We’re proud to announce the availability of PowerShell 7.5.0-rc.1! This is the first release candidate version of PowerShell 7.5 and is considered a “go-live” release meaning that it’s a supported release in production. PowerShell 7.5 is built on top of .NET 9 and will be supported for 18 months as a standard support release.
Please note that support for PowerShell 7.2 is ended November 8, 2024. PowerShell 7.4 is the current LTS release of PowerShell and is supported until November 2026.
How do I get it?
Since PowerShell 7 is supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS, and there are a many ways to install it. If you installed the previous PowerShell 7.5 preview release on Windows and opted into Microsoft Update, you will be automatically updated to 7.5.0-rc.1.
Note
Automatic updates aren’t available immediately after a release. It can take up to 2 weeks to get the latest versions deployed to all release channels.What’s new in this release?
The PowerShell 7.5 milestone focused on security, quality and community contributions. A few highlights include:
- PSResourceGet now supports ACR as a container gallery, for more information check out the documentation
- PSReadLine has been updated to version 2.3.6
- New cmdlets
ConvertTo-CliXmlandConvertFrom-CliXml(Thanks @ArmaanMcleod!) - Web cmdlet improvements as well as improvements to other cmdlets
- Tab completion improvements
- This release also contained a number of bug fixes — for the full list of changes please refer to the changelog
For more information on what’s changed, see What’s new in PowerShell 7.5.
Experimental Features that were made stable for 7.5
The following experimental features were converted to mainstream features in PowerShell 7.5:
PSCommandNotFoundSuggestionPSCommandWithArgsPSModuleAutoLoadSkipOfflineFiles
What’s next?
We expect to release PowerShell 7.5 GA in January 2025. We’ll have a separate blog post when the GA release is available. We appreciate all the efforts of the community, both individuals and working group members, and look forward to your continued feedback and contributions!
Sydney
PowerShell Team
Thanks for your hard work.
PowerShell v7.4.6 was released on October 22. And, the Canonical snap was only updated on November 16, which was a Saturday. So, it took almost four weeks to update the snap release channel.
Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative doesn't have much credibility if PowerShell, an automation tool, takes four weeks to be updated.
In this case, I think the PowerShell Team needs more resources from Microsoft so they can at least...