Automating the world one-liner at a time…
November 21, 2019Nov 21, 201911/21/19Today 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.
November 4, 2019Nov 4, 201911/4/19Over 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,
October 30, 2019Oct 30, 201910/30/19This release includes updates to 9 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 91 pull requests have been merged and 41 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
October 23, 2019Oct 23, 201910/23/19Today 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.
September 19, 2019Sep 19, 201909/19/19 We just released the DSC Resource Kit!
This release includes updates to 15 DSC resource modules. In the past 6 weeks, 160 pull requests have been merged and 68 issues have been closed, all thanks to our amazing community!
September 19, 2019Sep 19, 201909/19/19We 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 compatibility.
September 17, 2019Sep 17, 201909/17/19PowerShell’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 and periodically between releases.
September 10, 2019Sep 10, 201909/10/19In keeping with the tradition of releasing improvements to PSScriptAnalyzer 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),
September 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19PowerShell ForEach-Object Parallel Feature
PowerShell 7.0 Preview 3 is now available with a new ForEach-Object Parallel 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,
August 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19Beginning 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 through the PowerShell RFC process.
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March 26, 2020Mar 26, 202003/26/20The PowerShell 7 release marks a huge milestone for PowerShell, the community, and the team!
Today we released the first preview for PowerShell 7.1! This release includes a number of changes that did not make it in time for the 7.0 release.
March 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20Note this blog post is the third in a series on the releases of this module:
Secrets Management Development Release
Secrets Management Module Vault Extensions
We are excited to release a second preview of the Secret Management Module. Thanks to the tremendous feedback we received from the first preview release of this module,
March 6, 2020Mar 6, 202003/6/20Yes. This is yet another post about GridViews. We love them. You love them. What’s not to like?
If you’re not familiar with Out-GridView, it can be used to interactively view objects as a table allowing sorting and filtering. Many PowerShell users like to use it within a pipeline for interactive selection of objects that get processed later in the pipeline.
March 5, 2020Mar 5, 202003/5/20We 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.
March 4, 2020Mar 4, 202003/4/20Today, 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.
February 6, 2020Feb 6, 202002/6/20Secrets 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.
February 6, 2020Feb 6, 202002/6/20Public 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 see the output of code all in the same file.
February 6, 2020Feb 6, 202002/6/20Secrets 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 to the PowerShell Gallery to get feedback on the cmdlet interface and to enable an iterative development experience.
December 16, 2019Dec 16, 201912/16/19After 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.
December 9, 2019Dec 9, 201912/9/19Beginning 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 Generator tool (Ngen.exe).
