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PowerShell 7 Preview 5

October 23, 2019 Oct 23, 2019 10/23/19
Steve Lee
Today we shipped PowerShell 7 Preview5! 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. We are still on track to have one more preview release next month in November. Then, barring any ...

PowerShell 7 Preview 4

September 19, 2019 Sep 19, 2019 09/19/19
Steve Lee
We continue to make progress towards our PowerShell 7 release which currently is targeting December 2019 for a Release Candidate and January 2020 for General Availability and will be our first LTS (Long Term Servicing) release! Please see the previous blog post on Preview 3 for more details about LTS and also Windows PowerShell ...

Updating Help for older versions of PowerShell

September 17, 2019 Sep 17, 2019 09/17/19
Sean Wheeler
UPDATE: We are now publishing updated help for PowerShell 5.1 and higher. See the announcement. PowerShell's Updatable Help system was introduced in PowerShell 3.0. It was designed to assure that you always have the newest help topics on your local computer so that you can read them at the command line. Help was updated with every new release...

Release of PowerShell Script Analyzer (PSScriptAnalyzer) 1.18.2

September 10, 2019 Sep 10, 2019 09/10/19
Jim Truher
In keeping with the tradition of releasing improvements to  more often, we're happy to announce that 1.18.12 is now available! As a dependency of PowerShell Editor Services (a module used by editor extensions like the PowerShell Visual Studio Code extension), this release is motivated by a desire to further stabilize our editor experience. ...

PowerShell ForEach-Object Parallel Feature

September 4, 2019 Sep 4, 2019 09/4/19
Paul Higinbotham
PowerShell ForEach-Object Parallel Feature PowerShell 7.0 Preview 3 is now available with a new Experimental feature. This feature is a great new tool for parallelizing work, but like any tool, it has its uses and drawbacks. This article describes this new feature, how it works, when to use it and when not to. What is ForEach-Object -...

New Telemetry in PowerShell 7 Preview 3

August 20, 2019 Aug 20, 2019 08/20/19
Sydney Smith
Beginning in PowerShell 7 Preview 3, PowerShell will be sending some additional data points to Microsoft. This data will allow us to better understand usage of PowerShell and enable us to prioritize our future investments. These additional points of data were reviewed with the PowerShell community and approved by the PowerShell Committee...

PowerShell 7 Preview 3

August 20, 2019 Aug 20, 2019 08/20/19
Steve Lee
PowerShell 7 Preview 3 In May, we published our PowerShell 7 Roadmap. We have been making progress on our roadmap and are currently on track to have a Generally Available (GA) release by end of this calendar year. Long Term Servicing PowerShell 7 GA will also be our first Long Term Servicing (LTS) release which is a change from our ...

Out-GridView Returns

August 14, 2019 Aug 14, 2019 08/14/19
Jack Zeiders
Out-GridView Returns! It's been almost 3 years since PowerShell Core debuted for Linux and Mac, and as we've increased our cmdlet coverage more and more, one cmdlet has always stood out as a top, cross-platform request. Today, we are excited to announce that is debuting on all Core-supported platforms through the GraphicalTools Module. ...