PSReadLine 2.3.4 GA Release

We are excited to announce the general availability of PSReadLine 2.3.4! After three preview releases we are ready to release the GA version of PSReadLine 2.3.4. There are no new features in this release from the previous preview but wanted to highlight some of the key changes since the previous stable version, 2.2.6.

Installing PSReadLine 2.3.4

As usual, here are the instructions for installing the latest PSReadLine module. PSReadLine is available from the PowerShell Gallery.

Use the following command to install PSReadLine using PowerShellGet v2.x:

Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -Force

If you are using the new PSResourceGet, you can use the following command:

Install-PSResource -Name PSReadLine

You may you need ot use the Force parameter to install this version side by side with any previous preview releases installed.

Highlights

Improvements to Predictors

We have improved the user experience for ListView for PowerShell Predictive IntelliSense. This includes allowing more than 10 responses, and adding a scrollable list view. To help with navigation, we have also included a metadata line that informs users of their position in the scroll.

Another addition are tooltips for plugin predictors. Tooltips are descriptions of prediction results to help provide more details about what is being predicted. For example, the Az.Tools.Predictor module provides details about what the suggested cmdlet does.

 

Additional Changes and fixes

Here are a few other changes and fixes that were made since the previous stable release:

• Fix the menu completion to better handle the backspace key
• Fix some typos in this repository (Thanks @spaette!)
• Change default color for inline prediction to dim
• Make tab completion show results whose ListItemText are different by case only (Thanks @dkaszews!)
• Fix to use the default member color for members
• Add support for upcasing, downcasing, and capitalizing word (Thanks @3N4N!)
• Fix wrong cursor position in menu completion
• Fix parameter dynamic help when the help content is specified in ParameterAttribute
• Append reset VT sequence before rendering the inline prediction
• Fix the broken doc link about PowerShellGet (Thanks @vimode!)
• Add a sample for transforming Unicode code point to Unicode char by Alt+x
• Improve the sensitive history scrubbing to allow retrieving token from az, gcloud, and kubectl
• Improve the default sensitive history scrubbing to allow safe property access
• Work around InvalidOperationException from Console API (Thanks @jazzdelightsme!)
• Add the TerminateOrphanedConsoleApps option on Windows to kill orphaned console-attached process that may mess up reading from Console input (Thanks @jazzdelightsme)
• Supports the text-object command diw in the VI edit mode (Thanks @springcomp!)

You can find the full list of changes on our PSReadLine release page, Big thank you to the community members who have helped contributed to this release! Thank you @spaette, @dkaszews, @vimode, @springcomp, @jazzdelightsme and @3N4N for your contributions!

Previous Blogs

Here are links to all the previous blogs for the PSReadLine releases that highlight the feature changes more closely.

• PSReadLine 2.3.0-beta0
• PSReadLine 2.3.1-beta1

Feedback

As per usual we love getting your feedback! Please submit bugs, feature requests, or questions to the repository. Your feedback is always welcomed and appreciated!

Thanks! Give the new version a try and let us know what you think!

Steven Bucher and Dongbo Wang

PSReadLine Maintainers