment) provides the ability to write .NET Jupyter Notebooks which are a powerful tool that combines documentation and the ability to execute and ...

Secrets Management Development Release

February 6, 2020 Feb 6, 2020 02/6/20
Sydney Smith
Secrets Management Development Release At Ignite 2019 we gave a preview of our PowerShell Secrets Management Module. This Secrets Management module, first proposed in RFC #234, creates an extensible abstraction layer in PowerShell for interacting with Secrets and Secrets Vaults. We are excited to publish a development release of this module...

Announcing the PowerShell 7.0 Release Candidate

December 16, 2019 Dec 16, 2019 12/16/19
Joey Aiello
After 6 previews, we're happy to announce the release of the PowerShell 7 Release Candidate (RC). Whether you've been running PowerShell Core since our first alpha releases or you've been clinging to Windows PowerShell for backwards compatibility, 7.0 delivers a host of improvements to make your life better. This is a "go live" release...

Improvements in Windows PowerShell Container Images

December 9, 2019 Dec 9, 2019 12/9/19
Joey Aiello
Beginning with Windows Server 20H1 Insider builds, Windows Server Core Insider images have been reduced in size from ~2.1 GBs to ~1.1 GBs. How did the Server Core images get over 40% smaller? Traditionally, Windows 10 and Windows Server have always included a set of .NET native binaries that were pre-compiled using the Native Image ...

PowerShell 7 Preview 6

November 21, 2019 Nov 21, 2019 11/21/19
Steve Lee
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. This will be the last preview release as we head towards a Release Candidate in December. For ...

PowerShell Extension Roadmap

November 4, 2019 Nov 4, 2019 11/4/19
Sydney Smith
Over the last year we have committed to making the PowerShell editing experience in Visual Studio Code a rich and productive cross-platform alternative for the PowerShell ISE. To that end, we have focused on two primary areas: bringing the PSReadLine experience to the Integrated Console, and improving the stability of the extension while ...